The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-20
Programme IN the North w est.
TFrom the Jackson Crisis.

ern States-and the information, there
foca is strictly accurate and entirely re- /
liable. We make the statements ior the
information and qualification OF our read
ers and the Southern public generally
The States of Indiana, ILLINOIS ana
Ohio have determined to stop tle war
and make terms of peace with Tue Ion
federate States, cost what 1t may anu o.
fend whom it may. In one purpose |
whatever the future may be, they are
firmly and unalterably united anu re-
solved, and that purpose is. the war
against the Confederate States shall cease
or, if it is to be carried on, the North
west will throw its military power INTO
the scale against the aggressor. ne cit
liens of those States who have been draft
ed, or enrolled in the Federal army, are
leaving that army by the hundred and
by the regiment, and there is no autilori
ty in the army which can control tins
movement OF the one hundred and
fifty thousand men organized by the Fed
eral Government to operate on the Mis-
sissippi river, under Grant and McCier
rand, not more than forty thousand eff
! fective soldiers remain, and that number
| is daily diminished by mortality from
! sickness, and by voluntary abandon
ment of an enterprise with which they
|
The Legislatures of Illinois, Indiana,
| Ohio and Kentucky are to convene at
| Frank fort, ip gen eral conveptio'r. on tl e
| 18th dav of February. inst, and viii there
agree upon the principles upon which
Northwest Confederacy is TO be institute
! ed, and propose terms OF peace and com
rnerce with the Confederacy for the States
bordering the Mississippi and its tributa-
4 ries-proposing a treaty, offensive and
Y r. Il I, Co,Dt
of the Confederate States Constitution,
to incorporate those new members into
the Confederacy. if that be agreeable to
the people OF the Confederate States
But in any event, and independently of
all other questions, relations of peace.
/ amity and commerce with the South are
to be established.
When these principles are agreed up
on in convention, commissioners will be
deputed to bear the result to Richmond
to treat with the Confederate Govern
ment for final and satisfactory adjust
ment of all interests involved. This ac-
ton will be taken not secretly, not clan
destinely, but openly and with serious.
dignified determination, representing the
sovereignty of those great and populous
States. When the terms of adjustment
are settled at Richmond. they will be
pie Of those States respectively, by organ
ic action at the ballot-box provided for
. by the Legislatures of the respective
States. When thus ratified, the work of
separation from the United States will be
regarded as finally and irrevocaby per-
fec ed
But" we suggested, ''Major -, what
if Mr. Lincoln shall send detachment
to Frankfort to arrest the convention
and its peace delegates to Richmond"
; Let him dare to lift finger, ormarch
an army to disturb the deliberations of
that convention, or arrest its delegates,
and three hundred thousand Western
men will move to Washington City and
hang Mr.. Lincoln and his Cabinet'
the g Ty MS 1& aHy md tne '9rSsary
Let him send Grants army aid our
informant, Ito Illinois, apd that is the
; last Grant will ever see of his army He
; would not have corporaPs guard re-
! naming attached to his command while
,, our Southern allies would recapture every
town and city on the Mississippi, from
; New Orleans to Cairo. Let RosencIans
take his army to the Ohio river, and it
will cease to exist in like manner. We
already have one hundred and eighty
thousand returned Federal soldiers in
those States ready to join US, and we
have the army and we have its leaders,
and if the Black Republicans at Wash
ington city dare to interfere with US, the
; majesty and power of great people will
be eXerted to move to Washington City
and hang the last one of them. As to
i, the operations upon the river, the gun
> boats shall be yours"
And what will you do with the FEEDER
al war debt?' we asked.
; r. e
! it, said be. 1T was never constitution
ally contracted
; land what will you do with the green
backs in circulation, to the amount of
). many millions?"
I'VE will make bonfire of them, and
consume them at the altar of sacrifice.
= ''And what will you do with The Mid
die and New England States?"
! eve expect the moral support of New
l York and Pennsylvania. Well cut of
> Michigan to Canada, where she ought to
: belong. And if New England interferes
: We'll whip her out of the Union, or into
d good behavior"
: ''At what time" we asked. ''do you ex
= pect the present war to cease?"
) Il expect" said he, mo more genera
! engagements, unless one should occur in
u Middle Tennessee, between the force.
: under Bragg and Rosencrans and
u should deem that great misfesAae, a
y being unnecessary and as involving a use
: less sacrifice OF life. BY the first of a pr
. there will be a practical cessation of hos
tllltles IN the Southwest, and by the frs
OF June permanent peace, unless tn
= Black Republicans determine to wage
. war against the Northwest"
9 The above statements comprise sub
+ stantlally the information we have de
= rived. Our informant seemed to enter
: tain little doubt that Indiana and Illinois
, at least, would fall into the Contederacy
: along with Missouri and Kentucky. HI
thought it was also the destiny OF Ohio
4 but seemed less confident of that State
Whether these States should belong IL