Year: 1865

From the Quebec Mercury


The of the federals along the OF the
Confederate States Is likely to prove unchecked Their
decided maritime superiority must in the ordinary
Of events render their permanent while those
Of the Confedeates however brilliant are utterly neu
tazed by the ncriorty OF their that of their
advesares at sea- Not only does the naval power OF the
North the fruits OF It's victories TO be permanent
but their accumulation increases the Northern power OF
aggression and dminishes the Southern power Of de-
fence As tho Southern ports 70 M defended dimin
shed in number 80 their defenders weakened in
sources, while the North leaving conquests under
the protection OF the guns OF It's shipping can concen-
rate its forces for combined action by land and
against the remaining seaports OF the South. Once
driven into the Interior cut off from supplies and at
tackled by an abolitions government determined TO de-
prve the South OF labor in the OF freedom and to
destroy all her resources military necessity. the total
extinction Of Southern independence will only be ques
ton of time Not only does the subugaton cut on the
South from the material Of heretofore supplied by
blockade runners, but It win take from the S6uh ne
moral supput Of European sympathy. The course
is too judicous and too consonant with Northern
interests and proclives not to bc invariably followed
With European commerce Wtu 90 European sympdthies.
Those sympathics have bcen with the southfrom CHI
yaiyf Yes truly as the shadow indicates the substance
The shadow has been horo Worship but TIE sabsaHoe
efineret Let that change, and another ornamen.
tai SHADOW viii be found to replace the departed one
Negro Worship, suddenly revived, will replace hero wor
ship The Europeans will nnd that they have been
always abotIonss only they took queer way Of show
ing IT, hc spirit OF old John Rrownn Of 0ssawatta-
mie, will be found respectable a ghost that OF
"Stonewall Jackson Tor any other !" and the Tme-
which has 80 gnorantly revlled the negro will grow





last broken remnant OF her gallant forces shall not only
be called rebels, but treated as such.


THE SOUTHERN POLICY OF ARHING THE sLAvE-Too


LATE


From the Toronto Gobel


The rebel Congress at Richmond 1t seems, In at last
about TO toe the mark and pass bill for the armnQ
OF two hundred thousand slaves One house adopted
tho and the other IL said certain TO concur


this had been done In the first second year OF he
war there might have been some little reason in the ex.
pertinent, th1sh even then would have been extremely
hazardous. But now. whsn every man in the SOUTH
black or white must pretty thoroughly understand how
fast the South s losing ground the experiment Is donbv
dangerous IL ever the slaves wege not " be entrusted
by their masters with and the instruction OF tho
camp, that time Is the present II there Is any dspos
ton In them 70 fight against their oppressors,
have developed IL. An opprcssor In tho day
Of his strength and power, may command the aid
OF those whom he has wronged, but fallen and beaten
tyran has the poorest possible claim upon the sympatby
and assistance OF his victims that one human being can
have upon the help OF another Besides cnroe policy
coes 10 iae How long will IL take 10 collect these two
hundred thousand saves How many OF them are To be
got In the northern belt OF rcbcdomS How long will il
take 10 get those who TO from beyond corRaY
How they TO be kept for months ~ be drilled and
made ready ior nghtng IN any part OF the SOUTH
few regiments gathered somewhere In Georgia or one OF
the saronas who would guarantee that General Sherman
should not pounce upon them before they had mas
tered the mysteries OF the simplest kind OF drll2
suppose, again, that all these difficulties were oyercomc
how time labor and expense will have been lost in fitting
them for service. How much progress will the victo-
rious armies OF tho North have made the meantime
They must, at the best be OF little avail for the next
summers campaign and by the end Of that who knows
that the rebel leaders will have any for them or at
all events, any important army OF Writes left 10 CO.
operate with them3 The Confederates have stuck TO
slavery with such tenacty, and have rcsoucly per.
sisted In regarding as treason to their daringconcd.
ening Of slavery, that they now aifoostr loo Lrs n
d.k,ng their slaves b fight for their cause.