, 1863-08-17

Line enemies OF The Government are bit
terly ;chagrined at the progress made by
the war in the past six months. They
gnash their teeth in bitterness as they re-
member the dosee Jas' 7,isne days Of Buell.
and Little Mac, and curse the later super
serviceab1e zeal Of Grant and Rosecrans,
and Banks, who have by dint Of heavy
blows, rendered the Southwestern wing of
rebeldom cracked and shattered
affair. This is cause Of bitter grief
to the sympathizers with the rebellion.
Presently Charleston and Mobile will fall
and Herewith the list hope Of the slave
holders empire. There will be then, as
indeed there has begun to be now, rapid
change OF base among the Northern help
crs Of JEFF. Davis. They will burn up
their old record, f11njgate their garments
to Danish the scent Of completely with
treason, and come out as pacifcators On
the ground Of magnanimity. 7Vs have
beaten them; now let us hasten to them
with the olive branch" All the beautiful
ernblems Of Peace will be prostituted to
become the stage property Of the acrobnts
and'posture-men Of Copperheadism.
In the first instance, their mission viii be
failure, because the madmen Of the South
do not accredit them as their intercessors.
The rebels will not ask for return to the
Union They will fight to the last. The
links to be forged anew between the sec
lions viii find their material in the South
among the unwilling instruments Of the
great rebellion, the people oppressed and
dragooned by the rebel leaders into aiding
their schemes, and when these men come
out from their prison house the first OBJ
jects OF their denunciation will be the
Northern tools and abettors of treason.
The mission Of these peace men will
also be failure, in that it will seek to ac-
comr1iah too much tt will contemplate
returning the npened fruit Of the rebel
lion back into its parent blossom and bud,
resolving it back into its elements as if it
had not been. This is impossible, from
the nature of things. As well turn back
ward the wheels Of the seasons, and bid
the ripened grain become again the ten
der blade, or the seed. in the hand Of the
sower. The. grain gathered from the
fierce 4hreshing floor Of the rebellion, has
been long ripening It is as old as the
history Of Oppression itself It has always
been reaped in the path Of the Oppressor.
Any plan tor reconstruction that con-
enplates ignoring the gaps in the great
prison house Of Slavery must fail. Any
measure which is designed to overlook
the existing fact Of. the great and growing
army Of freedmen, under the Presiden- |
tial Proclamation: will come bitterly to |
want To send the hungry slave drivers
helter.skelter through the ranks Of these
helpless ones that have proven themselves
everywhere loyal, and have gathered |
trustingly under the folds Of the flag,
is baseuess only Copperheadism could |
attain, and which the whole people will |
spWn. Let there be no fear concerning !
TIE &etion Of the Government in every con
ceivable exigency growing out OF this war
connected with the great measure that have
struck the death blow to the rebellion. We
10 not yet believe the rebellion to be so
dead that its actsrs are auppliants fol: terms.
We arc willing to accept their own phrases. |
and believe their madness 50 incurab1e
that they will die bowling in the last ditch.
saTc the share Of them that are able to es.
cape ACROSS 1t to foreign paris But neither
" Ieoel petitions nor Copperhead plot.ings