The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-07-25
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With the exception of Lees army,
which is running towards Richmond with
all possible expedition for safety; and the
small armies at Mobile and Charleston,
the military power of the rebellion may
be regarded as about crushed This is not
only the opinion of the loyal people, but
the truth has penetrated rebeldom. The
tone of the Southern press for the last
week or two has become respondent
They admit not only that the case of the
Conteaeracy is becoming desperate, but
that powerful party is growing up among
them whom they denounce as "submis-
sionsts,' who are beginning to talk opeI.-
~ Of making peace with the North and re-
tarning to the Union. Tie Richmond
and Mobile, as we'll as Charleston papers
devote the main portion of their editorial
labors to efforts to subdue and terrify this
latter party, showing that in the estima-
ton of jeff Davis himself the danger to
the success Of the rebellion lies as much
in these as in anything else.
The rebellion being thus sdbsta ntially
subdued and that Union party in the
South" from which we were taught in the
commencement of this war to hope so
much when the military power of the re-
belliop should be crippled, beginning to
show itself in such strength as to give the
rebel leaders their chief alarm, what is the
great obstacle in the way of the attain.
ment Of peace? Obviously, if the Gov
eminent were striving simply to maintain
and enforce the authority of the Consti-
tuition III the rebellious States, and TO
bring them back as loyal States to the
to declare general amnesty towards all
but the political and military leaders, and
to hold out inducements and offers of et.
fcctiye support to such as are inclined or
can be inouced or persuaded to abandon
the rebellion and return to obedience to
the Constitution and laws of the Union.
This the country always supposed was to
be the process OF reconstruction and return
10 peace and order
What is the Admin istra.ion doing to
encourage these favorable manifestations
Louisiana has already offered 10 return
North Carolina stands ready 10 make the !
Mobile paper, are becoming fearfully bold
in Alabama, while Tennessee and Missis- .
3 ppi are virtually under their control
Lop these off, and Virginia, South Carroll I.
that is left Is the Administration taking
these plain and obvious steps to bring to
a close this cruel and bloody war?
Nothing of the sort. The admnistra.
ton looks apparently upon the war as not
half over, and Is " trying its strength" in
the north In the way of raising new armies
Of vast proportions by CONSUMPTION and
he offer of large bounties. And in this
hey are but consistent. Upon their
programme the war indeed Is far from
being over. The maintenance of the con-
tItution and restoration of the Union is
Imong the last Of their objects. Slavery
must first be destroyed. The people Of
Louisiana and North Carolina are virtual
y told that they can only have peace on
of giving up their slaves and
when, in reply they say, that on sucn con-
litions, which involve the destruction of
her equality as states, they will die be
ore they join the new Union proposed to
hem, the answer is. in effect, that then
ou shall be sublued.'
The Union men Of the South are thus
epelled and driven back for protection
o the Conf-deracy. Against this abolition
programme the whole people of the south
'ill again become a unit. OF the million
nd half of men she had at the begin
NJ of the war but 100000 have vet been
laced horS du combat United the south
las yet a million of men left Force the
Whole Union element back into their
anks, 90 on with this war for the negro,
nd when will it end ? On the Crittenden
programme, every sane man can see, the
var could now be ended in sixty DAYS
'ut on the abolition programme, who can
ell when? The infant born but yester-
lay will not live to see the end Of a war
hat involves the humiliation of the white
ace of the South.
RETALIATION Through another of those
igh handed operations Of Gen Burnside
Or which his reign in the Department of :
'hio has been so marked, the Governs ,
ient has got into an unpleasant muss |
nth the "Confederacy" on the subject of