Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-02-09

snsc,h gives q grees deal Of annoyance 10 tne
Washington administration. Peace makers
are not blessed" by the war makers IN too
United States. Tho New York Tribune"
thu allraas TO this speech:
"s,yoR WOODS 'PsAcs.'"
"ro.iAy the rebellion Tisl4ly totters t" It's
fill. l. has 10 logger credit at home or
abroad It's currency lies in ruins and no
bod w3.ats to sell snythiug 10 its government
for suyat wherswith IL can pay. LIS armies
are .uautw wifi famine Ks horses are dying
from lack of fJrG.e its soldiers are dcserstna
at s.ery opportunity and whiis i:s eonscr'f-
ton is omaiprosont, aIl-embraoing marcilass'
its forces rather diminish than increase;
waiie misery, disgust, despair, darkon the en-
tire region cursed by its sway. The leaders
r;s;dly suppress President Lincoln's Pfoc!a-
nation Of Amnesty, and protest against Us
circulation by our soldiers among Their PEEK
ess in our front. Would they 40 thls II taey
did lot know that the perusal OF ina docu'
wont hv tse;- men was ~strcngly calculated 70
d;sor,aniz4 and disihtagratctaelr shl'e'ins'
furnishing ~arnies2
.erhe Pr.sidens has said ii ttfsct IA tAcr',
al Won wh, arc h.lOE the rank u CoiIiic.,
return 10 loyal ", DO freely tolglTsa' aud &C.
insiat,d in al your possessions. n!aTe!!
must die, because it is the parent OF trcas1n;;
"a, implncsb,e foe Of tho Republic; but All
othsr conhsca:ion ia waived ard forborne, on
condition that you return to loyalty ard
es,new thai which made you traitors. we
Lii ven welcome to AL equGlltyIu oil taihS'
yith taosc you have vainly sought to destioy;
what would you have mefeS
"ThsSoutAcrn people, with few aon-s!Hve-
holding cxcep-iaos, ;are willing 10 these
ccncrous s9nditicuS, which dives them OF
~ay,lIinc thoy you'd not be cursed by re'a;ii-
inr, North Caro.iua, TENNESSEE, Arkansas.
and Louisiana, mrs palpably preparing to re-
-umc their places'in tae Union; whenc3 Dsin-
ware, M.ryl.n5, Yves. Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri nave refused e. sepafatc. What
"a it that moss abstracts au early restHraaon
Of psaos OH tac solid. enduring basis CT uni
vorsal freedoms.
Eve answer, Forr,ado Woad and ths C2r'
psrhnldS. wao sustain ito. His spsecn yes
teria; was !. palpaole exhortailon 70 the re-
bels not t. su.claib, not 10 return 10 Loyalty,
ba: 70 hold out Ttii neSs FAIL, if possible, ana
t.ks the chances of o Coppe;head triumph IN
n, Pc. ien,isi election, which will give
tacn p,ass On 5hsir own terms. That ~ the
rrsc;se meaning anu drift of his speech veg
tsrSay, aad Of ...a resolves he has from time
t., t;no submitted 10 the House. lie knows
thai his PROPOSITIONS and speeches will be reaa
t. eroais Of rebels expressly to induce them
t. hold out. Yet ne accuses the Republicans
. s=ekin: 10 ps1! * the war. IL, does not
c.-c how lpcg :le war iIsus, provided tnhF 1"
shall eai ia tho rs-asSablishmant Of slavery
a, tho urb!scr OF our national CosunleS.-
Ought LOT this city to bo heartily ashamed c!
sending such MA u Congress"
So far as the physical condition Of 'the re
billion" '~:.3t,ers 70 its fall" the opening opo'
tlsiqns OF the CAMPAIGN are OF more signlh
eance than tie st2sensnts Of the .Tribuae.N
The remarks IS 10 tho curron3y arc true; Il
reilly lies in rr;ns"-forturately for oul
GAUSS, the ruins" L,lOag exclusively to oui
owa peop.a, a4i, If necessary, these "rulns,N
which ~ c4so 10 mean the treasury notes, car
l. c~oi|acteA and huruea-and will be so served
whenever they seriously impede the cause
1ac difficulty OF purchasing with Confederate
notes Is NJ greater ia our case than was the
casewjth tne F1en,i Assignats. and yet FraGcs
weathe:ed tina. storm, AMI from her "rurs'
drove her ~ene:oia5 from her SOIL. and this day
cccu 1ics tee p'oudest POSITION among the ma
tons Of tie world. There may DO no Coz
iedera:s Napoleon, whose mighty genius shall
evoke orier from the chaos ttat surrounds US
blu; whCro i the Ylukee Suwarcow, CT
AK i2,iar. OK B.uchcr, or Wellington? It's
McD,wel!s. Scots. MGClellaas, Burnsidcs,
Moosers. Popc4, Buffers, Banks and Grants,
have failed far o!:cner than they have been
successful. Our danger is not from the Yam
kees, not from wi;h"u. our military lines but
t:Ym pithia,
1t IA from oar ruined currency, our
f.u,shcd arulisd, our fo:ag less borses, our
desert;n; soldiers, that our enemies chief
" hope fr our final s~ubjugation. Toeeparate
tho truth Of these assertions from the
false, aai apply tho corrections to those
r3al facts which 80 ma2h encourage our one.
. In;cj, is tia iu.y oT cur people. To tssd the
army requires PROVISIONS, and these the conn
try aus: supyiy. ID this, and one Of til, great
expectation, o; tho enemy will be disap-
pointed The currency will right itself unless
Con- ,rejs speedily acts, but this self-regulati, n
will be hopeless and final destruction. The
sr,oellion'' "~tottrrs" more under the load OF
1T, notes than under the blows of its enemy.
:Ualegs relieved Of its Dad it will Mrow Il cgj''
AZ f0r the dessr5ion rr the soldiers, the re-
cent enlistnsut for the war IS THO most power.
fu, resutaion that the r~'sHrtiun could receive.
Add wherhe- Qp- armies are diminishing
rather tban Increasing, the Spring campaign
viii July disclose. At any rate, the excuse
OF Overwhelming numbers" 30 long given for
the maay defeats Of the enemy, will DO spared
the courage and prowess of QUE diminished
army. But we End that tho same papers which
thas asser. that the Confederate army ID
daily decreasing in strength and numbers
falls into the old habit Of crying ~'overwhelm-
ing numbers" in it's accounts Of Gen. Rosser's
expedition into Hardy, of Capt. SturiiVant's
gallant ox ploit at Smithield, of Gen. Picketts
victory as Bachelors Greek, of ~LongstresSs
operations in East Tennessee. Now, for de-
c~reasins, diminishing, disorganizing, disinte-
grating, ehirerine and furnishing armies to be
always, and on every battlefield, in cover
whelmirg numbers and for three years to
have wrunS this excuse from their enemy, is
a kind of lettering that tolls tho foe to stand
from undsr" when 'miscry, disgust and de-
spair' shall start these furnished men towards
the land OF thoir foes, flowing with milk aud
honey, to say nothing of the beef, pork, corn
and -four.
As to the suppression Of President Lin
: coins Proclamation Of Amnesty" it is utterly
false. Tae Enquirer published it in full
80 did every daily paper. 1t was exactly the
kind OF Proclamation We wanted Mr.. Lincoln
to make. Ii vas the full and complete con