Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-11-05

| Withdrawal of the Yankee forces from ev
cry foot of Confederate ground, inc9adifs
kentucky and Missouri. T
Withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers from
! Maryland, until that state shall decide by :
| free vote whether she shall remain in the OLD
| Union, or ask admission into the Confederacy
| Consent on the part OF the Federal Gov
eminent TO give up to the Confederacy ii
proportion Of The auay, as it stood at the time
| OF secession, or to pay for the same. --
| Yielding up of all pretensions on the part
of the Federal Government of that por
ton Of the old Territories which lies ueSt o.
| the Confederate States.
An equitable settlement, on the basis of oul
absolute independence and equal rights, OF
ali accounts of the public debt and public
lands, and the advantages accruing from for
eign treaties.
The provisions, we apprehend, comprise
the minimum of what We must require before
we lay down our arms that is to say the
North must yield all, we nothing The whole
pretension of that country to prevent by
force the separation of the States must be
abandoned, which will be equivalent to an
ayowal that our enemies were wrong from
the first, and, of course, as they waged a
causeless and wicked war upon us, they
ought in strict justice to be required, accor-
ding to usages in such cases, to reimburse to
Us the whole of our expenses and losses in
the course Of that war. Whether this last
provlso IS to be insisted upon or not, certain
we are that we cannot have any peace at all
until we shall be in position not only to de-
Inand an exact, but also to enforce and col
lect treasure for our own reimbursement out
of the wealthy cities in the enemy's country.
In other words, unless we can destroy or
scatter their armies, and break up their Gov
ernment, we can have no peace: and if we
can do that, then we ought not only to extort
from them our own full terms and ample ac-
acknowledgement. of their wrong, but also a
handsome Indemnity for tie trouble and expense
caused to as by their crime.
Now, we are not vet in position to dictate
those terms to our enemies, with Rosecrans'
army still In the heart of our country, and
Meade still on the Virginia soil; but though
1t is too soon to propose such conditions to
them, yet it is important that we should keep
them plainly before our own eyes as the only
admissible basis of any conceivable peace
This we'll fixed in the Confederate mind, there
will be no more fearful looking for news from
Europe, as if that blessed peace were to
come to US over the sea, and not to be con-
quered on our own ground. There will be
no more gaping for hints of recognition and
filling of the belly with the east wind; no
more distraction or diversion from the single
momentous business of bracing up every nerve
and sinew of the country for battle.
1t is especially now, at the moment when
great and perhaps decisive battles are i'm
pending at two or three points, that we think
II most essential to insist upon the grand and
entire magniicence of the stake and cause
Once more we say, it is all or nothing
This Confederacy or the Yankee nation, one
or other, goes down, down to perdition. That
is to say, the other must Forfeit It's nation
al eristence and lie at the mercy Of its mortal en-
eng.
We all know by this time the fate in store
for US, if we succumb. THE other party has
no smaller stake.
AS surely as we completely ruin their ar
mies-and without that is no peace or truce
at all-so surely shall we make them PAY oar
aoa' debt, though IRE pri9g II ont of their hearts,
And they know it well, and therefore, they
cannot make peace except through their ut
ter exhaustion and absolute inability to strike
another blow.
The stake they have to forfeit, then, if they
lose this dreadful game, is as vital as ours
SO ls the stake to be won, if they win any
thing. 1t is no less than the entire posses
sion of our whole country, with US in it, and
everything that is ours from Ohio to the Rio
Grande, to have and to hold, to them and
their heirs foreve.
But on the other hand, what we mean to
win is utter separation from them for all time
We do not want to govern their country, but
after teoying upon 1t mhat seenaeh good to as 6v
acay of indemnify, we leave it to commence it's
political life again from the beginning, hoping
that the lesson may have made them sadder
and wiser Yankees.
We shut them out forever, with all their
nsclea'a and scoausdrelly ways, intending to lead
our lives here in our own Confederate way
within our own well guarded bounds, and
without, as st. John says, are dogs.
And let no Confederate feeble-knees and
tremulous backbone say to US, this complete
triumph is impossible say that We must be
content with some kind of compromise and
give and take on the contrary, 1Ce must gain
all or lose all, and that the Confederates will
indeed win the giant game, we take to be as
certain as any future event in this uncertain
world.
Meade's army and Rosecrans' once scatter
ed, Lincoln can get no more armies The
draft turns out manitcstly fruitless. Both the
German and Irish element are now for peace
The Yankees have to bear the brunt of the
war themselves, but in the meantime their
inevitable bankruptcy is advancing like an
armed man. Hungry ruin has them in the
wind. 1t cannot be long before the Cabinet
at Washington will have, indeed, to consider
seriously proposals for peace, under auspices
and circumstances very different from the
present. For the present the war rolls and
thunders on and may God defend TIE right.
DEATH OF LORD LYNDHURsr.-The last steam
er from Europe brings intelligence of the
death of John Singleton Copley, Lord Lynd-
hurst, the distinguished jurist and statesman
son Of the famous self-educated artist Cop
ley, he was born in Boston, Mass, in 1772,
and in his third year removed to England
He was educated at Trinity College, Cam
bridge, and received the highest honors of
the university. Soon after he revisited
America, returning to England in 1898 to
prepare for the practice of the law, which he
commenced in 1904, and slowly but surely
toiled his way up to eminence in his profess