Year: 1863




The Blstherskits Journals or RlChnena
The Richmond Journals crushed by the over
wheiming defeats the rebel arms have lately en-.
dured, are compelled to acknowledge that the
Southern eonfederacy has met with "incaleu-
liable and wholly irreparable losses.u The cap
lures by our troops of Vicksburg, of Port Hud-
son, the defeat Of Lees army, the defeat of
Johnston, the loss of Tennessee, and the tre.
mendous tsasco Of Morgan. the guerilla, all
crowd down upon the vainglorious boosters of
the Richmond journals with irresistible weight.
They acknowledge their desperate condition;
but true to their instincts, they now pirate about
the brave deeds of Paul Jones, and compare
their sinking and rotten confederacy to the old
ship Bon Homme Richard. Like Paul Jones'
they will, say the blatant editors above referred
to, nail their colors to the mast, and 90 on from
victory to victory. Now that they are /" ire
trievably used up" they will let the world see
what Southerners can do. This balderdash will
deceive no one. The people Of the South are
now fully aware that their violent and selfish
leaders have deceived them, and are, the ma
jority of them. quite ready to come back into
the Union.


The loss of the Mississippi railroads will terri
bly, hamper the movements of the rebels and
render their chances for obtaining food precari
Gus in the extreme. They can no longer
draw provisions from the rich plains
of Tennessee; and whereas they have been for
some time obliged to pay the most extravagant
prices for the necessaries of life, what will they
do now that their communications are cut off?
AT Natchez we captured five thousand head of
cattle. A few more such achievements and the
South will find itself upon the verge of starva-
ton. Independent of the food question must be
taken into consideration the fact that we seized
forty locomotives and all the rolling stock of
the Mississippi railroads. These losses the rebels
cannot repair, as the people Of the South are
fully aware, and we dare assert that they are as
much disgusted with the humbug and bombast
of the Richmond journals as all thinking men
both here and abroad.


The rebel authorities will in vain endeavor to
raise more troops. If they take away oil the
white men the negroes will not work, and thus,
even if servile insurrection should not occur,
starvation would ensue. Within the past three
or four weeks the rebels have lost at least
one hundred thousand men, and, we repeat, they
cannot replace them. This fact is as patent to
the people of the South as to ourselves, and
they know that the hour of submission is
near. When our government shall see ft to
extend hand to the misguided South that
hand will be grasped and Davis and his COM
peers will find themselves left alone. The
blatherskiting Of the Richmond journals will
have no effect upon people who hear the stern
voice of necessity. We would advise the said
journals to make the most of very bad bar
gain, and would suggest that they urge upon
the people the wisdom of submission. All that
brave men could do against fearful odds and
good cause they have attempted. Let them now
give proof of good sense by abandoning their
rebellious schemes and once more rallying
around the old flag.


In the face of the losses they have endured,
the curtaiing of their territory and the inevita.
BILE sufferings they must undergo if they still
prosecute the rebellion, no true friend Of the
Southern people would hound them on to fur
ther resistance. That the journals of Rich
mond, which are fed upon the pap of the War
Office, should do SO is not singular; that the
aiders and abettors of the rebellion in Eng
land-those members of Parliament who want
to speculate in cotton and who wish to
cell steamships to the confederacy, to say
nothing Of their privateering propensities-
should prate about recognition is to be ex-
pected but men Of sense and feeling will
deprecate struggle which can end but with
the success of the one party and the good
cause. The Richmond journals will find it
hard matter to convince the people of the
South that "the deluge was but shower after
an"