Newbern weekly progress., 1861-06-11
now THE WAR IS TO BE PROSECUTED.

HOW THE WAR IS TO BE PROSECUTED.
The New York Tribune, in an article under
the captain Of ''The Salient Features OF the
War" lets us know something of the plans of
the North in their war of Southern subjuga-
tion We give the following. being the points
of interest in the article:
We are determined on restoring the Federal
authority in all the rebellious States, and have
started to carry our national flag IN triumph
from the Potomac and the Ohio Southward to
the Gulf, and Westward to the Rio Grande
determined that if the people now dwelling
in those States will not return to their allie
glance, another race shall be planted there
who will respect the Constitution OF our
fathers.
This contest is destined to be more protrac-
ted than was generally anticipated at It's COM
mence,nent Though the South is inferior to
the North in some important particulars, and
especially in money and credit, and though her
maritime resources, her mechanical appliances,
and her manufactures ere slender, yet she
abounds in brave men, accustomed to the use
of weapons, and reckless of life. She has some
of the best military engineers IN the country,
and some of the ablcst officers who have led
our troops in recent wars. Though cut on
from her usual supplies in the North. and hem
med in on her coast, she will by cultlva-
ting self reliance, make desperate eXertlons to
supply these serious deficiencies. Rely upon
it, the naughty, innperious, impassloned South
will hold out in this contest TO the last eX-
tremity.
Hence the struggle on her part will be des
pcrate, having no parallel i'll any war on the
American continent during this century HaV-
ing staked all upon the hazard OF the die, her
statesmen and captains cannot afford to be
beaten Davis Toombs, Rhett, Hancey, Ma
son. Cobb, Stephens, Letcher, Hunter, Benja-
min. Pickcns. and civilians of that class, and
Twiggs, Bragg, Beauregard, Lee, johnson,
Magruder, Pillow, and soldiers like them, with
thousands of other men of high repute and
great influence must succeed in this rebellion,
or either sue for pardon, or be put to death as
traitors, or fee from their native land forever
They will struggle for victory with the energy
of despair. Though they are destined to be
overthrown in the end yet let the North not
beguile itself with the delusion that they will
not fall with harness on their backs, and with
their faces to the foe Unless oce beat an In
glorious retreat, there is serious work before
During the coming summer our troops will
doubtless be chiefly employed in holding the
forts, navy yards and arsenals, now IN oar pos
session in the seeded States, in fortlfylng and
protecting the national Capital in looking
sharply to affairs in Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri, and being prepared to protect loyal
and punish rebelllous citlzehs IN tnose STATES
in sustaining the Union cause in Western NH-
ginia, crushing the rebels in the Eastern coun-
ties, retaking Harper's Ferry and subduing
t Norfolk and Richmond and in clearing the
banks and the channel of the upper Mississippi
! of trlitars and pirates.
| This may be done in the hot months without
inparing the health OF cur troops providing the
Commissariat and the Hospital are properly
managed. Then, when autumn shall usher il.
inyigoratlng breezes, heavy columns will de-
scend into the rebel territories in the East, the
centre and the West, nor stay their march till
! our flag waves in triumph over Charleston
/ Montgomery and New Orleans. Thanks to
| Heaven, the names of the brave men who pant
! for this service are legion.
Let us, then strike in midst, doing the
work thoroughly as we go, knowing that the
! heavier the blows and the more rapidly they
! fall, the sooner the contest will be ended.