The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-05-30
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ward road
"There is evidently to be an sctive sum.
mer. The plan Of the enemy seems to be
to keep our attention constantly excited as
every point at once, SO that no part Of our
whole wide frontier may be freed from the
urgent immediate .pprehensions Of an At
tack. Then they can strike where they
think our line is weakest, or where our
defenccs are least prepared, and if repulsed
they can direct blow at some other quar-.
ter. In the meantime they can bag much
plunder, and cause much sorrow, and heart
break our people BY expeditions 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 a quiet life, and to save their
property from con6scation. Thus they can
both demoralize and rob Us within our own
borders, preparing all the while for serious
assaults, and delivering them Just when
they are ready and where they choose.
alt is hard to say at what point they
are most active just now. If one looks
southwestward, it would seem that the State
of Mississippi is the region of most exten.
sive operations. Immense armies are gath
ering in and around Vicksburg, and while
preparations are in progress for . new
assault upon that place, the back country is
devastated, and the people plundered BY
cavalry raids; /; but at the very same mo-
ment Charleston is kept on the qui vive BY
energetic preparations for another attack by
sea OF land, or both at once. The object
may be to prevent Gen. Beauregard from
sending away any of the troops which now
defend Charleston. At the same instant
Burnside threatens East Tennessee; and
Hooker, largely re-enforced, is expected to
cross the river somewhere OF anywhere from
Culpepper to Port Royal, to some Of our
forces employed in the defense of Rich
mond, endorsements are sent to Fort
ress Monroe. and lest any part of the
country should have to resist the enemy's
gunboats are harrassing North Carolins.
In the Raleigh Progress of the 18th inst,
we read 'gunboats still continue to prowl
up and down the Chowan aud Perquimans
rivers Then steal negroes, silver ware,
jewelry, and everything they can lay their
hands on, and have broken up . number of
6sheries. They stole some four thousand
dollars worth Of jewelry from man BY
the name Of Cook, breaking up his furnl-
ture and committing other depredations.
In one instance they entered soldiers
house and broke up his crockery and furni-
ture, &c. Five or six thousand Yankees
are reported in Plymouth, several gun
boats are in the Sound. There is no
enemy at Edenton or Elizabeth City.
They recently burned mill on the
Chowan river, the property of Mr..
Haye, situated . mile below Winton.-
Some persons entertain the idea that the
force At Plymouth mediate an expedition
up the Roanoke --
"The great numbers of the enemy's
forces and tho multitudes of their shipping,
make it easy for them to carry on stimuli
taneously all these operations, and they do
not care for delay, for it is our people who
are suffering, not theirs. The longer this
style of warfare lasts, the greater will be
the mass Of plunder carried North. The
more of our mills, machine shops and rail
roads they will have destroyed, the more of
our national resources they will have ruined
and wasted, and the better chance they will
have for an irresitable advance at last.
They are 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 urgen-
cy, and the whole Yankee nation seems to
have laid out its accounts for as the settled
business Of life, rather than consent to
peace and separation. They are perfectly
willing to fight upon the present system
for twenty years or forty. They are will
ing, during oil that time, to 60 on submit
ting to such defeats as they have sustained
at fredericksburg and on the Rappahan.
mock, because BY these defeats they lose not
foot of ground-they lose nothing but
men, and men are of less account to them
than to Us. To kill one thousand Southern
soldiers, they would at any tine be willing
to sacri6ce FIVE thousand Hessians, TO sus-
tain repulse, which they would, however,
represent as g retreat for strategic res
sons and rather honorable than otherwise,
and they would regard the transaction - .
rather paying one on the whole. q
"One thousand gallant Southern lives
lost to Us are i'll bslanoed by the killing Of
Eve thousand of their base hirelngs-
jackson alone is dearer loss to % than
Hooker and his whole one hundred and City
thousand would be to them, and then they
speculate that it may be Lees turn next, or
Lonestreets, and that at any rate they are
killing 10 slowly of, and they are, in The
meantime, Stealing much and running more;
and their women and children are safe at