The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-27
p,an sf The Campaign.

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XTyTRDAY MORNING. APRIL 81. 1851.
Plan Of the Campaign.
That treat military genius, RAYMOND, Of the
New York Times, generally known as "ths
l,ttls Villain" an epithet bestowed upon him
py his courteous contemporary, GxsKLKr, OF
the N. Y. Trtbuas, has burst outin an amazing
explosion Of wr,sh against Virginia. throwing
ont streams Of red-hot lava, that threaten 10
submergs this unhappy Commonwealth IRON
the Potomac TO the Ohio. II the y. ,. tfov-
erumsnt had only hit upon tie happy device
of .andine RAYMOND to relieve MAJOR ADDER
sax. we can easily conceive that oharieston
Xrou,a have surrendered at sight. He did |
,,nh,,.s wise plans, we believe, by which that
oh,sc, eould be effec ted but we suppose the
Government failed TO appreciate their merit,
for Charleston is still safe and defiant RAY
rosp was a spectator OF the military opera
t,ons In the Sandman contest, and Is said to
have made better time in retreat from an
Austrian regiment than was ever known In
the history Of war. We therefore listen with
respect TO RArMoSp's plan OF campaign
against Virginia, especially as Richmond
Is the chief object OF his regards. tie
SAYS: "In debating terms TO virginia,
~s can do IL TO the whole Union
W< c1u dictate these ut Richmond in SIXTY
dovs. II ,os ,otH. We can now make the war
a abort one. II should be ended in one cam
nsien. A column of IS 900 men should. at the
earliest moment possible, march from Wash
inxton on Richmond. Another, equally
.,rons, should proceed from James River TO
Fort Monroe. Resistance TO two well APP
pointed armies would be impossible" RAY
uoxp's knowledge OF geography is evidently
equal to his knowledge OF men. When SOL
s,iers plan a campaign in an enemys terri
tory. they familiarize themselves with the
country they have TO go over. In this way,
RAYMOND has probably learned the necessity
of sending one Of his divisions from James
Rixer to Fort Monroe" work which we
shouid think might be accomplished without
much difficulty. Seriously, however, the
military demonstrations in New York have
probably some such purpose in view, and
being forearIned, we shall be forewarned.-
II RAYMOND is right in thinking that nfty
thousand men can accomplish that opJsct, IL
will be because we shall sit down and refrain
from terrifying our positions, ana deiehoihg
them when they are fortified. But even
Richmond should fall into the hands OF the IN
yaders, Richmond is not Virgins, far less the
South. and its capture would have no more
Union. When an infant city, 1t was captured
nv one of RAYMoSD's counTymen, BKNEDic7
AnsoLp; but he might as well have captured
a thousand acres OF land anywhere else, fol
all the effect it had on the South. Tht
strength of the South lies in the country
and IL the army should take all our towns
we should soon render them too hot tt
hold them, and they would retreat NOR.
rapidIy than ARNOLD did in the Revolution
Neither the threats Of RAYMOND, nor the bull
living constructions of the Northern cities
those vast hives of crime and pauperism
have anv terror for Southern hearts. LIE,
them not solace themselves with the idea OF
.ssixty days war" 1t will be a war OF Sixty
wears before they are permitted to subjugat'
the South. The people Of the Sou thern States
Of America have at least as much devotion "a
those of Russia, who burned and destroyed
all their property, rather than permit it t.
fall into the hands Of the enemy. Whei
mothers give up all their sons, down 70 mer
children, for the cause of country, it canno
be doubted that the men will not only give
their lives but, In the last resort. will desc
late the soil beneath their feet, so that, ever
If the South should be subjugated, it viii
prove barren victory to the invaders. III
Yankee mind is a calculating one; 1t ha
counted how much cotton, rice, &c, ar
worth to Northern commerce and manu-
features and has come TO the conclusion, a
announced by one of their leading journals
that it would be cheap to expend five hun
dred millions for the subjugation Of tn
South. We now suggest to these cod-blood
cd, mercenary barbarians, that there Is an I'm
portant part of their calculation which
they have altogether omitted. If they coul
succeed, and could carry out their boaste
programme Of servile acknowledgements, the
there is an end forever to the great staple
which have made their commerce and manu-
features what they are; for, whether they bt
lieye it or not we know that the very sue
cess of their scheme would be the greatest dis
aster to themselves that it could be possib
TO infiict. There is no fact under the sun mol
clearly demonstrated than that the viii
man cannot labor under the sun which gio"
over the cotton and rice fields, and tn;
the African will not except in servitude
A Northern triumph would be a triumph ov
itself; 1t would convert the whole South in
q wilderness but that wilderness, dreal
and desolate as the desert of Sahara, wou
not be more barren and solitary than tho
aocursed cities of the Northern plains who
whole strength and prosperity depend up'
the cultivation of Southern staples by Il
only system upon which they can be cui
waited. 1t is for these sordid calculators
decide whether they will expend five hundr
millions in a war which will, in all prob
bility, last for years without effecting its Q
1ect, and which, even If successful, would
appoint the greedy appetites for which 1t W
begun, or whether they will take the chant
of a peaceful separation. We fear that pr
sion has blinded their eyes to their true int
eets; but we can assure them that, If
South falls, 1t will be like the strong man
the temple, involving them and ourselv
cotton, rice and tobacco, the fields on VIII
they are raised, the laborers by whom tn
are cultivated, the propretors by whom til
are owned and the internal hordes by VIII
they are invaded, In one common destr
ton.
New York again in C0nvnlsions.
New York is making another attempt
frighten the South from its propriety. We VI
ly believe that over that city which has beco
drunk with prosperity and crime, the d.
thunder cloud of Divine dis pleasure will