Year: 1863

(From the Richmond Examiner o al POI


1t is not altogether empty boast of the Yankees
that they hold all they have held and that
another year two of such progress 3 they have
already made will find them of the Southern
Coufederacy. They who think independence is to
be achieved by brilliant but incousequentia victories
would do well to look with the natural eye at the
magnitude Of Yankee possessions in country.
Maryland. Kentucky ard Missouri claimed as
constituent parts of the COnfederatiOn they as
much in the power of Lincoln Maine and Mime
The pledge once deemed foolish by the South,


hat he would a. hold. occupy and possess all the
forts Belonging TO the United States Government,
has been redeemed also to the letter by Lincoln
Forts Pickens and Morgan still retain, but, with
these exceptions, all the sronghOlds the seaboard
from Fortress Monroe the Rio Grande, are in the
hands Of the enemy


Very consoing and very easy to say that IL was
impossible prevent all this, and that the occupa-
ton of the outer edge of the Republic amounts
nothing. Dowry's Bluff and Yicksburg give the lie
90 the 6rst assertion, and the onward movement Of
Rosecrans towards Alabama, the presence of Grant
in Mississippi, and of Curtis in Middle Arkansas 10
say nothing Of Banks NJ New Ore ana Baton
Rouge, set the silly dream that a thin strip
of sea coast only Is in the possession of foes.
The truth is the Yankees in great force in the
very heart of the COnfeleracy; they all
borders, they threaten every important city yet
belongin u.s. and nearly two hundred thousand
Of them are within two days march of the COnfede-
rate capital This il no fiction IL is fact posi-
tive that none can deny 1t.


General Hindman IS very far from being flvorite,
even among his own people, and so destitute are
some OF the eyies who have volunteered to come
out of Missouri to join armies, that whole bat
talliOus OF them have been marching barefoot
through three inches deep. Add 10 this the
fact that, far the public is permitted to know
New Mexico and Arizona for the time being lost
to us and that the Of disalecon in Tennessee
and Mississippi (growing out of the appoin' of
incompetent officers, and the finced neg ect Of that
country by the Confederate Government-nOt from
any lack Of fervOr in the cause,) which President
Davis visit intended to heal is likely to revive
under the depressing influence of Bragg's retreat
and his continuance in command-add all this TO
the foregoing, and it will be that the Yankees
have much to encourage them in the prosecution Of
the war; and a little to excite serious appre-
hensiou the future


With the first opening CT spring comes the last
shock of this Many Of the Yankee troops are
nine months More enlisted for two years,
their time expiring in May next. Up to that time
they will be available, and we may be very sure
that all the fighting that possibly be gotten out
OF them will be had before they are allowed 10 go
home. They outuumber Us two to one There Is a
limit to the endurance Of the brave men at TullahO
ma, Grenada and Vicksburg, They must be
tained strengthened, reinforced. If within the next
two months we do add seyenty-f five or n hundred
thousand men to forces in the Southwest We
shall come to grief II We do add them. We are safe
beyond ueradventure, and next summer will witness
the final triumph Of our armies