Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-05
Rebel Views of the situation.

From the Wilmington IN C.) JOURNAL July 10
Looking at the present position of things
in all its aspects our eye naturally likes
upon a few points which seem to US the
most important.
First; then, Lee had to fall back behind
the Potomac, and may have to fall back
to the line OF the RappahannOck, in order
that other menaced and most vital points
may be succored. The enemy's ferocious
onset on SO many points was no doubt in
tended to compel this action on the part
of bee. 1t was neither weakness, defeat,
disaster nor decentralization on the part of
Lees army that led to its withdrawal from
the enemy's country.
iSecond-The army of Johnston has been
forced to fall back from Jackson, to keep
from being hanked on the right. Grant
cannot follow him at once. The country
between the Pearl River and the Tombig-
bee is thiuly settled, and after one army
has traversed it in retreat, another army
advancing in pursuit will md neither 1000
for men nor forage for beast, Grant has
depended upon guuboats on the Yazoo for
his supplies since the investment OF Vicks-
burg, and his wagon train has yet to be
obtained and organized. Until that is done
he can hardly penetrate further into the
bowels of the land. This will arrest the
progress of any operations of magnitude in
that section for some time. His line is
ALREADY deeper than he can afford. The
same will apply to Rosecrans in South
eastern Tennessee.
ThirG- For the present, we suppose Burn
sides advance against East Tennessee is
part of his force having gone
to Meade aud part to Grant. The move
ment may, and no doubt will be resumed
at no distant day.
H. M;1Gisoinni niofRi0f |
is now self-sustaining in the way of ammu
milton and military stores. Cotton finds
its way to Metamoras consigned to an En-
glish house, and army supplies find their
way through the same channel. We don't
see that the fall of Vicksburg and Port
Hudson can effect Western Louisiana, Ark
ansas or Texas. They have always given
more than they received, except in the way
of Generals, and they complain that they
have had some of them that could very
we'll have been spared.
EIfth-Charleston is attacked, and Rich
mond is or has been threatened by coup !
de main. Charleston is in no immediate
danger. The present siege as carried on By
approaches which are SEOlC but sure, unless the
enemy's cork eGR be s60Tned and be taken.-
Charleston fallen zoe need be at no loss 10 guess
tOhGt lTiU be the merit point Of attack, or hOIO
long the nOU0 chief centre of the blockade run
ming on tie cOntinent 1COUId remain unnIO-
Lestsd The difficulty about the fOrtitica'
tion of Morris Island we have explained in
another article.
ISirth-The Raiders, who can effect little
in military point of view, but who are in
tended, not only to crafty the malice of
the Lincolnites, but to weaken the resour-
ces of the South and incline her people to
seek for peace, even upon terms of sub
mission-yes, upon any terms, as indeed,
one or two papers in this State already
preGgure, there somehow being always a
likeness between their tone and
the movements of the Federals, as though
they were, as the animal maguetizers used
to say, en- rapport.
Thus, then, we have Lee falling back for
the protection of his COMMUNICATIONS, and
to permit the forces of the Confederacy to
be directed upon other points, and for de.
sive objects. We find Grant, Rosecrans
and Burnside virtually arrested for the |
time being, the trans. Mississippi district |
acting essentially on new base-the Rio |
Grande-for military supplies, its food and |
transportation being found in abundance |
at home. And, which we have not yet |
mentioned, Morgan cutting n wide row in |
the loyal States, giving them a taste of war |
sufficient to disincline them from going |
away under LiRcoln's call to continue a |
war of which they are already sick
Charleston is vigorously defended, and will |
be still more so under the new defensive
attitude Just assumed; while we trust that
the marauding parties of the enemy will
be vigorously arrested at their start, be-
fore they have escaped into the heart of the
country, where they may elude pursuit.