New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-06
REBEL DEFICIENCIES.

attempt interference With Its expectation, they
could command tho armies and navies Of Europe 70
iight their battles for them. How bitter must DO
their disappointment as they apply with their own
hands the torch which consgns IL 10 ashes and then
are compelled TO supply to their leaders, from their
other property, the means TO sustain the Rebellion
Their currency has almost ceased 10 be regarded,
even BY themselves AS the representative OF value.
ConscripuOn has exhausted their people, and the
wealth which long years Of uninterrupted prosperity
under the best government the world ever saw, had
placed in their hands, has already been expended,
and they are now struggling on with the vain hope
that discussions among ourselves or fore interven-
ton may save them FROM that ruin which they see
clearly impending over them. Every day must show
them more aud more clearly that neither OF these
sources can they rely for help The utter scorn and
contempt with which every man in the loyal States
who proposes any adjustment Of this contest except
the absolute, unqualified and unconditional subIu.
CATION Of every Rebel in the land 70 the Constitution
and tho laws, is held by every officer and soldier in
our army, and every loyal man in the country, must
Danish from their minds the last ray Of hope from
that source The reaction which followed the recent
slight manifestations OF willingness on the part Of
few Secession sympathizors to offer terms OF CON-
promise must convince them that they have no allies
in the loyal States on whom they can relyj and the
present condition of affairs in Europe must forever
crush that false and delusive hope which they have
heretofore entertained, that the Intervention OF
European powers might enable them to accomplish
what they know full well they can never attain un-
aided.
THE TASK BEFORE Us.
We now zee clearly what we have to do. We
must obtain uninterrupted control Of the Missis-
sippi. We must reach those great railroad arteries
tho one bordering the Atlantic seaboard, the other
stretching through the Virginia and Tennessee val
eys to the west and south. We must, as soon as
possible, take the few fortified sesports remaining
ia possss OF the Rebels cut il of from all ex
ernal sources of food and arms, and have surround
cd it by forces which can press upon it from any
quarter Ut the same time severlng into isolated por
tons the Reoel territory and destroying their means
Of INSTRUMENTATION, by which alone they have
hitherto been enabled to meet III force wherever
we have presented ourselves, and by which alone
they have been able to feed and supply their armies
BY possessing ourselves OF, and keeping open, the
great natural highways alone land possession Of
navy by us should have early suggested this), We
sever parts Of their territory mutually dependent,
and, while gripping them, euable ourselves to
speedily concentrate our forces at any point where
it may DO advisable to strike.
These decisive measures we are actually execut-
ing or preparing to execute. Thesuccesses and
quests we have already described have carried us
through the preliminary stages, aud the blows we
now stsiksr-essh one eS them that succssds-wiu