The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-09-17
IMPORTANT FROM THE
SOUTH.
THE TEMPER OF TIE SOUTHERN
REBELS.
I7 q = y =.
INDICATIONS or An ADVANCE
ON MEADE.
The Fall of Gold in the South.
THE ROAD To PEACE


The approaching session of the United
States Congress will be one of no ordi
nary interest. During its deliberation.
the Presidential campaign of 1864 will
be marked out Political parties will,
in the next session of Congress, arrange
the platform of principles that each will
advocate before the people, as well as
unmask the gross corruptions that the
war has produced The contest for the
speakership Of the House of Representa-
tives will be one of great excitement;
if the Democrats are successful, their
Speaker will have the arrangement and
appointment of the various committees
on the conduct of the war, the corrup-
ton of contracts, the suppression of
newspapers, and the arrest and imprison-
ment of individuals
The reports of these committees will
form the groundwork of the next Presi-
Dental campaign. Should Meade be
driven into Washington, and the capital
of the United States be beleaguered by
the Confederate arm, the conduct of the
war will receive blow from which
neither Vicksburg nor Port Hudson can
relieve it. If the Administration should
find its army in the third year of the
war shut up in Washington, Mr.. Lincoln's
message would be deprived of all of its
glorifcation over the summers cam
paign. His management of military
affairs will stand confessed failure, and
his unftness for the position of Com
mander-in-Chief will become patent to
every man. OF what avail will the cap
ture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, the
repulse at Gettysburg, and the siege of
Charleston prove, if Meade, driven into
Washington, is unable to rescue the cap
ital from the insults of beleaguering
army? In vain will HPlleYGk ii tdR Rpia3tr a3rntee e
of the Potomac is forced to crouch un-
der the Notifications of Washington, and
cover before the advance of Lee. The
friends of Mcclellan will assail the Ad-
ministration for more shameful meas
ures than those for which he was dis
missed; they will point to the beseiging
army, and ask for the proofs of the victo-
ry at Gettysburg; they will inquire into
the :. .eseane.nn "a y af pbreerS accounts OF the
hattie of Gettysburg, ask why Lee was
not bagged? Meade beseiged IN wash
ington will be incontrovertlhle evidence
of the falsehoods perpetrated upon the
public. n,
Should General Lee cross into Mary
land. the embarrassment OF Lincoln
would increase; his victorious army,
unable to take the field and attempt. the
repetition of Sharpsburg and Gettysburg,
would be compelled to remain in Wash
;ngton while General Lee marched whith-
ersoeyer he wished in Maryland or Penn
sylvania.
The success of the Democratic party
would be no longer doubtful should Gen
Lee once more advance on Meade. Far
ties in the United States are so nearly
balanced that the least advantage thrown
in favor of one will insure Its success
Should the Confederate army remain qui-
escent on the banks of the Rappahan-
mock, the boastful braggadocio OF I an
kee reports will be confirmed, and LIN
coin and Halleck will point in triumph
to the crippled condition of the Contede
rate army as confirmation OF the grea
victory won in Pennsylvania. The demo
! Gratis, unable to gainsay snch evidence
will be constrained to enter the contes
| for Speakership shorn of the princlpa
mart of their strength-the disgraceiu
+, mismanagement and conduct OF the wal
General Lee must turn politician a
we'll as warrior, and we believe that
will prove the most successful political
! the Confederacy ever produced. He ma
so move and direct his army as to pre-
duce political results, which, in their beai
ing upon this war, illprove more etfec
nal than the bloodiest victories. Lt
him drive Meade into Washington, an
he will again raise the spirits OF tn
Democrats, confirm their timid, and CIV
confidence to their wavering. He wi
embolden the Peace Party should /
AGAIN cross the Potomac, for hewill sho
/ the people of Pennsylvania how little
curitv they have from Lincoln for tt
nrotction of their homes. 1t matters n
whether the advances be made for pu
!, poses of permanent occupation,
d simply for a grand raid; it will demo
strate that, in the third year of the wa
they are so far from the sublugation
the Confederate States that the defeu
y !. of Maryland and Pennsylvania has I
e, been secured.
u: A fall campaign into Pennsylvan
ne @ with the hands of our soldiers united,
Ie. forindiscriminate plunder-demoralizl
and undisciplining the army-but ca
: paign for systematic and organized
taliation and punishment, would aro'
s the popular mind to the uncertainty
insecurity of Pennsylvania. This wo
,ls ,F react upon the representatives in {
''' gress, strengthening the Democrats
modifying even to the hard shell OF
naticism itself
Is The damages which the last campa
inflicted, if inaugurated by another
DE ! fall when presented to the Lincoln G