Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-11-07
The New Campaign.

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states and invade the free states, VIC have
had pause for preparation for a new ad-
vance into rebel territory. The new cam
paign, with reinforced armies, has now
commenced. Tho Richmond Dispatch re-
Gently said:-
IAN invasion is designed to which all we have
seen of invasion Is mere child's play. We speak
it-not for the purpose of creating unnecessary
alarm-but to warn our people of what they have
to expect, and to prepare them for the OCCASION"
The Dispatch is right. We have now
some 100000 men in the field or ready
to march we shall soon have full mil
lion. The advance upon Richmond has
again commenced with larger and better
appointed army than We have before had
in Virginia, admirably organized, ably
led, and in best fighting trim. They are
pressing close upon the enemy, and there
must be immediate fighting or a rapid re-
treat of the rebel armies. The more gen
cral belief among military men is that
the rebel generals mean to fight great
battle where they are, and that they are
strong enough to make it the hardest
yet fought. No man who comprehends the
real position of things in Virginia can
talk fippantly about the pending contest,
as if the sacrifice of thousands of lives
were a small matter. Nor can any man
who knows the difficulties of the situation
consider the defeat of the rebels in front
of Mcclellan a holiday task. The most
consumate gcneralship and the most cour-
agcous fighting alone can bring victory.
If the rebels retreat from their present
position without battle their position
beyond the Rappahannock will give them
great strategic advantages, to be neutral
lied only by greatly superior forces on
our side, moving forward on supporting
lines. If our army should advance up the
valley the enemy would have the oppor-
tunity to flank us by way of Charlottes-
Vile. If our army should 60 by Gull
pepper and Manassas our lines could only
be protected against flank movements by
a large rear guard, and the great battle
would probably occur near Gordonsville.
Gen Burnside's movement down the
east side of the Blue ridge is supposed to
be intended to cut off any further retreat
of Lees army, while Mcclellan attacks
in the rear. But the hints of movements
are so vague and contradictory that it is
impossible as yet to conjecture their pre-
else object. We can only infer that Gen
Mcclellan desires to compel the enemy to
fight where they are if possible 1t is the
rebel policy, if they are consciously weak
er than we are, to avoid any fighting at
present, and draw our armies into the in
terror of Virginia by skillful retreats.
This was their system of tactics on the
peninsula, and it requires sagacious STRAIT
egg, rapidity of movement and superior
force to defeat it.
At the West we shall soon see Rosen-
Grams leading the army of the Ohio into
eastern Tennessee, and with the co.opera-
ton of Cox and Morgan pushing on
through western Virginia, taking possess
sion of the great central line of rebel
communication with the South. At the
same time Grant and McClernand, with
Portcr's fleet on the Mississippi assisting
are to move down the great valley of the
West, making clean work as they go till
they reach the Gulf. Naval attacks on
Charleston, Savannah and Mobile are also
promised, and new expedition, probably
under Gen. Banks is organizing for oper-
atoms in Texas.
Thus the new campaign opens on a
magnificent scale, and there are to be
winter quarters nowhere. except for the
detachments left in garrison. The pre-
diction of the Richmond paper is likely
to be verified. The new inrasions of the
South are to be formidable, and they
promise the most important results. We
may naturally expect some reverses and
defeats, but we cannot doubt that there
will be steady and general progress
towards the object to be accomplish.
ed. We have learned from bitter expert.