The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07


the nation by acts of confiscation and the
hangman's moose
The subject Of peace is also pointedly
discussed in an article in the National In.
teligencer, of which the following is a
sample:
Let no man dare to say that the palliative
and restorative treatment Is not within the
power OF the government at least until such
remedies shall have been patiently and persist.
emily tried and proven to be failures. At any
rate our cause cannot be weakened, but. both
at home and In the view of the civilized world
it must be strengthened by intimate attempts
of this nature, and at this time, on the part of
the administration.
The English Press on the Capture of
Wilmington and General Sherman,s
March.
The English journals received by the
Australasian contain long disquisitions
upon the probable effects of the fall of
Wilmington. The papers which are in
sympathy with the rebels reflect tie dis
may of the blockade-running interest in
England, and acknowledge the full import
ance of the event. "The capture of VII.
mington," says the Times, "is not only
important in ITSELF as putting an end to the
foreign supplies on which the Confederacy
relied, but it is likely to be attended with
considerable advantage to the Federals.."
SHERMAN is then praised unstintedly as ga
successful commander" and the Times
proceeds thus: 8S
His movements are for the time envel-
oped in secrecy, as the Richmond papers
are forbidden to publish anything relative
to the two armies but it can scarcely be
doubted that he was meditating a march
into North Carolina, in order to cut Gen.
Lees communications with the South, if he
did not indeed purpose to cross the State
entirely, and join Gen. Grant in a final
attack on the Confederate capital. This
distance would not be greater than he has
marched already through the enemys
country since he made his first movement
towards Atlanta. The chances of the
North Oarolinians being able to resist him
successfully are but small. It becomes
more evident with each succeeding ope-
ration that the Oonfederates, though
still energetic in their resistance, are
exhausted Of the first necessary of war
"a supply of men. The main army of
Gen. Lee, though terribly outnumbered,
has been hitherto maintained in discipline
and courage by the genius of its comman-
der. The men have been among the best
of their respective States, who eagerly
sought the opportunity of fighting under
popular chief in defence of the principal
city Of the Confederacy. The repeated
victories which they have gained over the
invading armies of the North, have given
them confidence which even in this hour
of general depression may enable them to
gain further advantages. But the spirit
which animates them, the discipline which
strengthens them, the genius which guides
them, are not to be found in the other ar
mics OF the South. The Georgians and
Oarolinians are, in comparison with the
veterans Of Lee, mere militia; they
have never received the care which has
been bestowed on the army which defends
richmond, and they are probably very
deficient in supplies. Everything indicates
tnaS denerai Beauregard, or whoever is in
command of the Confederate army in
South Carolina, will be unable to offer a
successful resistance to the march of Gen.
Sherman.
r The London Herald, which is simply
malignant without ability to take broad
view OF affairs, walls grievously. But it
confesses something:
There has been enough to humiliate the
proud and dishearten the weak and selfish.
Since Grant established himself in front
of Richmond the tide of war has set
strongly against the Confederacy. The
South has not won pitched battle; and,
though the besiegers of Richmond have
sustained several severe repulses, these
have been more than counterbalanced
by the achievements of Sherman. Of her
principal cities the South retains none but I
Galveston, Mobile and Richmond. One
of these is in imminent peril Richmond
requires the exertioDs Of the principal
army of the Confederacy for its defence.
and Galveston is too far removed from
the field of warlike operations to be of
much use to the country. The evacuation
of Charleston is bitter sorrow: for the
pride and affection of the South conferred
there even more than in Richmond.
"Recent events seem to prove
that the Oonfederacy can raise no fresh |