Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-11

Colonel Forney writes from Washington
to the Philadelphia Press in hopeful spirit.
He says
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 traitors,
and established on the basis of the old Con-
stitution, to last, let us hope, through endur-
ing generations. There is one subject upon
which loyal men can freely write, and that
is the approaching overthrow of the South
ern despotism, and by consequence, the proc.
lamation 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 encounters General Beau
regard, he will annihlate him and will COM
pei a surrender that will be followed, pre-
dict, by a perpetual peace. This is bold
language, but l am willing to stake my repu-
tation upon il; and here are some of the
reasons for the faith that is in me:
lfyou will reprint and read the extracts
from the Baltimore sun of this morning, you
will see that Hatteras was more that COM
pensaton for Manassas, and that the whole
people of North Carolina feel the blow struck
by Butler and Stringham as if it had reached
every heart and hearthstone in the State. Il
has aroused them to O double sense of the
weakness of that counterfeit one which has
covered them with irreparable calamites. 1t
has given voice to honest complaint, courage
to an oyerborne patriotism, and vitality to
the contempt sincerely entertained for the
| Richmond banditti. When this conspiracy
commenced, | stated, in almost direct terms,
that the Southern States would be surrounded
by the awful power Of the Federal Govern
ment; eaten up by their own factions; starved
rosn foxr Hnl,r
dered for the support of ravenous rebellion;
and because ofthe shamelessness of their re-
volt, and because of the atrocity of making
slavery the pretext of a war upon Christian
ity and civilization, certain to fall under the
judgment of every government on the face
of the earth.
Has not this horoscope been already more
than half Accomplished McCulloch is fly
| ing into Arkansas; Magoffin covers before
the Federal authority and the decree of the
ballot in Kentucky; Hardee is retreating
along the Mississippi; Rosecrans is holding
Lee and Floyd and Wise in check; the Bal
| timore mob, manacled and silent, glares
| powerless at the feet of General Dix. 1t is
even rumored that the grand army" that
now threatens Mcclellan on the shores oppo-
site Washington will break up and dissolve
Meanwhile the blockade is stretching it:
long arms and will presently hug the whole
|
brace The Union men of all the slave
States will shortly rise from whispered com
plant into open denunciation, and the mos
potent enemies of the rebellion will speedily
be found in the States now under its tbral
dom. So that you see that my prediction il
on the eve of fulfillment; that peace is Il
come from the efforts of our soldiers, ant
lot from the intrigues and treachery O
those who can see nothing dishonorable Il
| 4ba dafiOu and humiliation of th
North
The intelligence of the death of JEFF. Davi
seems to be confirmed. When Stephen A
Douglas was called away, fiendish exulta
ton was exhibited in many of the Secession
papers. The malignity with which the.
punished his independence survived hi
death and rioted over his grave. Let us Sc
better example, now that the great leade
of the Secession tyranny has been summoned
before the Eternal Bar. He was an imperi
Gus and positive public man. " II
have any reason for regretting his death, /
is because, if be had lived, his indomitabl
and desperate character would have driver
his followers TO more speedy defeat thaI
may now overtake them. Who is to be hi
successor remains to be seen. There is no
one of all the banditti who may be called hi
equal. The Vice. President, Stephens, wit
his feeble, fragile frame, could not endur
the weight of labor and of shame. Hunte
is timid, selfish, narrow man, who neve
rose to the dignity of bold fight, and VIII
never figured, save as the follower g
another. Toombs is an uncertain; vapiC
noisy gascon; Slidell distinguished only 70
the venom of his politics; Benjamin person
ally disgraced by revelations affecting hi
personal integrity; Yancey distrusted be
cause of his Northern birth, and remarkabl
only for his pyrotechnic oratory. thin
our Secession friends should beware lest som
/ unexpected chief should leap into the saddl
of their dead Cid. The brains and col
ton, are undoubtedly with the Union me
of the South.