Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-05-22
Dependency of the Rebels.

constantly excited at every point at once,
SO that no part of our whole width of
frontier may be free from the urgent and
immediate apprehension of an attack
then they can strike where they think
our line is weakest, or where our defen-
ses are least prepared, and if repulsed
they can retire and direct blow at some
other quarter; in the meantime they can
bag much pilnder and cause much sor-
row and heart breaking to our posts, by
expeditions through thinly peOpled re-
gions destitute Of troops. They can also
force more and more of our people with
in their lines to take their hated oath, for
quiet life and to save their property
from conflscation. Thus they can both
demoraIize and rob us within our own
borders, preparing all the while for SER
ious assaults, and delivering them just
when they are ready and where they
choose. 1t is hard to say at what point
they are most actively engaged just now.
Ifone looks South westward it would
seem that the state of Mississippi is the
region of most exciting reports. I'm
mense armies are gathering in and a.
round Vicksburg, and while preparations
are in progress for a new assault upon
that place, the back country is devastated
and people haunted by cavalry raids.
But at the same moment Charleston is
kept on the qui vive by preparations for
another attack by sea or land, or both at
once. The object may be only to pre-
vent Gen. Beauregard from sending away
any of the troops which now defend
Charleston. AT the same instant Burn
side threatens Eas Tennessee. Hooker,
largely reinforced, is expected to cross
the Rappahannock somewhere or any
where from Culpepper to Port Royal.
To keep some OF our forces employed in
the defense of Richmond, reinforcements
are sent to Fortress Monroe; and lest
any part Of the country should have rest
the enemy's gunboats are harrassing
North Carolina. In the Raleigh Prog
ress of the 18th inst, we read "Gun-
boats continue to prowl up and down the
Chowan and Parquomous rivers. They
steal negroes, silver ware, jewelry, and
every thing they can lay hands on, and
have broken up number of fisheries.
They stole some $4,000 worth of jewelry
from man named Cook, breaking up
his furniture and committing other dep
reuauons. IN one instance they entered
soldiers house and broke Up his crock
cry, furniture, &c. Five or six thou
sand Yankees are reported in Plymouth
and several gunboats are in the sound,
There is no enemy at Edenlon or Eliz-
abath City. They recently burnt mill
on the Chowan river and the property OF
Mr.. Hays situated a mile below Win
ton"
We entertain the idea that the force
at Plymouth mediate an expedition up
the Roanoke. The great number of the
enemy's forces and the multitudes Of their
shipping make it necessary for them to
carry on simultaneously all these opera
tons, 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 the mass of plumber
carried North, more of our mills, ma
chine shops and railroads they viii have
destroyed, more of our national resources
they will have ruined and wasted, and
the better chance they will have for an
irresistible advance at last They are in
no hurry, Last year, indeed, there was
urgent haste to get Their ebellion crushed
in 80 days, or in 80; now we hear much
less OF that vehement urgency, and the
whole Yankee nation seems to have laid
out its accounts for war as the settled
business of life. Rather than consent TO
peace and separation, they ara perfectly
willing to fight upon the present system
for twenty years or forty. They are
willing during all that time to 60 on sub
hitting to such defeats as they have
Sustained at Frederickshnrg and on the
Rappahannock, because by those defeats
they lose not foot of ground. They
lose nothing, and men are of less worth
to them than to US. To kill 1000 south
ern soldiers, they would be willing at any
time TO sacrifice 5000 Hessians to sustain
a republic, which they would, however,
represent as a mere retreat for strategic
, reasons, and rather honorable than other
wise; and they would regard the transac-
ton as a rather paying one on the whole.
A thousand gallant soldiers's lives
lost to us are Unbalanced by killing 5000
of their hirelings. jackson alone is a
dearer loss than Hooker and his whole
100000 would be to them, and then spec
ulate that it may be Lees turn next, or
Longstreet's, and that at any rate they
are killing us slowly of, and they are
in the meantime stealing much and ruin
ing more, and their women and child