The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13
RONTPELIER, VI
SEPT. 10 49,.
The Rebel Invasion Of MARYLAND.

STD Of the rebel inVHGi0n Of Maryland ard
Pennsylvania, is oC the n!cst measre character
aud quitc cont Adlctorr tj tllat. Ii is SAID that
accounts Tor the l:lle We know OF She move
meas and operations OF our forces and the
fact thal here are along the Potomac, IN Mary
-Iaud, bul !e" hearty UnionistS prevents It's from
get ,ug much information Of rebel moyemcn ts
" netaer hc Government, OK those IN command
al yla armies, know more chan the rubiic, there
is Nc means Of asceI tanning, though il they
80 I, they must be proceeding }vetty mucn in
the dark.
From ali that We can learn. however, we
lud% t,I4. Tic rGoels bav4 crossed into Mary.
Hand in laTge force, and are moving bout nucl,
AT their leisure il the otatr. Trey are supply
Jog themselves uhundantly with provisions, OF
which. it is said, they before had u plentiful
lack. and are having ali easy time recuperaf
ing and getting themselves into fighting trim.
Ia spit .! Cle pretended loyalty Of the great
s,.%jority OF the Mar, !;lnders those or them, ut
least in places which the rebels have VISITED,
tavo received them with open ARMS, and have
gladly FURNISHED them w'!l all sorts Vt valuable
supplies ami ijormation
j Il Low quite two weeks since this invasion
al accepted TACT; AT the outset IL met 40
opposition al eli, thG .uidS OF tie PoturnAc 81
fsr as appears, having been entirely unsuardcd
y hF,"er 'oi> "as owing t" the caralessneSs ~
|uabl:,tv 81 TIC GovernMen; OF HE Generals
az command, las nj ncro explained. has the
taaG I@m&lus ucTer,heies,. Daring nil this time,
81 lay under G-n. Iail.c& or ter. McCleI-
AZ, or some Other military cneItAIn has
thai matter IN charge Las hetM'' operating; i'll
Na' sand, and latierIy advancing i. force up
the Potomac, the rebels keeping enc or TWO
day marcn ahead Of the Union columns, and
our troops occupying the abandoned camping
grounds of tto enemy the next day, or the next
day rnt one, atcr the rebels left. But the
euely yet remain in Maryland, and ut the latest
accounts were moving either into Pennsylva-
mia. Or alon. ybc State line Westerly,
No one s3atn3 able e. State precisely what the
senc purposes arc III this nvasoo, Gen Lee
Htdte3 it to bean advance 70 Hberatc MARYLAND
'Fom Che YOKE Vi her oppEessors, and to suffer
her take her place, ii sins choose in the South
atn "on!rdetAcy. Aud ibis or The kindred Oh
iect Of compelling the State 10 ally herself to
tise .trtUnes Of che Slave Power, is no doubt one
AZ tue .mo;lves which have Influenced The rebels
an tule bold push across tie Potomac. IL !salSo
one purpose OF the movement to procure supplies
wash hav: been found in ricn abundance IN {.
: tate which has hitherto suffered but It!le in
1h" ~ar.
But he movement has ID much greater sig
nlLCance tiian this. 1t is d transfer d the wal
Across tAe border. IL is an invasion ul loyal
-Scac 1t Is offensive war, and is putting not
only the general Government, bu, the great
State Of Pennsylvania in defensive position.
And tho effect OF such condition OF aH4lrs, can
+1ur he,I the South, both at nome, and among
soye4 81 powers. 1t also reviVes the hopes Of
she NoSthern 6ympatbisels with jeff Davis,
and encourages them still 10 aid, IN such ways
Al they can, some settlement of the h" quarrel"
which shall practically destroy the United
States, and make The Confederacy the chief and
nost potent powor of this continent, a power,
OF which they hope in some way to be II part,
and which shall finally include, IN tie territorial
limits, the great West, if not The great central
States OF New York md Pennsylvania.
Tie sucGrss OF the invasion and how much it
rs. yet adVanc ed any OF these Objects is yet not
AZ AL settled. 1t has, OF course, given strong
hopo tn the South, and has driven out for a
2Qn- time ANY though; Of yielding, from thcr
saiG Is and - thls respect e1dy the move
rner,t IN AN ia,eense success II will also be
gre 10 s.vVi1c 70 the rebel cause ABROAD, and viii
be sn argument ia favor o recognition, II n0t
intervention hose logic it viii not be easy 10
answer, aud which We may be well assured, D. ii
Du,is elnmissarles ut foreign cOurts will not lie
siLa 10 avail themselves OF. \ ud these are only
a f,w III the taore prominent advantages which
enc eebeis will derive from this dashlng, yet ap.
yarcnty well considered, and skiIiully planned
advance into Maryland and Pennsyvania.