Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-10-14
What the Rebels Expect from their Friends.
CONFEDERATE VICTORIES HsrFr DEMOCRATIC

{ eoNFEDKE8TE VICTORIES TNSCPE DEMOCRATIl
SUCCESSES
If any of our readers, Democratic. or Re
publican, have the slightest doubt OF tie bear.
ing Of the state elections on the war. lei them
read the following extract from lea ding Con
iederate paper, the Augusta Coustit5aioRallst
(Ga.) of September 9th:
Our people viii recollect that two or three
or more months ago we heard a great deal
ana that continually, of the Wonderful things
the peace men OF the North were going to do.
Many IN our midst built strong hopes Of peace
on the action OF the malcontents in Lincolu's
realm. Many even were proposing terms OF
peace, inviting the Northwest TO free use OF
our Mississippi, and actually going so far as
70 ask the northwestern states to abandon
New England and the middle states, and come
with Us under our pro-slavery constitution.
But since about the 4th of July since the ca
pitulatlon OF Nieksburg and the retreat from
L pennsylvania, We have heard scarcely a whis-
per of peace from be yond the Potomac. The
people OF the United States have become
elatcd at their successes, and have cone CRAY
on the sensation of crushing the rebellion
ana subJugatIng the insurgent states.
e confess that we have dilraaS built Sfy.oy,g
hopcs o5t tie dlris5oa and dissatisfaction of the
northern people, The graditR J,a s7,re grosrH Of
an o'HsPoke'' peace party and he H7,a} outbreak
oJ TIE USu5rectiOHHY ehgaea.s uhich erist g,.oag
the ete1y, 6'd 'ebjch By one means or ote,. las
50 Tdj' been Sna0htersd o. elected But we have
always held that the only way To build up
peace party among the Yankees, and 10 set
AT Aberty the furious opposition of the anti
Republicans, was by successful war ON Lin
COINS armies IN the field. Ue still hare great
expectations from tic peace DsJ, of tie North and
the explosive wrath of the opposition masses,
out we were never more fully convinced than
now OF the essential Importance of thick
last ana heavy blows from the Confederate
armies, IN order to give gitalitv, ssxteat aJ,i
oyyd"tlzattols to the Ieace zlat, and to unloose
the herce impulses Of the enthrallcd and ter
rorized people
Mr. Nallandigham himself, as we have
heard, elHptdtjcaty aeciuyed that tie success of
Southern arms atone co,ia are streuaM aag con-
NtSlt'tcg 10 TIE peace increment ); and we verify
0elleFe that II FIcEsburg had been hci-, ana
Lee had thoroughly defeated Meade on his
own ground, tie Woods, aad Cores, aud I-aL-
tdHdtgieahtS, and tier followers, 1eo,sid hare 5et7.
rampant foT peace CgtI SeDayati0a and that not
one drafted man would ever have worn the
United States uni1orm-the livery OF hire
ing or degraded soldier-in the CITY OF New
York But NIchsburg fell, and Lee failed to
oFef"heIm Meade, and so the peace men are
as mute as frightened mice and the drafted
This popular feeling must be checked and
changed, and there is no means OF doing it
but 10y determined and successful conflict
at one or more points. The heroic holding
out OF Charleston helps US TO some extent,
but something more must be done The eIcc-
ton for Governor Of Ohio takes place early
IN November, We believe. and the new Van
kee Congress meets in December. IN ollly
Jatorably TO affect tie Ohio elcctjoa 7.delhe or
gantzat5on and actjoe Of tie neac Congress, a
majority of which is against the Republican
party, but not firmly decided as to ANYTHING
else, 1t is to the last degree essential that the
Confederate armies win one OF more decisive
battles within the next thirty or sixty DAYS.
II Johnston and Bragg can defeat Rose
Grams and Burnside, Charleston still holding
out, or II Lee, with his recruited army. can
defeat Meade with all the aid of his new con
scripts, demoralized and disafiected as they
are represented, then we may erpect tie most
tororable results IL tie Ohio election, and Lin
coin Congress. But unless something of the
kind is accomplished speedily, then a long
farewell to peace parity allandigham will
be defeated and Wood andrhis party paral-
yzed or oyerawed in Congress, and peace
postponed indefinitely, without foreign aid.