The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-05-22

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II The Slave States of, Maryland, Kentucky,
Missouri, which, with the Federal District,
were eagerly clutched At BY the insurgents
in the palmy days Of their struggle, are now
fully and undisputedly possessed BY the
Nation. or Tennessee and Virginia, At least
halfar again under the away of the Stars
and Stripes. The Sea Islands Of South Car
olina and Georgia arr firmly held by the
Union forces, while the fall Of Fort Pulaski
has sealed the port of Savannah, rendering
that city Of no commercial importance. Flor
ida, divested of Rebel troops, might be COM
pletely regained to the Republic by 5000
men in the course of q month |; while the
capture Of New Orleans by Gen. Buffers
-expedition, has bereft the Shareholders Re
bellion ofby far its largest and most impor-
tant mart, and nearly stopped the clandestine
trade between the West Indies and the Gulf
coast. North Carolina and Virginia have
no remaining seaport, Wilmington perhaps
excepted, into which cargo Of arms or mill
tary stores can be run for the use of Jeffer-
son Davis 4 Company $50 that Charleston
remains practically the only svailable Rebel
port, and that can only be run into BY swift
vessels in very dark nights, when they can
pass within musket shot of the b;ockading
feet without heing perceived The Rebels
must therefore speedily assume the offensive
and win decisive victories or their last hope
will be stiAed. They cannot stand still !;
they have lost too much ground; they can
not maintain their armies on, what is left to
them they may tear every white youth
from bis home by conscription, but they can
not clothe, arm. equip, and provision the
number they already have in the field for
over three months longer. Four months of
unbroken disaster have brought them to the
brink ofruin: nothing short of oyerwhelm-
ing triumphs, promptly achieved, can. save
them from. going over Who believes it
probable that they are about to achieve such
triumphs - gg. ,s,t.f, sr,,. l.sfEa si
Two months more of such progress as either
two ofthe last four will see the rebellion vir-
tually suppressed military power com-
pletely broked. The next Fourth Of July
now seems likely to see it as completely and
hopelessly shattered, ss British domination
over this country was after the surrender Of
Yorktown. -ca - s4-
And then /? ys -ga,..z z.,...., .s-....
Let US suppose the Contederacy goes out
by silent collapse-some Of its leaders being
takon. prisoners, others csc ping or being in
sorutably hidden by their humber satellites;
while the National armies, no longer resisted,
replace the Federal flag on the domes Of
Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston, Milledge-
vile, Montgomery, ETC., amid detected and
sul!en populations. Resistance to the Fede-
raj arms has been forborne in despair &C.
quiescence ofthe negative, passive sort has
replaced it but cheerful obedience Is, con-
fined to those who never were heartily trai-
tors, and more especially TO the rugged and
hilly regions where Slavery never existed in
such. strength as to poison the fountains of
loyalty. Order reigns in warsaw y but
il, is upheld and enforced at cost of not
less than 81 200, 900 per day by the, bayo-
nets Of Half . Million Northern soldiers, all
impatient to be discharged frp,n the service
and at liberty to, return to their homes e,J
.s- What then2 yra4lr5 fi ifie $40 bia!y
The States just restored by force to the
Union will be summoned to elect Members
of Cmgress-+of this Congress appear
next Winter in w ashington and fersettle ous
Distracted coantryseslW What sost of men will
South Csrolina, and Georgia, and every other
Stste aud section wherein the rebellion has
for months borne undisputed sWay, be likely
to elect And what sortiof saeasures will
they be. likely to insist on as required to
satisfy, ,tranquilize, and reconvert to Union
ism stheir constituents O.; And what sort Of
response ara they likely to- elicit from
tie Rayards and CarlAes,a apd Vallspding
hams aud Voorhieses, now constituting =
minority in either Honss, but who viii thus
be converted into . m.jority . Who that
has honestly and earnestly fought treason
throughout vii; he regarded with favor by
such an ascepdency ? s:aedaik .ssoale4.pI
The Slaseholders' Rebellion is now seen
to have BEEN an enormous blunder. No
soccess now possible will make Slavery so
strong as the day aiter Lincoln's election,
That election was desired, designed, con-
spired for, rejoiced over, by the engineers Of
Disunion, rs certain to afford them their
long awaited opportunity. They might have
succeeded hsd they chosen to do 50, and gov.
erned the whole country as in their halcyon
days. when LOWS Cass, the Northern Plen,
ipctentiary of Northern Presideat, defeat
cd at Paris the suppression Of the African
Slave Trade (; IS when John O. Calhoun, the
Secretary Of State Of President elected [as
Vice -President| by the votes Of Msssacbu
sstts and Vermont, instructed Minister VIM
r. King to inform the French Court that we
must annex Texas IN order to secure Amer
icaD slavery ssainst the insidious inroads
Of Abolition; as when James Buchanan met