The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-09

REBEL VIEW or THH PREsIDENTrAI BLECrfoNH
Prom ne Richmond Examiner, Sepiem5sr6.
The South is to act the controlling part in the
Northern election. The issue Of November is 10
be decided by the armies In Virginia and Geor-
gia. Lincolns whole hope Of reelection begins
and ends in military success Without some de-
cdcd achievement by Grant, or q destruction OF
the Georgia army by Sherman, every State AZ the
North will cast its vote against him, except Yer
mont and Massachusetts,.
The onus of snccess is on him. The success
must not be moderate; but great enough %
promise q decisive influence in securing the OBJ.
ices for which he IS conducting the war; II he
fails TO accomplish something worthy OF the
great eXertiOns he has made In the campaign, he
will be beaten at the polls and new party will
succeed 70 power which will shcathe the sword
and hold ont the olive branch.
The South is fighting for peace, and peace
alone. She Is resisting aggression; she aims
/ neither at the conquest nor humiliation OF her
adversary. For the FIRST time now in four years,
is there prospect Of securing the long and
arduOusly sought desideratum. All the powerful
| inducements which have noryed her to the strug
gle for four years, are now concentrated in the
space of two months
The Administration at Washington will put
forth all its power and energy for effectng by
November the purposes which il has so eagerly
Cndcavorcd 10 compass during the preceding
stages Of the war II is not merely hatred towards
us which now inspires It's members; to this
powerful motive they now have added the desire
Of prOlorgng their power, and overthrowing ad-
ycrsaries whom they hate even more intensely
than they do ourselves.
Our policy is emphatically to stand on the de-
fensiye, and risk nothing; but, at the same time,
II is more important than ever that we should
bring every resource into requisition, and employ
all the vigilance and activity Of which we are
capable. The business OF the next sixty days will
De to hold our own, and 10 suffer no disaster but
it twin be no easy task. The enemy viii redouble
his exertons, and throw desperate activity into
all his operations.
lie win test our strength and vigilance at every
point; and leave no labor or ariitce unemployed
by which advantage or even ech1t may he secured.
Now is the hour for every man in the South to
stand 20 his duty and 10 his post We can afford
any sacrifice, collectively and individually, TO
make sure of these two months. The sick may
leave their hospitals little too soon and even the
lame and dCCrepit take their stand in the breast
works TO advantage now.
Furloughs may be refused with eminent pro-
priety; and the men who are skulking beyond
their time in the interior should be shamed into
their duty or dealt with as deserters traitors.
Every expedent should be used 10 pile up
strength in the eight weeks of crisis at hand.
The prospects of the COniederaCy were never
brighter than at this moment, if she deserves sue
cess and is resolved to win IL; never so gloomy,
if, tired OF the struggle and unworthy of inde-
pcndenCC, her resolution and zeal fail ut the
eleventh hour. The task before her is the most
easy that she has encountered at any stage of the
struggle, if shc but address herself to il in the
proper spirit; il is the most difficult and doubtful
If She relax in resolution and omit any Of the
eXertions and precautions demanded by the oC-
CasiOn.
1t is in no spirit of distrus that those reflections
are made; but in spirit of warning and hopeful
eXhOriatiun. The crisis is of character to gladden.
the heart of every brave man, confident of the
issue. All the anXieties and trials of years are
to be concentrated into few weeks and the
often proclaimed limitation of "siXty days" to the
strife is at last to be realized. In all probability
the next sixty days will in fact decide the contest
The Washington Administration, under the
spur Of necessity, will bring the whole power
which they can command into requisition. If
they fail, the will last, not merely by reason
of q change of dynastes, but because il will have
been demonstrated that the maximum power of
which The North is capable has been brought to
bear, and failed to effect the object Of subjuga-
tion. 1t will not be that Mcclellan is disposed
TO peace or his party averSe to further
war, that peace will come; but it will be
because n war administration, employing the full
resources and power Of its country when its
finances were unimpaired aud its resources uneX-
hausted, will have failed to subdue the South,
and because the nfereuce will be irresistible that
what could not be accomplished by a war admin
istraton in the full vigor of Federal resources
cannot be by a peace administration succeeding
to power after these resources had been mate
rally reduced.
THE REBEL PRISONS.
From the Richmond Examiner, StptemJer6.
A few Yankee prisoners were recorded at the
Libby yesterday. At the Castle more were sent
of than were received. 1t has come to be re-
marked that the Yankee prisoners are more
that which the Government proposes to give them
by sending thSm through the lines TO their homes,
or the States Of their nativity and their adoption
They have their Choice-they can remain or CO.