Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-02-11
From RebeldoTn.

| slaves Into the army. During the deOAt
T, JEFF. Davis was severely denounced by mem
bers
Ir. Turner, Of North Carolina, said b,
looked upon the bill as a project TO arm tn
| slaves. The President had declared 10 favor
of it. When he gets them In the army Al
teamsters and cooks, be can make them drill
or perform any other duty. He would bC
willing to surrender the slaves for independ
ence. The only objection he had to making
soldiers Of slaves, was that they would moi
fight on our side. They would prove the en-
emy's best allies in accomplishing our over
throw and devastation. Mr.. Turner said the
country had been too long and too often deIu
ded aud deceived by the Presidents plans
projects and prophecies. No one of his pro-
phecies has been fulfilled; no one of his
projects or plans had proved successful, yet
the President proposes new and dangerous
schemes with undated confidence in his own
judgment. When Susanna, Corporal Trim and
the servants sat down by the kitchen fire for
lark, Corporal Trim said he had been so
often deceived in his own judgment that he
now had doubts of its accuracy. even when
he knew he was right The President had
been much oftener deceived in his judgment
than the Corporal, and it is time he had
learned some mistrust of his Judgment. He
must not look tor an unlimited support either
from congress or the country, when he pro-
poses the wild, mad scheme of arming slaves.
The country was beginning to learn that all
the AbolitiOnists were not in the North, and
our own President had proposed abolition in
"a way that created surprise as to his sound
ness. Mr.. Turner said it was time that Con
gress should express their opinion upon arm
ing slaves, and stamp upon it the indelible
ar afna of ahh
Mr.. Leach, of n. c., said he was unalter-
ably opposed to such measure. He believed
that the day on which such a policy was
adopted would sound the death knell of our
cause. 1t would make a St. Domingo of our
land.
Others from South Carolina and elsewhere
expressed similar views. The question was
not disposed Of
The rebel papers say Gen. Kirby Smith,
commanding the rebel trans Mississippi De-
partment, has repeatedly refused to comply
with orders from Richmond directing him TO
transfer his troops on the east side of the
Mississippi river.
The opponents of JEFF. Davis among his
own people grow bitteFer daily, in their de-
nunciation of him, and it is admitted that his
humiliation was the design of the Congress
sional action to place Lee at the head of the
armies of the Confederacy.
The Raleigh Confederate of January 2Sth
says:
eve had the pleasure of a conversation,
few days since, with very intelligent gen.
tleman just arrived from Richmond, where
he had opportunities for ascertainiDg with
trustworthy accuracy the condition of aft iirs.
First, we are pleased to learn that Vice Presi-
dent Stephens is open and unqualified in his
denunciatiOn of reconstruction. He ex-
presses the most unbOunded confidence in
our success, and is determined very soon to
visit Georgia and address the people, to urge
them still further to resist the invaders.
Vice President Stephens, by his present
earnestness in the cause, is attracting the
confidence of his associates, and his room is
thronged with the eminent men of the nation.
1t is not too late for Mr.. Stephens to do much
good. He can at least do a great deal to
remedy the mischief which his unfortunate
views have contributed to work.
"0ur informant had an interview with the
President. Among other things he said !;
With deep feelings left his presence, after
a most kind, courteous and agreeable recep-
ton, deeply impressed with the conviction
that he is a whole-sOuled, earnest, devoted,
unselfish patriot, whose whole life and heart
gentleman, after an association among the
very leaders in Richmond, is satisfied that i'm
portant events are about to transpire, of the
most encouraging character, that Lincoln's
government and people know that our subu-
CATION is impossible, but says he and they are
labOring, with might and main, to throw their
whole strength upon US in the next few weeks
Against this end preparations are being
made"
Late Richmond papers are filed with con-
tinued growls at the suicidal policy of Davis,
who constantly endangers the rebel cause by
his blunders. Fear is entertained that he
will nullify the law making Lee commander
in-chief, and make him only a chief clerk
Breckenridge has been installed Secretary
of War;
The bill to employ slaves in the rebel army
is likely to become law.
In connection with their announcement of
the departure of peace agents for the North,
some of the journals of Richmond give ru-
NOR that bearers of dispatches from the
English and French Governments had arriv-
ed in that city, but add that they could trace
it to no reliable source.
The Dispatch has a report that the French
Minister at Washington has demanded his
passports.
A Petersburg despatch in the Richmond
papers says there was heavy firing between
the Union and rebel armies on last Sunday
forenoon.
The report that Gen. Breckenridge has been
appointed rebel Secretary OF War is con-
firmed.
The bill for the employment of negroes in
their armies passed the rebel House on Sat
urday.
Il was said that Lees nomination as Gen.
eral-in-Chief would be sent into the rebel
Senate by jeff Davis on last Monday, but the
latter had yet made no movement towards
the reinstatement of Joe Johnston. Moseby,
his admirers say, is to be in the saddle again
in few days.
The Tribune has leading article on re-