Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-04-22
tspecisl Correspondence Of the Chicago Tine
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The information received here BY the War
Department in regard to affairs in the Missis
sippi Valley is of such a nature as to make
il evident that the spring campaign on the
Mississippi is over, and that nothing more
can be done there until next fall The whole
campaign has proved wretched failure, aud
the failure is entirely owing to Mr. Lincoln
aud Mr.. Stanton They planned the whole
affair and arranged all the details, and all
the combinations Of the expedition we're made
by them. IL was from the Executive Man.
sion, and from the War Department, too,
that these delusive telegraphic dispatches
emaneted, stating that THE President was
never SO hopeful Of a speedy suppression Of
the rebellion as at present." that Vicksburg
was evacuated that the Yazoo Pass expedi-
tion was successul and that the Mississippi
was on the point Of being opened y |
IL 10 now evident that the task of oftopening
the Mississippi is a much more gigantic un.
d0rtaking than Mr., Lincoln supposed that
General Johnston measure for the defence
of Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the line of
the Yazoo River are of such a nature that
our forces nav there are entirely inadequate
to accomplish the reduction OF those places
that the heat of summer, which has already
commenced ut New Orleans, and the spring
fsvers at Vicksburg, will so eneryate our sol.
diers and decimate their ranks that it will be
cruelty to keep them there that Gen, Banks
is now, or soon will be, acting on the deten-
sive and that the question will soon become
pertinent, whether It will not be better to
withdraw all our troops to Cairo and New
Orleans, or employ them elsewhere AS re-
garda Vieksburg, no one here who knows the
facts about its defences expects to see it re.
duced. All the attempts to reach the rear or
to gain it's flank have proved abortive, and 70
take such place by storm is simple impossi-
BILE. Such, then, are the results of cam
paign planned by Lincoln and Stanton or by
either of them. And such will be the results
Of every campaign planned by either or both
of them, until the people rise in their might,
aud declare that the nseless, frntless strife
shall cease. ~ N-aN g-lG
The news Of these onion defeats on the
Mississippi will have q powerful effect in Eu.
rope. Already the Confederate loan had
been successfully negotiated This news will
greatly facilitate all the financial schemes Of
the ConiederAtesin in Europe, and probably will
lead to immediate action on the part OF Na-
poleon ia favor of the South. In all proba-
bility, Mr., Stewards bland assurances that
our foreign relations we're never on more
satisfactory footing will be fslsifed in thirty
days And, whatever action Napoleon takes
in the matter, he will be followed and sus-
tanned by England Pretexts on the part Of
England will not be wanting, The valuable
aid and assistance which she has already af-
forded to the Confederates is notorious, and
matters look very much now as five would
have foreign war on our hands in less than
sixty days II we are defeated at Charleston,
this result may be considered certain.
The Administration has authorized the
statement TO be made that Charleston will
certainly be in our possession in less than a
week. know too well, however, the
strength and extent of the defences at Char
lesion to believe that The defences Of
Charleston are twice as strong and formida-
BILE as those at Vicksburg and, although
know that Admiral Dupont and General
Hunter will do all that human skill and cour-
age can do, yet candor compels ms to say
that there is no probability whatever Of their
success Da i.'7 ajalT iaHj ia 'aanso.