The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-11-20

X f O X u X:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20.
NOW rs THE TIME.

NOW Is THE TIME
If we are not mistaken the Administra.
ton know that this is the right time to
vigorously push forward our columns and
strike some stunning blows before the
winter fairly sets in. The removal of our
do. nothing Generals, the forwarding of
our new troops, aud the organization of
our armies, ali contemplate warm work
before cold weather. And this is Just
the time. We have our Regiments com
paratively well filled. The armies East
and West have been greatly augmented in
strength, not only by increased numbers,
but by new and superior arms. Our new
ronclads are in part completed, and 9TH
ers rapidly approaching completion. ready
to cooperate with the land forces wher-
ever practicable.
With the rebels it is not so. Their for
ees are depleted, and supplies short
Their new conscripts are not yet forth
coming. The3 we'll know how to use
their fresh troops under their late general
CONSUMPTION, hurting their immense for
ces against our dwindled numbers, achicy
lag victories aud giving a new life and
impulse to their desperate cause The
advances they made with their new leyies,
under bold and skillful leaders, were real.
ly alarming. But they were met on the
Threshold of free soil, defeated, and in
gloriously driven back. Though those
victories with us were not followed up as
they should have been, still it is not too
late The enemy is poorly prepared to
meet our forces in an equal aud open gen
eral engagement. To retreat is dispint-
ing and their columns are fearfully deci-
mated. Ours, swollen by new numbers,
aud flushed with recent victories and the
Inspiration of pursuit, are prepared 10 ac-
complish great work, which shall virtu-
ally close the war in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-two. Forward, then,
and may God speed the right.
The subjoined extract from the Rich.
mond Wing of Nov. sth, will show the
understanding the rebels have of the pres.
eHt status of the war;
- The draft in tie Yankee States has
been only partially executed. In several
States IT WAS postponed till after the cleo
ton That being now over, the draft will
be everywhere enforced, and the armies of
the enemy. already largely outnumbering
ours, will be strengthened at all points
Their naval preparations, too, have near
~ reached completion, and there is no
Disgusting the fact that they are of char
acler calculated to excite great uneasness.
we lear that we ARE not using proper en-
ergyand dihgencein making ready to meet
these formidable accessions to the strength
OF the enemy. We do not know that
solitary soldier has been added to our
ranks under the new CONSUMPTION law
We arc Lot yet advised that the War De
psrtment has yet made known even the
regulations that are to govern the enrol
ling officers, if, indeed, it has done so
much as appoint enrolling officers. Is il
safe to waltz Do we not need now more
men, and are not the indications that we
will soon neel every one that can be
brought into the field and equipped r.
How does the work proceed on fortifca-
tons and distractions Are we making
tie harbors secure and the rivers impene-
trable /? We are about to be put to the
greatest trial we have yet encountered.
ii we are ready at all points, and succeed
IN repelllng the enemy, it will probably be
his final effort. Ii he breaks through
Our deienses and makes his way into the
anterior, enforcing emancipation as he ad.
vances, he will do incalculablc mischief
We invoke the government and the PEG.
pie to bestir themselves while they have
yet chance. In this matter prevention
Is lnconceivably easier and better than res
cue or reparanon. Once more. then. to
hn H.