Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-10-03
The Next Three Months.

ion in ninety days are decidedly at dis
count, as Mr.. Seward has probably dis
covered before this. Yet there mus
come time when ninety days will Sc,
the end of the great conspiracy. We dt
f not pretend that that time is now, but w
DO claim that an immense deal can bt
done toward efectuay suppressng Tho
rebellion within the next three months
so that when the president comes to ap
ply the principles announced in his proc,
amation, the outstanding area of contu
macious treason will have been greatly
limited. Everything is favorable for
such a result. We have now in the field
of the old quotas, 100000 effective men
at the least. The new quotas have add-
ed, and are adding as fast as they can be
arme and equipped, 500 600 more-ma-
king 100000 land forces, of as good
fighting material as ever battled for hu-
man rights; for the most part well dsci-
pIined, and differed in a manner worthy
of each rank and file.
1t is difficult to say what number of
rebel soldiers can be raised to resist this
army. But we think those who have
been brought int the field as the fruit Of
the recent coascliption, cannot exceed
100000 mer. OF these the battles on
the penn'ula must have consumed an
importaD, fraction. The burial of 5000
Of their dead, under the direction of our
surgeons, on the battle field OF Manassas
. alone, indicates the severity of their loss
es in the trying campaign against Pope.
The fortnight in Maryland must have
cost them at least 10000. But to over
come these losses, and to swell the aggre-
gate, new conscription is in progress,
which takes the able bodied of the rebel
citizens between the ages of 35 and 40.
But with the most liberal estimate of this
addition, it is difficult to see how the total
rebel army for the fall campaign can pos
sibly exceed $4,000 men. A halfa-
million will probably be nearer the prac-
teal mark, after all is done that can be
done by rebel ingenuity and desperation.
But these figures do not adequately
represent the disproportion Of the federal
capacity for pushing on the war. The
present singular emergence of the rebel
armies toward the loyal frontier is, in
great part, movement for food, and
speaks eloquently Of coming destitution.
The supplying resources Of the south .
have been disturbed more than we are
apt to suppose at the first thought. Their
troops are now contending for the meat
region of Kentucky, but they will be
driven from it, Texas, their most relia-
bic lardcr hitherto, - now nearly cut off, .
and will be wholly so, and the land occu-
pied, before November. With the au-
umnal rise Of the Mississippi,
Vicksburg will be taken and the river
become the uninterrupted channel for our
yun6oats and transports. Within two
months we shall have iron -clads enough
o take and hold every Southern port
rom Wilmington to Mobile and Calves {
on. And these movements will not be
mere coast operations, like our present
Of Hilton Head, but centres of
military action, to which the new policy {
+ the government will give the utmost '
Importance. They must draw the war a
own into the cotton states, relieving the a
asst border region from further contest, :
nd tying the rebellion into knot which
an be unfastened or cut with great facil,
y. a
such, then, is the prospect which the
lvorabe season Of the year and our en- a
rmous pIePonderance of military power, ;
hen used on purely war principles, bold Ii
1t to US. But its fulflment depends on r
lrselves. Neither bayonets nor iron J
ads will fight of their own accord-nor "
i'll great armies achieve great victories,
Hess a wise government and a united, I
solved and enthusiastic people back h
EN- up. Let us all, then, do our utmost Il
carry on this righteous work 10 its de "
ed consummalon. Let US have con- II
Ience in all our leaders, military and IA
vic, and give them our energetic sup m
'rt. In the words of Secretary Chase n,
Dismissing all the past, let us look only N
the future, and henceforth let the day tn
dissension and discord be ended, and n,
US do nothing but work for our coun- nj
:, in that sphere in which God in his y,
evidence may call upon US to work. - ed
oSt0n Journal 49,
90 Last year, at the battle of Bull
IN, 1t was reported that one Rice, ~,
der from Weathersfeld, was killed, n.
d the funeral was held with the solem-