The weekly union record., 1864-06-04
Tone of the Rebel Press.

y pervadiDg the minds and hearts Of the Sou
bern people. The boasted establishment Of
Southern Confederacy which was considered
Is a fore gone conclusion, is fast sinking into
bitter hopelessuess This fact is clearly iud-
Fated by the dicided change in the rebel press,
or the past few months. On the outbreak of
he present rebellion the ridiculous boasting Of
he Southern press, headed by the Richmond
Enquirer, that DO terms Of peace could be &C
Fepted save the rebel programme, with the
border State, by the Federal Government, has
eceutly undergone change that blasts the
expectations of the Southern aristocracy. The
Irmng of their negro slaves, the last resort,
annot save them.
The Richmond Enquirer, said TO be edited
y q northern Yankee chiv finds able oppo-
eDts in the South, at the present time. TO its
ebel doctrines. These opponents to the radi-
al traitors who sway Richmond and Charles
own, are convinced OF the utter hopelessness
the rebel cause, and if continued the South
rn people can only be subjected to endure
ardships and disgrace. Hence there are
Pw rebel papers in favor of such peace as
ould put an end to the war commenced and
arried on by rebel radicals. There few
outhern statesman who have learned by sad
Experience that the northern people are not
Owards and that they will fight on and ever
B sustain the old Union and the old flag The
uded theory of the South, upon this point,
and should be doomed, in the minds Of all
Pnsible people.
The warning voice of the great southern
atesnan, Alex. II Stephens, before the
Fcession convention of Georgia, was UNDECIDED.
y the radical leaders of the rebellion in their
birst for slavery, agistocracy and the over
brow OF the best government on earth. His
oquence, his argument, his iuterrogatories
efying that a single governmental wrong had
yer been passed at Washington to Justify the
tt of secession they were about to take, was
nanswerable, but the slave arisocracy con
lted their false theories and rebellion rather
ian reason, peace aud good will The pre-.
ctons of that orator as TO the desolaton of
e South are coming to pass as the rebellion
Fogresses.
No where since the war began has treason
hined foot of contested ground 1t has lost
]. 1t will continue to loose until the Union
ag shall wave over Richmond and Atlanta as
now does over Chattanooga and New Or
ans and the entire mississippi. Treason
ill be rolled back by steadily advancing
nion armies ill our flag will float from the
ins ofFort Sumter and from every village in
|ery cotton State of the Coufedracy.
The conservative rebel press propose 70 ig-
pre- the doomed government at Richmond,
hd that each Southern Stale act for itself, as
q Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and
ennessee. II there be any common sense
hong the common people OF the Soalh they
ust surely know by this time that they are
Ehtiug only to establish aud extend slavery
bd aristocracy, 10 widen the social and politi,
distance between themselves and their reb-
leaders How long can they do this uunat-
al thing? To them, peace on the hardest
rms of the Northern radicals would impose
hardship. The blows of coufScai;on. emau-
patton, exile or death, would strike the guilty
hders alone. For these reasons the day of
influence of such arrogant journals as have
Rde majority Of the Southern people the
ctims of Misrepresentation and ruin is past,
d that henceforward people will give mere
g teniion to intelligence and reason.
Democrats oppose Lincoln and his party
cause Lincoln and his party are in favor of
hiking negroes, socially and politically. the
uals of the white race.-Democrai3c Press.
1t is almost useless to deny the faseuess of
e above paragraph 1t is only made from
fact that he cannot produce any argument
sustain the corrupt and disloyal party in
bich be figures so conspicuously as mem
r, and is made to deceive unsuspecting Union
tiers. Ii is false TO the letter. Beriah once
himed to be Douglas Democrat If be
er was be must have been 'shaky at the but
now stands as high as any man reasonably
uld in attempting to please, as he does. the
bg ends" Of the so called Democracy. 1t is
husing TO see Beriah bob" among the
nds." His views are shaped to suit rebel
copperhead, sympathiser, bulternut or any
ing opposed to the great Union party.
tbs UNITED STATES TO Rs ARRESTED The
Aris Constitutional OF April 5.h devoies one
bole page to The Works Of France in
exico." After stating that the honor Of
lance took the Emperor's troops TO Mexico,
Grandguilot points cut the wretched state,
cial, civil, military aud fuancial, in which
ley found that rich country; the means taken
France TO reSeue it from such desolation,
lmiDa,ing in the selection of the Archduke.
ID uiters TWO ot the most ta,teriug predictions
the future which is now dawninc on the
Jung empire. NJ. Graudguillot expects much
Pm the lri>h and German emigration, which