Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-05-27
From The Richmond Enquirer.
The Summer Campaign of the North
ern Forces.

o The Summer Campaign of the North
= ern Forces. -.-r
a The following is a significant articI
/ from jeff. Davis organ the Richmon,
e Enquirer: -
There IS evidently to be an active sum
! mer campaign. The plan of the enem,
: seems to be to keep our attention con
e stantly excited at every point at once Sc
that no part OF our whole frontier NAV
De Ireed from the urgent and immediate
apprehension OF an attack, then they can
= strike where they think our line is weak
est, or where our defenses are least Dre-
pared, and II repulsed, they can retire
ana direct blow at some other Quarter
) In the meantime they can bag much plum
, der ana cause much sorrow and heart
break OF our people by an expedition
through thinly peopled regions destitute
OF troops. They can also force more and
more OF our people within their lines to
take their hated oath for quiet life to
save their property from confscation.
! Ihey can demOralize and rob within
our own borders, preparing all the while
1or serious assaults and delivering them
just when they are ready and when they
choose. 1t Is hard TO say at what point
they are most active just now; if one
would look south-westward it would seem
that the State of Mississippi is the region
OF most extensive operations.
Immense armies are gathering around
Vlcksourg and while the preparations are
IN progress for new assault on that place
the back country Is devastated and the
people plundered by cavalry raids, but at
the same time Charleston is kept on the
qulvlve by energetic preparations for an
other attack by sea or land, or both at
once. The effect may be only to prevent
General Beauregard sending away any of
the troops which now defend Charleston.
AT the same instant Burnside threatens
East Tennesse, and Hooker, largely rein
forced, Is expected to cross the Rappahan-
mock, somewhere or anywhere between
Culpepper and Port Royal, to keep some
of our forces employed in the defense of
Richmond. Reinforcements are sent to
Fort Monroe and the enemy's sunboats
are harrassing North Carolina.
In the Raleigh Progress of the 18th
inst, We read ''gunboats continue to'prowI
up and down the Chowan and Perauimans
rivers" They steal negroes. silyerware.
ewelry, and everything they can Law their
hands on, and have broken up number
Of fisheries. They stole some four thous-
md dollars worth of ieweIrv from a man
named Cook, breaking up his furniture
md committing depredations. In one
Instance they entered soldiers house
md broke up his crockery and furniture,
ec. Five or six thousand Yankees are
'eported in Plymouth, and several gun
boats are in the sound There is no enc
ny at Edenton or Elizabeth City. They
ecently burned mill on the Chowan riy-
r, the property Of Mr. Haye, situated
nile below WlntOn. Some persons enter
am the idea that the force at Plymouth
nedltate an expedition up the Roanoke.
The great numbers of the enemy's for
es and the multitudes of their shipping
nake 1t easy for them to carry on stimuli
all these operations, and they
o not care for delay, for it is our people
Tho are suffering. not theirs. The lon
er this style OF warfare lasts, the greater
Ill be the mass of plumber carried North
he more OF our mills, machine shops and
illroads they will have destroyed, the
lore our national resources they will
ave ruined and wasted, and the better
nance they will have for an irresistible
ivance at last. They are in no hurry
asst year, indeed, there was urgent haste
get the rebellion crushed in thirty DAYS
in ninety. Now we hear much less of
lat vehement urgency, and the whole
ankee nation seems to have laid out its
counts for war as the settled business
life, rather than consent to peace and
paration. They are perfectly willing to
INT upon the present system for twenty
ars or forty. They are willing, during
that time, TO go on submitting to such
'feats as they have sustained at Freder-
zsburg and on the Rappahannoek, be-
use by these defeats they lose not foot
ground-they lose nothing but men.
d men are of less value to them than
US. To kill one thousand Southern
diers, they would be willing at any
ne to sacrifice five thousand Hessians to
stain arepulse, which they would, how
er, represent as "a mere retire at for
ategic reasons" and rather honorable
IN otherwise, and they would regard
transaction as rather paying one on
: whole.
)ne thousand gallant Southern lives
to US are i'll balanced by the killing of
, thousandof their base hirelings. Jack
alone is dearer loss to US than Hook
and his whole one hundred and iftv
usand would be to them, and then
y speculate that it may be Lees turn
I or Longstreet's and that at any rate
y are killing us slowly off, and they
in the meantime, stealing much and
ling more; and their women and chill
n are safe at home, many of them
;sed better than ever before in the
is of our homes, while Confederate
nen and children are routed out of
Sc and home and chased like wild
its. In short, if we can endure this
for the next half century, they can.
they will wish US Joy of our victories
our glory. We urge nothing, suggest
hing, hint nothing-onIy state the
). Such is the policy of the enemy
| is his calculation-such is his inter
md intent.