The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-05-26
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n.se, view Of sAs Summer Cam.
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from tho Richmond Enquirsr.l
There is evidently TO be IN active sum.
mer campaign. The plan Of the enemy
seems to be to keep our attention con
standby s,sitsd NJ every psint at once, -
that ospart Of our whole wide frontier
may b freed from the urgent immediate
sppsshsnsion of an attack. Then they
can strike where they think our line is
weakest or our defenders least prepared,
and il repulsed can retire and direct 9
blow at some other quarter. In the mean
time they can bag much plumber snd
cause much sorrow and heartbreak to our
people by expeditions through thinly pee
pied regions destitute of troops, and also
can force more and more of oar people
within their lines TO take their hated oath
for quiet life and to save their property
from coutiscation. Thus they can both
demorslise and rob US within our own
borden, preparing all the while serious
sasauls, and delivering them just when
they are ready and where they choose
1t is hard to say at what point they are
mos. active just now. Ii one locke South.
westward it would seem that the State of
Mississippi is the region Of most extern
sive operations. Immense armies are
gathering in around Nicksburg. and
while preparations are in progress for =
ne~ assault upon that place the hack
country is devastated and the people plum
dered by cavalry raids.
But al the same moment Charleston is
kept ON the qni pipe BY energetic prepar-
ations for another attack by land or sea,
or both at once. The object may be only
to prevent Gen. Beauregard IRON seeding
away any of the troops which now defend
Charleston. At the same instant too
Burnside threatens East Teunessee, and
Hooker. largely reinforced, is expected
to cross the Rappahannock somewhere or
anywhere from Culpspper to Poft Royal
To keep some Of our forces employed in
defense Of Richmond reinforcements are
sent to Fortress Monroe, aud lest any
part of the country should have respite,
the enemys gunboats are harrassing
North Carolina.
In the Raleigh Progress Of the 18th
we read: T" Gunboats continue to prowl
up and down the Chowan and Pasqui.
mons rivers. They steal negroes, silver
ware, jewelry, and every thing they can
lay their hands on. and have broken up
. number of fisheries. They stole some
$4,000 worth oil jewelr, from man nam
ed Cook, breaking up his furniture, DC.
and committing other depredalions. In
one instance they entered soldier
house, broke the crockery, furniture, DC.
Five or six thousand Yankees are report
ed at Plymouth and several ganboais 10
the Sound. There is no enemy at Eden.
ton or Elizabeth city. They recently
burnt mill on the Chowan, the property
of Mr.. Haye, situated mile below Win.
ton. Some persons entertain the idea
that the force at Plymouth meditates an
expedition up the Roanoke"
The great numbers of the enemy's for
ces and multitudes Of their shipping make
i, easy for them to carry on simultaue.
ously all these operations. Andlthsy do
not care for delays, for it 10 odrp1Dple
who are suffering. not theirs.
The longer this style of warfare lasts,
the greater will be the mass of plumber
carried North. The more OF our mills.
machine shops, and railroads they will
have destroyed, the more Of our material
resources they have ruined and wasted,
the better chance they think they win
have for an irresistible advance at last
They are in no hurry. Last year, indeed.
there was urgent haste to get the rebel
hon crashed in thirty days, or in ninety.
Now We hear much less Of that veheme MT
urgency, and tn, whole Yankee nation
seems to have laid out its accounts for
war ~ the settled business of life.
Rather than consent to peace and sen.
aration they are perfectly willing to fight
upon the present system for twenty
years or forty. They are willing, during
all that time, to go on submitting to such
defeats Is those they have sustained II
fredericksburg ard on the Rappahan.
mock. because BY these defeats they lose
not afoot Of ground. They lose nothing
but men, and men are of less value to
them than to US. To kill one thousand
Southern soldiers they would be willing
1t any time to sacrifice Eve thousapd Hss-
SLAMS and to sustain q repulse.-vhich
they would represent. hoxaYer, m mere
retreat Tor strategic reasons, rather honor
able than otherwlse-and they would re.
gard the transaction Is paving one on
the whole. One thousand gallant South
ern lives lost to US are ill-balanced bv
ave thousand Of their base hirelinss.-
Jackson slone is dearer loss to 10 than
Hooker and his whole hundred and fftv
thossand would be to them. And then
speculate that it may be Lees turn merit
or Longstreet's. and that, at any rate.
they are killing us slowly Of. And they
are 10 the mean time stealing much and
ruiIing more, and their women and chill.
oren are safe at home, many Of them
dressed better than ever before in the
sPoiis OF our homes, while Confederate
women and children are routed ont ~
mouse and home, and chased Ike Wild
beasts. In short, il We can endure this
wa, .1r me next half century they can,
ano tney VIII wish US joy Of our victories
sno our glory. We urge nothing, sue-
gest nothing, hint nothing, only s,ats
.acts' ouch is the policy Of the enemy.
sash is his calculation, such is his inter.
est and intent. '''
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