The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-19

enemy was to be "driven to the wall" after be
had evacuated Yorktown. The army of the
Potomac it was declared, shall enter Richmond
after it had suffered defeat behind its own for
tifcations. And there were to be no more re
treats on our side, after Pope took the lead to
wards the rebel capital. Yet, in spite of all
the assurances, made with confidence, aud ca
gerly welcomed by the credulous country, our
armies are besieged; but all "safe," in the Po
tomac forts. Who can say that the tide Of
disaster has yet been stayeda What is there
to turn it? We have fresh men in the field
but so we had before Possibly the enemy
cannot take the forts; and possibly. knowing
the fact, they will not try. But if we can
judge the future from the past, they will be
vely likely to attempt something which they
can accomplish, and the first we shall know Of
it shall be, that it has been done. y
We see no ground for predicting better re.
suits 50 long as we employ the same MEANS
We need the strongest government tho country
has ever seen. And it needs no prophet to
predict that, without more strength, more Wig
orous power, larger grasp and more energetic
mastery of the resources which the country is
putting into the hands of the administration
than We have had hitherto, the Union cause is
doomed to speedy and disastrous overthrow
The Rebel Advance Against Cincin.
nati and Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, of September A.
thus comments upon the exciting news from
the Ohio River:
1t has been less than six weeks since the
voice of Gen. Lew. Wallace was heard at tho
great war meeting in Cincinnati, warning the
citizens of their danger, and beseeching them
to avert it in time. To-day he is in command
among them as military ruler, martial law ha,
superseded the municipal authority, places o.
business are closed, and anxious citizens are
harrying to and fro, consulting together how
they may best save the beautiful Queen City
from bombardment or conhagration. General
Wallace has had personal experience of the
fierce determination with which the rebels are
waging this war in the West. When the
meeting mentioned above was held he urged
the people, in tones of solemn and pathetic
fervor, to anticipate events and prepare for the
coming crisis. Too many, unfortunately, were
indisposed 70 bestir themselves from their fatal
lcthagry. The result will now be seen in hur-
ricd, extemporaneous, perhaps unavailing eff
forts at self protection. They vainly imagined
like numbers among ourselves, that war could
never approach their doors, and that Cincir-
natl could be saved by successful skirmishing
along the river sides and amid the mountain
passes of Kentucky. Let the people Of Phila-
delphia take heed, and be wise in time. Let
them not imagine that the battle for their per.
sonal safety is to be fought only at distance,
on the banks Of the upper OF lower Potomac.
1t may happen, in the changefulness Of this
strife, that we may be compelled to wage it on
these very fields that lie around us, now clothed
with verdure or waving with harvests, but soon,
it may be, to be drenched with blood.
We have no fear that our fellow countrymen
of Cincinnati will be found unequal to the
emergency. Hamilton county, in which the
city is situated, it said by its inhabitants to
tain population about equal in number to the
entire white population of the State Of South
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