Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-01-23

lave we'll whipped the enemy within our
own territory. it will be time to turn our
attention to those cities.
We need not fear that we shall not have
abundant opportunities, if we will but be
prudent and cautious, to fight them at ad
vantage They have undertaken to conquer
the South and must advance. In Missouri,
Kentucky and Northwestern Virginia we
may bide our time and opportunity. select
our positions and fight them only when it is
policy TO do So They propose, too, to go
to the relief of Eastern Tennessee. Let
them try it. When they have marched
through Kentucky it will be impossible for
them to keep up communication with the
North, and their invading army will fall an
easy pray to our forces.
We must conquer Washington and Mary
land on Virginia soil Mcclellan is requir-
Ell by the whole North to advance. He
must advance or resign. If he or the Cen
eral who succeeds him advances, we will be
sure to defeat them at Ccntreville, or Mana
sas, or at some point between Washington
and Richmond. A half dozen defeats would
not injure US; single one would ruin them
and open the way to Washington and Mary
land. We must break up their army before
we advance into Maryland, and this they
will afford us an early opportunity to affect,
if we will be but patient.
Should they 60 into winter quarters in
Washington, the North will see that the
Fsubjugation of the South is hopeless pro-
ject, and the nations Of Europe will recog-
nize our independence and break up the
blockade. The Press and the people of the
North see this, and promise, as dernier
resort. series of brilliant victories to be
achieved by land and by sea within the next
few weeks. They must fight US within that
time on our own soil and at positions select
ed by ourselves, and defeat us, too, or the
illusion of subjugating the South will pass
off from all Northern minds Invasion
alone can subj ugate country; and after
nine months of threatening and preparation
the North has not advanced ten miles in the
well-affected portion of our territory, and
almost lost Missouri, Kentucky, North
western Virginia and Maryland, which
offered them no resistance when the war
began. The grand result of their attempt
ed conquest has been, so far, to add third
= the numbers and strength of their enc
Many who admit that it is both perilous
and useless, SO far as ultimate success. is
concerned, to attempt now to take Wash
ington, who see that so soon as we cross the
Potomac We divide our strength, and have
an impossible river behind us and an enemy
| in superior force before us, contend. never
theless. that we are in honor bound to at
tempt the relief of Maryland.
Marching into her territory will be sure
to transfer the seat of war from Virginia
and carry it into her midst. She is now
mparatively we'll treated by the Federal
forces, because they are trying to conciliate
her favor and refrain her in the Union -
When we attempt to relieve her by crossing
the Potomac, we shall place her in the stu
alton of Kentucky, Missouri. Western Vir-
ginia and Fairfax. The Federalists will
burn her farm houses and villages and towns,
and rob and lay waste her whole territory :;
and her own citizens, divided in their allie
glance, will rise up and shed each other's
blood. We can imagine no situation more
deplorable than would be that of Maryland
if we were now to march a part of our army
into her territories The time has not ar
rived when the Federals would fee from her
soil. panic stricken at our approach. and
will not arrive until we have re-enacted on
Virginia soil another Manassas This we
shall almost certainly have an opportunity
to effect ere the winter closes
Should we be defeated in Maryland, our
whole army, with their ammunition. would
be captured by the enemy. We might in a
short time repair the loss.of our men, but
the loss of our munitions of war would in
filct upon us stunning and appalling blow
One defeat in Maryland would do US more
harm than ten in Virginia. We have the
selection of the battle-ground-why choose
Maryland?
We cannot conquer the North except by
esxhaustlng it. or by stirring up disscnsion
between the Northeast, East, and North
west. Our victories but excite their indig-
nation, increase their energies, stimulate
them to enlist in the army, and keep down
sectional and domestic broils among them.
10 avoid civil discord. by keeping the peo-
pie engaged in foreign war, has been the
common policy and practice Of statesmen in
all ages and in all countries. It is thus
with the North. She fears the unemployed,
destitute. aggrieved mobs of her large cities,
and equally fears rupture with the North
west. She has to choose between domestic
war and war with US. She prefers the lat
ter, and will carry on the war as long as her
money or credit lasts
She will hardly be at loss for men, as
the wages she pays to her soldiers are better
thar than those which she gives to her laborers.
The prodigious expense which she is now
mourning cannot be long continued, unless
some rashness on our part enables her to
recruit her failing strength from the spoils
OF the South. The cautious policy and
strategy SO far pursued by our armies. if
persevered in, will insure us against any
serious disasters. and gradually and slowly