Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-02-18

OelleVc lne Conleuefacy otuef Chan rcSo- ,
Lutte aud powerful
Half million Of dollars have been ap.
propriated by Congress for the construc-
ton of earthworks around the City of
Washington Ifforcign complications be
the suggesting cause of that measure, eau
we suppose for an instant that, in that
event, "the rebellion" is about to bo or
ever will be "cruohcd :" Il Confederate
invasion be the ground of the measure
which has provided for additional defen-
ses around Washington then clearly does
the Administs sation confess that the Con.
ledoratos are still powerful for even Of
fense. Five hundred millions of dollars
have jus: been appropriated for the army,
and yet we are, in the face of this ire
sistible evidence Of the contrary, inundat-
; cd by food Of falsehoods which seeks to
bear US on to the very reverse of the con.
olusion that the South continues to WELD
: with fiery resolution tremendous power.
Examine the state of The case under the
light of our knowledge Of general facts in
the Confcdcracy. Differences of opinion
eXi ted there until few days ago on
questions of detail but in Congress and
out Of Congress these never involved the
subject Of Confederate independence. On
that question all were in perfect accord -
| Tho nOiptc IN ;s,,n - L.. &
the South have, however, been all coucod-
? ed General Lee is Commandcr-in Chief,
with full power 10 place Gn army under the
command of johnson. Slave enlistmsnts
, have been settled by compromise All
b parties express their readiness to accept
that alternative when it shall have become
r necessity ofindependenee, and those who
brought it forward have actually carried
it into effect in the initial form of employ
t ing forty thousand slaves for special duties
L. in the field. Harmony and confidence
thus completely restored among them, the
people of the South approach the opening
'e of the struggle in their characteristic elas-
ticity Of spirit, hopeful to the verge of even
10 enthusiasm.
The employment Of forty thousand slaves
e in certain military duties Of the rear sends
y to the front a re. enforcement of forty thou
sand white soldiers. Thirty thousand Of
the youth Of the South pass annually with
r in the age Of eighteen, and ID the impati
} enco with which these have chatted to
4r bound to the sides Of their fathers or their
10 brothers, they may be counted as a re.
r niiment of al least twenty-five thousand
Kirby Smiths inacton, beyond the Miss
. issippi,explains fully the reverses of Hood
and the successful extricaton of Sherman:
o. army from the necessity Of his abandon.
v ment Of Atlanta The Trans Mississippi
u troops Of the Federal army rushed to the
c' rescue in Tennessee, while those Of thu
" Confederate army lay idle FIVE hundred
''S miles away. The erection of works of de
D. Tense at Grand Ecore and at Shervepor
- show that the vital points beyond ths Mis-
'" sissippi are about to be held by garrisons
l. And therefore may we expect to look il
the campaign about to open in the Allan
"' tic States for tho appearance oftwenty.fv
." or thirty thousand men from the army Q
Kirby Smith. We can thus point t
;, special services from which the Confederat
armies operating between the Savanna
=. aud the james, will receive, beyond a.
49,. question, ro-onforoements to the extent O
upward of ninety thousand men-doubl
the number with which Lee hurled bac
,,s Hooker at Charlottesville
nd The Confoderates declare the immens
in ty of their military strength in a forl
&c. which admits of no misapprchensiOu.--
he Their re.ontoroements not yet up, the
bo sec Rosccrans's late army replacin
ast Thomas's in Tennessee, Thomas's srnl
as ro,cbforong Grant in Virginia, Foster
Of re.cnlorcing Shorman's in South Carol
oc. ma; and yet they look on without lowcrir
r q one note Of their defiance. Their con
Id. missioners, while systematic ialschoc
on here tells ua to believe the Confederac
nr about to be crushed on the seaboard, pr,
lrs nounce the statement lie by hagght
rejection of any sottlomont other than or
by on the basis OF independence, The frau,
to under which the people OF the States Il
ion deliberately cheated Of al! elements Of i
n telligeni opinion as to the state of the col
the test, the Conlederatos denouncc with un
US. quivocal emphasis in their refusal to emil
owe their slaves until such time as that ssoJ
Ids fee to independence shall have ceased
ent be unnecessary,
ta- What ground for the clap.trap Of t
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