Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-10-08
To Revive the Peace Party.

Our people will recollect that two oil
three or more months ago we heard
great deal, and that continually, of the
wonderful things the peace men of the
| North were going TO do. Many IN our
midst built strong hopes of peace on the
action Of the malcontents IN Llneolns
realm. Many even were proposing 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 capitulation of
Vicksburg and the retreat from Pennsyl-
vania, we have heard scarcely a whisper
| of peace from beyond the Potomac. The
people of the United States have become
| elated at their successes, and have gone
crazv on the sensation Of crushing the re-
bellion and subjugating the insurgent
States.
We confess that we hare aLtonyS built
strono homes on The a1:;ssSasiOR and dtssattS-
faction of the Northern people, the grad
ual but sure gro,Oth Of az o'ttspoken peace
partu and the fnaL outbreak Of the IN
surrectioaary elements 1ohtch eEiSt among
the enemy, Bat aohich, by one means or
other, has so far been smothered or checked,
| But we have always held that the only
way TO build up a peace party among the
| Yankees, and to set at liberty the furious
opposition of the anti-Republicans, was by
successful war on Lincoln's armies IN the
field. We still hare great expectations
from the peace men Of tie North, and the
explosive wrath of the opposition masses,
but we were never more fully convinced
than now of the essential Importance Of
thick, fast and hoavy blows from the
Confederate armies, In order TO give o.
tGltty, system and organization to the
peace men, and to unloose the fierce i'm
pulses of the enthralled and terrorized
people. Mr.. Vsllandlgham himself, as
we havo heard, most emphaticaJJy decJGr-
ed that the success Of Southern arms could
alone gi0e Str,agth and consistency to The
peace increment and we verify believe
that if V cksburg had been held and Lee
had thoroughly defeated Meade on his
! own ground, the Woods and CoTes ana
ValLandigh0m and their followers aoOWio
haze been rampant for peace md Separa.
ton, and that not one drafted man would
i ever have worn the United States uni
form-the livery of hireling or a de-
d graded soldier-in the city of New York.
But Vicksburg fell, and Lee failed to
n overwhelm Meade, and so the peace men
/ are as mute as frightened mice, and the
v drafted rowdies are forced easily into the
n ranks.
n This popular feeling must be checked
e and changed, and there is no means Of
J. doing it but by determined and success
y full conflict at one or more : oints. The
l. heroic holding out of Charleston helps us
l. to some extent, but something more mus
As be done. The election for Governor o
N Chic takes place early in November, W.
Ne believe, and the new Yankee Congress
IF meets in December. In order fa0orabLl
d TO affect the Ohio election ana the oTgGni
ID cation and action Of the pelo Congress-,
l. majority of which is against the Republi
G. can party, but not firmly decided as t
10 ANYTHING else, it IS to the last degree es
IN sential that the Confederate armies viii
IN one or more decisive battles within tn
: next thirty or sixty days. If Johnston
d. and Bragg can defeat Rosecrans and Burn
r side, Charleston still holding out or
ne Lee, with his recruited army, can defea
Meade with all the aid of his new con
IT. scripts, demorazed and disatFected a
no they are represen ted, then we mag eTpel
he the most favorable results in the OH
a election and Lincoln Congress. But VI
nd less something of the kind is accompshe
- speedily, then long farewell to the peaC
ad party-Vallindigham will be defeated an
IS Wood and his party paralyzed or owe
10. awed in Congress, and peace postpone
nd indefinitely without foreign aid.
;ts LARGE ESTIMATE OF REBEL Force
;or Tue Herald's Washington corresponds
~ says that according to the bet rebel a
IT. thority, Bragg's original force amountt
10, to 10000, and that he was reinforced |
Is four divisions from Johuston's Mississp
.d- army, one division from Charleston, BucI
i ner's division from East Tennessee, tv
divisions of Lees army and twelve REG
ments of Georgia militia that Gen. J'
is Johnston held in reserve at Kinston, +
teen miles in the rear of the battle groun
-. 10000 disciplined troops, together Wi
W. 5000 cavalry under Pillow, and 1896
III Georgia militia to be brought into the tie
'0 in case Burnside should form junctit
'PS with Rosecrans, and come up and resto
~, ny the prestige of victory to the Army Of t
IN Cumberland. Not gun was fred
eii Johnston's reserves. Lees army is es
u mated at 10000 strong, old regimen
H. having been filled up by the conscriptio
s.o and includes 5000 cavalry under Stewa
era and 300 pieces of artillery. Lee has al
'n ~ about II, 900 men in reserve at Richmor
~ u Besides this there are about 5000 infant
ms in the vicinity of Abingdon, Va holdi
NY the line of the Virginia and Tenness
VI VI railroad; 1000 cavalry under Imbode
lo- about R000 1nfantrv caralrv and artille