Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-07-13
The Prospect.


Never, since the beginning of the war;
have the National armies held positions
which threatened the rebellion with such
imminent and rretrievable disaster as do
those which they occupy to-day.
Two vast armies of veteran soldiers, led by
Generals of approved skill and enterprise,
and animated by an unconquerable purpose,
simultaneously press upon the most vital
points of the insurrection.
The success of one of these movements
assures that of the other. The rebels must
defeat both, or both will succeed. II Atlanta
surrenders to SHERMAN, the fall of Richmond
must follow. If GRANT succeeds in entering
Richmond, the key TO the possession of Geor-
gla and the cotton States must speedily be
surrendered to SHERMAN. And with Atlanta
and Richmond held by the National authori-
ties, armed resistance to the constitution and
laws of the United States upon any consider
able scale of operation, must cease.
Bushwhacking.and guerrilla raids may con-
tinue tor some time, but the rebellion in its
larger and more threatening aspect will be
crushed. e-Hr r-#
The rebels and their abettors seem fully
| impressed with the alarming nature of the
crisis they have reached Precisely in pro-
portion to the immnence of the danger
which confronts the cause of treason, rises
the clamor of their Northern aihes At no
time during the progress o. the war, has
such venom exuded from the copperhead fac
ton as within the past few weeks. Never
| before has the hiss of the reptile brood swell
ed into such breadth and resonance. In a
| Wisconsin newspaper we have seen the as
| sassination of the President of the United
| States suggested as meritorious act Frantic
attempts made to dishearten the people.
Terrible pictures ofthe bloodshed and suffering
experienced by our armies are drawn, and all
this misery and loss Of life charged, not upon
the fends in human form who instigated and
| now lead this foul and unnatural rebellion.
| but upon the Administration which resists
! their murderous assaults and seeks to main
tain and perpetuate the Republic and its be-
| nehcent institutions. The President who
calls on the people to rally around the old
flag and save the country from anarchy and
death, is represented as thirsting for human
gore and delighting in the sacrifice of his
| fellow countrymen, by men and ne spa
pers that laud the purity and statesman
ship of JEFF DAVIS and that magnify the
acheyemments of LEE and BEAUREGARD in
eulogies full of affection and sympathy. All
the base and deadly elements of treason, cow
ardice, 8elfshness and corruption that tester
and rankle in ''high-viced cities" strike hands
at the commercial metropolis of the nation,
to embarrass the government by an attempt
to break down its credit, and rebel sympa-
thizers and fanatic partizans receive with ex-
ulting glee the tidings of the depreciation of
| government securities.
In the desperate tone of the Copperhead
press, in its exultation over the price of gold
echoing back the JOY of the rebel organs at
Richmond, in lis increased malignancy tow
ards the Administration, in its exaggeration
of the losses of our armies, in its efforts to
discourage enlistments, may be seen the ev-
licences of an apprehension that unless some
speedy and precipitate ruin to the national
cause can be wrought, it will be too late and
the rebellion will receive a,,fnal and finishing
stroke.
In this they are unquestionably correct.
At no period has the prospect of final and
complete triumph to our arms seemed so IA
vorable as now. Sherman's great army moves
irresistably forward into the very bowels of
the revolted districts. He has emerged from
the mountain barriers that, with all the force
the rebellion could muster, could not be held
against him, and is close upon Atlanta
Grant, the indOmitable, the man who has new
er failed, is slowly but surely enyeloping the
rebel capital Whatever the Northern allies
of treason do to sustain and strengthen the
enemies of the country must Individually be
performed without delay or it will be too
late. Their friends are in desperate straits.
What aid and encouragement there is for them
must be extended now; it will be of no avail
if postponed.
Obviously this is understood by those most
Immediately concerned. Hence the clamor and
demonstra Jiveness of Northern Copperlead-
ism, benunbed and paralyzed for time by
the blighting frosts of last November, bit
aroused to activity once more by the mortal
peril of its friends. Let not any one be
appalled, by ''the importunate chink" of hos
tile utterance and Encouragement kept up by
these fre-in the-rear men. They are not now
more numerous than they were last year,
when with such overwhelming unanimity,
both they and their cowardly and wicked
purposes, were repudiated and condemned at
the ballot-pOx. They are active and noisy
but not formidable in numbers, nor of infiu-
ence with the mass of the people.
Death of 1t. Col. John A. Savage.
private dispatch received by Adjutant
General GAYLORD from WASHINGTON brings