The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-05-20

sa~The latest information hem Wash
ington indicates that large fotcs will i'm
mediately be concentrated at Fortress Mon
roe where we may soon look for some ac-
tive demonstrations. The ordering of that
veteran and sagacious commander, General I
Wool, and that energetic, prompt and eft |
fcient officer, General Butler, to that point, |
clearly indicates that the Government in
tends to retake it's property in the neigh |
borhood of that fortress. The secessionists
are also concentrating large bodies of troops
in the same neighborhood, and when the
struggle does take place, it will be one of
the most terrible and bloody known to
modern times Should the secessionists be
beaten, they lose everything. The reaction
that would take place would sweep them
from power as with a bosom of destruction
On the contrary, should they be successful in
the first engagement, it would but infuriate
the North to such an extent, that where they
have hitherto only turned out companies of
men, they would send regiments.
But General Scott will not risk doubt
until he is fully prepared to administer the
blow with such power as to make it effect
ual and unnecessary to strike again. During
the Mexican war, much complaint was
heard against the old General for his SEEM
ingly dilatory movements in capturing
Vera Cruz. During the entire winter of
1857 he was carefully making his prepare
tions. Troops were concentrated ordnance
collected at New Orleans; transports
provided and all held in readiness
for operations in the Spring. Civil
ians, ignorant of the amount Of preparation
necessary to carry on a successful campaign,
grumbled at what they designated as the
" red tape" propensities of the old veteran
and insinuations were not untrequently
heard that he had been a splendid officer
= but he was getting most too old" But
when he had completed his arrangements
landed his troops near Vera Cruz in the lat
ter part of March, and invested and captured
the city within a fortnight, the praise of the
greatest General of the age was on every
body's tongue So it will be again. Those
J. who are impatient at what they consider th'
Y dilatoriness of the Government and its mill
e tary chieftain, will yet be loudest in thei
IS approval. The capture of Harpers Ferry
and Norfolk is not all the work to be done
That might be accomplished with blu
A. little preparation. But vast and compli.
10 Gated campaign-embracing within it
n limits the entire circuit of the whole Uniol
r is to be matured. Immense preparation
lg are necessary in the Commissary Depart
IS. ment Means of transportation have to b
provided and all the thousand details hav
u to be arranged, which are entirely over
~ looked by those who know nothing abou
military movements. Our citizens wer
: all surprised at the train Of wagons the
" was necessary to carry the baggage of th
18th regiment in moving from one encamE
ia ment to another. How do they suppose
he would he with an army of $4,000, with a
he immense ordnance train attached. n
"a Tuning and fretting on the part of newspG
ga per scriblers will hasten General Scott i
"A any movement He is a sturdy endorser
III e.. O.ocAeG rule: " BE sure you are rigE
and then go ahead
IN But while we do not believe anythin
We will be done hastily or ill-advisedly, we
ne believe that within the next 10 or Is day
a there will be conflict in Virginia, and &c
er the result we can safely trust Gen'l Scott.