Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-08-25

yield; assume bold front and summon all
your energies murder and MAIN as many
Union soldiers as possible; hold out till af-
ter November" What intelligent man does
not know that the sole hope of rebellion lies
IN the defeat Of Mr. LINCOLN and the election
OF Democratic President, ready to purchase
peace at the price of national integrity and
honor Their men are all in the field and are
insufficient, They have ceased TO look for
foreign Intervention. Their sole hope now
lies in aid from the North in divisions and
chickering's in the loyal States, and the tri-
unpif OF the peace faction. They know that
with anything like unity in the North, they
cannot succeed. But for the expectation of
AID from the copperhead faction, they would
ere now have given over the hopeless con-
hict. But for this thousands of lives upon
either side would have been spared, and
thousands Of families saved from the sorrow
that has overv helmed them. Upon the can't
ing, false, hvpocritical and clamorous peace
faction Of the North then-upon the vile par
tlzan leaders who are ready to sacrifice the
country on the unhallowed altar of their self
lsh ambition-rests the bloody stain of this
great guilt. They are the widow makers.
riley are the orphan-makers. 1t is their
hands that are ensanguined. 1t is they who,
| crying peace when there is no peace, protract
the war, and its sufferings and sorrows.
|
OUTRAGEs BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT
The Turkish authorities at Constantinople ar
rested, On the 18th ult., all the converts to
| Christianity, and threw them into prison, and
Oh the Goth the establishments of the Ameri-
| can Board, the American Bible Society, the
| British Bible Society, and all the English
Missionary Societies were seized by an armed
force, the occupants elected, and the build
ings locked up. This summary proceeding
was i'll violation of all the rights of foreign
residents, who are made by special treaties
| responsible directly to their own embassies or
consulates. 1t is thought that both England
and America will be compelled to call Turkey
to an account for this outrage, Our Charge
d'Affaires, Hon. JOHN 7. Brown, is said to
have acted with dignity and energy in this
affair, while the British ambassador, Sir
HENRY BULwER, did nothing, and is cordially
| detested there. The pretext for this high
| handed measure is said to be the circulation
| through the empire by the Christian estah-
| lishments of books against the Mohammedan
| religion.
l
THE New York Ha'ald is dirty and nfa-
| nous sheet, but possesses tact and shrewd-
ness. 1t wants General MCCLELLAN elected
President, but it has sense enough to under
stand that his prospects cannot be promoted
by assailing General GRANT. The Copperhead
World having proclaimed GRANT the last and
worst Of military failures, the Herald says:
"Gcn. Grants achievements are great and
tangible. His victories are counted by the
half dozen, and when the people run over in
their minds the lists of our great battles they
name six of the victories Of this illustrious
soldier where they name one achieved by any
other Gen. Grant is the man who has plant
ed the Stars and Stripes on all that part Of
the rebel territory that we now occupy, x =
Those politicians cut their own threats who
/ try to ignore, underrate or sheer down mar
who has fought more battles and won more
victories than any other general in the army
and who has won his way from colonelcy Of
militia to the Lieutenant Generalship of the
United States"