The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-14

| ficer and soldier in Grant army, that to
Major General Ulysses Grant is, due the
great and chief honoro of those great
achievements which have been performed
by his army. Loud cheers, i;
And when any ambitious and vain glo
| rious chieftain comes back and attempts
| to claim for himself the great deeds which
have immortalized, AID ought to immor
talize General Grant, the whole army OF
Grant, the whole army engaged in that
expedition repel the idea and we
will proclaim everywhere, that the lead
ing spirit, the great chief and leader of
the expedition, was General Grant.
| [Cheers. We claim for ourselves only
that we sought, with cordiality and cheer
fulness, with such courage as we possessed,
with such endurance as we were endowed
with, to carry out his plans; and we did
SO successfully. [Great applause, ] l. ,.o
Friends and fellow-ctizens, there are
few persons whowere not present through
this whole campaign. that can tell you OF
the sufferings which were endured, the
privations which were undergone by the
soldiery of Grants army. For months
and months, we sought to penetrate and
b. eak through the enemy rs lines; through
bayous, through almost impassable moras-
ses, We sought to meet the enemy front to
front, in the face of his great and formid
able woSks we sought to turn his TANKS;
We sought in every way, for months and
months, enduring tie sinclemency of a
| al; TO ,x,h..h fcu he, .ay-rnr;apoa1 opI
we have left the bones of our comrades in
those marshes and swainps; we sought in
every way, tocarry out what we knew to be
the wishes of the people Of the West, to.
free this great Mississippi River. But it
appeared that everything was against us.
Steele's Bayou was impossible the Yazoo
cutoff turned ont q delusion; the canal
we attempted to dig across the peninsula
in front of Vicksburg was failure; again
and again we failed; again and again we
were repulsed in our attempts to force the
line of the enemy. But the indomitable
courage of Gen. Grant was never quenched,
and he threw himself and army bodily
across the Mississippi, and we fought the
enemy hand to hand, they outnumbering
US, but beating them in every battle, until
we invested Vicksburg, with more men in
it than in the brave army which set down
before it. [Great applause ] a.a+ w
Gentlemen, teil you, what the facts of
history will verify hereafter, that we killed,
wounded and captured more men than we
crossed the Mississippi with. Renewed
applause. We took 400 field and siege
pieces, 100000 stand of small arms-more
arms than we had men to bear if we had
laid down our own We killed, wounded
and captured more men than Grant cross
ed the Mississippi with, and that is an
achievement which no part of ancient or
modern history can show a parallel for.
The great credit of this achievement is
due principally to the indomitable will and
uncOnquerable courage of Grant and his
Western army.
The People of the South I'm Favor Of
a Reconstruction of the Unfon..-
The Army Disheartened. ~
From the Memphis Bulletin, August 4. =,
6 During the last day or two we have been
favored with opportunities of conversing
with gentlemen who represent nearly all Of
the seven seeded States. These gentle
men were, as a general thing, intelligent,
rejecting men, who have watched the
course Of events in the Southern States,
with hope of ultimate success. Several
of those with whom we conversed had been
engaged IN the military service of the Con-
federacy for more than two years, thus
proving how sanguine were their hopes of
establishing the independence Of the Con-
federate States. But recent events have
dissipated those hopes, like mist before the
morning sun. a.. aJs,a qsy 1ohfg bsv4
One of the. gentlemen with whom we
conversed was from Georgia, and had been
one of the first to take up arms in behalf
of what he deemed the sacred rights of the
South. oo He how frankly acknowledges that
he acted more from impulse than from ma
ture Judgment. He acknowledges that he
was mistaken in another important partic-
ular that was, he had underestimated the
character and feelings of the people of the
North, while he had overestimated the
prowess and abilities Of the people Of the
| South. When the question Of secession
was brought prominently before the peo-
ple. on the election of Mr.. Lincoln as Presi-
| dent of the United States, a current of ex-
element swept over the country with
| irresistible force, carrying everything be-
fore it.aisa1siE q blsons saalaa lleGt jfa5
They fthe people of the South have
measured their strength with the power Of
this Government, and have. found them
selves wanting in 80 many things essential
to success against great power, that
many persons who twelve months ago rep
rotated the idea Of restoration with most
bitter indignation, are now ready and
awaiting for some proposals from the Gov
ernment looking to restoration of the
Union as being the best and only way of
allsviating the distress Of the people. s'lei !
i IN the opinion Of our informant, the
| time for delpding the people by boastfnl
| claims Of Confederate victories, is past.