Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-17

THR Abandonment Of New Madrid, No,
gives the Federal army the last stronghold
in that State, We now hold all Missouri;
have made big hole in Arkansas, aud
will make i, bigger, hold all Kentucky
aud nearly all Tennessee; most OF West
Virginia; a great deal OF Eas; Virginia,
with prospect Of Increasing the hold very
speedily; have frm footing on the coast
of North c aroliua, South Carolina. Geor-
Gia aud Florida: blockade the gulf States,
and easctuAlly bar the iugress or egress of
commerce from their ports, The Southern
COuCsdsrasy is surrounded. except On the
Southwest, and is now beginning 10 be
compressed into It's proper limits. The
Gulf chivAlry congratulated themselves
immensely when they began the war, that
they had shifted the Geld Of eoates; to the
border States that the Gulf States could
50 on with their planting aad raising just
the same as ever, while their dupes on the
border would be Sighting ,hsirIba,,les aud
suffering the rsyaGes of war For the
irst nine months of the war, that game
has succeeded; but aOw the border States
are about Cleaaed out, and the wax is roll
ing back on the guilt STATES. where it al
Ways belonged just as cursts always re-
coil on the heads of those who uttered
them.
True 1t will be harder to couduc, a
campaign against foe in South Carolina,
Georgia or Mississippi than in Virginia,
Tennessee or Missouri: but they will suf.
fer greater disadvantages than We. Give
US full sway in the border States. give us
possession OF them beyond all contingency
and restore them TO condition of quis,
as far as practicable, and the rebel army
would soon dwindle 10 half its pseseu,
boosted proportions; for at least half OF
it is made up in the border States, aad
they would not fight long Tor Soathers
cOnfedersey that left out their own States
Whenever the border States are ours, tn,
only genuine hope Of the c. S. \. is gone
Coop up theit armies in the Gulf State:
aud hold them six months simply in an At,
'i'Gde OF dGfenseA nd they would be com.
fS%tNA ~ wv "a Y avn SuNGE GAaAGSLRO0
Whenever they are driven trom virSiai,
the War is virtually ended. for North Caso
lima follows OF necessity, Already hold,
inG Tennessee, we shall then have ,ae re
beiliOa like nat secured in cage aut
eaa kill it OF at leisure, or let i, starr,
itself to death il We choose.
We know there is a clauor ALREADY
against the policy of simply forcing III,
enemy TO abandon the border States. l,
is said these evaeaa,ious OF their strong.
holds are not victories for :us, unless y,
capture thsis armies, II ,hey were 70 be
suffered 10 return aud repOssess their posi-
iious, Of course nothing would be gained
but II the Federal army holds, as it Ger,
sainly will, all the ground as the sasmy
retiees, aad stiu press his front with do,
JiGoe, Till it drives him from the borle,
States, even IL it does not capture = siuSi
army in the process, tho rebellion will b,
conquered. For We may be assured that
however desperate the Gulf State leader
are on paper, their words are intended /,
inspire their aruios oa the border, and 10
for home application, They have no no
tiOn Of seeing their owa fair Plan,Atioa
dssolated, as Virginia aud Tennessee hAv,
been: and when the tide recOils on them
they viii be very elsaz OF makiaS fsaesa
pile Of everything they possess and per
ishing aloaG with it, as they so brAvel,
have threatened. They will DO jas, lik,
anybody else would do in like situation
They wiu saSnit-aad very probably -,
they were tNNsea into the war ASains
their winl