East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-11-25


years longer, if their conscription act
were effective TO bring out men enough
TO carry them. The united forces of
Bragg, Buckner, Hill, Hardeo, and as
many as Beaui gard can spare from
the defense of Charleston, and event
ually, perhaps, the whole of the Nir-
ginia army, are to DO massod along
that line, and concentrated, advanced,
withdrawn, dispersed or concentrated
again, under the orders of comman-
der, whose ability makes him an am
tagonist whom the army Of the Cum
berland has learned not TO despise.-
This region, then, is the heart aud final
retreat of the great rebellion. When
tho Union arms cut on seriousl ~ threa-
ten the communication through North
Carolina, which State has ever been
. languid aud reluctant supporter Of
disuuion, Virginia will bc virtually
abandoned, tho rebel archives trun-
died back to some place within few
hours rpn OF Atlanta, and Richmond
left 20 the protection OF a few thousand
home guards and the local 'chivalry."
1t has been the common opinion
among tho Southerners since the fall
Of Nicksburg and the loss Of East
Tennessee, that Lee and Johnson
would effect n junction, and make it
their policy to hold territory enough
and OF sufficient fertility to subsist II
force Of two orthree hundred thousand
men, and so interlaced with railroads
as to afford prompt transportation.
Tho region represented 10y the cities
Of Augusta, Rome, Atlanta, Montgom-
cry, Selma and Mobile, is the tract in
which the closing strategy Of this war
is to be exercised. 1t is calculated
by tho rebellion leaders that within
this territory fighting force can be
sustained large enough to guard the
limo from being broken 10y lnyasions,
and they hope that, 10y drawing the
Union armies to this remote region,
they will keep their lines of supplies
always IN danger and make every re-
pulse disastrous. by series of blows,
such as they have recently been able
to give Rosocraus, they tlutter them-
selves that they will gradually wear
out the resolution of the North, de-
plete her aImies, exhaust her means,
and that, eventually, point will be
reached. when the masses i'll the loyal
States, grown weary of such n war,
VIII fail to support amy administration
that insists upon avigorous war policy.
They know that they can never equal
the North in mon and means of war
rare, but they believe they can wear
down H., t-----:-.a..aa. e the Linton ar
mice, partly by desperate ~olor ond
partly by stubborn patience, and
when 10y their obdurate resistance
they have wcaricd out Northern endu-
rance, they eXl EFT a concession, COM
promise, recognition itself. Such are
the plans, such the hopes, of the lead
ing insurgents.
Parallels are constantly drawn be-
tween this rebellion and the reyolu-
ton of &c. The heavy-hearted peo-
pie are called upon TO remember how
tint was Il seven years struggle, and
how great numbers of the people then
grew discouraged, and became ode
moralized," requiring all the personal
influence of the Great Chieftain TO
sustain their sinking resolution.
But the feeling with most who have
taken from the first an active part in
this movement is, that. since no hope
can come from submission, and confs-
cation will follow the advance of tho
federal arms, they Will at once satisfy
dramatic propriety and their own
thirst for revenge, by fighting on to
tho bitter end.
Such is the temper Of the forces
with which tho Union arms have to
cope as they advance toward the heart
OF the cotton growing region. Eyi-
IDENTITY, the loyal people of this great
Republic must now show thoms ,lvos
worthy of tie oulogy which Thucyd-
ides pronounccs upon the AtLenians,
when their Republic was at its acme:
They thought nothing was done while
anything remained to be done"