The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-20
Peace.
e of the Philadelphia Press.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.
l am neither prophet nor the son of
prophet, but think we are on the road to
an honorable and lasting peace. 1t will be
conquered peace-a peace won at the can.
mons mouth, sealed with the blood of trail
tors and established upon the basis of the
constitution, to last, let us hope through en-
during generations. There is one subject
upon which loyal men may freely write, and
that is the approaching overthrow of the
southern despotism, and, by consequence,
the proclamation of enduring peace.
1t is true we must reach the end through
war and carnage and death. But we will
reach it. When General Mcclellan en-
counters General Beauregard be will anni~
hiIate him, and will compel surrender
that will be followed, I predict, by a per-
petual peace. This is bold language, but
am willing to stake my reputation upon it !;
and here are some of the reasons for the
faith that is in me:
If you will reprint and read the ex-
tracts from the Baltimore Sun of this morn
ing, you will see that Hatteras was more
| than compensation for Manassas, and that
the whole people of North Carolina feel the
blow struck by Butler and Stringham, as if
it bad reached every heart and hearthstone
in the State. 1t has aroused them to a
double sense of the power of our great
government, and of the weakness of that
counterfeit one which has. covered them
with irreparable calamities. 1t has given
voice to honest complaint, courage to an
overborne patriotism, and vitality to the
contempt sincerely entertained for the Rich
mond banditt.
When this conspiracy commenced. l
stated, in almost direct terms, that the
Southern States would be surrounded b.
the awful power of the Federal government
starved out by an efficient blockade eaten
up by their own factions taxed and plum
derei for the support of a ravenous rebel
lion /; and because of the shamelessness of
their revolt, and because of the atrocity of
making slavery the pretext of war upon
Christianity and civilization, certain to fall
under the judgment of every government
of the face of the earth.
Has not this horoscope been already more
than half accomplished ? McCulloch Is
flying into Arkansas Magoffin covers be-
fore the Federal authority and the decree of
the ballot in Kentucky Hardee is retreat
ing along the Mississippi; Rosecrans is
holding Lee, and Floyd, and Wise in check !;
the Baltimore mob manacled and. silent,
glares powerless at the feet of Gen. Dix. 1t
is even rumored that the " Grand Army"
that now threatens Mcclellan on the shores
opposite Washington will break up and
dissolve.
Meanwhile the blockade is stretching its
long arms, and will presently hug the whole
Confederacy in an iron ard wooden en-
brace. The Union men of all the slave
States will shortly rise from whispering
complaint into open denunciation, and the
most potent enemies of the rebellion will
speedily be found in the States now under
its thralldom. So that you see my predic-
ton is on the eve of fulfillment--that peace
is to come from the efforts of our soldiers,
and not from the intrgues and treachery of
those who can zee nothing dishonorable in
the degradation and humiliation of the