Bedford Inquirer

A writer in the Macon (Ga.,) Telegraph exposes not wisely, but altogether truthfully the hopes which the South founds upon this Convention.

"All is not lost," he tells his countrymen. "We submitted our cause to the arbitration of the sword, and when the voice of the sword went against us we lost all," is a false one. Beaten by the sword, they must now resort to other means for securing victory; "the bugle now sounds the rallying cry, and we must give back the swelling echo-on to Philadelphia. If we failed to take it before, let us take it now." He next assures them that they will be heavily reinforced from the North on their attack on the city …While we assail it on the South side, a mighty host of our friends is marching upon the city from the North. Philadelphia will be ours: the battle to be fought there is the first and most important of the war. When we win the victory we have but to strike the blow and other victories will surely follow, until Washington, too, shall fall into our hands."

He then appeals to the "writers of the South and the orators of the sunny land" to "fire the hearts of the faithful to fight and wrest the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels. All is not lost. We never did submit our cause to the decision of the sword, nor will we ever do so."