The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-09-24

Lee once more more on Meade. Parties
in the United States are so nearly bal
lanced that the least advantage thrown
in favor of one will insure its success,
Should the Confederate army remain
quiescent on the banks of the Kappa
hammock, the boastful bragadocia of
Yankee reports will be confirmed, and
Lincoln and Halleck will point in tri-
umph to the crippled condition of the
Confederate army as confirmation of
the great victory won in Pennsylva-
mia. The Democrats, unable to gain
say such evidence, will be constrained
to enter the contest for the Speakership
shorn Of the principle part of their
strength-the disgraceful management
and conduct Of the war,
Gen. Lee must turn politician as well
as warrior, and we believe that he will
prove the most successful politician the
COnfederacy ever produced. He may
so move and direct his army as to pro.
duce political results, which, in their
bearing upon this war, will prove more
effectual than the bloodest victories
Let him drive Meade into Washington,
and he rW again raise the spirits Of the
Democrats, confirm their timid, and girc
confidence to their uavering, He wHl
embOlden the Peace party should heagain
cross the Potomac, for he will show
the people Of Pennsylvania how little
security they have from Lincoln fol
theprotection Of their homes. Itmatters
not whether the advance be made for
purposes Of permanent occupation, OF
simply for a grand raid; it will dem
onstrate that, in the third year of the
war, they are so far from the subjuga,
ton Of the Confederate States that the
defense of Maryland and Pennsylvania
has not been secured. ..
A fall campaign into Pennsylvania
gith the hands of or soldiers united, not
for indiscriminate plunder-demora.
lizing and undisciplining the army
but campaign for systematic and
organized retaliation and punishment
would arouse the popular mind to the
uncertainty and insecurity Of Pcnnsyl.
vania. This would react upon therep,
rcsentativcs in Congress, stremhenia5
the Democrats, and modifying even tc
the hard shell of fanaticism itself
Not only will the election of Mr.
Vallandigham prolong the war; not
only will it embarrass the government
and strengthen the public enemy, bW
it wW produce cicN rar in Ohio. Civil
war is just as certain to follow the elec
ton Of Vallandigham, as darkness fol
lows the disappearance of light. Mr.
Vallandigham-tor violating the pro
visions Of the conscription law-ha'
been arrested, tried, convicted, ant
banished the State. Ifelectcd Govern
or, his friends have declared that thu
''militia of the State, with guns in theil
hands, shall be called into the fielt
for the purpose of bringing him home
and inaugurating him by force o
arms" This would necessarily brin.
on conflict between the State ant
Federal authorities-that conflict wo'C
be war, civil war, war at our own doors
with half the people of the State will
the Federal authorities, and halfagains
them. Can any one doubt the result
Have not his friends declared this t.
be the programme? Has not Geo I
Pugh so declared? What did th
rebel Maury mean when he made thi
bold declaration ? VdlIandiqhdl
rdits and 'catcheS orer the border
pledged-f elected Gorernor ofthe Stat
Of Ohio-to drrayd against Lincoln dndth
~o, dndtogo for peace" lfthis isnot tn
determination Of the leaders, why di,
they nominate him? Why are the,
making q canvass for him? VIII,
seeking to elect him ?-certainly the,
would not labor to elect q man the,
did not expect to servc-they did no
indend to inaugurate. No man ca
doubt the purpose; there is no room fo
doubt. How then can any man, VIII
is the friend of his country and VIII
desires to save his own hearthston
from the dcsolations of civil war, vot
for Vallandigham? *