The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-24
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From the BiahmOnd E1sminsr, October Is.
5zjtst : ExcHASGs OF PRISONERS. ,asi !
y The prisoners at D Osstle Thunder have
been deprived of the rich yiands from out.
side parties By recent order and are now
limited absolutely to the prison rations. sa
= We have good authority for saying the
cartel has been, to certain extent, res
sumed. Arrangements have been made to
exchange i'm nediately, ten thousand Yam
kee prisoners at Savannah, Georgia, and Cap
tain Hatch will leave in few days to super
intend the whole affair. sdi ,as''a els h. -,
LINCOLN THE souTH's BEST ALLY--THE IN
= DrpENDENcE OF THE SOUTH SECURED Br
HIS REELECTION. qa's 90 a1s -'esif ff.
/" 81 From the Richmond Examiner, Oct. E.i r
Some doubt remains as to the political
complexion OF Pennsylvania. The press OF
the United States has become so radically
mendacious that it isiupossible to put trust
in the first accounts even of an event so
public and plain as the result of an cleo"
ton. Some days may yet elapse before Ger
titude is attained. But we entertain o
strong hope that the Republicans have
done what they seemed at first to have
done, and confess deep desire that the
present result may foreshadow the re elec
ton Of Abraham Lincoln. For Abraham
Lincoln is the Seuth's best ally. This con.
federacy had million and quarter OF
men capable of bearing arms at the outset;
force sufficient to meet any Invading
power and defy the possibility OF subjuga-
ton. The only danger lay in the dif1culty
of bringing the force into the field. Abra-
ham Lincoln removed that difficulty by the
character which he impaired TO the war
He made iGoths and Vandals of bis
troops, and proclaimed devastation, confis
cation and determination as bis purpose. II
was thus that he invoked into the field
those powerful Southern armies which have
so successfully resisted his assaults. 1t is
scarcely possible to conceive how conflict
could have been rendered more enveDomsd
than the present one has become through
that truculent policy Of Mr.. Lincoln. Yet
this man found q means of intensifylng its
ferocity. He proclaimed insurrection to
the slaves, and armed all the blacks which
he could seduce into his service, against the
whites who had been their masters. BY
this policy he effectually succeeded in CALI
ing out and combining every element OF
resistance in the South strong element
of that resistance is yet to come, as will
appear soon after the meetingo of the Con-
federate Congress. The enemy talk of the
despotism which drags conscripts into the
southern armies, and forces old men and
children into the bitches, but the despotism
which coerces the South is seated at Wash>
ington, and not at Richmond. The confed-
eracy has proved that it had nerve and re-
solution to achieve an independent destiny;
bat 1t is indebted to Lincoln for forcing
these qualities into action. 90
:, The disruption of old political associa-
tions is always a hazardous experiment.
The great majority of minds in wealthy
and prosperous community are 'ayerse to
change and revolution, preferring to endure
great evils rather than resortto sanguinary
measures for redress. No man ever felt
the weight of this truth more forcibly than
those who inaugursted the movement for
secession. The whole danger and risk Of
the experiment consisted in that conserva.
tive aversion to change and coHvulsion
which possesses the popular masses On
this rock the secession cause might have
split, if it had not been safely piloted past II
bu the pains of abraham Lincoln The
cause was saved in 1862 by the conscrip
ton; and Lincoln-not the Examiner
newspaper-may be said to be the author
of the conscription; because, except for the
ferocious policy which he pursued, 1t never
could have been enforced He has rens
dered resistance an absolute duty and ne
cessity, and brought that duty home to
every mans door, ipsomuch that no man
in the South having any self respect or re-
gard for the opinions Of his neighbors,
dares to disobey the call Of bis country to
arms. r. -
But for the Incentives applied by Mr..
lluCOi0J tno OUutnj W Wdue vi ubiuu aha
energy, might have failed to deserve the
respect of mankind might have been una
BILE to levy great armies; and the forces in
the field night have fought with little en-.
ergy The popular majority might have
been disposed, at; the fret soft words from
the enemy, to renounce the Southern cause
and return to the enjoyment Of repose,
prosperity and dishonor. f' rs.lH a@
Mr.. Lincoln has prevented such q con
tingency, and relieved the South Of all
these dangers by course Of policy which
rendered reconciliation impossible. BY
driving us to this extremity, he has com,
hined every element of our strength, and
.insuredEour success. es@ .t
Ifthe South could be conquered at all
there is but one mode by which it could be
done If the armies ofthe North were en-
tirely Withdrew, and an invitation pro-
posed for convention of ell the States, for
the purpose of deyising terms of concilia-