Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-06

uons has been suspended; all their industrial
interests have been paralyzed and there is
no source from which they can derive means
or revenue for the maintenance of war, ex-
cept by depriving the people of their proper
ty, day after day and year after year, so long
as the war shall continue, thus reducing them
to poverty and want.
This is a truth which the people in the rebel
states are already beginning to realize. They
had been made to believe that an export duty
on cotton, which the world would be obliged
to pay, would yield them the richest revenue
ever realized by any government, and if the
federal government should attempt interfer-
ence with its expectation, they could command
| the armies and navies of Europe to fight their
battles. How bitter must be their disappoint-
ment as they apply with their own hands the
torch which consigns their cotton to ashes,
and are then compelled to supply to their lead
ers from their other property the means to
| supply the rebellion.
Their currency has almost ceased to be
regarded by themselves as the representation
of value. Conscription has exhausted their
people, and the wealth which long years of
uninterrupted prosperity under the best gov
eminent the world ever saw, had placed in
their hands, has already been expended and
they are now struggling on with the vain hope
Intervention, may save them from that ruin
which they see clearly impending over them
Every day must show them more clearly that
on neither OF these sources can they rely for
help.
| The utter scorn and contempt with which
| every man in the loyal states who proposes
any adjustment of this contest except the alb
solute, unqualified, and unconditional subiuga-
ton Of every rebel in the land to the constitu-
ton and laws, is held by every officer and sol
der in the army and every loyal man in the
| country must Danish from their minds the
last ray of hope from that source. The reac-
ton which followed the recent slight manifes-
tatlons OF willingness on the part of few
secession sympathizers to offer terms of com
| promise must convince them that they have
no allies in the loyal states on whom they can
rely; and the present condition of affairs in
Europe must forever crush that false and de-
baslng hope which they may have entertained
that the intervention of European powers
might enable them to accomplish what they
know, unaided, they can never attain.
We now see what we have to do. We must
obtain control of the Mississippi; we must
| reach those great railroad arteries,-the one
| bordering the Atlantic seaboard, and the other
stretching through the Virginia and Kentucky
vallieS to the west and south. We must as
soon as possible take fortified seaports remain
| ing in possession of the rebels, and then we
shall have virtually disarmed the rebellion,
| cut 1t off from all external sources of food and
arms, and have surrounded it by forces which
can press upon it from any quarter, and at the
| same time severing into isolated portions the
rebel territory, and destroying their means of
INSTRUMENTATION by which alone they have
| been able to meet us in force wherever we
| have tra to6 h., IL,
they have been able to feed and supply their
armies.
BY possessing ourselves of and keeping
open the great natural highways alone, we
sever parts of their territory mutually de-
pendent; and while crippling them enable
ourselves speedily to concentrate our forces
at any point where it may be able to strike.
Tie successes and conquests we have already
described, have carried us through the pre-
| liminary stages, and the blows we now strike,
| each one of them that succeeds, will reach
the very 'itals of the rebellion. 1t may be
that in the future as in the past we shall meet
with reverses. They are the inevitable incl
dents Of great war, extending over so vast
a territory and requiring great armies at SC
widely separated points.
We have already seen that it is not our
true policy to attack actual military occu-
| patton OF rebel territory, except at a few i'm
! portant and controlling points. We must de-
| stroy their armies; we must concentrate and
not scatter our forces; it is better to operate
successfully against one stronghold or one
army, than attempt three and fail. The ind-
cations are now clearly that both in the east
and the west, the campaign of 1868 will give
us brilliant achievements and decisive victo-
ries. Our generals new in the field have the
full confidence of the soldiers and the people,
and the armies will go forth knowing that their
ranks are to be made full; that every day that
passes will add to and not diminish their num-
bers or strength.
Never before did the world see such an
army in the field. Never before did generals
lead such men to battle. Each man goes
forth feeling not only that he has soldiers
reputation to maintain, but also that he has
country to defend in which his interest is as
great as the highest officer in the land. Such
an army, with its energy, intelligence, and
power, and well directed, must be Invincible.
The past has already demonstrated that the
true American soldier can be relied upon to
dare, do, and endure all that human power
can attempt accomplish, or sustain. Let no
men be placed or kept in command of such
men who have not the ability to command and
will to do. Thus the errors and mistakes of
the past will be avoided in the future the fond
hopes and anticipations of true and loyal
people realized, the government vindcated,
and rebellion speedily and forever crushed.
We know that this contest has cost us and
will cost us treasure and blood the best blood
ever shed by any people in the maintenance
of their government, and in the defense Of
free institutions; the blood Of the flower of
our land.
Let us not make their lives a vain offering
by for moment entertaining the idea of par
tition ofterritory, which would involve us imam
archy and border wars and by base compromis-
cs with rebels. We owe it to the noble dead
who have shed their blood in founding and de-
Tending this government, we owe it to our
Selves we owe it to the countless millions
who are to come after us to maintain this gov
eminent and the institutions we have inherit
ed from our fathers, the richest legacy ever
bequeathed by one generation to another, to
transmit them to our posperity, if not i'm
proved, at least unimpared.
In conclusion, your committee will only say
that all the men who hold high positions in
the ARMY and navy, and have rendered valua-
Bile services to the country, with whom they
have held intercourse, unite in the opinion that
fighting only can end this rebellion; that
every traitor in the land must be made to
acknowledge and yield unqualified and I'M
conditional obedience to the constitution and
laws and your committee believe this to be
the sentiment, not only of the army and
navy, but of every man in the country, trail
tors and towards alone excepted.