The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1863-09-04
SEPTEMBER 4, 1863.
ABINGDON, FRIDA Il, SEPT


cleaning the streets. The Inhabitants are be.
coming more friendly to The Government,
owing to the considerate httention paid to
their necessities by the military authorities,
| and consequently the Organization OF society
is rapidly going on.
Speculation.
!, We extract the following from the Army
Correspondence Of the Richhond Enquirer:
ssAlGUsT %, 1868.
"Mr. Hidley: Some of do company have
heen dealing in your corn Without leave from
you. They present you pay for it; they did
not take but few ears.
The gentleman to whoms this note is adj
dressed is SO pleased With the honesty ex-
hibited, that he will gladly Mrnish the writer
of this note hereafter.
It is too hot to fight or wfse; nevertheless
[ will venture word or twoDf speculation
This war will end with the etose Of Lincoln's
Administration, if we are only frnes - our
selves. I mean BY this, if we only hold out
az we have borne ourselvess thus far in this
struggle. NV reasons for this opinion are
these: The North is already tired of thewar,
which is now prosecuted by the Government
against the will Of the people. The peace
party is gaining ground, andthe war party is
losing correspondingly. The present draft, if
executed at all. will bring small force, and
these unwilling men. Next summer the times
of the three years men expire, of which class
is the bulk of the Federal army. At that
time the canvass for the Presidential election
will have begun, and it will be- idle to expect
TO raise an entirely new armysand begin the
war de noco. These facts will produce an
overwhelming peace feeling which will re-
suit in the triumph of q peace man for Presi-
dent. Vallandigham, think, will be the
man. Some say Lincoln viii not allow an
election. | respond. / pray God he may at.
tempt to defeat an expression OF Northern
sentiment at the ballot-box; for then his doom
will be sealed. But he will do no such thing.
The election will go forward. The peace par
ty will prevail; Lincoln will be defeated; and
the populace that, in maddened sphrenzy, cris.
ed aloud for war and blood in 1861, will, in
1864, be as claulorous for peace and separa-
tion
This view Of the situationholds up eighteen
months more of war; This wefrmly believe;
but our impression is that the hard fighting
will have ceased by the nextsdog days But
between this and then the North will make
its last effort, and a desperate one it will be.
Like the calm that preceded Tire fall of DON
aldson and the siege Of Vicksbnrg, the pre-
sent lull only betokens the magnitude of the
contest before US, and the do1btless greatpre-
parations which the North issflaking> for our
overthrow. Let US, then, be warned in time,
and prepare for the conhics foFe us. Let
us buckle on our armQr and firing forth all
our resources, to the end thatSwe may close
this struggle in a full blaze ofsglory, and not
let it be said of US that we allowed the fruit
to pass from our grasp as it Tpened to the
touch. The fields Of the Old Dominion, as
we'll as those along our SouthHn coasts and
on our South western lines, will run rivers of
blood during the coming autualu; but let us
fear not-the individual may die, but the ma
ton must live, if we prove trds to the name
we have already achieved, and do not falsify
the record which our gallant dad have made
for US.
The army is hopeful and buoyant Ought
the people to have less faith? eight not army
and peonle remember their dst cause, and,
reliant upon Providence, be prdbafed to strike
deeisiyely in the final 'struggleFIor our homes
and our birthright? Who wilfnoubt it?
The oft repeated story of 3n quiet again
goes forth to the land. It cannot, however,
long continue; but soon the tramp Of the war
horse, the din of musketry, andsShe believing
Of the loud-mouthed cannon will be heard;
and yet will the shrieks of thdwounded and
the wall of the dying go up tofF Heaven from
the coming battle-felds, to curse the wretches
who owe their greatness to their cepntry's
ruin. If the first day has not been in vain. a
deeper faith has been inculcat4a and glorious
results are necessarily in stor(for us. Only
let US patiently bide our time, Ind all will yet
end well.
| had already closed my lettel when the
voices Of gifted singers and thdskilled fingers
Of apt musicians charmed mn ear. with the
most delightful musical entertainment that ]
have listened to since this war began So.
sweet and touching were the strains amid the
silence and solemnity of the midnight hour,
that l was drawn inyolnntariIF from inter
course from things terrestrial, and felt as if
were permitted for the while to tommune with
the more sublimated things abofe and beyond.
The gentlemen who thus acquitted themselves
60 handsomely, and to the eradication Of all
who heard them, composed an amateur band,
made up of choice musicians and hgh-spirit-
ed gentlemen from the Twelfth IND sixteenth
Mississippi Regiments, under Prot. Hartweil.
ass K.
Arrest Of q F0rfer.
The career of an accomplished forger and
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