Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-05
from the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 21.
Rebel Views of the Main Election.

Maine has followed in the wake O
Vermont. The election in that Stat,
seems to have resulted in signal tri
umph for the Washington junto. Thi.
event is of greater moment than a simi
lar result in any other New England
State 1t had been thought that the
ruling faction was not so firmly seated
in Maine. The course of the war, too
seemed less favorable to her interests
than to those of her neigh5ors. Manu-
factures were not, in any branch, so flour.
ishing, and the shipping interest, it was
supposed, would have found the advan.
tages arising from the employment Of
vessels for warlike purposes fully bal
anced by the damage inflicted on com
meree by our indefatigable cruisers The
expectations arising from these various
elements of calculation, have all been
disappointed, and the people have appa-
rently pronounced in favor of the war
policy of the Government
The most plausible explanation of this
fact is to be found in the spirit of conf
dence which now appears to pervade the
Yankee people. Never was their tone
more exulting or their swagger more i'm
pudent The reverses which the arms
of the Confederacy have lately met have
inspired that sanguine people with a con-
victlon of assured success, and every
voice is raised to praise the course of a
Government which has accomplished
such magnificent results This paroxysm
Of enthusiastic confidence is not unpar-
alleled in the history of the war. 1t was
exceeded by their exultation over the
fall of Donelson, and the capture of
Nashville. Similar boastings preceded
the terrific defeat of fredericksburg.
1t is now perfectly evident that their
military status is the infallible barome-
ter of Yankee opinion All the opposi-
ton to the war rests solely upon the want
of success. If Lincoln fails in his effort
at our subjugation, the public indigna-
ton will be reused at his incapacity, and
the eyes of the people will be opened to
the atrocity of the war. II victory wait
upon him, no matter how inglorious the
victory, attained by whatever superiority
of numbers and overwhelming weight of
material, the 10 TTiumphe viii ascend,
and Lincoln's name be borne upon an
universal chorus of praise.
There were, and are still, no doubt
for we read in Holy Writ that Lot dwelt
in the infamous City of the Plain-hon-
est men who not only lamented the vio-
lation of Southern rights in the Union,
but deprecated the recourse to war after
the catastrophe arrived; there were sa-
gaclous men who perceived the folly of
saw in it fearful danger, if not GER
tain destruction of free institutions
These men, few in number, bowed before
the furious tornado of popular fury which
swept over Yankee land, when it was
found that the South had actually dared
to resist their sovereign will expressed
through the ballot-box Some have since
attempted to stem the popular tide, but
their efforts in general, timid and feeble,
have been almost, entirely imperative,
unless aided by the depression of defeat,
and repentance of unsuccessful wicked
ness.
But what of the numerous politicians
who supported by all the force of elo-
quence and argument the cause of South
ern rights? What of the pure minded
Dickinson, inundated upon the alter o.
patriotism? What of the astute and able
Cushing? of the learned and classic Ev
erett? Greeley or Sumner could scarcely
exceed the vindictiYe utterances of Dick
inson Gushing has turned the batterie;
of his logic from the vindication of thu
South to the exposition of the necessit.
of its conquest and plumber. Everett
parades his figures of speech and ez
hausts his forcible feeble rhetoric il
fowery denuuciation of the wiekednes
of rebellion and laudation of the mode
republic.