Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-11-03
From the 7ad Regiment.

ATHENS, Alabama. Oct II. 1854
'MR EpiroE:-,BeinGi IDLE sgain to day
bought thatI could lest pass away short
time by writing a few lines. not that have
anvrews of interest To comn,unica'e but
because it is the. lest employ that |
raa find at which>tO while away the time
andI hope tina; you will indulge, me to
whatever extent your patience viii allow.
AS regards news all il quiet at thepresent.
Forest. Wheeler. Roddy and Johnson who
COMMANDED the late rebel raid have all es-
cared with their Gonzales to the sonth
side of the ienuesse. exceptwhat they lost
by ,le>eriion AMI capture during the rail.
Generals Morgan. Rl,seau and Stealman
have all passed here in the last few DAYS
with their divisions. en-route for Chatta-
noosa anl other points that are. Threatened
hy the movements of Gen. Hood & Co.
and Judge from the spilit anil appearance
of these troops that they viii make their
mark whichever they strike At present
we hear . great many reports in regard TO
! Hoods la:c movements. but how much OF
it is true we are unableto tell We have
had no late papers Tor several weeks. In
consequence OF the railroad being torn up
mail matters have become t!eranges, to >uch
an extent that sometimes it gets through
and sometimes it don't. What we do get
comes via Huntsville, Stephenson. and
Decatur Your rea'lers will see by look.
ing at the map that this place AthenS) is
about l.. miles from Decatur and l07 from
Nashville. and directly on the railroad
from Nashville to Decatur via franklin
and Pulaski. AID is also the county seat OF
Limestone Co, Alabama. one of the
Northern counties of the State 1t is also
| lac place OF residence of Congressman
Houston. who represented this district in
| the l.. 5. Congress for several years before
the secession o. the State When we first
came here we tnund him with quite a lot
| OF bacon on hand and our .Qnartermaste
concluded IT wonld he very good place
TO draw rstions. AMI consequently he re-
lieved Nr. Houston of abont 800 pounds
of IT. Igsis made him very wrathy and he
immediately came to Lieut.. Col. Wade for
re.lress, i,st adj the satisfaction he GIT was
that lie ha!n't 1aSht TO have been So lucky
a. to- haze hal meat,
We have no, been able to learn anything
yet definitely in resard. to the election,
| though all the reports We have received are
favorable and all eesscar in the opinion
/ that the Union ticket l. carried by band
some aiority. OF coe.rse we could not
} beheveIr oti,efsi-e a. ling as we had any
conf lence in the sound Judgement and
patriotism OF the people OF Indiana. Not
withstandlpg the manifest Willingness OF
the Coppcrhead party to make di>graceful
surrender to rebels we yet hsec confidence
that sjority a, the people all stand by
! the old flag a long a. there h a stripe OF it
/ left. As this Is the Snrest, shortest AMI most
effective way to obtain lasting peace.
can see no other source from whjch it can
come. 1t is but idle nonsense TO talk Of
draining peace through ;negs,ia,ion. and
even the advocates of this doctrine them
selves know that it is an imqossihility y
Suppose for a moment that little Mae "a
they call him should he elected, and as
they propose to exhaust. every means OF
negoriation known TO Christianity and bu-
man wisdom. what are your terms yon
haze gat to bier 10 Jeff anil Go I? Are on
going to propose to him that he Law down
his arms-and returE-again to the Union?
IL you do he will sing you the same tune
that you have been singing now for some
time, for Jeff has learned il from Won 5s
this time, that four years of war having
failed to restore the Union, that Lnfiett,
and bavonets having failed to bring him to
/: terms" ,lo Won imagine after acknowledg
ing the failure of these that he will listen
to yonr idle talk OF neg citation? VIII he
not FELL y on dae he is -goingto have inde.
pendence or extermnation? Now. in q
dialema like this. what will You do? You
will either have to submit to Jen-s terms
or COMPEL him TO submit to yours II
the latter. it must be done by other mean,
than by negotiation. forshe teiTs you that
no one need approach him with any other
terms than unconditional separation and
independence, which means a concession on
our part Of all they have ever demanded oil
US; An ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that our govern
ment is failure, and tiat you are incapa.
bic of qnelling the rebellion. Are you
prepared for this? But says little Mac
aud the Chicago Platform. we are going
ITO exhaust every means in our, power to
negotiate peace satisfactory to- jeff IL Co
BY recnding the Emancipation 'ProcIsma-
zion, or bv some other meaps we can't just
exactly tell what Just at me presebs z jBd'
lagain jeff meets you here and tells you
,,,o, balf of she slaves of i.:e south have
hscn 'l;beratedsby the war and that Cor ali
- ~ his friends care that the other hal