Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-10-02
DELAWARE, OHIO, OCTOBER 9, 1863.
The Hope Of the Rebels.

{ interest. During It's uellOeFatl00 the PreS
J Dental campaign of 1864 will be marked on
, Political parties will. in the next session
Congress, arrange the platform of principle
, that each viii advocate before the peop,
: as well as unmask the gross cOrruptions iba
the war has produced. The contest for tb
Speakerehip of the House of Representative
will be one of great excitement. II the dem
ocrats are successful, their Speaker will hav
the arrangement and appointment Of the va
riOus committees which prepare business 70
the House, as well as Of all those investiga
ting committees on the conduct of the war
the corruption of contracts, the suppression o
newspapers, and the arrest and Imprisonment
o. individuals.
The reports of these committees will form
the ground work of the next Presidential
campaign. Should Meade be driven into
Washington and the capital of the United
States be beleaguered by the Confederate
army, lbe conduct of tie war will receive a
blow from which neither Vickburg nor Port
Hudson can relieve it. If the administration
should find its army in the third year of the
war shut up in Washington, Mr.. Lincoln's
message would be deprived Of all its glorifca-
tion over the summers campaign. His man.
agement of military affairs will stand con-
lessed failure, and his uDftness for the position
of commander in chief will become patent to
every man. OF what avail will the capture
os Vick> burg and Port Hudson, the repulse at
Gettysburg, and the siege of Charleston prove,
if Meade, driven into Washington, is unable
10 rescue the capital from lhe insults of be-
Lacquer ing army? In vain will Halleck point
10 Grant, Banks, and Gilmore, if The army OF
the Potomac is forced to crouch under the
notifications Of Washington, and cover be-
fore the advance of Lee. The friends of Nc
Cellan will assail the administration for more
shameful failures than those for which he was
dismissed they will point to the besieging
army, and ask for the proofs of the victory al
Gettysburg they will inquire into the " es-
cape of Lee; and, parading the aiministra-
ton papers accounts of the battle of Gettys-
burg, ask why Lee was not bagged Meade
besieged in Washington will be incontroverti-
BILE evidence of the falsehoods perpetrated up
Ou the public.
Should Gen. Lee cross into Maryland, the
of Lincoln would increase
his - victorious army, unable to take the field
and attempt the repetition of Sharpsburg and
would be compelled to remain in
Washington, while Gen. Lee marched whittier
soever he wished in Maryland or Pennsylva
MIA.
The success Of the Democratic 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 in
sure its success. Should the Confederate army
remain quiescent on the banks of the Kappa |
Danncck, the boastful braggadocia of Yankee
reports will be confirmed, and Lincoln and
Halleck will point in triumph to the crippled |
condition of the Confederate army as conEr-
nation of the great victory won in Pennsyl- |
Vania. The Democrats, unable to gainsay such |
evidence, will be constrained to enter the con-
Test for speakershp shorn of the principal part i
Of their strength-lhe disgraceful mismanage-
nent and conduct of the war.
Gen. Lee must turn politician as well as
warrior, and we believe be will prove the most |
politician the Conlederacy ever pro-
luced. He may SO move and direct his army
% as to produce political results which, in their
1earing upon this war, will prove more eftctu-
i than the b.ood;e,t victories. LIT him drive
Meade into Washington, and he will again
aise the spirits of the Democrats, confirm
heir timd and give confidence to their wav-
ring. He will embolden the peace party
hould be again cross the Potomac, for he will
how the people of Pennsylvania how little Sc
urity they have from Lincoln for the protec-
ion of their homes. 1t matters not whether
he advance be made for purposes of perma.
lent occupation, or simply for grand raid /;
t will demonstrate that, in the third year Of
he war, they are SO far from the subjugation
f the Confederate States that the defense of
IaryIand and Pennsylvania has not been Sc
ured.
A fall campaign into Pennsylvania, with the
ands.o of our soldiers united, not for indiscrim'
ate pluuder der-demoralizing and undisciplining
be army-but a campaign for a systematic
nd organized retaliation and punishment,
7ould arouse the popular mind to the uncer-
aiuity and insecurity of Pennsylvania. This
rould react upon the representatives in Con-
ress, Strengthening the Democrats, and moIi-
wing even the hard shell of anaticism it.
elf
The damages which the last campaign inflic- t
ed, if augmented by another this fall, when {
resented TO the Lincoln Government, would, |
Mess paid. greatly exasperate the people
gainst an administration which neither de-
ends the State, nor reimburses its citizens for I
'sses which its own imbieility has produced. s
md if these damages are paid the debt is in- /
reased, the taxes raised, and the burdens i'm i
osed will accomplish the same end. c
Let the great and important fact be con-
antly kept in a tangible and threatening as I
ect before the people of Pennsylvania that, '
notwithstanding they have opened the Mississi-
pi, and are besieging Charleston, and threat n
ming East Tennessee and Georgia and Ala r
anna, that, Notwithstanding all this, Pennsyl- s
aniA is not safe from Invasion, and Washing v
IN city is again beleaguered in this the third q
ear Of the war. The road to peace lies
trough Pennsylvania and Washington" q
Other southern papers speak in the same I
)ne and that notorious traitor, Lieut., Mau- i
:, in letter to the London Times, dated Au- S
ust II, says that the prospects OF the Con- l
deraey are still bright that the war is not /
, be ended by the sword" but that " other a
gents have been called into play. These
gencies," he tells us, are divisions in the 7
amp of the enemy, and dissensions among the Il
eOple Of the North. There is already peace d
ariy there. All the embarrassments with c
bich that party can surround Mr.. Lincoln. r
I'd all the difficulties that it can throw in the s
ny of the war party of the North, operate I
lrectly Gs so much aid and comfort TO the /
outh." Or the rebel sympathizer who wants I
} be governor of one Of the principal Wes- O
.rn States he says: /" VaIlandigham waits \
nd watches over the border, peged, if elected a
Overnor of the State of Ohio, TO array it s