Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-01-25
I From the Liverpool Albion. .
American Prospects. 2

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Amongst those that are born of woman
there beats not q bolder heart than that Of
Jefferson Davis. We are not ashamed to
confess to large amount Of hero. worship
for the man for whom his Northern foes can
find no. better name than rebel apdq slave
owner. Never undnly elated BY ,suecsss,
never dismayed by adversely, his voice rings
out clear as trumpet call on the darkest
day that befalls his country. Not Cato
himself spoke torhis little Senate at Utica
with more dignity and steadfastness than
does the Southern President ywhep, address
sing his suffering fellow countrymen, -Four
years have passed since the tremendous
struggle began with which his name will be
forever identified; and, il! !Amsrican figures
can be,trusted,; a. point on which. Meg al
ways feel serious misgiying,) those four
years have witnessed a greater amount Of
bloodshed and larger loss Of human life
than any other four consecutive years since
the Deluge.7 , The loss Of ten thousand men
on a single day has. become quite common
event; and a ,conscliptiou of one, two or
three, hundred Thousand alta time longer
excites, Tastonishment. The wave of war
has surged from North, to South and from
East to West, It has been waged BY land
and sea, on mid ocean iand'in barbor, and
up ahousands of miles Of srri4er--in the
mldstiof forests, on spacious plains, addaon
the sides of lofty mountains Professional
soldiers and amateur generals, have tried
their hands upon it; attorneys and polis
clans have brought their talents to its:aid ;
every invention of modern times has been
pressed into its service. New tangled ships
cannon of hitherto unknown calibfe, rifles
of novel construction, new tactics and new
tools, all have been used in tnrn, and yet
the end has not come. Such energy, such
obstinaey, such determination to win, have
been shown ousboth sides as wersr hardly
ever7seen before, and such an amount Of
money expeuded,as; no other country ever
spent ina period ten timesas long: " If, in
the early.dsys of this struggle, we we're ever
disposed to sneerattt tbe efforts Of either side
we must now, all of us, confess that We had
underrated both their intentions and their
probable performances '3.'" s.'s =
1t is struggle Of heroic proportions on
both-sides. But, come what may, it is to
the weaker party that the highest amount of
admiration is justly due and what Is true
Of one is doubly true Of the other Ana
now, after vicissitudes innumerable, the tide
has turned of late against the South / and
doubtless, sore Encouragement has fallen
upon many 3 heart which NOT long ago was
exulting In the sense Of victory. Kis not,
Indeed; 3 gfest, many, weeks ago Since We
were told, on what was assumed to be good
authority, that dissouragement was univer-
sal throughout the Northern States, and
shat the cry for peace peace at almost any
price-was upon every tongue, The result
shows the folly Of. generalizing freely from
particular instance, and yet only forty5eight
hours ago there were many faint-hearted
friends of the Southern cause in state bor-
dering on despair about its future prospects.
So many men are ready to'rush from one
extreme to its opposite J! But clear across
the waters comes the brave voice of Jeffer-
son Davis; there is noquaver, in his tone
he speaks with no uncertain sound. Few
| as are his words reported to us, we cannot
for moment doubt his resolution his. voice
is still for war! Dark as is the present
hour, he has passed through hours as dark
before, and through the gloom he believes
he sees the coming dawn. When New Or
leans was taken, when Vicksburg was sur
rendered, when stonewall jackson fell in
the noon day ofshis glory, asadness and dis
couragement spread over all the Southern
Confederacy : and as their undaunted Pres
ident raised anew their spirit then, so we
are persuaded be will do now. We shall
not of course, think of denying that the
exhaustion u men and means has been i'm
mense since those events took place but it
must be borne in mind that, whereas the
Southern armies are still composed Of white
men, the Northern army, according to re-
cent speech of Mr., Lincoln, numbers two
hundred thousand blacks amongst its SOL
diers. Aud Mr.. Lincoln adduced this fact
as 8 reason for maintaining the policy Of
emancipation. There remains, therefore,
to the Southern Government. tie expsdien'
of resorting to the negro element for'the
repletion of their ranks and though this
will, no doubt, for obvious reasons, be last
resort, we feel no doubt that the operation
will, by long period, precede submission
to the Federals. We see no reason t.
doubt that. the negroes will fight for their
masters as willingly as they work for them,
and we imagine Southern negro is quite
as capable Of fighting as his Northern bro
ther. So far, therefore, as the supply ..o
men for their armies is concerned, We. de
not think that the South is as yet any worse
off than the North. -. ,..--
pa An army of harmless Yankees have
passed through Richmond within the yea
Just expiring. From the statistics Of th'
clerk of the Libby prison, Mr.. Ross, w
learn that, from. the lst Of January, 1864
to the 10Th of December of the same yea
81, 800 Yankee prisoners, of all grades, ma
tions, tongues, compilations and kindreds
passed the Libby as prisoners of war. Thi
number is independent Of about twent..
thousand captured in spottsylVania ant
elsewhere in Virginia, who were sent Sostl