Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-07
From the New York Timer.l
The spark and Bloody Groun


The extracts we have been able to give
from recent Southern papers are very impor-
tant as Indicating the probable tactics of the
rebels. We have the statement from Rich
mond that large shipments of lumber are
making from that city 10 Manassas, and that
bales of blankets are going forward to the
same point "indicating that the army are
about going into winter quarters there" The
other statement, also from Richmond, COM
muncated to Memphis paper is. that while
''feints" may be made in the East "a power
full (Confederate) army will be thrown into
Kentucky. The great struggle will be in
that State for the present.
The withdrawal of the Confederate army
from before Washington, which has just oc-
Cured, indicates that Gen. Beauregard does
not contemplate any advance northward this
season He has abandoned the offensive, and
falls back on Manassas to erect his winter
quarters. There he has powerful fortified
camp, guarding the pathway to Richmond,
where he can resist the advance of Gen. Nc
Clellan with one-half the men he would re-
qnire in the field. He is there in reach of
supplies by railroad from all parts of the
South. What else could the General of the
rebel army do SO wisely at this late day in
the season?
But there is no occasion to keep in an in
trenched camp the great army summoned to
| is probably right, and ga powerful army"
| released by the policy of retiring to Manas-
| sas, is 10 be thrown into Kentucky. Gen.
Lee, the favorite General of Virginia, we
! know has been ordered to a command in that
State, and it is not likely that he would be
| sent TO that field, if something far more seri-
| Gus than ZollicOffer's mountain marauding
| and robbery were not to be attempted The
| letters that We are publishing from Kentucky
4 W of ham hsa
| first citizens of that State, confirm the de-
| auctions drawn from the rebel sources of in
| formation. They all coincide in the belief
! the deep, thorough, earnest conviction-that
| The whole military power of the Southern
| Confeddracy is about to fall like an ava
lanehe on Kentucky. The rebels must fight
| there for food for their armies and life for
their cause. The "great struggle" say the
rebels, is to be in that State. And it will,
| we are sure be battle of the giants. We
| trust the Government comprehends the i'm
| pending crisis.
/ 1t will be strange indeed if Kentucy, after
wearing for half century the historic and
blood-bought appellation of the "dark and
bloody ground" should in these latter years,
and IN the dreadful civil war of the Repub.
lic earn a yet more deep-stained title to its
| historic fame. Is it the predestined doom of
| all the fairest lands of earth that they shall
| sink the deepest of human blood, as they do
| also of the choicest dews and rains of
| Heaven. Kentucky is one of the garden
| spots of earth-mild in climate, exurberant
| in fertility, pleasing the eye by noble pasture
| land, and gladdeHing the heart by teeming
wealth of field and fruit and flour. Such HOn'cs
| are seen no where else, except, perhaps, in
England-so lordly are the mansions, 80
large the expanse of we'll trimmed grazing
| lands so fat and fine the herds that browse
| and rest beneath the friendly shade. 1t is
rare and goodly land. Its travelled citizens,
| in the pride and satisfaction of their patriot
| ism, often call Kentucky the "Italy OF the
| United States''-so sunny are its Skies so
| genial its airs, 80 prodigal its cultivated
| fields, so bright-eyed and joyous its maidens.
| Such is the State that is now to be strug-
| gled for. On its fair bosom are to be fought,
not only the battles that determine its own
| destiny, but the battles OF the goddess ambi-
| ton OF other populations, seeking there to
| try their bloody issues. How like Italy, in-
| deed, The latter, the battle ground OF Eu-
| rope. and fertile with the blood-watering Of
nations Kentucky, the doomed theatre of
the dire struggle that RACES between all the
American Statesl The result may be- the
ruin of the famed and much loved Ken
lucky. But even in that case, the traces of
her beauty and glory would linger through
future ages; and, hereafter. poets win sing Of
Kentucky, as has been sung of Italy:
ssEven in thy desert what is like 10 thees
Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste
More rich than other elimes' fertility,
Thy wreck glory, and thy ruin graced
Win an immaculate charm that cannot be
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