Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-09-19
Is Peace Probable--Letterf from
Col. Forney.

wi. COruey.
Col. FOrney writes from Washington to
the Philadelphia Press of Saturday in a
hopeful spirit. He says:
Il am neither prophet nor the son Of a
prophet, but think we are on the road IN
an honorable and lasting peace. II will he
a conquered peace-a peace won at the can.
n3ns mouth, sealed with the blood of trai.
tors and established upon the basis of tho
old Constitution, to last, let us hone. throngb
enduring generations There is one snbiect
upon which loyal men may freely write, and
that is the approaching overthrow of the
Southern despotislE, by consequence, and.
the proclamation Of enduring peace. 1t /,
true we must reach the end through war and
carnage and death. But we will reach it
When General Mcclellan encounters Gen
BeauregarJ he will aDnihilate him, and will
compel surrender that viii be followed, |
predict, by perpetual peace. This is bold
language, but | am wiling to stake nv repu
tation upon it; and here are some of the
reasons Tor the faith that is in me:
lfyou will reprint and read the extract,
from the Baltimore Sun of this morning.
you will see that IIatteras was more than a
compensation for Manassas. and that the
whole people of North Carolina feel the
blow struck by Butler and Stringhain as if it
bad reached every heart and hearthstone in
the State. lt 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
calamitles. 1t has given voice to honest
complaint, courage to an overborne patriot
ism, and vitality to the contempt sincerely
entertained for the Richmond banditti. =
w hen this conspiracy commenced, | stated
IN almost direct terms, that the Southern
States would be surrounded By the awful
power OF the Federal Governments; eaten up
by. their own factions; starved out BY an ef.
fclent blockade; taxed and plundered for the
support of rirenous rebellion; and because
OF the shamelessness of their revolt, and
because OF the atrocity ofmaking slavery the
pretext OF war upon Christianity and
civilization, certain 10 fall under the judg-
ment OF every Government on the face of
the earth.
Has not this horoscope been already more
than half accomplished Mccullough 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 Balti.
more mob. nianaced and silent, glares
powerless at the feet Of Gen. Dix. Its ru-
mored that the grand army that now
threatens Mcclellan on the shores opposite
Washin ton will break up and dissotye.-
Meanwhile, the blockade is stretching its
long arms. and will presently hug the whole
Contederacy in an iron and wooden en-
brace. The Union men of all the Slave
States will shortly rise from whispered com
plaint into open dcnunciation, and the most
potent enemies of the rebellion will speedily
be found in the States now under its thrai-
dom. SO that you see my prediction is on
the eve Of tfulfillment-that peace is to come
from the efforts of our soldiers, and not
from the intrigues and treachery of those
who can see nothing dishonorable in the
degradation and humiliation of the North.