The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-14

| ficer and soldier in Grants army, that to
Major General Ulysses Grant is due the
| great and chief honor of those great
| achievements which have been performed
| by his army. Loud cheers
And when any ambitious and vain glo
| rious chieftain comes back an'l attempts
| to claim for himself the great deeds which
have immortalized, aad ought to immor
talizc General Grant, the whole army of
| Grant, tie whole army engaged i'll that
expedition-wil! repel the idea; and We
! will proclaim everywhere, that the lead
| ing spirit, the great chief and leader of
the expedition, was General Grant.
| TCheers We claim for ourselves only
that We sought, with cordiality and cheer
| tulneSs. with such courage as We possessed,
with such endurance as we were endowed
with, to carry ont his plans; and We did
SO successfully. Great applause
Friend- anI fellow-citizens, there are
few persons who were not present through
this whole campaign. thai can tell you OF
the suiIering> which We're endured, the
priyations which were undergone by the
soldiery of Grants army. For months
and mon hs, we sought to penetrate and
b eak through the enemy's lines; through
| bayOuS, through almost lnpassable lnOras-
ses, We sought to meet tic enemy trout TO
front, in the face nf l;> g"eat and formid
| able voxkS; we sought to turn his fianks
we sought in every way, for months and
months. enduring ;l.e inclemency Of a
climate which lew have experienced, and
We have LETT the bones Of our comrades in
those marshes and swanps we sought in
every way TO carry ont what we knew to be
the wishes of the people of the West, to
free this great Mississippi River. But it
appeared that everything was against us.
Steeles Bayou was impossible the Yazoo
cutoff turned ont B deiusion; the cana!
We attempted to dig across the peninsula
in front of Vicksburg was a failure; again
and again we failed; again and again we
were repulsed in our attempts to force the
line of the enemy But the indomitable
courage of Gen. Grant was never Guenched,
and he threw himself and amy bodily
across the Mississippi, and we fought the
enemy hand to hand, they outnumberng
US, but beating them in every battle, until
we invested Vicksburg, with more men in
it than in the brave army which set down
before it. LGreat applause
Gentlemen, I tel you, what the facts of
history will verify hereafter, that We killed,
wounded and captured more men than we
crossed the Mississippi with Renewed
applause We took 400 field and siege
pieces, 10000 stand of small arns-more
arms than We had men to bear if we had
laid down our own. We killed, wounded
and captured more men than Grant cross
ed the Mississippi with, and that is an
achievement which no part Of ancient or
modern history can show q parallel for.
The great credit Of this achievement is
due principally to the indomitable will and
uncOnquerable courage of Grant and his
Western army.
The People of the South i'm Favor Of
Reconstruction Of the UntOn.--
The Army Disheartened.
From the Memphis Bulletin. Augusta A.
During the last day or two We have been
favored with opportunities of conversing
with gentlemen who represent nearly all of
the seven seeded States. These gentle
men were, as q general thing, intelligent,
rejecting men, who have watched the
course of events in the Southern States,
with hope of ultimate success. Several
of those with whom we conversed mad been
engaged in the military service of the Con-
federacy for more than two years, thus
proving how sanguine we're their hopes of
establishing the independence Of the Con-
federate States But recent events have
dissipated those hopes. like mist before the
morning sun.
One of the gentlemen with whom we
converse1 was from Georgia, and had been
one of the first to take up arms in behalf
of what he deemed the sacred rights of the
South. He now frankly acknowledges that
he acted more from impulse than from ma
ture Judgment. He acknowledges that he
was mistaken in another important partic-
ular; that was, he had underestimated the
character ard feelings of the people of the
North, while he had overestimated the
prowess and abilities of the people of the
South. When the question of secession
was brought prominently before the peo-
ple. on the election of Mr.. Lincoln as Presi-
dent of the United States, current of ex-
element swept over the country with
irresistible force, carrying everything be-
fore it.
They (the people of the South) have
measured their strength with the power o.
this Government, and have found them
selves wanting in SO many things essentia
to success against great power, thai
many persons who twelve months ago rep
robated the idea of restoration with most
bitter indignation, are now ready ant
awaiting for some proposals from the Gov
| ernment looking to restoration of thu
Union as being the best and only way 0
| alleviating the distress of the people.
: In the opinion of our informant, th'
| time for deluding the people by boastfu
claims of Confederate victories, is past