The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-11-02

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protests against the project Of arnine the
slaves in defence Of the Rebel Confcderacy,
wpich finds advocates in the Richmond
EnqUirir and elsewhere in tho South.
Waving all othor objections for the pres
ent." the Courier says:
"We protest against any unusual or des-
perato expedient which would or could
justify or excuse the belief that we are IN
extromities. We have mon enough; we
noed only to put them in their right places,
Japhet aud Shem cal and will maintain
their birthrights."
The birthright of Shem and Japhet ia
according to the Courier TO do the fight
ing, while llau raises the corn and pork
with which the fighters are fed. Il is a
division of labor which has been very prof
table to tho rebels hitherto, aud Which
they would not disturb were they not in
the most terrible straits. The mere dis.
cussion of this matter shows to what ex-
tremes jeff. Davis aud his counsolIors and
Confederates are reduced. For tho promo.
siton TO arm tho slaves is in a reality a
proposal TO break up the force which has
hitherto been used to feed the rebel armies.
and transfer il from the fields TO the camps.
II is project which can only servo I
| prolong the war over the present winter;
to carry on the struggle few months lon
ger in the hope that in these few months
something may turn up to help the Mic
awbcrs at Richmond out Of their embar-
| rassment.
| To call the slaves to arms is 10 abandon
| the fields and to fight with all their might
Ms long as the stock of provisions now on
| hand can be made to last. 1t is to cut Off
all the future in order to save tho present;
it is an expedient which would not be dis
cussod, did not Immediate aud hopeless
failure stare the rebel leaders in the face
Not even jeff, Davis's speech ut Macon is
such u significant admission of defeat as
this.
But how strange and unexpected an
answer it is TO tho declaration of the Chi
cago Convention aud Mcclellan it's candi-
date that the war is a failure: Resolved
that tho war is failure, say tho Chicago
sages we must arm the negroes or perish
say the rebels Tho ono is in fact tho
echo of the other. 1t would seem that
when the Chicago Convention declared tho
war failure they were speaking not for
the people of the FREQ and loyal States, but
for the rebel lealers; when they demanded
a cessation of hoStilities they bargained
not in the interests of the loyal people, or
of the constitution and Union, but in the
interests of def. Davis aud his confeder-
ates, who are ready TO perish if they can
not obtain truce and time to rest, reform
and strengthen thoir wasted armies. when
the Chicago convention demanded nego-
tiations with armed rebels, it was not be-
cause tho Union cause was beaten and in
danger, but because without truce and
negotiations there is no hope for Davis
aud the rebel cause.
The Chicago leaders spoke for the Rich
mond leaders. They did so after consul
tation with George N. Sanders, Holcomb,
Fucker, Thompson and other noted rebels
and now the unwccome revelation comes
to them from Richmond that the situation
Of their friends, is even more precarious
than they had supposed.
Tho people will note these confessions
of failure, which compare so oddly with
the assertions of tho Mcclellan press that
the rebellion can never be put down
that the rebels are too strong for us; that
we shall be ruined unless We Aeseach
Davis to grant us terms.
! The rebels propose TOO arm tho slaves
they do SO in the hope that such an ac.
ceSsion OF force will enable them to accom-
pish the object nearest the heart of Davis
to invade the free States. They can
not defeat Sherman or get rid of Grant
, without large reintorcements, aud they
call for negro troops. What will the op-
position say to this2 Does it look like
preparing to submit to the laws, to return
} to the union2 Docs this last effort of the
rebels show that all they want is chance
: to get back, and acknowledge the suprem-
acy of the constitution, or is il tho sign
of ianatical determination TO destroy the
Union, even If they die in the ruins; and to
fight TO the last moment, like pirates, and
kill as many loyal men as possible, be-
1ri,.
D Bat we call the attention of working
men to the fact that, though every poor
= white man in the South has been forced
into the army, though even boys and white
headed mon have bden dragged into arms,
though now slaves are to be armed, there
n is Still GLASS in the South carefully ex,
, empted from conscription, a class which is
: untouched, which does not suffer from the
; prevailing desOation All who own twep-
ty or more slaves remain at home. They
: are excused from the perils of the field
they-the originators OF the rebellion
Y are carefully preserved. They force the
O the working whites to fight for them
0 "Japhet and Shem" are dragged from thei
wives and children aud made to light for
the right of "every owner of twonty or
more slaves" to live at home at ease.
a Convention Of Wa Democrats under
!, which title all are included who deny
!, that the American Democracy was fairly
= represented at Chicago aud are in favor
a OF the prosecution of the war, is called t
' meet at the Cooper institute, New York
Oh Tues lay November 1t. The call il
= sisucl by Gen. Dix, Hon. r. B. Cutting
Peter Cooper, Alexander Hamilton, Jr A.
: 7. Stewart and Other distinguished New
Workers.; r. w. p. Muse, Thos. B. Magins