The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-12-11
From the Richmond Examiner.

i NiSsh ihD AhShuuhu hAaHiihtt.
No one who is bold enough to look events
in the face can deny that we are now in the
very pinch and tug of this war. The enc.
my has been cured of the illusion and delu.
sion that he could oyerwhem the South with
numbers, and march from field to field, from
Washington to Richmond. Manassas and
Leesburg have taughthim lesson which is not
without danger to ourselves. The Govern
ment Of the United States has consented to
take lis military plans from the brain Of
Scott, instead Of the pages Of the New York
Tribune, and attempts to put in operation
the scheme for the subjugation of the South,
which that traitor invented and which the
aber heads have since continually recon- |
mended.
BY that plan great army was to be roll
ed down the Mississippi to New Orleans,
while fleet bockaded the coast from Hat
teras to Mobile, bombarding the cities Of the
shore and leaving fortified camps at other
points, till il met the army, with fall sup
plies, at The mouth OF the Western river.
The Southern Contederacy would be crush
ed in the embrace Of these two arms.
Such is the campaign, to the execution Of
which the United States now lends all its
strength and strains every nerve. Certain
ly, it promises more than any Of its prede-
cessors, and if successfully and entirely com
pleted, nigh. effect the conquest OF the
South. il the war continued to be conducted
with the present military organization and
on the actual defensive system. We should
be surrounded by line of fire, and consum.
ed BY its slow and inevitable approach.
Hence, the operations Of the enemy are IT,
garded with more apprehension at this mo-
ment than they have ever before been by the
patriotic portion of the public; while the
: concealed traitors, Of which the country is
full, are quickened into life by their renew
ed hopes, like yipers at the approach OF the
summers sun. An illustration lies on the
table where these lines are written. II is an
anonymous letter addressed TO the editor,
containing slips cut from the columns OF
this newspaper six months ago expressing
. certain decided aud uncomplimentary opin-
!. ions Of Yankees aud Of Lincoln. The ac-
companying note contains only these words
Q Read, and pray for your sins. The whole
bears the Richmond pOst.mark, and there IS
Z little doubt but that We have hundreds OF
like wretches in this Southern city. protest
!. ing not less loudly than Letcher himself
their devotion 10 the Southern Government,
their efforts for the Southern cause, who
have carefully filed away every scrap OF eyi-
: denee on which they hope one day to hang
: us all, aud appropriate our property, who
believe 10 this moment that The gOod time
is at last coming, and their long silence soon
to be broken.
There is a certain fact, however, which
= should allay the apprehension Of Iimid friends
Il and quiet the arrogance OF exultant traitors,
q The line which the North desires to draw,
the campaign on which II has entered, Is
one Of the longest aud must complicated un-
dertaken since Napoleon's march on Mos
: COW ; il not only extends over enormous dis
tances, but must be executed over terrific.
ries 50 diversified that II viii involve !
greater amount Of different equipage than
any hitherto known. Il is in TACT exposed
to all the chances Of sea and land ans
should il fail a one point i i failure n
the whole, and must all be begun again
Now, history does not show an instance o
one such enormous aud prolonged mllitar,
b project arriving at a successful conclusion
The greatest genius that the world has ever
seen has been applied 10 their arrangement
and they have uniformly failed 10 the exeeu
tion because too many individuals who mus
ID iulhll their parts at The appointed tlme' TOO
!. many circumstances mat nus, eo'hn ~
right. are involved " them. Like hoas'
q Noir, u y game 70 whleh ehanee e'e'
: defeats the gambler, however cgnn'ag'y "
: has calculated his mariingale. These huge
campaigns invariably lail because some on
point Il not executed, and because the whole
III : ttne II neygr strnuger than it, Meakes
part, either 10 mathematics OF 10 war.
10 IL Napoleon could not execute MS P'ai
Al ior the conquest o. RUSSIA WIN 'he aolFs
y generals anu ihs nlost pe,ieVl a,ms s,e
Y. seen, ihe propaDilty 'nat ,ne ianAes uoa
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