Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-25
THE REBEL ALLY n THE NORTH.
A Confederate View of the ssPeace''
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The Richmond Enquirer, Of the 7th, urges
Lee to new invasion Of Pennsylvania, in a
leader Of which the 70 lowing is a sample ex-
tract: a'i ''H' " ''.a" led t"-i s'' ~.
The SUCCESS OF THE MONTEREY Demo-
CRATIC PARTY WOULD BE NO LONGER DOUBTFUL
SHOULD GEN. LEE ONCE MORE ADVANCE ON
MEADE. Parties in the United States are so
nearly balanced that the least advantage
thrown in favor Of one will insure is success
Should the Confederate army remain quies-
cent on the banks Of the Rappahannock, the
boastful braggadocio of the Yankee official
reports will be confirmed, and Lincoln and
Halleck will point in triumph to the crippled
condition of the Confederate army as q con-
firmation of the great victory won in Penn
sylvania. g.a- ---. +4 ....7-. ...-, ........ .. ..
The Democrats, unable to gainsay such
evidence, will be constrained to enter the
contest for the Speakership shorn of the
principle part of their strength-the disgrace.
full mismanagement and conduct of the war.
Gen. Lee must turn politician as we'll as war
rior, and We believe he will prove the most
successful politician the Confederacy has ever
produced. He may so move and direct his
army as to produce political results which
in their bearing upon this war will prove
more effectual than the boldest victories -
LET HIM DRIVE MEADE INTO WASHINGTON AND
HE WILL AGAIN RAISE THE SPIRITS
OF THE DEMOCRATS, CoNFIRM THEIR
TIMID AND GIVE CONFIDENCE TO THEIR WAIVER
ING. He WILL EMBoLDEN THE PEACE PARTY
SHOULD = E AGAIN GROSS THE PoroMAc, for he
will show the people of Pennsylvania how
little security they have from Lincoln for the
protection OF their homes. .--- .
1t matters not whether the advance be
made.for purposes of permanent occupation,
or simply Tor a grand raid, it will demon
state that i1r the third year of the war they
are so far. from the suhjugation of the Con
federate States that the defence of Maryland
and Pennsylvania has not yet been secured.
A fall campaign into Pennsylvania, with the
hands of our soldiers united-not for inds-
criminate plunder, demoralizing and undisci-
plining the army, but campaign for system
attic and organized retaliation and punishment
would arouse the popular mind to the un-
certainty and insecurity Of Pennsylvania
Congress, Strengthening the Democrats and
modifying even Hardshell fanaticism itself"
The damages which the last campaign infict
eu, II augmenteu Oy another tnis iali, ~HeH
presented to the Lincoln Government, would,
unless paid, greatly exasuerate the people
against the Administration which reither de-
fends the State nor reimburses its citizens for
the losses which its own imbeciity produced.
And if these damages are paid the debt is in
creased, the taxes raised, and the burdens
imposed, will accomplish the same end. Let
the great and important fact be constantly
kept in tangible and threatening aspect be-
fore the people of Pennsylvania that, not
they have opened the Mississip
pi and are besieging Charleston, ard conquer
ed East Tennessee, and threaten Georgia and
that, Notwithstanding all this,
Pennsylvania is no: safe from invasion, and
Washington City is again beleaguered in this
third year of the war. The road to peace lies
through Pennsylvania, via Washington.