The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-26
The Isout Of the Rebel Govcrnmcnt-Gio-
rious News from Richmond.

Our intelligence from the Richmond Enquirer,
that the Confederate Congress has passed bill
for the removal of their capital from Richmond
to Nashville, and that the rebel Congress will
soon assemble at the last named place, an
nounces the most important, the most signil-
cant and the most encouraging event in behalf
Of the Union cause Of all the events in the his
tory of this desperate Southern rebellion.
Why this removal from Richmond to Nash
vile? The message of JEFF. Davis to his corps
legislajf is silent upon tie subject. The move
ment involved required secresy and despatch,
and so our first news of such u design is its con-
summation, But this transfer of Davis and his
spurious revolutionary cabal from Richmond to
Nashville may be readily explained Rich
mond has become too hot to hold them,
and Nashville affords better facilities Of re-
treat towards the Gulf of Mexico. The
rebel armies Of Virginia have eaten up the sur
plus substance Of her farmers; and the Rich
mond Wlig in its complaints, bctrays The signs
of an impending revolt against the continuance
of these rebel extortions Dragged headlong
into this rebellion against their wishes and their
votes, the people of the Old Dominion will not
sustain it to the extremity Of starvation. The
western section Of the State has remained loyal
Accomac and northampton have lately return
ed to their proper allegiance; and the great
central division, exhausted by rebel armies and
forced contributions, can meet these acquisitions
no longer. .a..3
All this is virtually confessed in this hcgira Of
Davis and his Cabinet and Congress from Rich
mond to Nashville. But they have been driven
to this step from some other considerations
There was danger in tho mcnacirg army of
Mcclellan. 1t might march over Bull run
to Richmond, and il the Confederate" authori-
ties should thus be driven out of Virginia their
reign Of terror would be at once ANONYMOUSLY
ended. Then, again, from the combined move
ments OF General Buell. in Kentucky, and OF
General IIal,eck in Missouri, JEFF. Davis, as
a military man, appreciates the danger
which meaaces Tennessee and the whole
valley OF the Mississippi to New Or
leans Hallcck and Buell. may cut off the rail-
way communications between Virginia and the
cotton States through Eastern Tennessee, and
General Sherman, in the occupation of Charles
ton, may complete tie separation Of the ex-
leave the rebel army Of Manassas and the rebel
government at Richmond detached from rein
forcements and supplies and completely at the
mercy of General Mcclellan.
In removing from Richmond to Nashville the
rebel Confederate government escapes from
this trap, and what follows? Doubtless the
bulk Of the rebel army Of the Potomac Will
soon be transferred to the Mississippi river in
Western Tennessee and Kentucky, in order to
arrest the descent Of our forces into the heart OF
the cotton States in that direction. Then,
again, the original rebel programme Of the
seizure of Washington and Fortress Monroe,
and the secession and military occupation of
Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay by .Ae Con-
fedcrate forces, having utterly failed, Richmond
aud Virginia cease to be Of any practical value
to the government Of JeT Davis. lie is thus
driven to the extremity of abandoning Virginia;
and the removal Of his government from Rich
mond is but the first step to the absolute sur
render of the State to the Union.
From the fact that the rebels have never at
tempted any strong defensive works around
Richmond. it is manifest tha. they lave never
contemplated the fixed location of their capith
at that place. When they moved up to it from
Montgomery, Alabama, it was for the purpose
of throwing the immediate burden OF this ter
ribe war upon Virginia, Maryland and the
other border slave States. Virginia, cheated
and betrayed by her rebel conspirators, and
wasted by fire and sword has failed to pay her
secession expenses, and she is to be abandoned
as bad rebel investment. In the same way,
or more precipitately, Davis and his Jacobn
Club will be pushed out of Nashville, and
henceforward they will find no resting place
until they cross over to the sacred soil of
Mexico.
We have assumed in these observations that
this reported action Of the one house, or one
horse, Congress at Richmond is correct; and we
are the more fally disposed to believe this re-
port from the very unsafe and dangerous posi-
ton Of the rebel government at Richmond If
the act in question has passed, the day of Vir-
gina redemption Is close AZ nanu. BIT Stlll
we would not counsel any hasty movement by
our Army Of the Potomac upon Manassas. Gen
Mcclellan can afford to bde his time. The
army opposed to him, meanwhile, having eaten
out Virginia. and having been cut off to great
extent from its supplies from Tennessee and
Western Kentucky, by the Unionists Of East
Tennessee, in the burning Of halfa dozen railway
bridges, is not in condition to wait much
longer at Manassas, and not nc all qualified for
an advance towards Washington.
Let the government promptly follow up on
the Southern coast the successful experiment at
Port Royal, and let General Halleck and Gene
raj Buell. be strengthened SO as to push forward
upon the rebels in the West, and General
Mcclellan will soon have the opportunity of
marching on to Richmond, and perhaps without
a battle. He is now in position which will
enable him to spare hundred thousand men
for the South and the West without materially
delaying his own particular purpose Of moving
" onward to Richmond" Doubtless he will