Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-09

tetroNOn ana the Nhode OF NAeettne Ihons |
This editorial, taken from the Nashville |
(Tenn.) Patriot, is the first we have seen |
from Secession source that seems TO look |
the future fairly in the face;
So far the South has not desired to invade |
the North. What may be deemed expedent |
hereafter In this particular, time aud cir |
eumstances will determine. For the present |
II is of the first importance that the South |
should ascertain ss near as may be the plans |
and purposes of the North, and prepare to |
meet them. Upon this point we have looked |
with care 10 every development calculated |
to throw any light upon it, and have ar
rived at the following conclusion in respect |
TO the plans now in progress for the summer
and fall campaigns in the work Of subju-
eating the South. 1t is needless to say that
General Scott, the ablest military COM
mander in America, is at the head of these
military operations. To carry them forward
the Administration has already placed at his
disposal one hundred and sixty thousand
men, for land service, and has increased the
naval service in men to about twenty-eight
thousand, and in ships TO three or four times
the number heretofore employed, including
a vast number of transports for war pur-
poses. If it should be deemed necessary
between this and the meeting of Congress to
further increase the imposing magnitude of
these forces in either branch of the war SER
vice, it will be promptly done, and when
Congress assemblies it will provide for all
future contingencies by voting the neces
sary appropriations, and giving the Presi-
dent carte blanche 10 raise men TO an inde6
mite number.
OF the present ultimate object of the Ad.
ministrat,on, which is backed by the North
| with singular popular unanimity, we i'm
| agine there can be no question at this hour.
| Unquestionably it is to re- establish the
| Union, by forcing all the States which have
! questioned its authority into unconditional
| obedience, at the mouth of the cannon and
at the point of the bayonet. To accomplish
this result the policy will be to make the
| Federal capital unassailsble. This they look
upon as already accomplished. They will, for
this purpose, keep from ten thousand to
forty thousand troops stationed in Washing
ton, according TO circumstances. Next is
the reduction of Maryland to subsection by
military possession. This they have already
partially accomplished, and will endeavor to
complete by taking possession of or demol-
ishiDg Baltimore, silencing, banishing, or
hanging the friends of the South in this
State, and thus freeing themselves of all ap-
prehension in that quarter. ....., ,..-
HayiEg reduced Maryland to slavery, they
will then direct their power toward Vir-
ginis. They will take possession of the Po-
tomac River, repossess the Navy. yard at
Norfolk and the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry,
and gradually approach Richmond. AT
Wheeling, or some point commanding &C
cess to Western Virginia, they will estab.
lish system of operations by which they
will endeavor to separate the State-more
by holding out inducements than by military
force. 80 t8ls
simultaneously with these movements we
shall witness the concentration of large
force at Cairo, made up of men from States
West of Ohio. An endeavor will be made to
bring st. Louis under the thumb of the
Federal power, by whatever means may bt
necessary to that end, and thus hold tht
State OF Missouri in check, or bring hel
into complete subsection to the will of thu
Administration. These operations will like
! wise be directed against Kentucky, anC
through them she will be forced from he
present assumed position of neutrality, an(
! compelled to take sides either with tnt
North or the South; or, possibly, TO allow
the troops of the North to pass through o.
quarter within her borders. Whether theJ
will extend their demonstrations down thu
Mississippi River, toward Memphis, or moi
: will, of course, depend on circumstance:
At all events, vigilant lookout will b
directed toward Arkansas and the Westerl
Territories; with Cairo as a base, or som
new one established in Kansas or elsewher
in that region.
In the meantime the blockades of all tn
} Atlantic and Gulf coast of the South will b
+ prosecuted with the utmost vigor. For
! Pickens and. the Tortugas viii be held a
t radiating points for naval operations ant
} will mainly support the blockade of Mobile
: New Orleans and the Texas coast to the Ri
, Grande. From these points a force wi
/. | likely be precipitated upon Texas, or upo
} its Western frontier, which by the assistanc
. Of the Indians if practicable, will great
. barras that region. If successful it is pos
: sible, if not probable that an effort will b
. made to raise the siege of Pickins by an at
: tack on the besiegers, and to drive them in
+ land, open Florida TO invasion, thus leadin
]. the way TO Montgomery, backed by yigorou
; demonstrations against Mobile, New Orlean
!, Galveston, and the important station {
b Matagorea Bay. ld a.7aW 70 Tll
8 However visionary these schemes ma
J. appear, we are satisfied that each and all I
d them have entered into the calculations
; those who have control Of the operation
q against the South. If they are not all ca
s ried cut, their defeat viii be the result sin
ply Of powerful and prompt counter NOV
J. ments on the part of the South. 0 If they a.
Ir successful the final result is plainly Visibl
% With triumphant armies marching from tl
70 several strategetical points on our NortheI
y frontier, with the whole entire slaveholdiu
y States paralyzed into non resistance or vel
Y, feeble resistance; and armies ipenetratir
IS from the Southern coast, leaving desolatic
n- in their wake, they will lunquestionably owe
es whelm the whole South during the comil
b. Summer and FALL The diseases incident
the extreme South will of course deter II
s. immediate prosecution of that importal
al branch of the plan, but its postponeme
will be no evidence of its abandonment, g
pecially whea the intervening SUNNI
A months between this and the ffosts of Oct
na ber or November, will be required TO get I
10 means in readinesa for its accomplishmeI
and SO much work is to be done on :
We Northern line. They will make as she
u work of it as possible. They will very so'
e. experience the embarrassment to eve
er branch of industry and trade throughout
ut North which the war will superinduce, q
all perceive the hazards OF ITS continuance.
as Their policy will, therefore, be TO bring
. to q speedy close. And we repeat that tn
to success depends altogether on the actiyi
is. energy, skill and wisdom with which th
ad are met by the South--not by a part OF
ng South, but BY the whole South united a
al If we correct in these impressions, brie
to and perhaps obscurely sketched, of the plt
its and purposes of our enemies, the necess
nd | for the most energetic and prompt measu
is palpable. We have no time to lose,
,of speculative experiment to make, but are
les auired TO make the most Immediate .
,es, thorough preparations for the contest VIII
tc., isineYitable and promises TO be OF the m
be. bloody and desolsting character, WI
ler. we respectfully call upon the servants OF
the people to give an attentive heed TO these
lts. signs of the North, we also appeal TO
40 people, whose liberties are threatened
len rally TO their own and the defense Of Il
on. country ~, -. -. - = 81. /.
n HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN VIRssIA--A s