Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-09-11


have recovered. lot Us look To th0s- agencies
that are to end the war, and inquire what pro.
cress has been made on the road to peace, and,
consequently in onr favcr, notwithstanding
these military rcrerses.
Notwithst: these the wsr is beeom-
ing more ond more unpopular il the North
In proof Of this poiut to the conduct Of the
PeEnsvlvanihns during Lees invasion OF that
State, 10 rhe riots III New York, to the organ
lied resistance /, the war in Iowa, and to
other circumstances with which the Euslisn
public has hecn matte acquainted Ivy the news
paper prc;s.
New York is threatening armed resistance
70 tho Federal Government, New York Is
becoming the champion of States rights IN
the North, and to that extent is taking South
ern ground Mr. lincoln has noe only judged
it expedient to unlnuzzle the press In New
and deemed it prudent to give vent to FREQ
speech there, bus he is evidently afraid to en-
force the CONSUMPTION in the Empire State"
The COrscription act itself, moreover, seems
70 be 20 abor,ivc throughout Yankee land gen
orally that he cannot now muster iUrces
enough 20 in1w up his July successes.-
Grant has i,"crnlc afraid u .iohnstvu's dccoy,
whicil aimed 10 cntice him oil to the swalDps
and canebceass Of the Mississippi. He has,
| therefore, given up the so-called pursuit and
taken to his darling gnnhoats.
Banks has left Port Hudson, to be routed,
it is said beyond the Mississippi by Taylor,
With severe loss.
Rpsecraus has not sufficiently recovered
from the blow that Bragg gave him last
! Christmas in Murfrccsboro' to follow up that
retiring Confederate. while Bragg has forces
in the Federal Generals rear
In the attack upon Charleston the enemy i:
losing ground. lie is evidently giving way.
! lie has been driven from James lSlund, and
| we are planting batteries there which will
sweep Morris Island, which is nothing bilt
sand beach. So Charleston may be consider
| e1 sale.
As for Meade, he simply -tards at bay be-
| hind Lee
Thus the military tile which sct in with 30
| much Federal promise on the young tlr"l III
July, and which has 50 Gampcned the spirits
OF our English friends and depressed South
ern securities, nnd appcurs suddenly TO baTe
| starkened, and to be OF the point OF again
! turning in our favor, and that too. under nu-
specs. which seem more prOpltiCu' than ever.
fallandigbam waits and watches over tho
border. plci.cd-if elected Governor of the
State yf Oho-to array it against Lincoln and
! war, and 10 20 !or peucr. What the result Of
tie election there will be l cannot tell but
the casivas5 il going on, and we know that
| opposition 20 Lincoln aud his war party l.
| growing more and more popular every day,
and throughout the whole North. Witness
! Burnstdc's decree, putting, in violation oi all
legal right and constitutional power, the State
! vi Kentucky under martial Law, nnd that, tGH
Just Is the elections are coming OH IN that
| State. lie orders the commissioners q elec-
! tions to let none vote but friends 81 Lincoln
and the Union: and the last steamer brings
the announcement, in the jubiaut rhetoric OF
the Yankee press, The Union ticket has
been elected in kentucky by large majori-
ty." Well it might; there WAS no other ticket
allowed.
| Why, but for this growing hostility to Lin
coin and the war, put Kentucky under mar
tial law at this late day at all Simply be-
cause Of. the growing activity and increasing
energy of those Influences which are ut work
in The cause of peace, and therefore on the
side of the sword of the South. These infu-
cnces are doing more towards bringing the
war 10 an eni tnan NIL the battles that have
been fought since the war began have done.
indeed, 20 Strengthened is Mr.. Lincoln ut
this moment that his partisans are reSortng
to desperate game. They are endeayoring
to raise the war cry against France and Eng
land, hoping thereby to rally the people TO
arms, and intending, if successful, to send the
dupes ~ fight their brethren in the South.
! Nav, more: there are rulnors Of peace
| party in his Cabinet, and of n proposition
! there Ia revoke tho emancipation procan&-
| lion and propose terms 10 the South. The
! leading newspapers Of the North mention this,
| and not with disappcobatiun.
Nor arc these all tle Gscncie5 that time
! AMI events are bringing mto play on the eide
Of peace and the South.
The fall of vickshurg and Port Hudson
was. according tn those who were stirring the
Northwestern people up to war, to open the
way 10 market for them. Every English
| house in tue American trade knows that the
brculsrutfs Of Ohio and the Northwest had,
Tor wears before The var, nearly ceased ~ pass
bv New Orleans on tho way to markets abroad.
Thcv went up to the lakes. and 10, via canal
and rail. to Boston and New York tor expor-
tatiun to foreign countries. Can any one in
the trade pretend that England would have
taken Il shipload more OF American flour had
the Mississippi been open all tue war; Chi
cagn and hot New Orleans, has for years
been the grand grain market vt the West, and,
except London, it is the greatest in the world.
There was on the lower Mississippi q large
trade in breadstufa and provisions from the
States above This trade was chiefly with the
planters of the South. But they have been
despoiled, their plantations laid waste, their
stock taken away, their houses burnt and they
themselves banishcd. In short, those fighting
farmers of the Upper Mississippi are likely soon
10 find out that il Is Lincoluand his lieutenan;s
and nobody else who havekilled their goose ofthc
golden eggs. Those cute Buckeyes" Suck
crs" and "IIcosiers." as the deniZens Of Ohio
and her sister States are called, are bound be-
fore long to discover this. And will the dis
coyery be more likely to incline their hearts to
peacc. or to revive in them the war terrOr -
Not the latter, certainly.
This disappointment vii! come upon these
farmers with redoubled force by reason of the
financial bearings there Of the abundant har-
vest here This is Il point OF view upon which
wish YOU would dwell with me for mo-
ment.
Before this war the S0utll sent annually 10
ENGLAND some 10000 or $1,000 shiplqads OF
stuff, consisting chiefly. as is well known, Of
cotton. rice tobacco, naval stores and the like.
The war put stop to all this. Bnt since the
war the crops have been short until nOw-so
short as to give employment to nearly the
whole feet OF ships in bringing meat and
bread here TO your people from the Northern
States. Notwithstanding tho withdrawal from
its regular business Of the immense amount of
shipping which was required annually to get
the Southern crops to market, and notwith-
standing the loss to commerce OF that trade
neither the custom-house receipts Of the ma
ton, nor its shipping interests, nor its dock
revenues, show any corresponding falling OF
in its great business Of fetching and carrying
by sea- The receipts from the Liverpool docks
frm the Bristol docks, and from all the docks
on the island,I believe, show larger figures this
- IL. 40. hof;,ra and thot IN daSpito of