Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-09-19
Forney's Prediction.

We extract from the Philadelphia Press
the following, taken from letter from
Occasional:
WAsHINGroN, Sept. 6.
am neither prophet nor the son Of a
prophet, but l think we are on the road
TO an honorable and lasting peace. 1t will
be conquered peace-a peace won at
the cannon's mouth, sealed with the blood
of traitors, and established upon the basis
of the old Constitution, to last let us hope
through enduring generations. It is true
we must reach the end through war and
carnage and death. But we will reach it.
When Gen. Mcclellan encounters Gen.
Beauregard he will annibilate him, and
will compel surrender that will be fol-
lowed, / predict, BY a perpetual peace
This is bold language, but I am willing to
stake my reputation upon it. ~ =,
If you will read the extracts from the
Baltimore Sun, of this morning, you will
see that Hatteras was more than COM
pensation 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. 1t has aroused them to a
sense of the power of our great Govern
ment, and of the weakness Of that coun-
terfeit one which has covered them With n.
reparable calamities. .f.44
1t has given voice to hopest complaint,
courage TO an overborne patriotism, and
vitality to the contempt sincerely en-
tertained for the Richmond bandi.ti.-
When this conspiracy commenced, 1 sta
ted, in almost direct terms, that the South
ern States would be surrounded By the
awful power Of the Federal Government;
eaten up by their own factions; starved out
by an efficient blockade; taxed and plum
dered for the support of 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 judgement of every Govern
ment on the face of the earth. -e,sJ
Has not this horoscope been already
more than half accomplished McCulloch
is flying into Arkansas; Magoffin covers
before the Federal authority and the de-
cree Of the ballot in Kentucky; Hardee is
retreating along the Mississippi; Rosep-
cranz is holding Lee. and Floyd, and Wise
in check; the Baltimore mob manacled
and silent, glares powerless at the Feet Of
Gen. Dix. It is even rumored that the
"Grand Army" that now threatens McClel-
Ian 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 and wooden
embrace. The Union men of all the slave
States will shortly rise from whispered
into open denunciation, and the
most potent enemies of rebellion will
speedily be found in the States now under
its thraldom. So you see that my pre-
diction is on the eve Of fulfilment-that
peace is to come from the efforts Of our
soldiers, and not from the intrigues and
treachery of those who can see nothing
in the degradation and hu-
initiation of the North. s-se--.t
The intelligence Of the death of Jstfsr-
son Davis seems to be confirmed. When
Stephen A. Douglas was called away, q
iendish exultation was exhibited in many
# the Secession papers. The maliguity
with which they punished bis Independence
survived his death and rioted over his grave.
Let us set better example, now that the
,reat leader of the Secession tyranny has
,een summoned before the eternal bar