Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-09-24
COnfederates Desire to Aid the Democracy.

COnfederates Desire to Aid the Democracy.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 18th, gets
up programme for a new invasion of Penn
sylvania, on the ground that one more adyance
Of Lee on Meade, acould render tile success of
the Northern Democratic party certain. These
and advise well how to strike hands with
them. Let honest men read the following
and then decide whether it is safe to follow
the lead of the Copperhead Democracy. The
following extract is a fair sample of "a leader
in the Enquirer
"Ihe success of the Northern Democratic
party acould be no longer doubtful should Gen.
Lee once more Gdyance on Meade. Parties in the
United States are so nearly balanced that
the least advantage thrown in favor of one
the Confederacy remain quiescent on the banks
of the Rapahannock, the boastful braggado-
clio of the Yankee official reports will be con-
irmed, and Lincoln and Halleck will point in
triumph to the crippled condition Of the Con-
federate army as a confirmation of the great
victory won in Pennsylvania.
The Democrats, unable to gainsay such evil
dence, will be constrained to enter the con-
test for the Speakership shorn of the princi-
pal part of their strength-the disgraceful
mismanagement and conduct of this war
Gen. Lee must turn politician as well as war
rior, and we believe he will prove the most
| successful politician the Confederacy has ever
produced. He may so move and direct his
army as to produce political results which in
their bearing upon this war will prove more
effectual than the bloodiest victories. LIE,
| lam d,iye Meade into Washington, and lie uiA
again raise the spirits Of tie Democrats confirm
their t'ad and gioe confidence to their acayeTia,g
He aoW embotden tile Peace party should lie again
cross the Potomac, for he will show the people
of Pennsylvania how little security they have
from Lincoln for the protection of their
homes. 1t matters not whether the advance
be made for purposes Of permanent occupa-
ton, or simply for grand raid, it will dem
onstrate that in the third year of the war
they are SO far from the subjugation of the
Confederate States that the defence of Mary
land and Pennsylvania has not vet been Sc
cured.
A Fall campaign into Pennsylvania, with
the hands Of our soldiers united-not for in
discriminate plumber, demoralizing and undis-
clplining the army, but campaign for syste-
matte and organized retaliation and punish
ment-would arouse the popular mind to the
uncertainty and insecurity of Pennsylvania
This would react upon the representatives in
Congress, strengthening the Democrats and mol
ityimg even HardsheH tonaticism itself. The
damages which the last campaign inflicted, if
augmented by another this Fall, when pre-
sented to the Lincoln government, would, I'M
less paid, greatly exasperate the people
against an Administration which neither de-
tends the State nor reimburses its citizens for
the losses which its own imbecility produced
And if these damages are paid the debt is in
creased, the taxes raised, and the burdens i'm
posed, will accomplish the same end.
Let the great and important fact be con-
stantly kept in tangible and threatening as
pect before the people of Pennsylvania that
Notwithstanding they have opened the Mis-
sissippi and are besieging Charleston, and
| conquered East Tennessee, and threaten
Georgia and Alabama-that, notwithstand-
ing all this, Pennsylvania is not safe from in
vasion, and Washington City is again belea-
guered in this third year of the war. THE
road to peace lies through Pennsylvania, via
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