The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-04

= Oa1N i L AULs II OlDH
"30O,O0 more" was all the General in
command wanted to "crush out the re-
bellion and restore the Union" After the
victories of Forts Henry and Donelson,
even more than this was claimed. The
job was finished then. No more men rere
wanted. The War Department UouI re-
ceire no more rolasnteers, as they would
not be needed, and recruiting was stopped.
1t was with difficulty that our patriotic
citizens could get regiment or q battery
accepted"
Mr.. Seward notified European Govern
meuts that our Southern ports would soon
be opened, and our citizens that the writ
| Of habeas corpus was no longer suspended
as ''the danger was over" After the cap
ture Of Vicksburg, twelve months ago,
| this was the case again. The Confederacy
was cut in two, and was every dead. :"
Under no possible circumstances could
they raise over 10000 men by the most
searching and vigorous consumption. Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Texas were "re-
stored to the Union" and there would be
no more fighting there. They we're
"bagged ;" in the imagination Of call loyal
men, "and would require no more ammuni-
ton. Since all this, however, the enormous
and almost fabulous levy Of 1900, 600
men has been made to kill deader that
very dead rebellion -" cut in two {"
and only able to raise 80, 600 men. Draft
has followed draft to raise 900, ,O00s and
2O0,OOOs and 300, ,0O0s to whip the 9O, 1000,
and still to-day our intelligence is insulted
by repetition of the stale and worn-out
slang that "the rebellion is again on it's last
legs" and "Grant only needs 100, 900
more to crush il and restore the Union. I"
We are amused with Stantons lying bulle-
tins of paper victories, as false as Gen. Ma
glee publicly brands Stanton hi,ssey-all
for the purpose of again hoodwinking US
into voting for Lincoln, with the fond but
delusive hope that he can conquer
peace and restore the Union.
Grant from Spottsylvania to the Ohica-
hominy were forgotten by us" victories"
Grant never gained and never claimed
victories" which nearly ruined his army
by the slaughter of 100000 men.
Be not deceived by any hopes Of Lin
coins victories restoring either peace or
Union. Richmond may be taken, Charles
ton may be taken, Mobile may fall and
every principal city in the South be occu-
pied by our army, but like mirage in the
| wilderness the rebellion will still retire, as
it has been doing for three years, and take
other positions intrenched as strongly as
Richmond, or Charleston, or Mobile, and
defy and waste our armies in the same
protracted sieges, requiring more calls for
three hundred thousands aud FIVE hundred
thousands to fill up the ranks depleted by
disease and the shock of battle.
! Spain Wits overrun BY Napoleon, every
city taken aud occupied for three years,
but Spain was not conquered and she re-
mains Spain to-day without hostile foot
! upon her soil.
. Prussia, nnder Frederick the Great,
maintained war for seven years with her
5000, 900 people against combined Eu-
rope with 100, COG, 900, and remains Prus-
sia today, sovereign and independent.
Thirty years of war failed to conquer
Germany into the adoption Of religion
against her will, while two hundred years
Of war and persecution against Catholic
Ireland leaves her Catholic Ireland still,
as stubborn in her faith and as implacable
| in her rebellion as ever.
There was one intrenched city In all
these wars wich was not taken. 1t was
THE CITY OF TuR MEARr. There was the
last impregnable stronghold Of the oppo-
sition, which force alone could never reach
the fortress whose walls could only be
battered down by moral power.
And to-day, in the heart Of the South
ern people there, are yet other Richmond,
and Chsrlestons, and Mobiles, and Attain
tas, which will never fall by other force
than the still, insinuating power Of moral
means, welded by craftsmanship and pa
triotism.
Until this is tried, III victories must
continue as fru,tIess as New Orleans, and
Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, and Atlanta,
and scores of others which have only en-
larged the theatre of our operations, length
eued our lines of communication, and re-
quired more men and more money to gar
rison towns and protect communications,
while THE HEART OF THE REBELLION, which
animates all its armies, supplies ali its arms
| and munitions, negotiates all its loans, and
digs all its entertainments, has not had a
shell thrown into it, but has rather been
strengthened, fortified and case-hardened
by policies and practices disgracetul to
civilization, and calculated to irritate, in
flame and protract the rebellion.
All history illustrates the truth of Mil
tons words,
"Who overcomes by force,
Bat half oercomes his foe"
Wehave overcome Tennessee and Arkan-
sas and Louisiana, but they are to-day as
much out of the Union rs ever, although
''overcome " two years ago, and require as
large armies to hold them as to overcome
them.
And SO it must be with every other State
as long as Lincoln and his policies rule,
and We uphold them. The rebellion is