New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-03
IMPORTANCE OF THE HATTERAs VICTORY


John W. Forney writes in this way to The Press
on tie probable consequences OF the recent victories
the North Carolina coast:
WAsHsGrcS, Sept. !, 1861
AT last, the flank Of treason has been turned. The
reverses VI the American TO have been sent
upon us only to teach the great Lesson Of adyersy
sud OF calling forth popular enthusiasm in the loyal
States. The wisdom OF the Administration 10 provid
ing for attack upon the traitors along the whole Of
the Southern coast has been molly responded to by
the courage endurance Of the army and the navy.
The gallant affair Hateras IDlet was must not be
forgotten, the fret opportunity presented TO our noble
ars to show that they ready for all the dungers
incident TO a defense Of our flag against al
ungrateful enemy. Nobly have they fulfilled
the expectations Of their countrymen. IL is
We have sealed up the enemy 80 efiectually as
10 prevent them from making Cape Hateras aud the
adjacent csat, for Leary three hundred miles, the
rendezvous for patcal expedite ions Ii also do
prives them of that valuable internal commerce, by
means of which they have been enabled TO supply
Virginia on the one hand and North Carolina ON the
other. With the Chesapeake held by our fleet, and
Fortress Monroe and the Potomac In full and almost
unmolested possession Of the Government forces aud
now vast ex ent OF coast the North Caroiiua
boundary seized by fleets, and held meuaced by
armies, what is TO prevent those advance move
ments ard the far South loudly demanded by
cry conoeraiun Of the nation safety and tue national
honor Vicgi ia which has become the great base of the
traitors operations and upon the soil Of which have been
thrown, undlsCpllned masses, thousands ana hund-
reds OF thousands from the Cotton States, suffered
sufficiently before she lost tho intermediate Com
mon wealth of North Carolina, which bound her on
one side by railroad and the Gulf States, and
which contested her with many communities on me
other tide. Now that Virginia is almost ellectuaily
closed innow that the Rebis receive no and rom
Marylnd-none from the frontier counties OF Pennsyl-
yabia-none from North Carolina, the whole coisI OF
which is to-day almost entirely bockaded-V Western
Virginia becomes a strategic point Of the htghet I'M
poriaace. Now Eastern Tennessee may look up with
some hope for succor. Kentucky may be emboldened
TO strike her gigantic kuOs her selfimposed or
neutral letters. III may be mentioned Incidentally
that the same Influences that awaken the patriots OF
Virginia Kentucky, and Tennessee may reOrganlze
and revive the patriots OF North Carolina. But
beyond tho Border STATES (for it must not be
forgotten that thus far the whole burden OF the
war has fallen upon them lies the greater question OF
meeting the traitors in the Gulf Cotton States and
OF punishug them IN their stronghods They have
cent forward nearly all their available troops TO cap
tIre the capital and TO subsdize the Union Of tile
Border States They will hereafter 10 called upon TO
protect their coasts aud undoubtedly their inland POI
stions from the loyal feets that will swarm in their
wuters and the loyal armies that will swarm over
their SOL. Gradually Fort Pckens has been strength
eued; hey West, in the latitude held aud moro
than Que Of their strong points silently and secretly
Occupied. The mouth Of the Mississippi ID menaced
by our Iaen-of-war. Fort Pulaski, in Georgia, will
soon be In range of guns, and the Texan coast
within easy sailing sieaning distance will be seized
oy our naval aud mercantile msriBe-all the more
easily that Ben McCulloch and bis bandi of raw
aging the fair fields OF Missouri.