The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-02

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We clip tho following highly important
pieoe Of intelligence from The Stark coun-
y Republican Of the cath inst:
Yesterday We received from Capt. Fire
stone, Go. A, 10th, regiment @. ", .
copy Of tho Augusta Georgia. Consti-
tutionalist, Of date Sept. 9th. In
an accompanying note. Captain Firestone
Gays:
Lee 4 Gordon's Mills, Walker Co. Ga
Sept. 10, 1863.
FRIEND HARrzxLL-l send you copy
Of the Augusta Constitutionalist Of yes.
ter.lay. It vas taken from rebel mail,
captured at Ringgold, Ga. call your
attention 70 the editorial article on the
second page.
We have neither paper or pen hsre
ali company baggage left At Chattanoo-
"a. 8. J. FlaEsroEs.
The following il the article to which
Capt Firsstons refers, published in the
Augusta ga. J. Constitutionalist, Septsm-
Der 9th:
TO RxvrvE THE PLACE PARTY.
Our people will rscollect that two or
three or more months ago we heard .
great deal, and that continually, of the
wonderful things the peace men Of the
North we're going to do. Many in our
midst built strong hopes Of peace on the
action Of the malcontents in Lincoln's
realm. Many even were proposing terms
Of peace, inviting the Northwest to . free
use Of our Mississippi. and actually going
20 far Is to ask the Northwestern States
to abandon New England and the Middle
States, and come with rs under our pro-
slavery Constitution. But since about
the 4th Of July. since the cspitulation Of
| Vicksburg and the retreat from Pennsyl.
vania, We have heard scarcely whisper
of peace from beyond the Potomac =
The people Of the United States have be-
come elatsd at their successes. and have
gone crazy again on the sensation of
crushing the rebellion and subjugatiug
the insurgent States.
We confess We have always built strong
hopes on the division and dissatisfac
ton of the Northern people, the gradual
but sure growth of an outspoken peace
party, and the final outbreak of the To-
,urrectionary elements which exist among
the enemy, but which, BY one means or
other, has 90 far been smotbered or
checked. But We have always held that
the only way to build up peace party
among the Yankees, and to set At liberty
the furious opposition Of the anti. Rspub-
licans, was by successful war on Lin
coins armies in the field. We still have
great expectations from the peace men Of
the North and the explosive wrath Of the
deposition masses, but We were never
more fully convinced than nov, of the o.
sential importance of thick. fast and
heavy blows from the Confederate armies
in order to give vitality, system and or
ganization 10 the peace men, and to un-
loose the fierce impulses of the enthrall-
ed and terrorized people. Mr.. Vallan-
digham himself, as we have heard, most
emphatically declared that the success Of
Southern arms alone could give strength
and consistency to the peace movement !;
and We verify believe that if Vicksbure
had been held and Lee had thoroughly
defeated Meade on his own ground, the
Woods and Coxes and Vallandighams
and their followers would have been ram-
pant for peace and separation, an that
not ono drafted man would ever hsvs
worn the United States uniform-the
livery Of hireling or degraded soldier
in the city of New York. But Vicks-
burg fell. and Lee failed to overwhelm
Meade, and so the peace men are as mute
as frightened mice, and the drafted row.
dies are forced easily into the ranks.
If We expect anything in the way Of
bringing about peace from the action of
the Northern people outside Of Lincoln's
armies, it is Of the last importance that
our armies work to that end now With .
will, and that speedily. II We hope for
the close Of the war under Eve years it is
now become all important that we give
the enemy such lesson, and that soon,
as will cast down their naughty and
elated spirit, and incline their hearts
again to peace, and their miods to the
conviction that the rebellion is not crush
ed, neither can it be. At present, an.
pearances are so decidedly against US that
the Northern masses, judging u. by them.
selves in similar circumstances, are rap
idly arriving at the conclusion that We
are nearly ready to surrender at di.cre.
ton. This feeling is adroitly inspired
and kept alive by the leaders, ard the
people remain in ignorance Of our real
powers, resources and determination.
and 90 are rampant for the vigorous pros
ecution Of the war Of subiugalion.
This popular feeling must be checked
and changed, and there is no means Of
doing it but by determined and success
full conflict at one or more points The
heroic holding ont of Charleston helps
us to some extent, but something more
must be done. The election for Govern.
or of Ohio takes place early in November,
We believe. and the New Yankee Con.
gress meets in December. In order ia
vorably to affect the Ohio election and
the organization and action of the new
Congress. majority Of which is against
the Republican party, but not firmly de-
cided as to anything else, it is to the last