Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-05-07

this expedition De increased 70 20, 600 men,
It would exhaust Texas TO oppose 4 and
would ,efectually fence in the ~cottoHocracy,
cutting them of from oil territorial aggran-
dizemenk At the sam time il would give
US in Indianola 3 very valuable naval depot
to assist In dominating the Gulf clearing the
coast of p~rivateerS, and keeping up the block
ade. The importance Of doing this, in order
to command the access TO the Mississippi,
cannot DO estimated. But shall we be able
to maintain 80 5000 men at Pensacola and 90
000in Texas2 Beyond all question. The ealls
made for troops reach one hundred and fifty
eight thousand men, and so great is ths ex-
cess OF applicants that the whole force will
reach two hundred thousand. Fifty thou
sand taken from this would still leave US in
command of one hundred and fifty thousand.
In all probability this Is but the beginning,
as the Secretary of War has called the last
eighty-three thousand men for three aud FIVE
years. Most of the FIRST seventy-fve thou
sand are embodied, equipped and uniformed,
and as soon as those Of the second draft are
thus furnished, there viii probably be q third
still larger demand. The South has never
yet felt the power of the great North, but it
will soon do SO. We shall show the c%onspir-
ators that when once fairly reused we can
4" stamp armies out of the earth" and con-
iure up vast fleets to bear our flag to NC
tory.
At the West a centre of military opera
tious has been established at Cairo, Illinois,
at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, where the commerce of the Western
waters is all at command. Vessels are now
brought to and searched, to prevent the South
from drawing its munitions Of war from the
North. At this point can be concentrated
all the troops from Illinois, Iowa. Kansas,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and q force can be
thus raised sufficiently large TO maintain pos
session OF the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri.
II a naval feet were chartered and kept nav
igating these rivers, the States Of Arkansas
and Missouri would be cut off from the rest
of the slave States and rendered harmless
To help this design a Government force of
four ACKNOWLEDGMENT hundred men
has been raised in st. Louis, and is in pos
session OF the Government property there
This can be increased at will, and so keep
possession of the largest commercial entire
IN the West commanding most of the Mis-
souri, railways and its financial system gener-
ally. By these operations all efforts at re-
prisals and adventurous expeditions from the
eastern slave States through Missouri and
Kansas against the free Territories OF the
West will be prevented. Whether this army
of the Mississippi will descend that stream
and capture Memphis and New Orleans, re-
mains to be seen. But it will be a standing
menace to them, from the perfect ease with
which a capture could be managed.
From present appearances, it seems highly
probable that Western Virginia will be occu-
pied by the troops OF Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New York. These three great States will
have so many men in the field that not more
than halt will be needed by the army of the
Capital. The Ohio troops are being cOncen-
trated along the river, convenient to a march
againsy the strategical points in Western Vir-
ginia, and q camp of Western Pennsylvania
ans is to be formed at Pittsburgh, ready to
unite in a demonstration at the proper mo-
ment. Ohio alone has 10000 men ready for
action, and Pennsylvania is not slow at this
kind of business. A con- ention of Western
Virginia has been called, and the Union men
have asked protection against the Sc ;ession.
lists from the East and it will be afforded
them. They have rs much right to organ
ize Western Virginia into a State as Virginia
has to secede from the Union.
with Missouri, Kentucky and Western Vir-
GINA true to the Union, the scene of active op-
e~rstions will be the seaboard of the Atlantic
and the Gulf which are assailsble by water
at all points without the necessity of march
ing a large army through a thiekly settled
country. But the latter will be constantly
menaced, and if troublesome may be prompt
ly overrun. The concentration of troops
has already had the effect of securing the
SAFETY of the Potomac and of the avenues
leading through Maryland. By the presence
Of a large force al Chambersburg, within
striking distance Of Hsrper's Ferry, the Sc
cessionists there have been frightened so that
they are abandoning the place and transfer
ring the captured machinery 10 Richmond
This camp and the one at York have had the
effect of crushing out secession in Maryland,
and restoring the Union party to its control
of affairs.
The York ~encampment however, is to per-
form a most valuable work. 1t is to move
down and occupy the whole line of the
Northern Central Railway, while a gang of
mechanics will replace the burnt bridges with
iron ones. A connection will be formed be-
tween this road and the one to Washington
at the Relay House, so that Baltimore will
be avoided. Thus from York to Washington
there will be a direct railway, every mile of
which will be guarded. Another route to
avoid Baltimore will be by building a short
railway direct from Annapolis to Washing
ton. In this manner Baltimore will be isola-
ted from North and South, and may repent
and rebuild her roads at her leisure and at her
W cost. The State of Maryland being true
to the Union, and having emphatically re-
buked secession by a vote of her Legislature,
Baltimore becomes isolated and is of little
consequence. We are inclined to think,
however, that it will be occupied by a strong
military garrison, and its people furnished
with a degree of law and order to which they
have been strangers.
A plan for the fortiicalion and defence of
Washington is being drawn, aud it win com
prehend the adjacent country. An immense
army gathered along the right bank of the
Potomac will, at the proper time, be prepar-
ed to dictate terms at Richmond, Raleigh,
Charleston, Savannah, Montgomery, or
whe- ever else rebellion makes head. From
these points it viii be seen that if JEFF. Da-
Wis should be weak enough to concentrates all
his forces for an attack on Washington, the
majority of the South will be overrun and
s~ubiugated by great armies acting from Pen
sacola toward Montgomery, from IndianOla,
through Texas and Louisiana northeastward,
from Cairo, down the Mississippi, from
Ohio and Pittsburgh through We tern Viz
giuia, and from Maryland down the sea
board.
We may add also, that the raising of the
sailors ofthe navy to tw~enty-seven thousand
men, shows the immediate establishment Of
navy so formidable as to be able to SWEEP