Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-18
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The Washing eton correspondent Of the Chi
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The special meeting Of the Cabinet, held on
Saturday svenipg,i is understood to have had
reference to the plan Of the winter campaign.
If the naval expedition TO Port Royal suooseds
in effecting landing Of the troops, " Is be-
lisved to be the policy of the Adminisration to
make the territory between Savannah and
Charleston the base of very extensive military
operations. A force Of 100, 900 troops will be
concentrated there at oncei both Savannah and
Charleston will be occupied, and then move
ment inland will be commenced, the ultimate
object of which will be TO strike the great
Southern Railroad at Chattanooga or Knox
vile, and to penetrate Kentucky through the
Cumberland Gsp. General Mcclellan was
summoned to attend this meeting, and won't,
when this plan was laid before him for his APP
proval. Whether or not it received his sane.
tion, am unable to say. It is certain, how
ever, that his military judgment ut once per
ceived the objections Of Withdrawing $4,000
more of such troops as would be required for
that work from Washington, and the difficult
ties of marching an army such distance
through q hostile country; and that his plan in
regard to Kentucky is to attack the rebels there
from the line of the Ohio, aud expel them
southward.
But, whatever will be the nature Of the vim
ter campaign at the South, the indications are
that in these parts the Union troops will soon
go into winter quarters. The troops Of Gener-
ais Banks and Stone have already done so.
The men are comfortably hutted ct Dsrnos-
town, and most Of the officers are at Baltimore
and other places, on furlougbs.
The papers just nov are filed with reports Of
the withdrawal of large bodies of Confederate
troops from the Lower Potomac TO defend the
Southern sea- coast. These reports are weak in
ventiops of the enemy. There is no truth in
hem Whatever. It appears, from the most rs-
liable accounts, that General Beauregsrd has
gone TO Charleston, most probably to SEQ about
the defenses Of that place and Savannah. But
all the stories about the Confederate troop
weakening their defensive line opposite Wash
iDgton, by the withdrawal Of any considerable
portion Of their number, are the purest fctions.
It is not the first time, nor the second, that
such stories have been started.
The same conards were circulated before the
battle of Bull Run, before the evacuation Of
Munson's Hill, and before it had to be 40.
knowledged that the Confederates had sue
cesded in completely closing the navigation of
the Potomac. On each occasion that portion
Of the press that has always despised and un-
deirated the strength and resources of the
Sou not only gave credence to the reports,
but used them as arguments to prove that no,0
was the time for grand for ward movement of
the army Of the Potomac. But on each occa
sion few days only elapsed before it was
found that the rebel army was as strong as
ever. So it will prove in this case. At every
point where there is Federal and a Coufeder-
ate army, the latter is either numerically the
strongest, OF else has the best Generals, or the
advantage in position. And it has been SO
ever since the war began. This accounts fol
the results of the affairs at Big Bethel, Vienna
Bull Run, Lexington, Belmont, Balls Bluff
| and, above all, for the success of the Confeder.
ates in holding the right bank of the Potomac
below Washington for the space Of sever
months, in the face of the grand Union army
and of openly, deliberately, and step by step
erecting one battery after another, until thu
| work was done and the great avenue to the
capital closed. This 1 consider their creates
triumph.
But what do all these things prove? Tha
such are to be the results Of all the battles tha
will be fought? By no means. They merely
prove that the Administration have had, as yet
no proper conception Of the magnitude Of th'
war, and that we have been cursed hitherto
with a lot of incompetent Generals. Huggin(
the delusive fallacy that there is a strong
Union party at the South, who would co.ope-
rate with the Union army, the Administration
has never believed that the people of the clever
seeded States are unanimous in their deter
mination to sever forever their connection with
the Northern States. But this fact ia now toe
evident to be longer denied. There is author
ity for saying that the President and Mr.. Sew
ard are both now convinced that the South ar
united as one man in this attempt to achiev
for themselves separate nationality, and tina
to crush the rebellion and conquer a peace, i
will be necessary to call forth the entir
strength Of the loyal States, and to put int
the field at once not half million but a mill
ion of troops. This will be urged in the forth
coming Presidents message as sine qua no
for the successful prosecution of the war.