The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-07

since tOe tltnel congress repeatedly pass
resolutions that they Will submit TO roth
-ng snort Q. independence, and since their
newspapers and leaders have published
certain IDEAS anc hopes, il is worth while
to consider them. We should examine
their condition quite as calmly and closely
as we do our own. /. is often wei, to be
taught BY an enemy. What, then, do they
hope or expect? The English tory press,
Ike the London Tines, stated early IN the
with IN military poiii: Of view, and il
was a real difficulty OF great magnitude,
and one which more than any other cause
has delayed the termination Of The war;
InlS waste greet c1.c3.t u The cO,.a.yu.
THIS was vastly increased ty the compile
ton Of that ret work " railroads which
the South lad beea constructing in the
twenty years preceding the wx, These
railroads gave them Interior lines Of COM
munlca'ioE, just AS available as would be
our Lake Shore line IN case al invading
force held the Valley Of the Ohio. Bat the
dithculty and impeachment to our arms.
arising from this cause decrease, in an in
creasing proportion, as We occupy the reb-
el territory. That difficulty is diminished
70 fourth Of its original magnitude. and
the recent success Of Sherman has taken it
nearly al away. Taking the Southern
system OF railroads, as it originally exist
ed, and there was no less than foe QreGt
ltaes, which united the Gulf States with the
Atlantic and Border States. One line ex.
tended through the Valley Of Virginia to
East Tennessee, Nashville and Memphis
another from Nashville and Memphis thro'
Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana a
ihirc from Knoxville, through Chat,a-
nooga 20 atlanta, connecting at Atlanta
with All parts OF The South; and q fourth.
l!he main linel from Richmond, through
North and South Carolina to Augusta, and
thence 70 Montgomery and New Orleans;
and the nth, from Charleston and Savan-
nah 70 Macon, ard thence on 10 the Mis-.
sissippi. The three first we hold, at least
50 IA! that they are no longer available.
The fourth. Sherman has partially DESTROY
ed. and by getting one more point, Branch
Vile or any Other, will hold entirely: and
the fifth, We hold a. Savannah. These
great interior Lines which have heretofore
been o. ln"aicu,able service to the rebels.
10 longer avail them. We hold Nashville.
Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Sayan-
nan, and are now IN position 10 COM
9and any road or point IN the South. So
Of Territory: we hold Tennessee, practi-
cally Georgia, half OF Virginia. Of Louisi-
ana, o. Arkansas, with parts OF ali the re-
bel States. Thus this great'aud real adj
vantage, which the rebels held till recent
~, and which actually made one man equal
to two, has taken away, and every blow
now struck tells. with ten times the force.
which i would have produced three years
ago. Of all the forces the rebels could
command, this was the greatest, and it is
now gone. Ey commanding Knoxville and
land Mountains and their valleys, which
cuts Oft The possibility Of sustaining a
war after the main armies are de-
stroyed. This hope Of sustaining guer-
ri,la war has been one main hope OF the
rebels during the whole contest. Eu: il is
no longer possible. They have been una
Die 10 sustain guerrilla war in Poland:
much less can 1t be sustained here with
our railroads and rivers, and the noun
talns IN our hands. When the main ar
mics Of the Confederacy are gone there is
an end of the case.
we come now TO another hope set forth
by the Richmond Wig in its dire extrem-
ity, and i is rather an anxious one. con-
sider!ng the known facts Of the country
AIR. Davis said, in his Georgia speeches,
that ne could spare no more men for that
State, and added that taco. tG.ro,s of the n,eu
enrolled scere elther refugees or deser.crs.-
Inc richmond Wig, not bearing this in |
mind, takes up the census Of lSUO, and pro- |
ceeds 70 prove that there wereA million Of |
men between II and 80, and that, after de- !
Quoting al they had lost, &C., there were
100, GOO available men. This is a very nice |
showing, provided always the men can be |
foaald and can be nsaeie to serge. Unfor.n-
nately neither are true. Georgia is case |
exactly in point. The WLis makes ont that |
Georgia had 13o. 600 available men. Where |
were they when Sherman marched thro' |
that Slater We ean tel. the UI.G tha. ma
ny more have been lost than they admit,
that We hold 5000 prisoners: tha. thou
sands are refugees, thousands are desert
ers, and ofthe remainder not one ron in ten.
is sn.!ta0 to fgtt for the falling dynasty
of rebe.s ana robbers. This is al
confirmed BY Gov. Brown, who, in re-
cent letter, says, there were no available
men except those employed by the State,
or exempted for necessary home duiies.-
IS exhausted Of Grdiicb,c ~hitc ..e9. This
fact has been apparent during the whole
Of this year. Hence, the loss Of apy part
Of their army, is q loss which cannot be |
made up. Hence, also, the terrible calam-
ity 10 them, OF Hoods immense losses in |
the unnecessary, fatal battles which he
fought. he was put n command to fight. |
and ordered % fight, BY Davis The same |
delIsion which attended them in the he |
ginning 81 the war. tina! they could out |
light northern men, seeT1s n have con. |
.ro!led the shallow mind Of Davis. in or. !
aeripg the Georgia army TO the battles |
round Atlanta and Nashville. in which /
'wo-th!rds OF the gallant army Of Johnston
we're put ho9s d.; combat. ]. has been no
iopot recruited ID SEINE measure by con.
scrip.ions obtained 10 Hoods absence. m.
! may ne doubted whether Hood has Al
avails bic force at this time greater than
,ne- third OF that with which Johnston re-
treated from Dalton. The schi.c force of
he South available to the ConSederscy is
exhausted. No doubt there are tens OF
thousands Of able-bodied men there; but
never Will they fight for the rebel despot-
SIN while there is any way or escape. Half
y their territory can not be reached and
y the other half thousands Of zen are ref
lgees.
What next? What hope is there left?-
zen. Lee says, arm our s!uuesnn' Yes, to
his complexion has il come st last. Two
years since we were called barbarians for
srming slaves. But we have done il sue
'essiully, and the white masters who talk
q 81 "bnckniggers" u they would talk OF
come wild menials, and put them upon q
evel with balloons, bave been compelled
o eel that they asefs men, nth bdyonets in
her lAGn(is, and now in their dark and
lreadiul day when they are calling upon
ne mountains to hide them, they cali upon
his poor degraded African to help his mas
er! Help me, Cassius, or sinkl Come.