The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-08-21

indications IL is prophecied that It Will com
out of this contest not only loyal, but will
q settlement Of the issues involved in thi
contest such as shall render it certain ther,
will never again be any question as to which
side il will take in this great cause.
There is Virginia, dsmembered shorn o
its fair proportions. with one third loyal ant
two thirds in condition that, when it ceas
es to be the battlefield, will cause it to fal
INTO our hands an easy prey, and be in tn
same condition us to its future political stat'
as Mary and Missouri, which has alread,
taken its rank among the Free States o
the Union, and Kentucky, always loya
in the main, but now doubly 30 since 1t hal
expelled all the friends OF the rebellion from
the land, and left it only as land OF loya
citizens.
IL these States alone, If only these States
were to be assured to us we should know
that the strength upon which the leaders o
the rebellion had counted, had failed them
we should know that there would always b,
between us and them bulwark of liberty
But this is not all; the gallant Rosecran'
has driven the forces Of Bragg south OF tht
Tennessee, compelling him, day after day
and week after week, to make those master
ly retreats for which alone he appears nov
to be distinguished. lie has placed him, by
succession Of most important and most in
genous strategic movements, in condition
where his rebel friends at Richmond com
plain that Rosecrans will not give him d
chance to fight where he wants to, but con-
tinually outHanks him and compels him ia
seek new fields. lie would be glad to fight
him, but he can't get the opportunity to
fight him except where Rosecrans selects the
ground.
We pass down the Mississippi, and there
We find that Grant, "the noblest Roman Ol
them ALL" (cheers) has reduced their boasted
imprcgnable stronghold, taken thirty thou.
sand prisoners, and sent out Sherman, one his
bravest generals, to plant tho flag of the Un.
ion over jackson, the capital of the most
warlikc State in the Conlederacy. And we
find this State, considered the very soul ol
chiyalry heretofore so vaunted, 80 boastful
over the fall o! Vicksburg, before its citadel
and before its capital were taken, we find II
so reduced that our dashing cavalry officer,
the gallant Col. Grierson, with thousand
men, cut his way through the length and
and breadth of this heretofore vaunted strong.
hold of the rebellion. Such is proud, boast.
full, yaunted, defiant Mississippi. To such a
condition is the State reduced u State which
has more of the sinews OF war in brave and
gallant men than any other State south oi
Mason and Dixon's line, think.
WepaSs down to Louisiana, (applause)
rolling down the great Mississippi the tide OF
victory which Grant had set in motion, by
the reduction Of Port Hudson has accom-.
plished the last act in the drama upon the
Mississippi, uniting the armies of the South.
West with those Of the Northwest, aud by
cutting the Coniedcracy in two, he has set.
tied the fate OF the Confederacy and the fate
of the rebellion. prolonged applause.)
We find by this series OF victories in the
West and the Southwest, the sources from
which this army of the rebellion has hereto
fore drawn its supplies-from the fertile
plains OF Texas. and from the importation OF
her merchants from other lands-are now
forever cut off; and no longer can they draw
through Matamoras the arms and munitions
with which to supply themselves. Now no
longer can they bring sixty thousand Enfield
rifles to supply those which Grant found in
Vicksburg, and which our neutral friends
across the water had kindly furnished
through the channels Of tho Rio Grande.-
No longer can they draw thence the rich
herds OF cattle which have been the stay OF
her army. No longer can they draw from
Southwest Louisiana the salt which has
supplied them, to procure which they sent
their wagons and mule teams more than six
hundred miles to little ledge OF solid salt
which was found on an island in the gulf on
the shore of Louisiana. The sources OF this
supply are cut of, occupied and taken pos
session OF by regiment that went from
Maine, and which was then led by the gal.
LIANT Colonel. now acting General Kimball,
from the hills OF Oxford. Now we can fnd
that large portion of the State is again oc-
cupied by the Federal troops, and such arc
the movements and such the condition Of af-
fairs, that in few weeks we expect to send
To you from Louisiana the announcement
that there is no more of the rebellion west OF
the Mississippi River.
With all these successes elsewhere, we
come around again to the Atlantic cost, and
we find an army confident and determined OF
success, laundering at the gates OF rebel
Charleston. (Applause.) We turn to tho
Richmond papers last received, and We lind
that, with all the aptitude for lying which
has distinguished the press of tho Confedera-
CIV, they say the fall Of Charleston will DO the
fall of the conIederacy. We romcmber VIC
have been told long ago, that after oil the
battles upon the soil Of the Coniederacy have
been fought out, and their cause had become
desperate. they would, us one last and final
contest make an effort to transfer the strug-
gle to the soil of the North, and give us o
taste OF the destruction of the war. They
have made that attempt, and they did not
make ii until their fortunes elsewhere were
waning, and to the eye Of every observing
man it has been a last appeal. They made
that attempt in the West with the raid Of
Morgan, who intended to desolate fair and
loyal Ohio Ho went to attack Ohio, and
Morgan and his raiding and robbing bands
are prisoners on the soil they went to desc
late. They sent an army in Pennsylvania.
They intended, as they ayowed, to lay tribute
upon Philadelphia. to occupy Baltimore and
tien proceed to Washington and dictate
terms Of peace from tho Capital of tho Ma.
ton. Under their ablest and most victori-
Gus and most skillful general. they under.
took this programme. and the result has been
that ho has fed back to tho soil Of Virginia
from which he started, with tho loss Of 30,-
900 Of his best soldiers.
This is the appearance Of this contest so
far as we look to tho armies Of the Confcder-
acy; but there is another criterion BY which
business men attempt to determine upon the
probable success or failure Of any undertak.
ing. There arc those, 50 say many men,
who can feel the public pulse by running
their fingers over the stock list, and noting
the price of gold; there arc those who can