Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-03-20
aMistellanenus.
The Value Of Vicksburg,
Brooklin, NJ arch 9th

L
The capture of Vieksburg will inAict
upon the rebel cause I, more serious in.
jury than the loss of any other point in
their possession JEFF Davis can better
afford to give ~ ten Il Riohmonl, /, tlian one
Vieksblr.. aud he fully appreciates it,
Immense importance to the G5nicleratcs.
an is resolved to hold It if ia his power.
1t will require aa i.amen,e force and
most sanIIns struggle u wrest it cut Of
the han Is of the rebels; bat its posses
sion will he richly worth all it en- cost
to seize it. The time to have taken
Eieksburg WIS last June when the fleets
from New Ot'caus and Memphis bonn
barlcl it. \ Land force Of 5000 men,
to cooperate with the gansoats waull
hAvc taken it without doubt. Tue aa,pis-
ious moment passed away for striking
most damaging blow at the rebellion
Since the seiga was ahaa ioaei, the reb,>
ave immensely strengthened this key
P7iut of the river, AMI have glreisonei
1t with a large army.
With the fall Of yieksburg the rebel
{ n.cIegacy is iffetfieytbiy cut in two.
t"G O'''e4e' '1'e, o. - is' u -2d.a'''''i
from the remand r of Dixie, AMI left to
their t..te. They c4a receive no further
s4PPost in mea OF mdu''on, Ths Ft.et.
a glnboIts wll dominate the river from
+ earn To tn slt, silca,e every battery
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ph'a' baltimore "'n ID i''o"' ~ '"e, .
existence oil thiS a'teIt "4,e' Course !"
'ae o~ean prevents 'ae hls''th fo''' &
, from eXictth4 eAaosa'taut eh1t
Nheneyer the owners oi faafo''s' e'"t'
bo1is AMI san vessels Ia 1t clfry pfoau Is
to Eastern seaporiS, pal up ihelr t''lS "'
freight above moderate 'aFih' taeh 'Ao'S
products seek the his'l>>lPP river, anu
floats tosea Oh is broad bosom lh's nr'n .
the eomorants 10 their senses, and com
pels them to ab4te their demands, OF lose
; the traffic. 1t destroys their monopoly
+ aud protects the Wcs, against their rave
nous cxtortion.
The Il iee navigation Of the Mississippi
increases the price paid to thc W estefn
farmer of everything he raises, whether
vegetable or animal, and cheapens the
. price Of every article of Eastern or Ea-
ropeAn manufacture consumed. What
ever is saved in freights is so much gained
10 the industrial classes. \ bushel oi
: corn that brings to the farmer OF Illinois
' with the Mississippi closed, fifteen cents
;. will fetch thirty or forty cents when 1t l.
i, opened. We estimlte the free nav'g1'