Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-31
Morgan and Lees Raids.
From the Richmond Examiner, July q.

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Mol Morgan's expedition was not fail
ureJ With twenty-five hundred men he
traversed two enormous States FROM end
to eud-occupied their principal towns at
their arteries of communal
cation, burned dePots, destroyed engines,
sunk steamboats, innumerable. He threw
several millions of people into frantic con-
steruation for the safety of their prop
erty, turned entire populations into fugi-
tives, and compelled hundred thousand
men to leave their occupations for weeks
and go under arms-only as an equivelant
to, him and his twenry, 1--WE hundred troops
What If be has been hcmmed in at last
aud compelled to surrender Twenty Eve
hundred have been added to the Yankee
exchange list-a great matter, truly, at
this stage of the war Is not the tempo
rary loss of their services ten times, TWEEN
ty times, hundred times. compensated by
the blows they have struck, the loss they
have Inflicted, the panic they have created2
Want of enterprise has been the curse of
the South in war as in peace We cue.
coed better than the stupid, cowardIy Van
kee in all that we try ! but we try little
The raids of the Yankees, over which thew
blow the tin trumpet every day, are the
feats Of pigmies compared with this gigan-
tic exploit Yet because it has at the end
cost twenty five hundred prisoners, a thous-
aud .JdiHeGnts grunt out their Told you sol
We can't make raids We can't invade !
See how it ends ~ If these counseIors are
hardened to, our armies must just encamp
on a hill and wait till the Yankees reneat
their experiments till they discover the
right way to make them retreat, give mn
more and more territory till we have none
at all left. Confederate cavalry must keen
safe on Confederate soil Till the substance
OF the land is devOured, then seek a fresh
tract of Confederate soil and devour.
The South must do nothing but parry
it must never presume to thrust. But
these counsels will render the subiueation
of the South certainty, uncertain ONLY
on the question of time. ~
d Morgan's raid and Lees invasion ara
both great gains of the South. While the
capture OF $500 cavalry, after they had
accomplished and more than accomplish
d,thelr splendid work, is matter for re-
greet, 1t is a tritle in comparison to their
achievement. While the return of Lee to
Virginia, and the sudden abandonment If
one OF the most magnificent campaipns
ever planned, is still an inexplicable event
an apparent in consequences, what we liJ-
and the point hereached, furnish solid ma
terial for hope, and a glorious model, for
future imitation. 7.EAHl q ~ ~
The conclusion of Morgan's affair is easi-
~ understood. Ills a casualty of war of.
ten inevitable. But the end OF Lees cam.
paign puzzles the more it is considered
We know now from both sides what was
The battle of Gettysburg. 1t was power.
tul effort to destroy the military pow.
or OF the United States by blow at the |
heart. 1t was unsuccessful from the misc
conduct Of one division. But it was not |
, victory of the United States. Lee was |
unsuccessful, but not crippled. BE took 1
IN impreguahle position within reach of
Baltimore aud Washington, aud held il At
'ase. Why he gave up his campaign. and
anne back TO his old line OF the Rapidan.
not explained by any fact now before me
'nblIc, Bat though this is disappoint-
,ens u does not rob the campaign of its
Tory or It's profit to us. The enemy has
'lt the weight of the war, and his army il
ist where it vas when the battle of Ma
assas vas fought two years ago, Ii