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Prepare for the Spring.

In the two months which intervenes before the opening of the Spring campaign, the Confederate Government and people should make the most thorough and energetic preparations for another and perhaps a decisive struggle. It is only when the South has failed to avail itself of opportunities for preparation that its cause has suffered. We have no fears whatever for the future, if the South is true to itself and awake to the exigencies of the occasion. What has been is a guarantee of what is to be, if we are true to our cause and to ourselves. But the remainder of the winter must be devoted to every form and shape of preparation against the colossal enterprises of the enemy, which the highest wisdom can devise and the most powerful energies execute.

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