Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-09-28

From the Philadelphia Pres,
The Northern wing of the rebcl army,
which did not surrender to General Grant at
the downfall Of Richmond, because, while
greatly assisting in the campaign against
the Republic, it never ventured upon the
experiment of manly warfare, has formally
taken the field, and from Maine to Maryland
has commenced offensive operations. The
Southern forces under Lee and Beauregard,
beaten and broken in fair and open conflict,
are everywhere accepting their fate, and
some of their distinguished leaders freely
admit that the failure of the rebellion was
the most fortunate thing that could have
happened to the Southern people. But not
30 with their safer, if not their braver asso-
ciates in the Northern States. These men
have resolved to give the people further
taste of civil war, and therefore we find
them not only taking the field as partisans,
but rapidly placing themselves in battle
array. Peace having been conquered at the
South, after an unparalleled expenditure of
precious blood and treasure, the North is
only to be allowed to enjoy the same bless
ing after similar terrible process. And
there is prediction to be fulfilled in this
respect. Just before the rebellion broke out
we had it proclaimed by the leaders of the
not be confined to the slave States, but
would gradually onveop all the Others, and
that the innocent people Of the North and
West would be taught the necessity OF re-
cognizing the Confederacy through the fear
full experience of blood and death at their
own fresides. But the fates have thus far
decided against the realization of this pre-
diction. To confirm it is now the mission
OF the Northern wing of the rebel army, and
the disbanded soldiers of the first rebellion
may calmly enjoy the spectacle of seeing
their recent compatriots trying to intiict
upon the North and the West the horrors
they so successfully inflicted upon the South
| In Pennsylvania the organization seems tc
be very complete. Judge Woodward, who
from his position on the Supreme bench de-
nounced the draft as unconstitutional, and
who from the beginning to the end of the
war INDUCED not one feeling in common
with the Union cause, has been formally and
unanimously nominated by the Copperhead:
of Luzerne county as their candidate fol
Congress, TO fill the vacancy created by the
death of Mr.. Denison, and more fitting
commander chief of the Copperhead
forces could not have been selected. Jere
miah S. Black in York, Hiester Clymer il
Berks, William Hopkins in Washington
and William Bigler in Clearfeld may h'
called the efficient aids of General Wood
ward, while the guiding mind of al! thei
operations is the placid and quiet ex-Presi
dent in the shades of Wheatland. In Ohit
Vallandigham has, by common consent, beer
placed in command. In New Jersey Andrew
J. Rogers in New York Fernando Woo
and Horatio Seymour, in Connecticut Isaa
Toucey, in Indiana d. w. Voorhees,, in Wis
consn Brick Pomeroy, in California eX-Gov
ernor Weller and Thomas j. Henley, in Ken
lucky Bramlctte and Preston, in Marylant
Pratt and Swami, and in Delaware BayarC
and Salisbury, have all reappeared at til
head of their special detachments, and ar
eagerly contributing to the main object q
consummating another rebellion. The Ian
guage of these men surpasses in violence tina
of the original traitors themselves Neithe
) Jefferson Davis, Wigfnll, Toomhs, Barksdal,
nor Keitt INDUCED in ticrcer threats or en-
barked in fiercer crusade against the Gov
ernment of their fathers. And the object c
the new rebellion is precisely like that {
the old, namely, to place the Government i
> the control of the traitors, and, under til
veil of opposition to negro suffrage, to han
over to the minority of the old Shareholder
, the destinies they sought to destroy. Tn
concurrence of these signs. the congregatio
!, Of these desperate and designing politicians
their eXulting and bold determination t
restore the order of rule and ruin, arreste
and as it was supposed destroyed by til
Union armies, are full of admonitions to til
earnest men of the Republic. We almo'
feel like accepting our recent political reve
! ses as so many blessings in disguise, becaus
they have forced our opponents to expos
their hands and to declare their dangerou
policy. The effect is already visible through
out the Republican ranks. The speeches {
r our orators, the tone of our newspapers, til
f voice of the people in public meetings, al
the cheering assurances tina: the new tes
8 and trials upon which we are soon to ent(
c will find us more firmly united and MOI
I fully resolved upon victory than ever befor