The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Becoming exhausted.

A Yankee scribe informs the public that Jeff. Davis and the other leading rebels are willing to return to the Union, if they can be included in the terms of Lincoln's amnesty. What a probable story! The most striking sign of exhaustion which the Yankee nation has given of late is the barrenness of its once marvellous capacity for lying. They cannot now get off a plausible falsehood to save their lives. In the beginning of the war, and for two years afterwards, they turned off five hundred first class whoppers every twenty-four hours. They have been gradually declining, however, for the last twelve months, until at last their inventions are so destitute of genius and of any resemblance to truth that it is hard to decide whether their mendacity or stupidity preponderates. This is one of the most auspicious signs of the times. When the Yankees become so exhausted that they cannot lie with enthusiasm their end is at hand. The grave diggers may get ready their mattocks, and their friends adopt the inscription for their tombstone: "Here lies the Yankee nation."