Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-06-11
From the South.

Capt. H. 6. Stratton, Co. c., 18th OhiC
Regiment, has sent US a copy of the No
bile (Ala.) Advertiser and Register, o
May Is, which he obtained after our troops
entered Corinth.
This rabid secession sheet does VI
some choice articles for the qualification o
its readers.
Its leader is replete with golden prom.
ises of a speedy overthrow of the North.
ern armies under Halleck and Mcclellan
But the force of the article is wholly de,
feated, as a solace to despairing secession.
lists, by the number and significance Of
the Ifs" in which it sbounds. We ex.
tract from i: to show what, as late as the
18th of May, the rebels thought Of
HI PROSPECT.
1t is the general impression that if the
Confederate arms gain the decisive victo-
rleS over Halleck in the West and Nc
Clellan in Virginia, completely over
throwing their armies, the North will be
entirely willing to grant us peace, or to
enter into negotiations with a view to
peace. 1t may be so. But It would seem
that if this result be brought about it
must be through the overthrow of the
dominent party in the North. If we ov-
ercome it OF those fields, as well as the
armies it has marshalled against us, we
may look for peace, Or for negotiations to
that end. The recent votes in Congress
do not indicate a conservative element
strong enough to be reinforced toa major
ity by all the recruits from Black Repub-
licanism that three or four decisive Water
loos would drive to its ranks. Your
Black Republican is a stubborn animal,
doggedly p~ersevering in carrying out his
aims. Words, kicks, shame, will not de-
ter him from his objects. He may be act
ed upon in one way, however, and it is
the only way. to wit: though his person
ul interests.
Let our victories be of such magni-
tude that they will ripen into avowed and
general disgust for the war the wide
spread but latent opposition with which
1t is regarded by a strong minority of the
masses, and a sufficient number of the
Black Republicans in Congress will be apt
to take the altered hue of their constitu-
ency, who will lay them on the shelf I'M
less they do, cutting them off forever
from the public crib at which they have
waxed fat. The desertion of a sufficient
number of its supporters to the opposi-
ton ranks will leave Lincoln's administra-
ton without a legislative bottom to stand
on, and We may hope for favorable results.
But so long as the Administration is sus-
tanned in Congress, 80 long, there is reas-
on to fear, that besotted Government
will persist in waging the war on the larg-
est scale in its power, in defiance of the
wishes of a majority of the people, in the
face of adverses and regardless of the dis
appreciation of the world.
Fortunately, though, if we destroy the
armies of Mcclellan and Halleck, we
cripple the North so that it cannot again
press US as closely as of late. We will
reclaim Tennessee, probably Missouri and
possibly Kentucky, as an immediate N
sequence"
The wild retreat of B~eauregard from
Corinth, and the victory in front of Rich
mond, on the lst inst, must have dis
PEELED, by this time, all rebel hope of
driving back Halleck and McClellan's
armies. The Ifs" in the article quoted
proved insurmountable to the rebels, and
the disappointed editor of the Advertiser
must take a horoscope of some other di-
~rection, to find a single star of hope
whereto to point his dispairing and in
credulous readers.
But we are ready to believe that the
popular mind of Mobile is verdant
enough to rely upon almost anything pub
after seeing what kind of misera-
bic stuff the newspapers presume to palm
their readers, as reliable news. Take
the following, contained in the same pa
per above quoted from, as a sample of
Southern v~eraeity and gullability. Hear
what is said of the yankee Army at
Nashville :"
In Nashville but six citizens have turn
ed coats. We have seen citizens from
every day, and making allowance
for exaggeration, the place must be a hot
one to the Yankees. Over fifteen hun
have been killed by outsiders" or
since Buell's occupation. APP
parently reliable men from there, say
Buell. has forty-eight thousand men
with him. Forty-three thousand they as
sert are rag tag and bobtail, but all, in
five thousand picket men, are
we'll armed and equipped. The rag tags
are small, puny men, two-thirds ignorant
even of our language.