The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-09-15

wisconsin the country, and yet those who are non
producers are in want. Why is this !? is it posi-
BILE that the farmer is holding his grain back for
higher price? Is not the present price sufficient
to satisfy the most avaricious man? IF those whs
have provisions to spare continue to hold on to il
and refuse to sell, they will not only bring calam
ties upon the country, but upon themselves. 1t is
admitted on all hands that the crop of Wheat is
larger this year than for many years past and why
is it that -four cannot be had in abundance and
why is the price so high? There is no good cause
for scarcity in market or nigh prices. We can
never gain our Independence while extortion in
that way is practised.
THE WAY THEY Observation-Disclosures the
yankees get possession of section of our country,
they take the property of true southern men and
either destroy it give it to the disoyal men in
the neighborhood. The miserable tories and de-
serters, after carrying their treason rather
cretly, show thelr hand openly as soon as the yam
KEGS get into their neighborhood and help to de-
stroy true mems property Now we submit if it
is right to allow these secret enemies to remain in
the country until the enemy comes. Should they
not be arrested at once and placed in confinement.
The Government established prison at Salisbury
for this purpose, and many disloyal men we're ar
rested and confined there, but a howl raised
about military tyranny, and some lawyers busted
themselves in getting up hobeas corpus writs, un-
til our authorities abandoned the effort to suppress
disoyaIty in that way It has been compelled to
resort to powder and shot. IF no interference had
been made with the management of the Salisbury
prison. we should not now be compelled to with
draw troops from the Virginia army to suppress
disloyalty.
BsE~ Abraham Lincoln, the ruler of the yankee
nation, has written letter to Mr. Conkling in
Springfield, Illinois, in reply to inviting him
to attend Union meeting in that city. There
are two sentences in the letter to which we invite
the particular attention of those who think the
be closed by proposing to compromise with the
enemy. Here is what Lincoln says:
'I do not believe that any compromise embrac-
ing the maintenance of the Union is now possible
time which the enemy would improve to our dis
advantage, and that would be ALL
This is what Lincoln himself says, and yet we
hear men who profess to be true southern men,
proposing that North Carolina shall open negota-
tions with the Lincoln Government for an "honor-
able peace" Every man in the South is for an
honorable peace, but it is plain to any one who is
not tory that the only peace which would be hon.
orable to southern people, is that based on separa
tion from the yankees forever. The Confederate
Government has been anxious to make peace on
this basis ever since the war commenced. All We
ask is to be let alone. IF Lincoln will withdraw
his thieving, numbering soldiers from our soil, we
shall have peace at once.
In the letter alluded to, Lincoln says he is in.
favor of freeing the negroes, and justfes his
cipetion proclamation. Confscation of the farms
and all other property in the South, and the sub
iugation or determination of southern men, is the
leading idea with Lincoln, and he is unwilling to
make peace until convinced that he cannot succeed
in such schemes. And the only way to convince
him that he never can succeed is for the South to
show united front and determination never to
submit Every man who shows a disposition to
stop the war short of complete independence, is
helping to prolong the war.