Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-17
Dallp Acknowledgements
General summers ExpeditiOn--Its Ends
aud Aims.

We find that the purposes of the Admins
,r.,,ou. in ordering military expedition
c.,,, California into Western Texas, are not
,,,d,r.tood III this section of the country ond
rs consequence is ImportaGce is greatly
moderated Uy many intelligent gentlemen
ho,h in the military service aLd in civil lille
Nor is this lack Of knowledge aud apprecia-
,on at all surprising. 1t is not usual for a
GoyernEent, when issuing orders to its off =
GERS for the performance Of amy duty what
ever, to 20 into an argument 10 viDdlchte the
wisdom of the order, or TO inforln the officer
in detail as 10 the political considerations
which suggest the movement. Thus it hap
mems that when Gen. Summer received orders
60 march to Arizona and We-tern reXts, and
the fact became known the public here were
left entirely to con lecture to the object of
the expedition aud it quite naturally wae
rresun,ed to he simpl" that of fighting rebels
o. part Of the grand and general plan ui
crushing out the rebellion against the Gov
ernment.
lu - general sense this is true; but there
are at the same time. important political con-
sideratons " hich in the opinion of the Ex-
eculive Government and the highest military
authority of the country, give to the Calfor-
mia eXpedi ion Il character of far higher in
porIal ce aud significance than would the
ordering htnce oi 10000 men to aid in nitn-
&ve operations against the enemies of the
Union in Virginia, or Missouri or even Texas
for the nIeIe purpose of puttiShing rebels in
arms, aud infiirting upon them personal
harm To send 5000 men hence to rrX,s t"
accomplish that end, alone, certainly would
sc III to be trItiing with hnnnn life aud the
best Interests OF the country-tor pHrely mili
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suppression of rebellion all over tile State of
Ttx,s or even in its most pnpulotts sections,
would require five or ten times that number
Of troops We propose to present some of the
political considerations which we understand
20 have prom ,,ted the Governments action in
this matter
The intelligent reader need scarcely to be
informed Of the folloNin ing facts:
l The Government is pledged to reposses>
Use of the military posts seized 10y the
rebels and IL chain OF U. >. lurs. extending
all The way from El Paso to the Cult of MeNi
co, have been seized toy Ihe couspirnrois
against the Union, and are now in their
hands
These posts are indispensable to the as
serlion and defense of the houuqary Of the
United dStates dividing its territory from that
Of our neighbor. Mexico.
3. Western TrXus is chiefly settled by Ger
mans who are, as a general rule. uucumpro
missing Union men. and unless the Pre-idrn.
issadly deceived Ly his Authorized agents. are
anxious to receive arms aud ammunition, AID
to Ike active part in overt hro wing the rebel
despoism
In consequence of the expulsion Of the
United States forces from Western Texas the
most savage aud warIike Indian trhes of the
eogtinent have swept like an avalanche over
that section of the State where the Union
sentiment is paramount. driving Thousands of
industrious men froW their homes, murder
ing their families in many instances carry iug
off their cattle, destroying ,th+ir crops, ana
spreading ruin. devastation aud horror over
the land. Their appeals 10 the Government
for p election, or at least for the means Of
srlt-protectinn. have for months past poured
into Washington in great numbers. They
claim, and Justly, that the Government is re-
aponsible for their present condition because
(ander the i}uchanau- Floyd AlmiGistla ation)
it placed within reach aud under control ol
their present nppressors the Federal arms
now employed for their saliectinn and which
have hcrh used tn eu(orct he seizure of their
private arms because they would not Join in
the trtasouable conspiracy against the GOV
ernmrnt at present, the Union men Of
Western Texas can neither de(~ud them. eve-
from the metciless savHgrs on the one hand.
nor fly to convenient place OF saety on the
other, for the DisuuiuLjsts are scarcely less
savage in their treatment of those who refuse
TO acSnow ledge their usurpation Under
these circumstances the Preside rightly
Judges that he is hound 10y the strongest con
eidcratons to make an effort, at all events. to
relieve these suffering Utuop Ilen who ere -
utterly cut off from all active sympathy and
aid unless it he extended by the Federal GOV.
erameut IS. +. Ba}letiR.