The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-26

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Essf tassT7ss AND SarrHwssT VtRa.-
MA fsss rs>kp = N portion Of The state
oi Virginia -, 10 the war With are iii.a,l-
'mis aad sls6rits than Southwestern Viz
gina; am! TO district has furnished "a larger
anasa of troops lie soldiers are 10 be found
apon The Peninsula, the army Of the Po
tesfsSe. upen the Cheat Mountain on the big
seeell and move away down upon the kanawl,a
beyond tae Galley. Sill otner regiments are
recruiting there for distant service. for that
brave people are s,ill ready aud willing to re.
pond TO the cali of the Government for sol.
diers- But Obligations are reciprocal aud the
Government owes TO the distric, profession bv
taii rs solemn an obligation as that binding the
oastr'ci to furnish it with soldiers The Govern
ment has drained Southwestern Virginia of n
Barge por. ION of her forces; it il bound now
on It's own part, to see that that district take
40 detrinAsnt from having furnished it so
boun'ifuav Of its men,
The Federal Government in pouring in.
troops by tens of thousands from the prolific
Northwest into kentucky A formidable
army is rendezvousing in tie neighborhood Of
Lexington for march npon Virginia aud
East Tennessee in the direction of the Cam
berland and Pound Gaps in Lee aud Wise
counties Gen. ZoLLUofrsK stands in the
path bat the force under his command il moi
more than adequate TO hold the Unionis's of
Eastern Kentucky in check, and is unequal TO
the additional task of resisting score or Two
Of regiments from the Northwestern hive
The Confederate Government has yet time 10
reinforce Gen. ZoLLicofFxR: bat ii it delay
in the work at all. lie must fall back, and
the country be entered by the enemy.
The Government cannot afford to permit The
great line OF railroad running through the
country thus threatened, TO be one moment i'm
perilled 1t cannot afford to lose the support
of the brave and liberal people of Southwest
ern Virginia, where as yet not "a single traitor
has been found. 1t cannot afford to admit All
army of the enemy into close proximity with
East Tennessee, where BKowSLow and ANDY
JOHNSON have made so many Unionsts among
"a community the most prolific of good soldiers
on the continent. The people of East Ten
nessee, under the admirable policy Of General
ZoI.L,coFrER, and under the influence Of the
patriotic contact of Southwestern Virginia. are
rapidly giving up their JoHxsoslsM and
BRowSLowism, and warming mp with GEM
inc enthusiasm for the South. Il is the region
OF al Others in the Confederacy, from which
we may soon expect the largest aceessions t.,
orr Southern armies. Astounding, as it does
nost profusely in men, and having furnished
so far no recruits from its superintendent
stock.
To permit large army of the enemy to en-
ter, even to threaten East Tennessee and
Southwestern Virginia, would be attended bv
accommodating and irietrievable mistortunes.-
Civil trouble and division might lie enyendered
in Tennessee where it has been fortunately
avoided, and the magnificent country and mobile
people OF Southwestern Virginia be paralyzed
and onr chief line of communication with the
West broken up.
Ii these outward msfortunes are to be
avoided, pains must be taken to Illustrate the
designs of the enemy upon Cumberland Gap
without delay. Even the loss IF Il week NAV
entail consequences which it might require
months to retrieve, and intiet losses upon "A
loyal and gallant people which could never be
repaired
We trust that all the available arms that can
be commanded will AT once be sent TO Knox
Vile BRISTOL, and Wythevlie, to be put into
the hands of fugitive kentuckians coming in
and that ten or twenty thousand reinforce.
ments will be AT once placed along the line OF
the railroads, within call of Gen ZoLLlcor-
FER.