Daily national Republican., 1863-05-18
AK ACTIVE SUMNER CAMPAIGN.
A Significant Article.
From JEFF. Davis Organ, the
Richmond Enquirer.

every point at once so that no Part of our whole
wide frontier may be freed from the urgent i'm.
mediate apprehension Of an attack. Then they !
can strike where they lhink our line is weakest
or our defenders least prepared, and ifrepulsed
can retire and direct q blow at some other quar-
ter. In tho meantime they can bag much
plumber and cause much sorrow and heartbrcak
to our people by expeditions through thinly
peopled regions destitute of troops, and also
can force more and more Of our people within
their lines to take their hated oath, for quiet
life and to save their property from contscation.
Thus then can both dCmOrdlize and rob as irithiH
our oisH borders, preparing all the trhils serious
assaults, and delivering them Just phen they are
ready and ,rhere they choose II is hard TO say
at what point they are most active Just now.
If one looks southwestward, II would seem that
the State of Mississippi is the region OF most
extensive operations. Immense armies are
gathering in around Vicksburg, and while
preparations are in progress for a new assault
upon that place the back country is devasted
and the people plundered by cavalry raids.
But at the same moment Charleston Ia kept
on the qHi riUs by energetic preparations for
another attack by land or sea, or both at once.
The object may he only to prevent Gen. Beau
regard from sending away any Of the troops
which now defend Charleston. At the same
instant, too. Burnside threatens East Tennes-
sec, and Hooker, largely reinforced, Is expected
to cross the Rappahannock somewhere or any
where from Culprper to Port Royal. To keep
some Of our forces employed in defense Of Rich
mond, reiRfOrcCmcnts are sent to Fortress
Monroe, and lest any part of the country should
have respite, the enemy's gunboats are harass-
ing North Carolina.
In the Raleigh Progress of the 18th, we read:
"Gunboats continue to prowl up and down the
Chowan and Pasquimons rivers. They steal
negroes, silver ware, jewelry, and everything
they can lay their hands on, and have broken
,I5.r e 81, Tknv sa1a
"a 600 worth of jewclry from n man named
Cook, breaking up his furniture, &C., and COM
mitted other dCpTcdatiOns. In one instance
they entered q soldiers house, broke the crock
cry, furniture, &c. Five or six thousand Yam
KEGS are reported in Plymouth, and several gun
! boats in the Sound. There is no enemy at Eden
| ton or Elizabeth City. They recently burnt a
mill on the Chowan, the property Of Mr.. Haye,
situated a mile below Winton. Some persons
/ entertain the idea that the force at Plymouth
mcditates an expedition up the Roanoke"
The great numbers Of the enemy's forces and
multitudes of their shipping make 1t easy for
them to carry on simultaneously all these ope-
ratiOns. AHd they do not care for delay, for
is our people rho are 1lFering-not theirs. The
longer this style of warfare lasts, the greater
will be the mass Of plunder carried North. The
more Of o,T mills, machine shops, and railroads
men rgiW hare destroyed, The more Of our material
resources MeY hriR hare ruined and trdSted the
T bGiter cnnnCt lnCN lulnh lneS Will nave lOr an
irresistible advance at last. They arc in no
hurry. Last year, indeed, there was urgent
haste to get the rebellion crushed in thirty days
or in ninety. Now We hear much less of that
vehement urgency, and the whole Yankee ma
tiOn seems to have laid out Its accounts for
war ns the settled business of life.
Rather than consent to peace ard separation,
they are perfectly willing to fight upon the
present system for twenty years or forty. They
are willing, during all that time, 10 go on sub
hitting to such defeats as those they have sus-
laiurd at Fredericksburg and on the Kappa
hammock, because By these detcdtS they lose not
foot or ground. They lose nothing but men,
aud men are of less value to them than 10 as.
To Nil one thousand Southern soldiers they
would he willing at amy time 10 sacrifice five
thousand Hc-sians and to sustain repulse-
Which they wOuld represent, however, as mere
retreat for strategic reasons, rather honorable
than othrrwise-and they would regard the
transaction n paying one on the whole.
One thousand gallant Southern lives lost
10 u, urc ill-balanCcd by live thousand Of
'hrir lnsr hirclings. J1ckSOH GlOH Is a
ID, d 'fs :. MS than UOOkrT an! his BhUl,
l".4r.J ,,d .ffy honoDid ,rou'd be 10 them,
.iu.' n.u ,l,cul,dr that Hdy be Lees turn HeTt,
or IOugdrut's, aud thdt, al any rate, they are
kHlng ns slo,rly Of. And they are in the mean
time siCaling much and running more, and
heir wO,neH and children are safe at home, many
Of hsv, dressed batter than eUer before in the
spoils of our homes, ,chilc Confederate romea
dud cLilircn are routed ont Of house and home,
and chased like wild beasts. In short, if we
can endure this war for the next half century
they can, and they will wish Us joy Of our vic
toIir5 and our glory. We 'TV" noHmg, SugIest
noihmg, hint motEiHg, only state tiicis. Such Is
n Jyliry Of The eu,niy, sicL Is his cd!culdtioH,
Sn'i {, his interest and intent.
The admissions Of the organ Of Davis, con;
tanned in the above article, are remarkably sin.
ccre and truthful, and they would never have
been made in that quarter but for an important
PURPOSE This candid statement of their weak.
myr7 aud our strength is made, without doubt
/ u prepare the South for offensive operations
Or efforts Of desperate character. They must
, attack. They must break the chain cable thai
. i around them. They must strike a hard blow
The Enqu'rer says, We suggest notLing;'
/, but the article Itself does suggest the absolute
t necessity Of their striking at us hard. Blu
J whcrc' 1t must he on the northern borde
n lnc-Posslbly into Kentucky, possibly int,
s Maryland and Pennsylvania, possibly a nanl
e movement on Washington. Let them strike