Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-10-08
A Highly Important Article.
Read and Ponder!

Grams In overwhelming Ferce-
I'm Order Favorably TO Effect tn
Ohio Election"-. Late and Impor
tant Rebel Testimony Concerning
Vallandigham's TreasonSb1e Com
plicity with the Rebels.
We clip the following highly importan
piece Of intelligence from the Stark county
Republican Of the oath instant. FREEME,
OF ONO, READ 1T!
FROM THE OLD 18TH OHIO.
Yesterday we received from Captain Fire
stone, Of Company A, 18th Regiment, o
", a copy of the Augusta, (Georgia) Con
stitutionalist, Of date, September 9th. Ii
an accompanying note Captain Firestont
says:
LEE AND GoRDoS's Mus. WALKER Co. Ga, !
September ~, 1863 !
FRIEND HARTZELL-I send you a copy
Of the Augusta Constitutionalist Of yester
day. 1t was taken from rebel mail, CAP
tured at Ringgold, Ga. | call your atten
ton to the editorial article on the seconC
page. ,
We have neither paper nor pen here-al
company baggage left at Chattanooga.
;. j. FIREsToNE.
Following is the article to which Captain
Firestone refers:
To Revive the Peace Party.
From the Augusta (Ga.) Cons,lutionaIisL Sept 0.
Our people will rccollect that two or three
or more months ago we heard great deal
and that continually, of the wonderful thing,
the peace men of the North were going tC
do. Many in our midst built strong hopes
of peace on the action of the malcontents il
Lincoln's realm. Many even were propo
sing terms of peace, inviting the Northwest
to free use of our Mississippi and actually
going so far as to ask the Northwestern
States to abandon New England and the
Middle States, and come with us under our
pro slavery Constitution. But since about
the 4th Of July, since the capitalization Of
Vicksburg and the retreat from Pennsyl
vania, We have heard scarcely a whisper OF
peace from beyond the Potomac. The peo
pie of the United States have become elated
at their successes, and have gone crazy again
on the sensation of crushing the rebellion
and subjugating the insuIgent States.
We confess that We hare dl,oays Juih
strong hopes on the DECISION aud dtssdtisfdc-
tion of the Northern people, the grddm
but sure grototh an outspokea peace lonrty
and the jinaioutbreak ofMe iasmrectionar5
elements which erist among The enemy. bn
,uhich, Jy one means or other, has so fur bee,
sn,othered or checked But we have Away,
held that the only way to build up peace
party among the Yankees, and to set at lib
erty the furious opposition Of the anti-Re
publicans, was by successful war on Lincoln
armies in the field. We aNhove great er
pectations from the peace men of the North
and the explosive wrath Of the opposition
masses, but we were never more fully con
vinced than now, of the essential impor-
tance of thick, fast and heavy blows from
the Confederate armies, in order to give
uitality, system and organization to the peace
men. and to unloose the fierce impulses OF
the enthralled and terrorized people. MIR.
Vallandigham himself, as we have heard,
most emphaticaly declared that the success OF
Southern arms alone could gire strength and
coasistencytO the peace increment; and we
verify believe that if Vicksburg had been
held and Lee had thoroughly defeated
Meade on his own ground, the Woods aud
Goes and VdHdndigidms and their Jolio,o-
ers uldhave been rampant for peace and
separation, and that not one drafted man
would ever have worn the United States
unitorm--the livery Of a hireling or degra-
ded soldier-in the city of New York. But
Vicksburg fell, and Lee failed to overwhelm
Meade, and SO the peace men are as mute
as frightened mice, and the drafted rowdles
are forced easily into the ranks.
If we expect anything in the way of
bringing about peace from the action ofthe
Northern people outside of Lincoln's ar
mics, it is OF the last importance that our
armies work to that end now with will,
and that speedily. If we hope for the close
of the war under five years it is now become
all important that we give the enemy such
q lesson, and that soon, as will cast down
their naughty and elated spirit, and incline
their hearts again to peace; and then minds
to the conviction that the rebellion is not
crushed, neither can it be. At present, ap-
pearauces are SO decidedly against us that
the Northern masses, judging us by them
selves in similar circumstances, are rapidly
arriving at the conclusion that we are nearly
ready to surrender at discretion. This feel
ing is adroitly inspired and kept alive by the
leaders, and the people remain in ignorance
of our real powers, resources and deternii-
nation, and so are rampant for the vigorous
prosecution of the war of subjugation.
This popular feeling must be checked and
changed, and there is no means OF doing it
but by q determined and successful conflict
at one or more points. Phe heroic holding
out of Charleston helps us to some extent,
but something more must be done. The
election for Governor of Ohio takes place
early in November, we believe, and the new
Yankee Congress meets in December
In order fdUoraJy to effect tie Ohio election
and the organization aud action J'thene,o
Congress, majority of which is against the
Republican party, but not firmly decided as
to anything else, it is to the last degree es-
sential that the Confederate armies win one
or more decisive battles within the next
thirty or sixty days. If Johnston and Bragg
can defeat Rosecrans and Burnside, Charles
ton still holding out, or if Lee, with his
recruited army, can defeat Meade with all
the aid of his new conscripts, demOralized
aud disaffected as they are represented, then
We mag erpect the most tauoraLle results IN
the Ohio election and Lincoln Congress. But
unless something ofthe kind is accomplished
speedily, then long farewell to the peace
party Vallandigham will be defeated, and
Wood and his party paralyzed or oyerawed
in Congress, and peace postponed indefinite
ly, without foreign aid. ;., ,., 49,, 49,,