Smyrna times., 1862-11-27
Hopeful Aspects of the War.

= war. There are signs of activity and {
earnestness IN various quarters, which hav
done much toward meeting the universe
= demand OF the people for vigor and energ
by on the part of the Government. The suc
at cesses of our armies in the West-the OK
pulsion Of the rebels from Kentucky an(
Middle Tennessee, the victories Of Gen
= - Curtis, and the complete reduction of hi
Department to the Nations sway, have beer
). received as proofs that kindred triumphs will
n follow kindred efforts wherever they ma,
IS be put forth
l. Everything indicates the purpose of the
y Government to press the war with equal
vlgor IN the East. The Army of the Poto-
mac received peremptory order early in
October to move forward and force the
, rebels to battle. Gen Mcclellan was re-
moved from command because he would
not obey that order. In these two facts
we have all the assurance we can require
that the Government is determined to push
the rebel forces now between Richmond
and Washington with all the energy and
vlSor it can command. Hitherto the ruling
policy has been one of delay hereafter it
Is to be one of action. More hazard nm
questionably attends the latter than the for
mer An army which fights is more liable
to defeat than one which does not. But
the only use of an army consists nits fight
lng-and there can be no such thinU ~
carrying on war without taking risks. The
country Is willing to incur hazards for the
sake OF the advantages which boIl and
vigorous policy promises to the country.
And 1t takes heart and courage from the in
dicatlon that such policy is to be hereafter
pursued
There Is little doubt, moreover. that the
attack on the rebellion is to be made in
other quarters. 1t is a matter ofnotorietv
That powerful expeditions are fitting out to
operate at various points on the Southern
coast, We have a formidable fleet Of IRON
clad vessels just ready for active service
which can cover the landing of artillery and
infantry enough to take and hold every
southern seaport. Whether right or wrong
IN their conjectures, the country has come
to believe that very early in the coming
W inter we shall have Charleston, Savannah
and Mobile in our possesson-that the Mis-
slssippl will be completely in our hand
that the rebels will thus be entirely cut off
from Texas and Arkansas. from which
hitherto, they have drawn very large por-
ton OF their supplies,-and that we Shall
put an end to violations of the blockade and
to all questions which foreign nations NAV
raise IN regard to it. These will be sub
stantlal results; and the people look for
ward with confidence to their speedy achiey-
ment
They expect, too, that movements will
De made to penetrate the heart of the rebel
States by ascending the rivers which lead
INTO their most densely settled and most
productive regions. Gunboats, which the
rebels are utterably unable to withstand
can ascend the Santee, the Savannah. the
Chattahoochy, the Alabama, the branches
OF the Mississippi, and other streams which
penetrate the interior of the cotton-orowipg
States, and promptly make themselves Ii
masters Of the rich plantations which lie
along their borders; and of the million and
a half of slaves by which they are cultivated
There is but one way in which the rebels can
resist this movement of invasion-and that
Is by recalling their troop from the North
ern frontier; and the moment this is done
their whole country is thrown open to our
advancing forces. Thisi is unquestionabIv the
shortest way to end the war, and, therefore
1t Is the most humane.
There can be no doubt that the result Of
the recent elections has been to stimulate {
the administration to increased activity ,
1T has been rightly interpreted as a ver- t
Dict against the war, but as a protest AGAINST
the tardy, ineffective manner in which fine {
war has been carried on. Even the Rich
mond papers, largely as they counted upon
democratic victories at the North as likely |
to aid the rebel cause, fail to find in them
the encouragement they had expected j
They take note ofthe fact that everywhere t
0at of New York, the men who declared ,
themselves against the war, were defeated |
and that it was only by repelling the impu- !
ta'ion, by explaining and retracting what G
ever they had said which could bear ,ucb = v
construction, and by demanding greater c
vlgor in its prosecution, that the Democrats II
anywhere secured success. h
The Government takes the right view Of O
the cese, and, we are glad to see, acts upon c
II with promptness and courage. fit will |,
OnlY meet the inst n,,,onfnA;or,. :,