Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-11-22
The True Battle Field.

4 morning Journal lamenis that the expe-
dition, which has by this time, W. may hope.
effected landing on South Carolina, was not
sent month ago to Texas. The reason given
for this regret is that il would have been easier
to land an army the Texas shore, and that
the people of that State have now been taught
by suffering the value of the Union.
We cannot agree with our cotempOrary.-
The fighting might be little easier in Texas
than in Soath Carolina, but the moral effect
of a successful blow In the latter State will be
infinitely greater. To possess Texas might BE-
convenience to the il habitants, but it would
not materially change the aspect of the cam
paign. We should send few thousand men,
at great expense, to a point so distant that
they could not be re-enfUrcet, except at great
risk and expense where they would be with
out communications with head quarters for
fifteen or twenty days at time, and would be
opposed by considerable portion Of popu'
lation almost every man of WHICH is by ncccs-
sity niRFksman and accustomed TO military
life. And if, Notwithstanding all this, our ar
mics maintained their ground, the success
would be of small account.
But to place an arMy in South Carolina is
TO attack treason in its stronghold, and bring
gloom and dismay TO the hearts of the traitors
who FIRST plotted this Infamous conspiracy
To bOmbard Charleston aud raizc it to the
ground, leaving not one house standing, would
strike deathblow at the insurrection aud
would be righteous vengeance upon that vile
hole, wheFs treason has been lomenting for
quarter Of century. To raise our flag over
the walls of Fort Spmpter would give conf
dence to the nation just in the degree in which
it would alarm the insurgents.
For every reason South Carolina should be
made the battle field of the war. 1t is the one
State where hatred to the Union and the con-
stitutiOn has infected nearly the whole pOpula-
ton. With Characteristic selfshness the South
Carolinans, from the very beginning of the
rebellion, shoYed their anxiety and determiua-
lion, at every hazard, to keep the war out OF
their borders. Their intrigues prccipitatcd
poor Virginia into the rebellion ; their demands
made Davis hasten the insurgeqt army to its
posts in the Old Dominion they were the
first TO march northward, aud the loudeSt to
declare that their precious South Carolina
must be defended on the Potomac.
All the ruin which has bsilllen Virginia
these calculating traitors arC responsible for !;
they see without thought Of regret the fair
fields of sister States given up to the ravages
of war; and they can only be touched by
bringing destruction upon their own homes.
Moreover, the pity we naturally feel for the
losses sustained by the bor,ler States neither
we of the North nor their fellows of the South
will feel for South Carolina. The deluded
Kentucky and Tennessee men who entered the
| Confederate army months ago, declared that
| they " hated first al AbolitiGniSt, and then a
South Carolinian = and the Palmetto chival-
| ~ have behaved themselves toward Virginians
| and others with so much supcrcilliousness and
| insult, that few of their friends would not like
to see their pride BUNDLED.
South Carolina, iheg, is the trne battle
field where this war should be fought ont
Her sands are the proper areun. Elsewhere
our armies iniure property and destroy life
with hrOthery reluctance. But her conduct
has placed South Carolina outside the limit
Of our regard. On her soil hostile armies may
meet as on neutral ground, aud we are much
mistaken il the South would not sec with al
most equal pleasure as the North, the tide OF
war confined 10 The limits of the most trucu
lent, the most seiGsh, the proudest and the
meanest !State Of the Bnion.-Neic York
POsf.