The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-06-28

after their star OF hope went down,
forgotten and forever laid nj rest among
things unremembercd. There was too
much ustre attending the Confederate
cause, too much unparalleled cliiV-
airy scattered throughout its lcglons of
heroes, to he ccipscd by the triumph
ant success which beamed upon the
banners of the victors after four years
of conflict in which our Southland
gave to glory the finest quota of I'M
mortals that ever fell in any contest
waged for liberty. The extract has
been published before, but we think il
will bear reproduction even ut this
late day.
London Evening Herald, April ., 1851
The South Is doomed. With the sur
render of General Lee ends, not in
deed the possibility of military de-
fence, still less that of desperate
popular resistance, but the hope of
final success. After four years of
war, sustained with Il gallanty and
resolution that have few, if any,
prcccdcnts in history; as such sac
rfices as, perhaps, no nation ever made
in vain; after losses chat have drained
the life-blood of the country; after Sc
res of brilliant victories, gained under
unequalled disadvantages, courage and
skill and devotion have succumbed to
brute force; and by sheer power of num-
bers race, inferior in every quality of
soldiership and manhood, have pre-
vailed over the bravest and most united
people that ever drew the sword in de-
fence of civil rights and national indie
pendence.
To numbers, ITO numbers alone,
the North owes its hateful triumph.
Its advantages in wealth and resources,
in the possession of the sea and the
command of the rivers, were neutral
lied by Southern gallantly. In despite
the most numerous navy in the world,
half dozen Southern cruisers drove
its commerce from the seas. In despite
of its overwhelming superiority in
strength of ships and guns, improvised
Southern .ironclads beat and drove off
its blockading squadrons, and southern
cavalry, embariing on little river
steamers captured its armed gunboats.
In defiance of all its powers, Southern
energy contrived to supply the armies
of the Confederate States with every
thing of which they stood in need.
When the war broke out, the North
had every kind of military stores in
abundance, and could draw unlimited
supplies from Europe; the South had
scarcely cannon had but few rifles;
still fewer swords or bayonets, and not
1T, Il ,,p,v,1,,, ia att
All these deficiencies We're supplied
by the foresight of the Confederate
Government, and the daring of the
Confederate armies. The routad forces
of the north supplied ARTILLERY and
AMMUNITION, rifles and bayonets, to the
Southerners. The cannon which thun-
dered against Gettysburg, the shot
which crushed the brave mercenasies of
Burnside OH the slopes above Freder-
icEsburg, came for the most part from
Northern arsenals. No Southern fail
ure is attributed to the want of arms or
powder; no Federal success was Won
by the enormous advantages which the
north enjoyed in its military stores and
its open ports. Had these been the
only odds in its favor, long ago would
the Federal government have taken
refuge at Boston or New York, and
every inch of Southern soil have been
free from the step of the invaders.
Numbers, and numbers alone, have
decided the struggle.
Almost every battle has been won
by the South, but every Southern vic
tory has been rendered fruitless by the
overwhelming numerical superiority
of the vanqushcd. The conquerors
loufu 10, 80 ,,,ias onG 40
.';,,aI ~ a. f.,;ts 81 ,,;nt,, Inv, ,ho
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i ne thS 49,, ,narn rn,,lom;shod INC
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s,ii.l iI io IT, ", .N .,onr;f os Of tho
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Nol.n Melc VI ~ eoa,aoIue,i,ut ,,h;ay,
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visneu 'no ,.ua y, -, ~ J.nanIoIra
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lila, nioiay oou ia.u,t lT dnD't a." ,rha cmtI
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NANNY i:n W i''''' ''-
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w oue " t ti,o i noiic,,
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opeI w ou ,ii, ~ NM, n,,,
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pels ~. w 1onni s rao,,'il;n9 faid Voc
.nae .nI ' 1i~ wh;in that Of tho
PP iuoe,JI +', ,ras 100 s,,nil TO snnnlv
~ iosSas Of zach connai~n IF nav
el n'. it H. horoic soldiers of the Somtb
cohsolc .liI iieiV ~ so 49, I'LL So
10 rui,i ,'nr oe,,o Inn in nnmher ~ tho for
was ; NV .; Of tbn ITn;on alone :.
e,Sh the iosson w VI tbin war has
pu. .HI ~ ,;sastrous aro,,r,, for
uauSh; ; - o It con y, hardiv I've bn5ei that
n n,',, ,,annio viii show Sreoter devotion
t tnS p tba Sontherncrs. that anv conn
Una t,ai III, ;,ie soUd fortb brover armies or
ms 40, Tm oonn,.ols and Tho fate of seccs-
glea,el s ge M fiat walnr and Strnfcoy
s s .ai9a' v,hnn nmnosad 70 nnmberss1.
. az an a, 49, Vic r,ust count tba
, INA. ep I;s ,,'am n,,st in tbe omd Inc
llNea y, ,',S ~, 80 1bn i;i,o Grant
over Pomeieu ~ - ~, L., 81 80,