Year: 1863

Give us the open foeman-let him be
as ferocious and greedy as you will,


Let our enemy appear as an extcrmi


mating Yankee host, we pray, and not
as Democratic Convention. Let him


take any shape but that Already


We have visions of the men of feeble
knee, tender feet, and undulating spines


losing their sense and manhood by the
contract, as they did, also ! so often


before. -" 4, 1t....a .a g.


IFrom the Mobile Register.


We thank God from the depths of
our hearts that the authoritiesat Wash
ington snubbed Vice President Ste
phens in his late attempt to confer with
them on international affairs without
form or ceremony. 1t has long been
known here that this gentleman n
thought. if he could get US to whisper
into the ears of some men about Wash
ington, the result might be terms Of
peace on some sort of union or recon
struction. He seemed to forget that
Douglas, with whom he used to serve,
is dead; and Notwithstanding his man.
tie has fallen, by dividing it into four
pieces, upon Richardson and Voorhees,,
Vallandigham and Pugh, still the Dem
ocratie party is not in power now, and
we may thank God for it. The pros
pect looked gloomy to the Vice Presi-
dent. whose infrmity Of body no doubt
casts a shadow over his spirits, and he
SAID that one of two things must be
done--.either some terms must be made
or the whole militia Of the confederacy
must be called out and an immediate
alliance proposed with foreign powers.
President Davis gave him full powers
to treat on honorable terms, and start
ed him off to the kingdom of Abraham.
But Father Abraham told him there
was an impossible gulf between them,
and the Vice President had to steam
back to Richmond little top-fallen.


We hope this will put a stop forever
to some croakers about here who init
mate that there are people enough
friendly to the South in the North to
restore the Union as it was. And we
also hope that the government at Rich
mond will not humiliate itselfany more,
but from this time will look only to the
one end of final and substantial indie
pendcnce. The North is not less set
in purpose Of final separation than
We are. The Republican party are
not fighting to restore this Tnion any
moro than the old Romans fought to
establish the independence of the coun.
tries they invaded. The Republicans
are fighting for conquest and dominion
We for liberty and independence. Va


There is emily one party in the North
who want this Unien restored, but they
have no more power-legislativc, exec
utive, or judlcial-than the paper we.
write on. 1t is true they make show
of union and strength, but they have
no voice Of authority. We know that
the Vallandigham school wants the
Union restored, for be told US SO when
he was here in exile, partaking of such
as was extended to a real
enemy to our struggle for separation,
banished to our soil by another enemy
who is practically more our friend than
he. And if Vallandigham should, by
accident or other cause, become Cover
nor of Ohio, We hope Lincoln will keep
his nerves to the proper tension, and
not allow him to enter the confines of
the state. His administration would
do more to restore the old Union than
my other power in Ohio could do, and
therefore we pray he may be defeated.


Should strong Union party spring
up in Ohio, the third state in tho North
in political Importance, it might find a
faint response in some of the Southern
States and give US trouble. But as
long as the Republicans hold power
they will think of conquest and domin-
ion only, and we, on the other hand,
will some up in solid column for free
dom and independence. which wa will