The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-06-19

Wings OF that day were compelled to ''dry up"
during the war with Mexico.


to beat the rebels whenever we try. At pres
ent we have them completely surrounded
crowded into small circumference of not
more than six thousand miles. Our armies
are guarding the outposts of this contracted
line and everywhere daring the pusillanimous
butternuts to ''pierce the CENTER" and the rag
ged wretches stake the dare" We have for
ces at Galveston, NV Orleans, Pensacola, Hill
ton Head, Newbern, Suffolk, GALL is quiet on
the Blackwater) Fortress Monroe, on the Rap
pahannock, at Baltimore, along the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Western Vir-
ginia, in Kentucky. Tennessee, Missouri,
Fort Smith, and at Viclsburg, in the very heart
of rebeldom. How long can the rebellion ex-
ist when thus circumscribed? In addition to
all this, Adjutant General Thomas, q native of
10y Maryland" and who last year was charg-
ed by the malignant tongue of SANDER with be-
ing secessiOnist and MISUNDERSTANDING
where such noble men as Butler, Brady. Dick
inson and other friends of Breckenridge dare to
lead is now in the Southwest organizing the
loyal blacks, who, it is understood, are impa
tent to be lead against the barbarous forces of
Lee and Beauregard. Northern philosophers,
women and divines who regard the African as
the best normal representative of the human
race, and those who have seen the sturdy mas
tiff quail before the perfume of the skunk, do
not believe the delicate nerves of the rebels
will be able to withstand bayonet charge from
made when the state of the thermometer indi-
Gates cutaneous activity and corresponding per-
spiratlOn. Time. however, will soon settle
this disputed question.
You should further dcnounce all who conf
plain of the Army of the Potomac. 1t has
been in no sense a failure. 1t has achieved
more than any army in ancient or modern times
has accomplished, under similar or equal diff
culties. Its bravery is unquestiOned and inius-
tlce has been done to its Generals. True,
Mcclellan, under the influence of Northern
Copperheads, aided by such Republican fories
as Thurlow Weed, and backed by the stupid
graduates OF West Point, was fast becoming Il
taVorlte with the army and the people; and
it was gravely limited by some of his holder
adherents. that he might be used by the Cop
perhead fraternity to supplant our illustrious
President in 1864. Besides, General Mcclellan
had commanded the Army of the Potomac long
enough. Rotation in office - is q sound DO
litical axiom. He was therefore retired,
although still favOrite with the brave men he
so long commanded. Gen. Burnside's career
has been an eminently brilliant one. and the same
may be said of Gen. Hooker. who. | presume.
will soon retire upon the laurels he has so nobly
won: But in all this there is stutcqy it's the
result OF that superior genius and wisdom of
our President. who, as ''Commander-in-Chi
moves interiors on the military chess board
with skill which eXcites the admiration of all
WV 'tiC tiUly 10y W Vic administration, No
harm can result from all this. We have an
abundance of leaders, ready and willing at a
moments notice. to lead the Army of the Pc
tomac to the rebel Capital. We have in re-
serve, Butler, p clips, Busted, and Lane. to
say nothing ofColOnel dUtassy, who, like Ma
hornets coffin, is still suspended between the
heavens and the earth.
look in vain among the names attached to
your letter for one which recalls familiar face
do not remember that T ever had the honor
OF personal acquaintance with any one of you
although in former times I knew many of the
leading citizens of Memphis, among whom are
not a few who ara It'll ardently in favor of a
restoration OF Tie Constitution. I regret to
lind none OF then associated with YOU in the
proposed demonstration But [ will indulre
no complaints. wherever our armies have
secured permanent lodgmeut in the South
AS at Hilton Head, New Orleans. New
bern, Nashville, and Memphis-the Northern
friends of our most excellent President
have supplied us abundantly with most
dIslntercsted men and women, whose loyal
tongues are heardi in mclodious tones WHEREBY
er we mold occupy or possess cotton or con-
traband settlement in the Confederate wilder
ness. Look at Hilton Head, where the tender
maiden and tougher matron of the North min
gle upon sisterly terms with the Palmetto At
rican ladies of South Carolina. A bountiful is
sue OF tracts and catechisms will no doubt soon
be followed by an approved issue of contra
bands-not so white as the pure Anglo, nor so
black as the normal African. In a few years
they will
Walk in beauty like the night
vi cloudlcas chimes and starry Skies
And all that's 5tH or d0lh. and bright
Meet in their aspect and their eyes"
In North Carolina, Charles Henry Foster,
Esq, originally from Maine, and a warm polt-
ical friend of Breckenridge, has organized
Free Labor Association, and Governor Stanly
has gone back to California in disgust. In
Nashvlile we have II regularly organized aboli-
ton society; its organ is the same as that of
the State and Federal Government, and the ed.
ltor, though imported from abroad, is doing
more to sustain the glorious administration of
President Lincoln than any native-born citizen
of the State can do. This abolition society. and
this abolition newspaper, although conducted
within the Notifications Of the city, is doing no
doubt &c o very much to induce the people of Mid
die Tennessee to cease all further opposition to
the wise, gentle. and constitutional rule of our
distinguished chief magistrate.
In Memphis the harvest is a tempting one
With cotton at a dollar per pound. and likely
contrabands Lying about loose" our enter
prlslng Northern friends who love the Union
and wish it preserved under the guarantees of
the Constitution may make "a good thing Oft
Already hear of several who have farms in
Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and other "loy-
al States, which are now well titled by the ne
groes who once belonged TO the Union men Of
the South. Facts like these will tend greatly
to the restoration of peace and harmony, and
materially aid in removing the prejudice which
the people of the insurrectionary States have
entertained against their Northern kindred.
They now ka0a1 that the war is not to be so cor
Quoted as wantOnly to deprive them of any pOr-
ton OF their property; and they now have pos
tire pfoots that Southern SecesSiOnists and
Northern Copperhcads, who charged that the
war was to be finally waged against the South
as section, instead of the rebels and their al
lies, are guilty of falsehood. Furthermore,
there Is large party at the North who have
persiStently refused to regard the African as the
best representative of the human race. This
influx OF negroes will do much to change their
opinions, and by the same means Southern
manners and customs will become gradually in
PRODUCED north of the Ohio and Potomac rem
dering our people much more homogeneous than
in former times. Thus we will again become
united and loving people. The lion and the
lamb, the contractor and the contraband, will
lie down together, and then the millennium will
have come. Excuse the haste with which |
write, and accept the assurances Of my highest
regard.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
EN-. ETHERIDGE.
To Messrs. L. NJ. Tomeny, G. D. johnson, and
others, Memphis, Tennessee.
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