Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-21
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Upon reaching the Tennessee River from
The field of Chicamauga, Rosecrans ad-
dressed his troops. "Fellow soldiers, p
said he, ''tbc object of our expedition was
the possession of Chattanooga, aud here we
are" Brief, aud to the point; forcible
AMI adroit. Thus far, the campaign whose
mysterious suTges are rolling above US, has
no clearer, as it certainly cannot have n
more lacontc history. The few words of
the Federal General illumisatc the whole
page as a ray from a dark lanter, and no
man can close his eyes to the somewhat
painful glare which they throw full upon
him.
Not even Gen. Bragg himself can con-
tradict them, except with his sword, and
such strokes as it may please Heaven TO
send ns through his hands, in the few days
of fall weather just before US. Unless we
hasten to make hay while the sun Shines
the story as thus told, will hold good
through all time; the spring will open IN.
toward dangers to our arms; the cause
which now turns upon the pivot of its
crisis will drop like a flower which has
been INTENDED, and the end must fade out
of sight in rolling torrent OF disasters
in fog and gloom. God forbid it.
AT present the case stands in about this
wise: We have lost the gate TO lower East
Tennessee, the river which was our base
aud the facilities which these afforded for
progressive movements into vast T6hnes-
see aud kentucky. We have gained a
hand to hand fight; we have repealed a
powerful invasion; We have preserved
Georgia, and secured a commanding pc.
sition around the enemy. Rosecrans, on
the other hand, has acquired all that we
have lost. He has reached Chattanooga
l "a md aH 20 h. -
his base, and now prepares quietly to win.
ter in his new quarters, leaving US uncivil
| Iy out in the cold to take care of ourselves
as best we can or must. Physically and to
all appearances, in the aggregate he is the
gamer; for, after the prisoners, standards
and artillery taken at Chickamauga are
counted, our victory is told, whilst our de-
felt, in the long sum total, glory included,
does not make up for any results yet
achieved.
In a word, we have lost ten or twelve
thousand men without gaining an equiva-
lent in producing territory. The whole
question, therefore, turns upon the situA-
ton, and what we will do with it. In
military circles it is generally believed
that Rosecrans has bluudered into posi-.
ton which, improved by an adversary of
genius, might be turned in three adroit
movements to his eternal ruin. If this be
so, aud the movements speculated, but by
no means explained, are made, the victory
of CbickamaugR will be complete, and the
many lives there sacrificed will become as
SO many trophies to a noble work. But i'll
this opinion be false aud the movements
suggested as possible fail TO be made, and
we continue to gaze listlessly from the
bold knobs of Missionary Ridge upon com.
Portable barracks of the blue varlets be-
NFaNlF han -.
campaign; for as sure as there is any
surety in the future, the Spring Of 1864 |
must see Us far from the borders of Geor-
giaI or near The verge OF destruction.-I
Nail It to your door, men of the South. |
and refuse to be deluded into any other
belief. Food and raiment are our needs. |
We must have them. Kentucky and Middle |
Tennessee can only supply them. Better
give up the sea coast, better give IN the
southwest, aye, better 70 give up Rich
mond without struggle, and win these.
than lose the golden field, whose grain and
wool are onr sole hope. The enemy has
just one army too many in the field for as.
We must crush this oVerplus; we must
gain one signal, Stouewall Jackson cam.
paign. Destiny points to the very place.
Be RosecrnnS the victim. Defeat him.
pulVeriZe him. run him to the Ohio river.
and then close the war with the next sum
ner. And howl Nothing easier. The
bee which has really stpng our flank so
long, once disposed Of our triumphs aud
eglons have q clear road before them 81
Fed sumptuously through the winter, well
,hod and clad, they have only to meet a II
itspirited foe, retake the Valley of the
Wis stsstppi, secure the election OF a peace
Democrat to the Presidency in the Fan,
md arrange the terms of treaty aud indie
These results can be accomplished no
there else than 10 this Department. The
iorthwest is our real adversary,
No matter how often we whip the East, :
he effect is still born to the end. Let Us / .
Zach the trne contestants a lesson of peace /
nd soberness, and the difference win 7be
cen as speedily az our need calls for The