Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-11-20
Success of the Great Expedition.

: Intelligence cOnhrmIng the good news o
the last few days and creating intense ca
r gerness to get at full particulars. The re
ported success Of the naval expedition il
| efectiDg landing at Port Royal reache:
: us through so many different sources, and
the different accounts so tally with and
, support each other, that there has ceased
to be any anxiety to know whether the
; main fact is true, and We are all consumed
with curiosity to know the precise extent
of the advantage which the rebels are tax
; ing such evident pains to conceal from US.
In their alarm, they are hurrying troops
from Virginia to the southern coast, and it
is probable that they will make desper-
ate effort to drive back General Sherman
before he gets firmly established. But
having securely effected a landing, and
having all the time to fortify his position
which must intervene while troops are col
Letting to oppose him, there is every rea-
son for confidence that he will hold all he
has gained. The feet carried an enormous
supply of intrenching tools, and, besides
the thousand negroes who make a part of
the expedition, the strong handed and stout
hearted sold ers can do yeoman's service
with spade. Forty-eight hours would
suffice for throwing up earthwOrks of great
strength; and within that time the rebels
cannot have assembled a very formidable
force. Gen. Sherman can strengthen his
Notifications more rapidly than they can
collect reinforcements and, in the absence
of detailed information, we have no hesita-
tion in concluding that he has established
a permanent base of operations in the neigh
borhoOd of Port Royal.
We are therefore safe il saying that
blow has at length been struck which will
resonnd through the world. European
governments will be more firmly fixed in
their present attitude of non-intervention.
Mason and Slidel will find that they have
gone on bOotless errand, when the report
of this successful landing of large force
in South Carolina, and of the general con-
sternation it has caused in the rebel States,
comes reverbrating to them over the ocean.
The English aristocracy viii abate some
thing from the sneers and the half exult-
ant predictions Of rebel success with which
they have been RECALLING themselves for the
last four months.
One great advantage Of this success is
that it transfers the scat of war to the very
homes and fresides of the cotton-state reb-
els. The master-stroke of JEFF. Davis cum
ming at the outbreak of hostilities consisted
in making the border slave states the thea
ter of the war. and leaving the cotton plant
crs to cultivate their crops undistsrbed by
its alarms. But just at the period when !
he calculated that British feet would ap-
pear in the southern waters to open the !
cotton ports, he gets different visitation
from yrba. -L-..sssaisISl fII--COGiS,.. tsa.ia
will be opened, but the cotton shipped from
them will not be likely to pay heavy ex-
port duty into the rebel treasury for the |
benefit of the first confederate loan to the
redemption of which it was pledged by /
Secretary Memmingar.
The plan of keeping the war at a dis
tance from the cotton states uatil the new
government could be strengthened by for
eign recognition and foreign alliance has
signally failed. The southern communi-
ties will now learn into what an abyss of
horrors their ambitious leaders have plung-
cd them, and they cannot fail to contrast
the prosperity aud security which they en-
joyed in the Union, with the evils of their
present condition. War Is a heavy bur
den even when its theater is distant from
the people who furnish the men and money
for conducting it. The South would soon
have found it next to insuppOrtable even if
We had not begun to send armies into their
midst. But they will now see that the
war they have provoked is something more
than taxes enormously increased and in
comes totally annihilated; that it brings
terror to every household, and adds the
lorrOrs Of apprehendod scryile insurrec-
ions to the tramp of armies and the con-
iscation of property. The South, which ,
S in great commotion, will soon be panic !
struck; for it cannot be otherwise than !
hat the presence Of victorious northern :
.rmy in densely populated slave region
Eill set the negroes in ferInent, and the ;
excited by their uneasincss
Viii De hardly less narrowing than On &C Z
ual servile rising. i
Despite some reYcrses, the advantages Of .
he North in the prosecution of this war /;
urnish matter for profound congratulatiOn. +
We are free both from invasion and the :
ear of it, and the success of this cxpedi-
ion removes the scene of hOstilities to ,
.istance fron cur homes. Though engag-
d in gigantic war, tie trade Of the world q
J open to US, and our business moves with
ut obstruction in its accustomed channels.
'ut the South, with its industry paralyzed, i
s trade apnihilated, its recuniary Tc-
ources exhausted, its soil invaded, its nc }
roes uneasy, and its hopes Of foreign as {
istance indefinitely pcstaOncd, is rapidly J,
the inevitable collapse into T..
,hich the rebellion must fall under the G
igorous blows We are now prepared to de- :
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