Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-04-02
gRAvD CsLCULATEONs.

That great military genius, the editor of the
New York Times, is again programming. He
carves out q mighty schedule for Halleek, in the
West, and in fact sweeps the whole South by
the board by a single dash Of his pen. Some of
our readers may be able to peruse, without faint
ing these vast feats on paper;
H wOR OF GEN HALLECK.
From the New York Times
Now that the three Southwestern military departments
lately under Buell., Halsek and Hunter, are consolidated
into ono great department under Major General Halleck,
operations Ia that section will Be carried on with 3 ugity
Of purpose and an energy Of spirit, the lack Of which,
heretofore, has produe d delay and confusion. The de-ul
tory movements undertaken, aud, under the eireum-
stances, necessary, in Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, the
Indian Territory and Arkansas, will now either entirely
cease, or viii be suboriinated tc the great purpose Of er
pelling the armed rebels from the entire State Of Tennes
see, and from the States bordering on it southwark to the
Gulf Of Mexico.
Next to Eastern Virgins, this region is, both military
and politically the mos important part Of the rebel
country. If the mountain lands of Northern Geo gis and
Northern Alabama are held by our troops, we viii, with
toothald we already have in the mountains Of Tennessee
and Virginia, virtually have military control Of all the vast
slave regions slOping southwark from the AleghanieE II
the line Of the Mississippi be in our hands. we likewise
control the States bordering that great river on both sides
to is mouth. In a political view, this region is no less
important The original school Of secession cOnspirstors
looked alnost entirely to the establishment of a great
Slave Empire in the semitrOpical regions bordering upon
the Gulf Of Mexico, The border states. in which we
/ have TINS Tar confined our military operations, were not
expected nor desired TO ION the black ohgarehie military
empire. They were looked upon rather in the light Of
outworks, 70 belong 70 the South, or to remain neutral,
as they pleased but really 70 be used as a barrier against
the sboli ion Entertainments Of THE Northern States
Atbrst extending from South Carolina TO FlOrida, and
sweeping from thence in a semi circle 70 the Rio Grsnde,
the new Empire would speedily subjugate the feeble
States of Mexico. Cuba and other West India Islands
would be annexed, and all the negroes and PEG
pies Of Other inferior races reduced to their normal CON-
dition Of slavery. The Gulf Of Mexico would then form
a central lake, round which would circle the States Of
the grand Confederation, whose conversions should be
slavery, and its rulers the lords Of the plantation. This
was the dream, fevered but gorgeous, Of the conspirstOrs
who imagined they had fallen heir to the visions OF
Aaron Burr-sHch men as SlldeH, JET. Davis TOombB
Rhett and Wigfa4. The military possession Of the
States Immediately south Of Tennessee by our troops
viii ut once ard forever destroy all such hopes.
Further, in the five OF six States contiguous to the line
Of operation of which we are writing, the slave system
Of the South, to sustain which the rebellion was really
and o~stensibly inaugurated, has its greatest development
Ia the States bordering on the gull, and for some dis
| tsuce up the Mississippi, the population is divided into
about onebaf slave and the other half nOminally free
while the slave element is massed in various districts, 80
a. to give IL there a p~T0digiOus predOminance. This ee
meuts at once strength aud weakness to the rebellion
but 1t j. ct our option 20 dispose Of IL in such a way as
that ii shall at least not add 20 the rebel power. OF this
whole section Of country, from our present lines Of Opera-
| ton on the north 70 our line Of operation on the south
en gulf coast, we give this morning a compact map
and IN the brief space which it occupies win be seen the
whole surface over which Gen. Haileck has now to ex.
tend the national authority.
As soon as that able commander can march from his
present position at Nashville, and take possession Of
Chattanooga in the cast aud Memphis IN the west, and
when in addition cur forces on the coast take possession
Of Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans, the whole Of the
States Of the Southwest aud the gulf will fail into our
control. Il would be utterly impossible to maintain a
rebel army in the low, fiat, cotton and slave regions OF
Central Alabama and Mississippi, while the national
forces held possession Of the lines Of communication,
and stand iuvincible upon the front and rear. Tbs
/ rebels are now expelled from Missouri, the rebel army Of
Arkansas is routed, and we believe that to-day there IA
not west Of The Mississippi five thousand effective rebels
under arms.
So that, 20 the work on the Gulf States, and against
the rebels there concentrated, Gen Haleek can bring the
whole OF the vast army lately in his own command, as
well ~ the army lately In Kansas and Kentucky. It is
probable that the National forces in KENTUCKY added 70
thai ready to begin operations on the Gull, numbers not
short Of one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers. The
field for their conquest is a vast one the work Is difhcult
but with such a force, united under and inspired by such
a leader, we doubt not that the tasS viii be done, and ef-
fecuYely done, sooner than most people anticipate.
When done, it viii end what az one time appeared the
most difficult labor in putting down the great revolt II
will then remain only that the rebel army In Eastern
Virginia be destroyed and South aroiina wei ehastised
after which the rebellion, as a military fact, viii be eE
sentially disposed Of