The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-01-08
Disappointed HOpc>.
From the Albany Evening Jour-


regard to the war, the rebels arc much more
so. II we have failed in doing what we in
tended, they have failcd-and miserably
faile1. .oo. They counted upon an easy
triumph over the Northern yanlal;.''-
They counted upon active assistance from
Northern traitors. They counted upon in
timiiating Us into perni,ligg them to de
part in peace" They laid the ALTERING
JUNCTION to their souls that their pathway to
triumph would be an easy one. They be-
lieved that a fsw months Of war would suf.
flee to compel US to make peace with them
on such, terms as they should dictate They
reliel uoo, the poteacy of King Cotton to
relied upon the necessities of Europe to give
them an early recognition
How wofully have they been disappoipt-
ed. Not one of their predictions has come
to pass. They find the North virtually
united. They find Northern, troops to be
fully their equals on the battlefield They
find that the world ''still lives" even in
spite Of King Cotton. They fni Europe
looking coldly upon their efforts to achieve
empire.
AZ er our reverseS last 81 MINER. they or
ganizad a campaign which, they m obesity
informed Us, would soon drive the Ivan
dals" to the wall. They invaded Maryland;
they invaded Kentucky they invaded Mis-
souri, they even venture so far as the Dor.
ders oi Pennsylvania. The lost ground was
to be recovered. The control of the Tennes
see, the Cumberland, and the Mississippi
was to be resainel. Louisville was to b.
taken. Cincinnati was to become the base
of frebel operations. A Confederate army
was to march northward Chicago and Co
lumbus, and st Louis were TO be captured:
Maryland was to be overrun; Baltimore was
to be reclaimed-and Philadelphia and Har-
risburg were to be menaced, if not des.
troyed. z-aass--r..=-s-sz---..z-4
But these lowering schemes toppled to the
earth. Mcclellan drove the rebels out OF
Maryland. Rosecrans "cut up" the armies
of Price and Van Dorm at Cornth. Buell.
stole the march on Bra e, and reached Lou
isville in time to saveit. Bragg, who came
to Kentucky with the boast that be would
drive every Federal caitif'' from it, was
himself expelled like dog. The Atlanta
Iatelligeacer speaks out in smeeting," and
frankly confssscs that the rebels have made
. botch oft, and that their fall car.psign''
has proved melancholy failure. Hear il
Had Gen. Bragg done his duty as we'll
and promptly as Gen. Smith did, Louisville
would have been ours, Cincinnati would
have furnished US supplies, while Columbus
might have been our headquarters. Then
aeoutd the Pattandingams of Ohio and the
Brights Of Indiana haue rallied to tie issu
aag Of Gen. Bragq's noted proclamation then
aeoutd many thousand friends IN Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois haze joined the Southern
army; then, too, eoutd Gen. Bragg, haring
cut cF the Western from the Eastern States
ha0s tchispered terms Of peace into the North
oestern ear; and then might we have rcas-
onaby hoped for peace. But now all hope
of peace Is Indefinitely postponed, and our
prospects ale gloomier then when we were
to Cross the mountain. because our appear
ance near the Ohio has caused many man
TO oe added to the Northern army, that, had
we Remained south ofthe mountains, would
never have taken up arms against us.
But as the matter now stands, our friend
in Kentucky are ruined. Kentucky will
be a Tree State very soon. We have to fight
am enemy whose strength is much augmen-
ted. and the Southern army is none the bet
ter for having taken all the corn, meat,
everything to eat, from the citizens on our
retreat"
A gloomy picture, surely; but is it over
drawn? Is not the future of the rebellion
dark as night?