Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-08-20
Vicksburg.

Vicksburg.
 The radiant defence Of this noble city has been of incalculable advantage tc the cause of the South, It has destroTed the ians ot the invaders and changed the charac .t Of the cam paign. Among the results ari5 E from the resistance offered there, we my mention the following. The moral effect iu | country and in Europe has been astonishin.. IL has taught us that gunboats are not inyulae lble and nor tar fleets cannot sublue land bs. cries, without a supporting land force. It has demonstrated that good defences on land ca~ withstand at tacks from iron clad vessels oat .epel them
 Itwas the supposition, and T~rt of the plan of'the federal commanders, to have unintor- rupted navigation and control ot he Mississippi So confident were they of tA;s, lat the north west prepared to send heavy ights down, to be forwarded from New Ocle or sold along the shores of the rivers. Boat were advertised to sail from points on the upp rivers, laden with all the products of the west. When New Orleans was taden, 1t was r rt of the federal programme to make that ely great trading point; to fill 1t with such thing as were neeaed in the South, in advance Of any supplies that might arrive from Europe, aa1 10 force the plan ters by sheer necessity, to trasie with the North This plan was foiled and .tior's scheme of trade, by the timely action 0re---aothoritias of Texas and Louisiana and the cheek st Vicks hnrp. was knocked in the head. The trade at Memphis and other points on the river, was found to be small and the north west has to send its produce to the east, by rail.
 The Mississippi once opened, the tederals snonosed that few gunboats could keep it open and by toegraphic communication they couId concentrate. in few hours, or days atfarthest, at any menaced point. The towns and cities on the rivers running into the Mississippi t was supposed, could be easily reduced South ern steamboats were to be captured or destroyed' and so. the whole carrying trade would be in their hands. By appealing to the ayarlco oI the planters, or, by reducing them to want, and then offering to supply that want they supposed amicable relations could be restored with an influential number, and the South tied again to the North with the cords of trade. This waa baflled at vicksburg. An attempt to ascend White river was found to be one Of peril S1 of the Yazoo and such streams as had depth oI water sufficient to float their boats.
 Again; they were forced to concentrate then war vessels at Vicksburg. Had that city sur rendered, their fleets would have gone to other
 
 points, t9 Galveston, Mobile, Charleston, or ever to Richmond While Vicksburg held out, other important cities were Jeff and tl'ne given then to make preparations to repel the invader. A last they have abandoned their attack on Fck8 burg, given up their cherished project of con trolling the Mississippi and gone elsewhere.
 The whole plan of the campaign in the wes is thwarted; the federal army i5 hell at bay al important link in the great chain with which we were to be bound is cut out, and time i. given us to make preparations against the time the western rivers shall rise.
 All honor to the brave city tLat So bravely so the insolcnt foe at defiance, aad taught us al what brave and determined people can lo.- All praise to noble people who aaandoneo .L~:~ l,-1es so ,he shot and sAell of B mercilas. enemy and cooY up fAeu abode in tie swamp. and forests, sutf ring enduring rajher thar surrender. Ant if '.5s5ur7 puts iu pi-.. hereafter, to be ntio the cap..-l of tho Soatl ern Confed9racy, let her u1sring5 and her hero ism be remembered in tbat day.
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