The Western Democrat

A correspondent of the New York World, who professes to have travelled through Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina, to Richmond, publishes an account of his trip, in which he says:

"At Atlanta, Augusta, Columbia, Knoxville and Weldon, our (Yankee) prisoners were greeted with substantial evidences of friendly feelings. The solid, sober men of the South are anxiously asking what terms we can offer and what is to be their fate. The impression is gaining ground in the Confederacy that we can outlast them and overrun their country."

The "solid, sober men" spoken of by this correspondent are only a few miserable tories who live in the South, and who are doing all they can to divide and distract our own people and make the enemy believe that our subjugation is possible. They may escape punishment now, but a day of retribution will surely come upon them; and, in view of their fate when the war is over, they earnestly desire the North to triumph in order that they may escape the ignominy and disgrace which their conduct merits. The independence of the South will certainly be achieved; then what will become of the traitors and Yankee sympathizers?

The real solid, sober, true men of the South, soldiers and all, are unwilling to see the war stopped until Lincoln's thieves and murderers are withdrawn from southern soil or driven off. They know that it is not in the power of the Confederate authorities to make peace until the Lincolnites cease making war upon us. We all want peace, but we can never get peace until the enemy stops and abandons his subjugating schemes. Any man who desires our Government to stop or suspend for a limited time preparations for defence, while a barbarous enemy is prosecuting the war upon us with all his might, is a traitor at heart if not in act.