The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-07-30
The Conscription aud the War.

The COnscriptiOn aud the War.
The Administration is acting wisely in
ordering the immediate enforcement of the
draft. We have just achieved two great
victories which it seems should paralyze the
war power of the rebellion. We have beat
en- its greatest army, and captured its most
powerful stronghold. Upon LEES army the
eastern half of the Confederacy depended
for protection. Upon Vicksburg the wes-
tern half depends for safety. After LEES
defeat and Vicksburg's fall, it might seem
that the rebellion would come to . speedy
end, and without fnrther efforts on the part
of the North We shall soon know the eff
feet of these losses on the rebel States but
we are prepared to hear that no signs of SUBJ
mission appears and that redouble bitter
ness and frenzy rule the Southern
heart
The rebels have had great losses, hereto
fore, and they have met them patiently and
stoutly. Their losses at Fort Henry and
Donnelson, of FORT Philip and jackson, and
of the Cities of New Orleans and Norfork,
were great cahmities, but they did not de-
stroy their spirit or purpose. The obstina-
cy of the rebels has been sufficiently proved
by their action in the past. They have
evinced recuperative power after mishapes,
and given evidence of a fertility of resour-
ces, and of ingenuity in creating the appl-
ances of war, for which they had never be-
fore had credit. .....
We see SO reason to believe that their
spirits will now, all at once, give way, that
their obstinacy will be broken, or their apt
ness for war will fail. With all the harm
we have just done them, their power is yet
immense. And no cause SO desperate as
theirs is likely to be abandoned until the
last moment, and when there is no lon
ger leader or an army to stand in its de.
fence.
Granting that we utterly disable General
LEE, and that we drive the rebel army from
the Mississippi River, we must still have the
work ofinvasion and conquest to prosecute.
And this is harder than the work of expell-
ing from our soil an invader. or capturing
stronghold to which we advance with such
line of communication as the Mississippi
River opens to our army. How much har.
der it is to invade successfully than to back
an invader, let two years, history in
Virginia teIl--let us recall events from Bull
Run to Charlottesville. We have an in
structive lesson, also, in the State Of Ten
nesee With railroad and river behind
it, our army has, for halfa year, been held
fast bound in sight Of the hills and steeples
of the City of Nashville. Gen. Rosecrans'
lay half year at Murfreesboro, after great
victory over the enemy. He burst not pur-
sue because every mile of advance, pene-
trating inland into the enemy's country,
weakened his army, exposed him to annoy
ances and attacks on flank and rear, and en-
dangered his communications with his de-
pots of supplies at Nashville and Murfees-
boro. Such dangers will always beset an
invading army.
We have captured many points around
the Confederacy Norfolk. Suffolk, Roanoak
Island, Newbern, (N.C.,) Port Royal, (SC.) }
San Augustine and Pensacola, Fla, Ship
Island, New Orleans, and at one time, Gal
weston, Texas. But we have done nothing
but hold those places, Every attempt to
penetrate inland from them has been baff1ed
1t is only when we have controlled deep
navigable waters that our armies have been
able to invade and hold their o,cn in the re5-
el States Armies as large as those that
have hitherto made the attempt to penetrate
Virginia, must renew the attempt. Armies
greater than General Rnsecrans now leads
may be required to capture Chattanooga,
and 60 into Georgia. Grant with all his re-
Inducements, may not be be able to protect
the Mississippi River, from the deprada-
tons of Price on the West, hold Vicksburg
and jackson, and pursue General Joe john
ston's new army to the interior of Alabama,
with the hope of getting safe fight out Of
him.
Therefore the t'onscription is necessary.
Even after the late great victories, new ar.
my of 5000 men must be got ready to
move upon the Confederacy. Let the reb-
ell States see that not only are they beaten
now, by the forces now in the field, but that
in the Fall they must meet the same veteran
armies, recruited. and 10000 stronger
And then ifthey mean to stop short Of an
Inhalation, they will certainly see the pro-
priety and necessity of yielding.
The Sultan as AS
chid..His adventures in Dis
guise.
The Levant Herald {Constantinoplel
states that the Sultan was, two evenings
previous, the hero of small adventure
which, with the addition of q few imagina-
tive touches, might be made to read like an
episode of the arabian Nights"
His Majesty, dressed in the common uni