The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-10-02
The Prospects of Peace.

wv "iO POiIuiIIou W nI~ho 1"o AoA-
lowing extracts from a private letter
written by a gentleman from New
York, recently arrived in RichmoVi
to a friend in this city. We are
informed that the writer is a Northern
man, though Southern in feeling, and
from the position he held in New York
had better than the ordinary means Of
ascertaining the prevailing sentlmSnt
of his section:
"Thero is no doubt now
the North would gladly withdraw from
the contest if decent excuse offered
Before the battles at Richmond the war
party was exultingly arrogant. The
downfall of Richmond and an easy con
quest of the South wad predicted. But
since McClellan's defeat q wonderful re.
~vulsion of feeling has taken place
Many frankly confess that the object
of the War is no longer attainabie, and
many, too are calling for peace on any
terms. OF one thing you may rest as.
sured, the North was defeated at the bat.
ties of Richmond, and so it is admitted
in New York, let the generals and
newspapers say what they may. And
in the defeat, the power and the pres.
tigc of the North was broken. She
will never recover her strenth. Her
soldiers are disheartened and democrat.
lied. Notwithstanding the draft was
ordered it has not taken place, and I
do not believe the government dares
to enforce it. That was the general
impression. When l left, q number of
secret societies were organized in New
York to resist the draft. The govern.
ment knows this, and fears u popular
instruction if it proceeds TO torey.-
Hardly 100000 of the 100000 called for
has been raised, and the balance cannot
be procured unless the draft is enforced.
Three and four hundred dollars were
paid as bounty to volunteers in some
places. There is a greater division of
sentiment at the North to-day than at
any time since the war c~ommenced.-
NJ said | might tell our friends
in the South, that if Pope was driven
back, the war would virtually be over.
D. predicted it would be over in
sixty days. Many others in New York
have expressed the same opinion"
If the writer of the above is not mis-
taken in his statements relative to tho
failure OF the draft, We regard his rev
e%lations as Of the utmost Importance -
The North cannot continue the war
without soldiers, and if the call q. six
hundred thousand is not promptly re.
spondcd to, Lincoln and his party must
succumb and sue for peace. In this
connection our readers will doubtless
remember the statements recently pub
lished that the Governors of Ohio and
some other Northern States has ordered
the indefinite p~ostponement of Ythe
draft.
The letter from which we have quo
ted relates the following as an illustra-
ton of the difficulties under which the
Anti Lincoln papers ut the North arc
struggling. The"New York Caucasian"
is a weekly paper, published by the
owners of the late New York Day Book,
since the suppression of the latter by
the Lincoln government
"The Caucasian has been having a
hard time. 1t had the benefit Of the
mails five weeks and ran mp a c%ircula.
ton Of $4,000. The Government then
forbade it's entrance into the mail.
For some time it was sent to subscri-
bers in boxes, barrels, and bags by Ex-I
press, but finally the Express CompaI
MES refused to recei:e and transport it,
Then it was sent through travelling
messengers, and they were stopped by
the local authorities. Where the papers
passed as freight on tho Erie Rail road,
the Sheriffs of some of the counties thro'
which tho line ran. would enter the
cars, seize Tho packages and destroy
them. Atlast it was found impossible
to SUPPLY the country subssribers-