Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-18
M.F. MAURY ON THE PROSPECTS
OF THE REBELS.
How COpperhe'tls give Aid and
Comfort 10 the Enemy.


Comfort 10 the Enemy.
The letter of the rebel Maury to the Lon
don Times has reached us in full The fol
owing paragraphs are amusing and instruct
i've, showing that the only hope of the rebel
now is in the ascendancy Of the peace mer
at the North:
He announces first, that instead Of tn,
prospects OF the South looking blue, they
were never brighter. He declares also thai
the Union is forever destroyed, and ther
adds:
Since, then, the Union is gone, and Meth
cr party can subjugate the other, it follow;
that the war is not to be ended by the sword
Other agents have to be called in play
What are they? Let us inquire. They are,
divisions in the camp of the enemy, dissen
sions among the people of the North. There
is already peace party there. ALL THE EN-
BARRASSMENTS WITH WHICH THAT PARTY CAN
SURROUND Mr.. LINCOLN, AND ALL THE DIFF
COLTIEs THAT IT CAN THROW IN THE WAY OIL
THE WAR rARTy IN THE NORTH, OPERATE DI
RECrLY AS So MUCH AID AND COMFORT TO TIE
South.
AS an offset, then, against the tide of mill
tary reverses which in the first weeks of July
IAN so strong against the South, and from
which our friends in England seem not to
have recovered, let us look to those agencies
that are to end the war, and inquire wha,
progress has been made on the road to peace,
and, consequently in our favor, notwithstand-
ing these military reverses.
Notwithstanding these, the war is becom.
ing more and more unpopular in the North.
In proof of this, point to the conduct of the
Pennsylvanians during Lees invasion of that
State, to the riots in New York, to the organ
lied resistance to the war in Iowa, and to
other circumstances with which the English
public has been made acquainted by the
newspaper press.
New York is threatening armed resistance
to the Federal Government. New York is
becoming the champion Of States rights in
the Nortn, and to that extent is taking South
ern ground Mr.. Lincoln has not only judged
it expedient to unmuzze the press in New
Ywk, and deemed it prudent to give vent to
free speech there, but he is evidently afraid
to enforce the conscription IN the Empire
State" The conscription act itself, more,
over, seems to be so abortive throughout Yam
kee land generally that he cannot now mus
ter forces enough to follow up his July sue
ceSses. Grant has become afraid of John
ston's decoy, which aimed to entice him off
to the swamps and canebrakes of the Missis-
sippi. lie has therefore given up the So
called pursuit and taken to his darling gun
boats.
Banks has left Fort Hudson, to be routed,
it is said, beyond the Mississippi by Taylor,
with severe loss.
Rosecrans has not sufficiently recovered
from the blow that Bragg gave him last
Christmas in Murfreesboro' 70 follow up that
retiring Confederate, while Bragg has forces
in the Federal Generals rear.
In the attack upon Charleston, the enemy
is losing ground. He is evidently giving
way. He has been driven from James Island,
and we are planting batteries there which
will sweep Morris Island, which is nothing
but sand beach. So Charleston may be
considered safe Il.
AS for Meade, he simply stands at bay be-
hind Lee.
Thus the military tide which set in with so
much promise on the young flood in july
and which has so dampened the spirits Of our
English friends and depressed Southern Sc.
curities, appears suddenly to have been slack
ened, and to be on the point Of again turning
in our favor, and that too, under auspices
which seem more propitious than ever
Vallandigham waits and watches over the
border, pledg If elected Governor of the
State of Ohio-to array it against Lincoln
and the war, and to 60 for peace. What the
result of the election there will be I cannot
tell but the canvass is going on, and we
know that opposition to Lincoln and his war
party is growing more and more popular every
day, and throughout the whole North. Wit
ness Burnside's decree, putting, in violation
of all legal right and constitutional power, the
State of Kentucky under martial law, and
that, too, just as the elections are coming off
in that State. He orders the commissioners
of elections 10 let none vote but friends of
Lincoln and the Union; ard the last steamer
brings the announcement, in the jubilant
rhetoric of the Yankee press, "The Union
ticket has been elected in kentucky by a
large majority" Well it might; there was
no other ticket allowed.
Why. but for this growing hostility to Lin
coin, and the war, put Kentucky under mar
tial law at this late day at all Simply
because of the growing activity and increas-
ing energy of those inAuene es which are at
work in the cause Of peace, and therefore on
the side of the sword Of the South. These
influences are doing more toward bringing
the war TO an end than all the battles that
have been fought since the war began have
done.
Indeed, so Strengthened is Mr.. Lincoln at
this moment that his psrtisans are resorting
to desperate game. They are endeavoring
70, y,icn tho Dyt Eranna cpH Epr
land, hoping thereby TO rally the people to
the dupes to fight their brethren in the
South.
Nay, more: there are rumors Of peace
party in his Cabinet, and of proposition
there to revoke the emancipation proclama-
ton and propose terms to the South. The
leading newspapers of the North mention
this, and not with disapprobation.
Nor are these all the agencies that time
and events are bringing into play on the side
of peace and the South.
The fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson
was, according to those who were stirring
the North western people up to war, to open
the way to market Tor them. Every English
house in the American trade knows that the
breadstuffs of Ohio and the Northwest had,
| for years before the war, nearly ceased to pass
New Orleans on the way to markets abroad.
They went up to the lakes. and SO, via canal
and rail, to Boston and New York for expor-
tation to foreign countries. Can any one in
the trade pretend that England would have
| taken shipload more of American flour had
the Mississippi been open all the war? Chi
cago, and not New Orleans, has for years been
the grand grain market of the West,
and, except London, it is the greatest in the
world.
Hence I infer that, notwithstanding the