The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-03
We are Rendy for THEM

It is very apparent that the enemy's plan of |
campaign contemplates the complete reduction |
of Virginia He is making very few demon |
STATIONS in any other quarter. His force at
Cairo seems intended only for occupation
His operations at st. Louis seem designed
simply to keep down the secession movement
in that State. Nowhere are his operations
aggressive, looking to new acquisitions of
ground, except in Virginia. This is the State
most honored by his attentions. Virginia
seems to be the chief object of his dread
She is evidently regarded the head anu
front of the secession movement.
We are menaced at Norfolk. Hampton is
taken, and Newport News occupied. The York
River is constantly threatened. Ships are con-
tinually presenting themselves at Acquia Creek.
The whole line of the Potomac Is held under
strict and jealous espionage. Alexandra Is
seized upon, and all the approaches and
heights surrounding are carefully manned and
strengthened. Harper's Ferry is threatened
from Pennsylvania. Wheeling is in the hands
of the Uuionists; and Federal aid and support
il supplied to all the disaiiected counties in the
North west and it is reported that forces from
Ohio have penetrated as far as Grafton by
railroad, and as far as Charleston by the ka-
nawhs River. Surely is Virginia very highly
distinguished by the enemys attentions.
But this fact is to be recollected, that no.
where, unless ii may be in the disafTected North
west, has the enemy dared to penetrate any
distance into the interior. He hugs the shores
Of our Eastern waters. He dares not leave the
sight of his ships. He is merely using the ad-
vantage which superior numbers and a COM
mand Of abundant shipping has given him.-
He has not ventured upon any ground where
We can meet him on equal terms. We begin
to fear he will not do very soon. Every
where are we ready and anxious to encounter
him on fair ground. If he has designs upon
Norfolk, there our men are impatient to receive
him. If he prefers to make his demonstrations
against Richmond by tho peninsula of York
we have forces there to meet him and eager to
dispute his march. We have battery at
Acquia Creek which insults his every vessel
that passes; and there, too, troops are spoil
ing for fight. His heavy column at Alexan-
dria does not dismay our men who have plant
ed themselves a few miles distant in his road,
ready to give him battle in all his force. Al
Harper's Ferry our people feel so strong tina,
they are even discontented with their impreg-
inability; seeing that it SO effectually spoils
their chance for a fight. 1t is said that we
are laggard. If SO, it is not We alone that are
slow why don't the enemy come on!
The hesitation OF the enemy shows that be
is aware it will be no easy job to overrun Vir.
GINA. He may wait for more forces, snd NAV
wait for discipline but a week to us in thes,
respects is worth as mech "a three weeks I,
him. lie would be the sole gamer by pre-
cipitancy; We, having to. collect our troop
from far distant, sparsely populated States
require time; which he needs not, in virtue .
his large cities and rapid water and railroa
transportation. The South has not been slo,
in her preparations. She has been very Wig
orous and very expeditions. Within spac
of two months she will have collected an ar N
Of a hundred thousand men from q thiulI
peopled territory 4 thousand miles in breadth
That il a very great achievement. yirgini
also has done wonders. The blindness of he
Convention 10 coming events postponed al
preparation till the very outbreak of the war
but since then, Ia six wesLs, the spontaneous en-
thnsissm 81 her people has produced an arm.
already ia the field VI nearly iifty thousand men
She hss offered hundred thou ssnd men. He