Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-17
The Rebels last Hope.

It Is impossible not to see that the only peg upon which the rebels now hang their hopes for success, is in foreign intervention and the northern copperheads. Beaten upon land and water, with their confederacy cut into quarters, and three of these occupied and held by the loyal armies, with every port blockaded, and every advance checkmated, they look to the rise of the peace party" at the North as their last salvation, and to secure them the victories they are unable to attain by the force of their arms.
 We call attention to the following significant article from the Richmond Enquirer of the 7th inst, the leading organ of the rebels to ex pose this fact to the dullest comprehension Thank Heaven, that, from our better stand- point, we cannot believe that the "democratic party is able, or even willing, to render the rebels the assistance they desire.
 1he success of Ne dsmocratic party acould be TO longer doubttul should Gen. Iee once more advance on Meade. Pu,1ics in the Uni- ted States are so ne1ly balanced that the least ddca1atage tsroagn in .favor of one acW insure its success. Should the confederate army re- main quiescent on the banks of the Rappahar. nook, the boastful bragadocia of Yankee re- ports will be confirmed, and Lincoln and Hal leck Will point in triumph to the crippled con- dition of the confederate army as confirmation of the great victory won in Pennsylvania. fhe democrats unable to gainsay such eriGence, acU De constrained to enter tie contest for speahersAip, saorn 9 fte principal pa,t of tsei,. stsengM-the disgrace1al mismana5emeIu aad conduct of tte ardr.
 Gen. Lee must turn politician as well as war rior, and VIZ believe that he will prove the most successful politician the contederacy ever produced. He maay 80 naore and direct his army as to produce political results arhich, in Meir 5eaaing upon Me aoar. sodl p:ove more ct: tectuaL Man the bloodiest uicto1ies Let him drive Meade into Washington. and he will again raise Me spirits 9 'the democrats conf,m thei' tnid, aud gire confdence to Meir tcarer- ing. He aciU embolden Ms reacs party should he again cross the Potomac. for he will show the peoplesof Pennsylvania how little security they have from Lincoln for the protection of their homes. It matters not whether the ad- vance be made for purposes of permanent occu- patton, or simply for grand laid it will dem- onstrate that, in the third year of the war, they are so far from the subiugation of the confeder- ate states that the defence of Maryland and Pennsylvania has not been secured.
 A fall campaign into Pennsylvania, acjM tue honds of our soldiers uuitea, not for inlscrim- mate plunder-demoralizing and undsciplin- ing the army-but a campaign for systematic and organized retaliation and punishment would arouse the popular mind to the uncer- tainty and insecurity of Pennsylvania. This would react upon the representatives in Con- gress, strengthening Me democrats. and mollify- ing even to the hard shell of fanaticism itself
 The damages which the last campaign inflic- ted, if augmented by another this fall, when presented to the Lincoln government, would, unless paid, greatly exasperate the people against an administration which neither de. lends the state, nor reimburses it's citizens for losses which its own imbecility has produced. And if these damages are paid, the debt is in- creased, the taxes raised, and the burdens i'm. posed will accomplish the same end.
 Let the great and mportant fact be constant ly kept in tangible and threatening aspect be fore the people of Pennsylvania that, notwith- standing they have opened the Mississippi, and are besieging Charleston, and threatening East Tennessee, and Georgia, and Alabama, that, all this, Pennsylvania is not safe from invasion, and Washington city is again beleaguered in this third year of the war. 1he ,oad to peace hes MrougA Pennsylvania ria Washington"