True Democrat., 1863-04-08


 a=syS The following is the corr, Iuding portion of letter from Geo. W. kcndcll, editor of the \. 0. Picayune in days gone by, which we find in our Texas exchanges:
 have never been ouc ofthose who believed that the FederalS really meditated an invasion of Texas-the striking blow at either Austin or San Antonio. They have over cropped them. selves in the amount of work they have cut out elsewhere, and have neither the men nor the means to spare for such an enterprise as the SubjugatiOn of q State embracing a territory larger than the whole of New England, with the empire of New York added From he Sabine to the Nueces we have now q Gibraltar of mud to repel an invasion-a wall from 30 10 50 miles in thickness-through which until dry weather ensues. no Yankee army could pass From BrasOS St. Jago, to the mouth of the itro Grand, we learn that for the last two or three months there have been but three days in which the merchants could lighter off their cases, box e. an bales of rchandise-matters more ca>liy handled than cannon ammuuition, militia " stores, or thc horses and mnes to transport them. Gen. Taylor crossed the Rio Grande on th' 10th of May, t.; yet it was not until September, with the resources of the entire On ion to back him, and the exertons of such ac~ tive agents as Kinney and others in procuring
 
 the river on Monterey, and even then he was but hali equipped toc the periIous campagn.- General Scott entered Nera Cruz in March. IL: bat # was not until August that h. was hait prepared to move upon the city of Mexico from fnekla again with inc entire power of the o1 Unite States, and the active exertioHs of the porc'nr an : irleiatigable Iargous to aid hr. TAYlar bad-bat 1000 mon, and Scott Ht. Il. over l6,A9". wh such ar nies the Federals wJl ret think otiHyadiGr Texas, and halt the number they could not move from the coast be- fore the sickIv season set.n, with all the trans portaton they could rake and scrape. These are facts patent to any one who ref cts
 That it may have been down on the original plan of Seward, Lincoln, & O., that they were t. have and to hold Texas, Is very plausible; but after five ot their grand armies have been dis gracefully beaten on the different roads leading from Washington to Richmond, and while the sixth Is short handed and nioralized-lyithout leaders and disprited-it seems idle to suppose that the leading Black Republican chiefs have any hope of carrying out their first pro- gramme. Onno other supposition than that sthey are insane-hopeless mad--can we en- tertain any fears that they will turn their atten ton this way. It is true they threatened to in wade us last fall continually drumming it in our ears that Banks coming with powerful lorce. Df tDi5 lhey prevented many regiments from being Sent to Arkansas and to the Miss issippi, and so far it would seem that this was the object and end of their threats. But until Richmond was in their possession, and they had opened the Mississippi its full length l never believed they had any other design upon Texas than the cscupa'lon of the principal coast towns, aud this merely to prevent our sending out cot; ton aud bringing in foreign merchandzc, and so far thanks 10 Magruder and other brave spirits, they have but slight foothod on our soil.
 But am spinning out my letter, already too long, and will close by reterating the hope that the authorities will permit the few men still left on the frontier to remain for its protection, or a least until such time as the danger is more pressing below us than at present and while peril IS knocking at our own doors n the shape of Iudan massacre. Yours, etc,
 GEO. WILKINS KENDALL.