The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-26
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THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 20, 1851.
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TIKI Nav PRoeRAMaE FOR WRsfEnS
VtsaiNfA.--lt il clear that til. forward move
ment' of General LEE ffom the direction OF
Huntersvilie and Monterey has been blocked
nv the judieious Notifications of the enemy,
and by the superior numbers OF his strongly
posted forces. 1t is plain that some other line
of march mus. be adopted, or else the enemy
mnst be expected 10 make Ills winter quarters
in Western Virginia II is certain that, If
promp, and effective measures be not taken
Tor penetrating that country by some line of
march leading 10 the rear of REYNOLDS, we
,nuss expect one-third of Virginia to remain
nnder the jurisdiction of PIaRPoNT and CAR.
LIE, for season Every days delay to re-
conquer Western Virginia adds to the strength
ofthe enemy. by converting true men among its
population over 10 the side Of the North To
allow the enemy 10 winter i'll Western Nir-
y,ija is to allow him TO fortify himself in its
etronsholds SO securely as to cndanger the per
,aanent loss Of the country.
With view 10 pernSnent separation. it
worid never do 10 allow tho Northern Con.
federaey TO own the Western slope OF the Al
leghanies. To conoede that slope 10 the Yam
KEGS for the PRACTICE OF their negro stealing
habits. would be equivalent to aboishing
slavery in Virginia altogether. The ridge OF
The Allegheny chain Of mountains might be
natural line OF boundary for the two Confede-
sacies, but it would DO anything else than a
line OF defence for the Southern States
Rome WAS never secure from the invasions of
tee Gsuis and the Cloths until her Generals
had carried the war beyond tho Alps aud
planted the eagles OF the Empire upon the
khine and the Danube. Rome was not So.
cure until sho, held tee Rhine and Danube
mountain frontier j. a nursery of assault
and invasion
With view TO the ultimate possession of
Western Virginia, the present campaign in
that quarter possesses immense interest To the
whole South it is important portion of
the South as Kentucky itself We shall be
able 70 hold Kentucky with difficulty, if the
enemy should hold Western Wig mia just as
We should be able TO hold Western Virgins,
with difficulty without Kentucky. In view Of
the promising operations just now going ON in
Kentucky, the campaign III Western Virginia
becomes doably important, and is doubtless
eniistiug the especial attention Of the Confede-
rate authorities.
/: wouil seem from the late adyices reach
ing Is from thai direction, that Gen, LEE,
Ealing IL ais forward movement I;pon Cheat
moun,ain, Was turning his attention to the
operations III GrGonoiier county, aud that,
with ~ escort Of .Wsnty five men, ne had
gone over to the camp OF Gen. Floyd, beyond
i-ewisbuIg at Meadow Bluff, to look after
operations in that field. He is to be followe
By several thousand of bis troops from Hun.
teysville. The Government has also dis
patched all the regiments available at
Lvnchbnrg 10 tie reinforcement of General
FLoID; insouuch, that if fight does not
come of with RosEScRsSz in the meantime,
We shall have on that line of OPERATIONS by
the end of this week, nearly twelve thousand
men, counting TIE sick and the well, exclusive
Of General LEES army from Huntersyilles
These circumstances show very plainly
that the Government las resolved upon a new
programme for Western Virginia, which con
templates a forward movement, with strong
force, from the direction OF Lewisburg upon
Clarksburg, Parkersbury, and Charleston, i'll
Mana VIA.
Provided competent force be put at The
command of our Generals on that line, much
may be expected from this new programme.
We should expect much quicker work from il,
however and much more certain success, il,
the column numbered thirty thousand men,
instead Of fifteen or twenty and we shall re-
"eiye adyicas of further renforcemen;s being
forwarded with much satisfaction.
The only fear 10 be unprecedented for the
suecess of operations beyond Lewisburg,- Is
from the TOO great circumspection OF General
LEE. In mountain warfare the learning CT
the hooks and of The srate;gists is of little use
In country where it is impossible TO find
enough level land TO muster a company of mi
litia, there ia very little scope for ingeniously
studied military evolutions consummately
arranged plans of campaign on paper. IL Is
impossible for the books to embrace the thou
sand thousand Typographical features of wild
region, where all Nature seems drunk and the
hills and mountains in high frolic. The only
rule Of warfare in such region is 10 throw
away al rule. The policy there is to fight and
march, 10 march and fight Mathematics is lit
only for waddins Ingenious ink and paper
plane Of campaign are about as useless in the
region about the Big Sewell as MCCORMICK S
reaper in mountain wheat field Tech
meal geueralship in a mountain campaign Is
much out Of place as the Great Eastern
steamer would DO on the Gauley river The
grea, requisites of an army fit for mountain
warfare ara good legs and a plenty Of amnu-
nition Tie best General for such an army il
he who viii keep them most actively on the
march and most constantly loadina; and firing
Physical exertion is the great thing in noun
tain warfare; tho refined strategy of science
can have no play. While General LEE was
weaving ingenious webs of strategy about
Cheat Mountain, RosEHcRAN2 was Logging il
down 10 the Gauley. Leg. aud powder anC
ball do much better IN the mountains than even
the Fcieroe Of VAUBAN or LIB
TarR CoURA6E.--An old number Of ths
New York Times, July Sth. which has acc
'entally fallen into our hands, contains soalt
very rsfreshing reading. One ot the articles
IL devoted 20 the "invincible Con.ater.cy. -
The ''little villain" sneerngly speal,sot these
terrible sons efthunder retreating everywhere
before their long &espised and viilifed enc
mics, aud crying pitifully before the worlC
tina. ali they want is 'peace'-au they want i.
To be let alone.
For the man that made such t.aie anon