Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-12
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The Richmond Enquirer of September 9TH,
urges Lee to new invasion of Pennsylvania,
in leader of which the following is sample
extract
"The success of the noathe, n democratic
party pould be no longer doubtful should Gen.
Lee once more adUaRcc on Meade. Parties in
the United States are SO evenly balanced that
the least advantage thrown i'll favor of one
will insure its success. Should the federal
army remain quieScent on the banks of the
Rappahannock. the boastfnl bragadocio of the
Yankee official reports will be confirmed, and
Lincoln and Halleck will point in triumph to
the crippled condition of the confederate army
as a confirmation of the great victory won in
Pennsylvania.
''The democrats, unable to gainsay such ev-
idence, will be constr ined to enter the con.
test for the speakership shorn of the principal
part of their strength-the disgracetul mis-
management and conduct of the war. Gen.
Lee must turn politician as well as warrior,
and we believe he will prove the most sue
cessful politician the coniederacy has ever
produced. He may so move and direct his
army as to produce political results which in
their bearing upon this war will prove more
etfectual than the bloodiest victories. Let
him d,ire Meade into Washington, and he
wiU again raise the spirits of the Democrats,
confirm their timid and gre confidence to
their lcaUering. lie UiU embolden the Peace
party should he again cross the Potomac, for
he will show the people of Pennsylvania how
little security they have from Lincoln for the
protection of their homes. 1t matters not
whether the advance be made for purposes of
permanent occupation, or simply for grand
raid, it will demonstrate that in the third year
of the war they are so far from the subluga.
ton ofthe confederate states that the defence
OF Maryland and Pennsylvania has not vet
been secured.
"a fall campaign into Pennsylvania, with
the hands Of our soldiers untied-nUt for in
discriminate plumber, demoralizing and undis-
ciplning the army, but a campaign for syste-
matte and organized retaliation and punish.
ment-wOuld arouse the popular mind to the
uncertainty and insecurity of Pennsylvania.
This would react upon the representatives in
congress, Strengthening the democrats and
notifying even hardshell fanaticism itself.
The damages which the last campaign inhfct-
ed, 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-
tends the state nor reimburses its citizens for
the losses which its own imbecility has pre-
duced
And if these damages are paid the debt is in
creased, the taxes raised and the burdens
imposed, will accomplish the same end. Let
the great and important fact be constantly
kept in tangible and threatening aspect before
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, notwithstanding all this, Pennsylvania is
not safe from invasion, and Washington city
is again beleaguered in this third year of the
war. The road to peace lies through Wash
ington, riG Washington.