Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-03-31

| BEGINNING TO SEE IT.-The English pa
pers in the interest of the rebellion, which
have until quite recently persisted In in
sisting that the South 'could never be
conaured" and that separation is the on
ly possible conditions upon which the
contest can be brought to close" have
had their eyes opened by the glorious
achievements of the Union armies during
the last six months, and they now all
acknowledge that the cause of the rebels
is utterly hopeless, the complete triumph
of the North being only a question of
time-indeed, even the London Times,
the most obstinate and venomous of the
English rebel sympathizing sheets, admits
that the North must not only triumph but
that the end is near at hand. Its only
anxiety now is that the new British Min
lister who will soon arrive at Washington
will see to it that before the contest termi-
mates all matters of dispute between this
country and Great Britain are adjusted,
so that there may be no possible pretext
for employing our veteran soldiers in a
war against England, which it urges at
length would be very unwise course for
the United States to adopt, as the results
of a war would necessarily be extremely
disastrous to both parties. In the article
referred to- which appears under date of
the 8th inst, it thus speaks of the pros
poets of its friends of the bogus Confed-
eracy:
We seem to have arrived at that turning
point of the American war which brings
us, as 1t were, within sight Of the final
scene, and the part we shall be called on
to play an it. The almost Undisputed pro-
gre-ss of the Federal army through GeOr-
gia and South Carolina, and the successive
surrender Of strongholds, believed to be
impregnable. at its very S gpProacn, are Dy
ton. The great maratime cities, for the
defense of which such immense sacrifices
have been made, having long been Oecupi-
ed by miserable remnants OF their former
population. Two months ago, as appears
from the letters OF our correspondent,
Charleston, the very cradle Of the rebel
lion, was deserted and halfruined city;
the cattle pasturing, and the partridge
bringing up her brood in the Streets
No wonder that men could not be found
to stay the progress of Sherman. Every
not spare soldiers without inviting attack.
Material of all kinds was wanting. 1t
the garrison of Fort Fisher, profting by
the experience Of the first attack, had
supplied themselves with two or three
rifed guns of large calibre, or had they
completed the earthworks where the
causeway from the river ran into the fort,
or had they obtained the services of more
officers acquainted with the works than
III ~,
affair, or had the scanty garrison not been
raw recruits, then the fort ought not to
have fallen but in all these IF" we
read the lamentable condition of the Con-
federate cause The men, the guns, the
officers, the labor were simply not forth
coming, and without them forts can not
be held nor battles won. Energy, and
even confidence, it is said, are also on the
decline. The Carolins and their southern
neighbors showed the true Southern
temperament atthe outbreak of the strug-
gle, when Virginia held back; but it is she
now that holds her ground in the very
face of the foe.
The exhaustion we have mentioned is
the point to which speculatiOns on the
probability of peace have been most gen
orally confined. The Confederates began
with a much less population Of whites
than the Federals; and this disparity was
practically increased by the great dis
tance of some of the States, and the want
of communication. 1t was enough If
the Southern and Western States of the
Confederation could defend themselves.
But, as the war advanced, the Federal
cause was continually and largely recruit
ed by immigration, a resource entirely
wanting on the other side. Europe,
therefore, saw with admiration the gal
liant stand made by the Confederates.
their military genius, and their personal
courage; but it saw, also. that the end
was only question of time on one side,
or of weariness on the other. 1t appears
as if the South is exhausted by the war
before the North is wearied of it, and
that the end is not far. The cause is
simply bleeding to death.