The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-08

| OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN-TUE BE-
| GINNING OF A NEW AND MORE GLO-
RIOUS EPOCH IN THE DOMESTIC AND
| FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED
! STATES.
Our Government is rising to the dignity
Of its situation, to the grand responsible
! ties Of the crisis, and to the confident ex-
pectations Of the friends of our liberal in
! s,itutions throughout the onion and
throughout the whole civilized world.
| The campaign in behalf of the ''utegrity
between midnight and daylight yesterday
morning of an overwhelming army column
from Washington across the Potomac to
the occupation Of Alexandria, Virginia /;
| and from this impressive beginning we an
ticipate the speedy overthrow OF Secession
in the "Old Dominion" With body of
fifteen thousand Union troops in occupation
Of Alexandria and its surroundings, the
insurgents at Harper's Ferry are cut of
from their railway communication With the
insurgents at Richmond, and o. both sides
they are cut of from an Important source
! Of their supplies. Simu. .aneously, from the
presence of some SIX or seven thousand
Union troops in .nd around Fortress Mon
roe, and With cooperating Federal feet
at hand, the insurgents in that quarter are
in a bad situation. They will require as
sistance from Richmond; but considering
the alarm which has prevailed for the last
three weeks among their confedera.es in
that quarter, they will not feel it safe to
move down to the rescue of Norfolk. On
the contrary, we suspect that, without much
! fighting, the Secessionists IL and about
| Norfolk will fall back unon Richmond, and
that to that common point ali their availa-
bic forces in the State will now be hurried
as fast as possible. This theory leads to
the conclusion that Richmond, at all events,
ere long, will be the scene of desperate
/ engagement, inasmuch as the loss OF that
capital to the insurgents will be loss OF the
State, and its restoration to the Union.
| We Participate this result, for it is ipevi-
! table; and We hope it will be reported in
Pres dent Lincoln's message to Congress on
the Forth of July. Nav, more, we hope
that by that immortal day the position OF
! Iary and, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
Will be so firmly established for the Union,
and that this whole Southern insurrectionary
enterprise will have become so demoralized,
| bankrupt and imposeIt, as only to need a
rigid blockade by sea and land to starve it,
within few months, into submission to the
| Constitution and the laws Of the United
States. We bold that the wonderful Union
reaction in Maryland, resulting from the
march into her territories Of our irresis.a-
be Union volunteers, has saved not only
that State, but Kentucky and Missouri, and
that this present Union army movement will
soon render North Carolina and Tennessee
ripe for their deliverance from the most re-
Voting revolutionary desposism on the face
| Of the earth.
The superficial philosophers Of the Lon
don Times. 10 assuming it as fixed fact
| that the American Union IL DESTROYED. are
very vide of the mark. Our Union is Just
beginning to develope its strength. Its
available active resources against this
Southern insurrsction are quite as powerful
as would he the resources Of the British
Empire to-day against general rebellion
IN ireland, unassIsted by any great foreign
power. No future event 10 more inevitable
( than the restoration Of our confederate re.
volted States to the Union; and while the
measures and movements of Nj. Iincoip,s
administration promise the foil re establish
mens OF the Union upon solid and enanr-
I ing basis at home, We are farther g.a,ised
10 Dc enabled 70 say tia: The panifes.ations