Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-07-16

The Prospect.
Never, since the beginning of the war,
have the National armies held positions
which threatened the rebellion with such
Imminent and irretrievable .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 insnrrectioD. - -
The success of@oRe of these movements
assures that of the other. The rebels must
defeat both, or both viii succeed. If Atlanta
snrrenders to SHERMAN, the fall of Richmond
| must follow If GRAsr succeeds in entering
Richmond, the key to the possession of Geor-
| gia and the cotton States must speedily be
surrendered to SHERMAN. And with. Atlanta
and Richmond held by the National authori-
| ties, armed resistance to tie constitution and
laws of the United States upon anysconsider-
able scale of operation, must cease.
Bnshwhacking and guerrilla raids may con-
tinue for some time, but the rebellion in its
larger and more threatening aspect will be
crushed. .a'.* A- "'se4s'q
I The rebels and their abettors seem fully
/ impressed with the alarming nature of the
| crisis they have reached. Precisely in pro-
portion to the inminence of the danger
| which confronts the cause of treason, rises
the clamor of their Northern allies At no
time during the progress of 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
WISCONSIN newspaper we have seen the as.
sassination of the President of the United
States suggested as a meritorious act Frantic
| attempts are made to dishearten the people.
Terrible pictures ofthe bloodshed and suffering
| experienced by our armiesare drawn, and all
this misery and loss of life charged, not upon
the iends in human form who instigated and
| now lead this foul and unnatural rebellion,
but upon the Administration which resists
their murderous assaults aldseeks to main
| tain and perpetuate the Republic and its be-
nefeent 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 newspa-
pers that laud the purity and statesman
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achievements of LEE and BEAUREGARD in
eulogies full of affection and sympathy. All
| the base and deadly elements of treason, COW
| ardice, selfishness and corruption that tester
| and rankle in s'high-viced cities, "strike hands
at the commercial metropolis of the nation,
to embarfass 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
eehoing back the joy of the rebel organs at
Richmond, in its increased malignaney 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 afnal and finishing
stroke. EEL
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 enveloping the
rebel capital. Whatever the Northern allies
of treason do to sustain and strengthen the
enemies of the country must individually be
4 performed without delay or it will be too
late. Their friends are in desperate straits.
What aid acknowledgements there is for them
must be extended now; il will be of no avail
Il pOStpOucu.
eaz Obviously this is understood 10y those most
| Immediately concerned Hence the cIamor and
demonstrativeness of Northern Copperhead-
ism, benumbed and paralyzed for astime by
the blighting frosts of last November, but
\ aroused to activity once more by the mortal
peril of its friends let not any one be
appalled, by 'sthe importunatea chink"lof hos
tile utterance and encouragement kept up by
I, these fire-in the-rear men. They are not now
more numerous than they were last y 'ar,
when with such overwhelming manimity,
both they hand their ,cowardly' and wicked
purposes, were repudiated and condemned at
the ballot-box.0L They are active and noisy
but not formidable in numbers, nor of infu-
ence with the mass of the people. 81
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Death Of 1t. Col. John A. Savage.
A private dispatch received by Adjutant
NGeneral GAYLORD, from Washington brings
the painful news of the death in chat city, at
5 O'clock Fast evening, of LII. Coz. JOHN A.
SAVAGE of the 3oth Wisconsin,. He died of
wounds received while bravely leading a
charge upon the rebel works before Peters
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