Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-21
THEY DREAD To HAVE THE COTTON
STATEs ATTACKED., io,1 suy

FRIDAY, NOV. ~, lool.
THEY DREAD TO HAVE THE COTTON
STATES ATTACKED.,apls snO
The New York Express says that the Balti-
more Ameriean agrees. with one OF the Wash
ington correspondents, thst-- s,ae QUO
"h is better to cut of the head Of the re-
bellion (RIchmond) than 10 merely cripple its
1extremities; and by the taking OF Richmond
and the destruction OF the rebellious organiza-
tion which keeps their armies In the field, the
whole Internal conspiracy would Inevitably
collapse at once, Texas sharing In the paralysis
which would follow. The nation has never
been satisfied with the results gained by the
magnificent expedition TO Hilton Head, culmin-
ating In little else than experiments for estab-
fishing expensive negro corrals, under the su-
pervision of run-mad philanthropists; and much
as the results of the Burnside expedition-an-
other frightfnlly costly experiment-has been
lauded, the same force combined with others in
an attack on Richmond, would have produced
results which would have placed the Govern
ment upon an entirely different footing in the
eyes Of all nations to-day. The truth is, the
Government may beat around the great nest of
traitors for another eighteen months, driving in
its pickets here and there, and the experiment
will be as barren Of results as hitherto; and II
those in authority cannot see this, the people
may well despair. II has come TO that at last,
that the nation cares nothing for Hilton Head,
or even Savannah or Charleston, alongside Of
the dominating, insulting fact, that within
paltry one hundred and seventy miles Of the
Federal capital, the very chiefs Of this accursed
rebellion are left In absolute security TO hatch
their plots for further prolongation of the
war.
Let the gunboats, every one available, move
up the James river, and let the army, In trans
ports or on foot, move along within the pro-
tecting sweep Of their guns. Let them bore
their way onward, no matter how few miles
each day, until they invest Fort Darling, front
and rear, and pile avalanche upon avalanche of
loyal troops as supports after them, until every
and who could for moment doubt the result,
with the army Of Burnside to keep them occu-
pied upon the other line of the advancel
Let Tarboro' or Weldon, or Galveston or
Matamoras remain as they are; but in the name
of all that is national and patriotic and brave,
let us have Richmond
As the rebellion will never receive Its DEATH
blow until Richmond Is taken, every days delay
is precisely to that extent prolongation ofthe
war, further imperilling of our cause with
foreign powers"
The N. Y. Express itself endorses these views,
and adds:
The Government seems to keep a scatter
ing fire upon certain points Of rebeldom instead
of direct and effective one upon the source of
al! their power. But for blunders In Washing
ton, Richmond would have been taken more
than six months since"
Similar opinions were expressed, a few days
ago, by paper In this city, the Star.
Ii is not difficult to divine what 1t means, that
the presses and men who lauded the expeditions
of a year ago TO North and South Carolina,
when Mcclellan was at the head of the army,
as marvels of strategy, should now oppose
everything of the kind. The Presidents proc
lamation Of September 22, with the near ap-
proach Of the fatal frs. day of January, solves
the riddle. These men wish to keep the Union
armies out of the cotton States, where the slaves
are, and where there Is no still further South to
which they can be carried.
We admit that the national honor Is now
committed to taking Richmond, and that II
must be done. But II is nonsense TO speak OF
1t as the central point of the power of the rebels.
New Orleans was of tentimes the importance to
them that Richmond is, or ever can be, and yet
the loss Of New Orleans scarcely Jared them.
The fall of Richmond of itself, will have no per-
ceptibletendencyt overthrow the rebellion, and
not If tits followed by the entire loss of vr.
ginia. The rebels will retire with their slaves
to the still ample regions which would remain
IN them towards the Cplf 1850.
Richmond is, TO be sure, the capital of the
rebels, but II has not been SO long, and n Gov.
ernmept not vet two wears old. which has nj.
ready moved from Montgomery TO the hanks n,
the James river. can move back again. or n
some other point. without losing prestige Our
own national capital was changed often during
the Revolutionary war. and was captured and
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