Year: 1865

By which they were set In motion must nnaliy
sshsus. ITSELF and this often takes place before tho
kind; directing and organizing force vi fh can take
This result must sooner or later take place both
sdes that In estimating final consequence would
Of the rst mpeng power In the case Of tho Oonfede
racy, notwithstanding the impression which the Yankees
have sought 70 produce that we are exhausted IN phys
pie, we believe We have already demonstrated that 10
the former We are relatively stronger now than at any
that do believe there Is the slightest dminuton
tho resolution Of people 10 continue the contest until
its object shall be achieved There may be less ardor
during those first months when brilliant victory was
followed by SO long and 50 dangerous period OF anguor
One thing Is certain that while the area Of territory
and consequently the amount OF population subject to
our jurisdiction have been more or less crcumscrbed by
invasion and hostile occupancy, We have commenced
each succeeding year with larger forces and greater
II sae = % sSsn before OF 4 rss ao
tnaity Of tho original impulse. shows at all events,
that il has suffered no material decline.


With the Yankees the other hand the case Is very
different We have been in the habit Of yielding without
question to their annual announcement Of immense and
unparalleled forces be gathered together for des
uction contenting ourselves preparing for CON
nc and meeting and possible defeating the enormous
hosts Of the invaders But think IL Is unquestionaby
true that each succeeding spring has witnessed marked
decline In the military strength of the enemy. They
have never since succeeded In massng SO many men AZ





New Orleans the fall Of Fort Doneson and Of Nashville
the retreat from Conth and the evacuation or Southern
Arkansas Last spring. although they concentrated i'm
forces the total OF their forces below that OF
either OF the previous years. and they able TO keep
their armies in the field during the summer only by the
Of hundred day volunteers and by the abandonment
Of garisons and the evacuation Of large portions of
territory previously held In state of semi conquest Il
now remains TO be seen whether they will be able to
commence the next campaign with forces equal in nune-
rical strength TO those hitherto employed.


We believe they must fail in this effort, and n they
fall II will show that the strength of the original popular
impulse the North has been altogether exhausted and
that IL connot be replaced BY the almost unlimited
power at command Of the Washington despotism The
three hundred Thousand called for by Lincoln would
barely oil the Yankee ranks to tho standard Of last
August after the disastrous campaign and enormous
losses Of the Roppahannock and the James and Red river
But these three hundred thousand who it Is to be
membered only to Gil deficiencies in the previous
draft will never be obtained Already the great city Of
New York, which assessed for sixteen thousand
eight hundred and eighty man. scaled down TO less
than four thousand, and may believe that similar
process will effect equivalent elimination throughout
the country In this proportion seventy i've thousand
will be about the number obtained in response TO the call
for three hundred thousand But what sort of army
will the Yankee army be when IL receives these seventy
hve thousand recruits In Its embracesY Why, FastaG q
ragamuihns would bo an army Of holiday soldiers in
comparison