New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-04
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We are favored, through our Associated
Press dispatches, with the following, all the
way from the banks of the Mississippi
MRyPHIs Tenn. Wednesday. July 30. 1863.
TIE Bulletin Of this morning has the following intelligence
an Amcnr other ineren, item. the proceeding. of til.
Rebels we have inkrg Of the subjects discussed at two
Of all the principal Rebel military leaders held in
Richmond on the 4th and 3th inst.
1t understood that they the conclusion that they
must lose territory.
The defensive policy OF the South thus far strongly at
tackled and Generals Lee and Beauregad advised the invasion
Of the Norh from three points namely From beand
Wism.port into Penn syvan;s from Louisville and Cincin
ns into Indiana AID Ohio and from Paducah aud afro iuo
Illinois
1t is alleged that the following plan Of operations for the
Summer csmpsign was ,sreed upon:
Fiat. Tie immediate obstruction OF the Jane, River to
make impossible for Gen Mcclellan TO use it IS means
for communication with the Government aud for anpora
ton Of re endorsements aud army supPies
Second: The occupation Of Williamsburg yorktown, AID
the entire peninsula
Thd The recovery OF the whole OF lie territory Of Viz
snis and the suppression Of the Ba:Gofs and Olio Rail
road.
Fourth: The recovery Of New Orleans pills and the
from Tennessee and Kentucky.
When these object, have been accomplished Gems Lee
and Beauregafd proposed
Fh To make the Po,onsc and Ohio River. at once tier
bases OF operations and frontier line and fer tie seat oil
war from Virgiuia to Herylaud.
sirth To hull upon Washington from Richmond column
Of picked troops and by the capture Of h'i city effect
the Liberation Of Baltimore and thea invade the North from
the three points above named.
by thus becoming the invaders the Rebel, hope 10 make
necessary to keep hone for the doese Of our
cities ave hundred thousand troops.
The extreme mprobsbiIty that any "iDk-
ling" of the result of secret conferences by the
Rebel leaders at Richmond would reach the
conductor of sort o Union journal in Mem
phis, and be first given TO the public through
his columns, is too manifest to require elucda-
ton.
But our concern is with the lack of inge.
nuity eyinced BY Mr.. " authentic sources"
his obvious want of common sense. The
Rebel chiefs are no demi- gods-they have ex-
hibited no eminent genius for war and govern
ment; but they are very far from being nat
ural fools. Speaking generally, they are not
80 wise as to avoid blunders, nor 30 foolish ne
to persist in them. The " anaconda strategy
was never more than half adopted by them,
and when its utter, disastrous unltness was
demonstrated, they at once abandoned it.
I" We have attempted too much, said jeff
Davis frankly 10 his Congress; aud the ndmIs-
sion did him credit. Tie error OF undertaking
to prosecute half dozen campaigns Mt once,
is one that he is certain never TO repeat.
Ii needs no ghost from the grave to Oh.
nounce that the traitor msgnetes will try TO
recover Virginia and fight their way through
Washington or around il 10 Baltimore. They
are under obligations TO tho aristocracy Of
Mary land, especially OF Baltimore, which they
must at leas. endeayor t. fulfill by al advance
across the Potomac. They would be heTcely
accused of bad faith and the deserll0n OF their
best friends ii they were not to make IN
earnest effort to liberate" Maryland. Ii,
then. the division Of our forces IN Virginia and
the weakness Of our wasted regiments shall
enable them to crush one Of our armies while
merely observing and holding ia check the
other, we must look for a speedy and vigorous
push across the Potomac. JEFF. has been So
widely blamed, to the injury of his prestige,
for not making such a demonstration after
Bull Run, that he must make it on the next
opportunity. if for nothing else than to demon.
strate its rashness and folly.
But DO very sure Of this; There will be no
invasion ol the loyal States on three distinct
lines, By so many different armies. That sort
of stupidity is not admired down ia Dixie
There may be raids and dashes across the Ohio
to burn Cincinnati, or two or three smaller
paces-there may DO fent. Of invading Penn
sylsana by the Cumberland Valley-there may
be new and more vigorous attempts to distract
attention from the main point by lght-armed
inyaslons of Missouri but the Rebels will not
seriously divide their forces-they will not, even
for St. Louis be diverted from their main pur-
pose of driving the Union forces from Virginia
and debating from Baltimore or tire Susque-
hanna a peace that will give them all the Slave
States except possibly Delaware, and all the
scacoast from St. Martins Bay to Matamoros.
That is pretty large undertaking, and ii will
not be postponed to the temptation Of making
formidable advances into Pennsy lyania, Ohio
or Illinois.
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