Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-04-16
The q.lme for Flshtine has Come.

4So S1AG
IN preparing ar article for last weeks
issue, We stated that there was then seem
ingiy a luli in military affairs, which was,
no doubt, the calm that often portends a
storm. Scarcely had our paper gone to
press, until thrilling intelligence came of
tue splendid victory at Island No. 10. in
which thousands Of rebels were taken
prisoners, and hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth OF stores and munitions ia
ken as spoils Of war. G-leriousand impor-
tant as was this achievement, it was al
most immediately nearly forgotten ia the
intense excitement that ensued uryon the
receipt of the naws of the bloody and pro-
traeted engagement AT Pittsburgh Land
iRg. ia which two of the most powerful
armies that ever met in hostile array, on
this Continent, were hurled against each
other with all the vehemeace and obsti-
macy that could characterize beings intent
on mutual ruin and destruction. The
brave Northerners fought worthy Of men
o~ontending for the honorand supremacy Of
ourfag.. The rebels combated with all the
energy and desperation Of despair. For
about the first time, they, in this instance.
met our troops on an open field. and al
though on the frst day Of the battle they
far outnumbered our force. and had the
Tower of their army, their best artillery
and small arms, and their boosted social
ed Napoleonic Beauregard, yet with these
combined advantages, they were on the
second day compelled to fly before the
aresistsbae czset Of the indomitable and
mvincible Unien hosts, and seek shelter
behind their entertainments at Corinth,
where, probably, another terrible and
sangumary contest will have to decide the
fate Of the rebellion ia the Southwest
1t seems highly TrebSble that the rebels
are st last driven, By oar uniform success
IS, to the necessity Of hazarding the des-
tiny of their wicked revolt on a few des-
perate struggles, wherein all their available
power wiIi be eeacentrated TO the hope
less task. They mus have had nearly all
their Southwestern troops at the Pittsburg
fight. Even Prioe and Van Dorm were
there from Arkansas. They, it would
seem, kept up their retreat from Pea
Ridge, until they found themselves safe
from Curtis and Sigel under the protecticiI
OF Johnston and B~eauregard.
If 1t is to be their Pan of policy here
after to combine their forces, and make
heavy strikes, The Unienists will not OBJ
Ject. Since there must need be war. let
1t be carried on with gigantic columns, in
desperate decisive conflicts. that the strug-
gle may the sooner terminate from The
more speedy exhaustion of the power of
the weaker comhattant, instead of .er-
uniting hostilities to drag along in petty
skirmishes, guerrilla forays and murders,
consuming years and exhausting not only
our W but also the patience of the
world. 1t begins to look now as though
the aEeRging thunderbOlts of the nations
wrath are 10 be hurled thick and fast in
red hot fary on the traitorous rebels
Mcclellan is on hisxzayto Richmond with
rs n an army as the world can produce.
Halleck is now at the head of the army
Of the West, and viii plant the flag of the
Onion high over ali in every State be-
tween the Ohio and the Gulf.
The var mas cc~rnmencad, at last, in ear
nest.
Gar armies Hrast mere iorIcard, and to
10 50 there is no use attempting to con-
ceal the fact that there are formidable OBJ
stacle TO overcome. The shocks of even
6ercer and more obstinate conflicts than
have as yet been felt bvthe nation, must
be endured ere the~end comes. We be-
iieve the time is at hand when we are to
Cealize the assurance of Gen. Mcclellan
that the "war will be short, desperate
and de~isCc" We have all the prepare
tions essential T. the prosecution of a vig-l
Norous and victorious conflict. The people
who have given so unsparingly of their
substance to qualify our armies for the
hercAtean task of crushing one of the
1est powerful rebellions that the worlds
history records, expect the work to 90 on
resolutely at whatever sacrifice necessary
to ensure the great end, which in the
richness of its fulness will be the confirm
alton and perpetuation of Constitutional
American Liberty, unalloyed, We trust,
y even the dregs of that baneful system
which has been the poisoning principle
ever mixed more or less in our cup of ne
tional happiness.
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