The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-05-10
The Plans of the Administrations
What we are to Meet.
[From the Nashville Patriot, Of May St

expedient hereafter in this particular.
time and circumstances will determine
| For the present ii Is of the first impor-
lance that the South should ascertain as
near as may be the plans and purposes OF
the North, and prepare to meet them.-
Upon this point we have looked with care
to every development calculated to throw
any light upon IT, and have arrived at the
following conclusion in respect to the
plans now in progress for the summer and
fall campaigns in the work of subjugating
the South. IL is needless to say that Gen.
Scott, the ablest military commander in
America, is ut the head of these military
operations. To carry. them forward the
Administration has already placed at his
disposal 100000 men for land service, and
has increased the naval service in men to
about $4,000, and in ships to three or four
times the number heretofore employed,
including vast number of transports for
war purposes. If IL should be deemed
necessary between this and the meeting of
Congress to further increase the imposing
magnitude of these forces in either branch
of the war service, it will be promptly
done, and when Congress assemblies it
will provide for all future contin gencies
by voting the necessary appropriations
and giving the President q carte blanche to
raise men to an indefinite number.
OF the present ultimate object of the
Administration, which is backed by the
Forth with singular popular unanimity,
we imagine there can be no question at
this hour. Unquestionably it is TO re-es-
tablsh the Union by forcing all the States
which have questioned its authority into
unconditional obedience, at the mouth of
| the cannon and at the point Of the bay
| opaf 10 occnrpplisb tbto roo,,lt tb<, vol;-
cy will be to make the Federal capital I'M
assailable. This they look upon as already
accomplished. They will, for this pur-
pose, keep from 10000 to 10000 troops
stationed in Washington, according to
circumstances. Next is the reduction of
Maryland to subsection by military possess
sion. This they have already partially
accomplished, and will endeavor to COM
plete by taking possession of or demolish-
ing Baltimore, silencing, banshing or
hanging the friends of the South in the
State, and thus freeing themselves of all
apprehension in that quarter.
Having reduced Maryland to slavery,
they will then direct their power towards
Virginia. They will take possession of
the Potomac river, repossess the navy
yard at Norfolk and the Arsenal at Har-
per's Ferry, and gradually approach Rich
"A
monding access 10 Western VIRGINIA thew
will establish system of onerotions Inv.
which thov will endeovor 10 senorote The.
Stote-more bv holding out Inducements
than by military force. .T
simultaneously with these movements
two sb,lI witness The concentrotior of n
large force at Cairo, made up of men from
States West of Ohio. An endeavor will
be made TO bring St Louis under the
thumb of the Federal mower by whatever
means NAV be necessary to that end. and
thus hold The State of Missouri IN check.
or bring her into complete subiection to
the will of the administration. These
onerotions will likewise be directed against
Kentucky. and through them she will be
forced from her present assumed position
of neutrality. and compelled to take sides
either with the North or the South; or,
possibly. to allow the troops of the North
to pass through or quarter within her bor-
ders. Whether thew will extend their
demonstrations down the Mississipi river
towards Memphis or not will, Of course.
depend on circumstances. At all events
q vlcilant lookout will be directed towards
Arkansas and the Western Territories;
with Cairo as a base, or some new one es-
tablished in Kansas or elsewhere in that
region. . '". NV
In the meantime the blockade of'all
the Atlantic and Gulfcoast of the South
will be prosecuted with the utmost vieor.
Fort Pickens and the Tortucas will be
held as radiating points for naval opern.
tions, and will mainly support the block
AIDE of Mobile, New Orleans and the Tex.
as coast to the Rio Grande. From these
points force will likely be precipitated
upon Texas, or upon its Weston frontier,
which by the assistance of the Indians, if
practicable, will greatly harrass that re-
gion. If successful it is possible if not
probable that an effort will be made to
raise the seige of Pickens by an attack on
the besiegers, and to drive them inland.
open Florida to invasion, thus leading the
way to Montgomery, backed vigorous. de-
monstrations against Mobile, New Orleans.
Galveston, and the important station of
Matagorda Bay.
However visionary these schemesmav
appear, we are satisfied that each and all
of them have euterell into the calculations
of those who have control of the opera-
tions against the South. If they are not
all carried out their defeat will be the re-
suit simply of powerful and prompt conn.
ter movements ON the part of The South
If they are successful The final resuIt ia
plainly visible. With triumphant armies
marchinp from The several strotenet;coi
points on our Northern frontier. with The
whole entire slave-holding Statee-paraIyz-
ed into non-resistance or very feeble res;,-
lance; and armies penetrating from The
Southern coast. leaving desolation in their
wake, they will unouestionablyo yerwbelm
The whole Sonth during tho cor,; ~ - .,,,,,,
ner and fall Tbe d;soosos ;ro;do.. =.