The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-08-06

al. no perlou since tieasou uTeu Tue
first gun at Fort Sumter, and in it's
madness and folly inaugurated civil
war, has the cause of the Union and
the Constitution, the cause of the Re-
kublic as il was made by the fathers,
looked as hopeful as it does now. Vic
tory has followed victory wherever the
Federal armies have moved. The
grand success of Grant at Vicksburg,
and of Banks at Port Hudson, has
opened at last, and now without any
reserve the great Mississippi River
from it's source to the Gulf, and the
commerce of the Northwest has again
that open channel to the sea. This
cuts the rebel ,Confederacy in two parts,
completely isolating the vast territory
west of the river from the Gulf and
Atlantic States now in rebellion. 1t
steps communication between these
two parts, prevents the transmission
of supplies from the more fertile west
to the needy commissariat at Rich
mond, aud leaves Texas, Arkansas and
Western Louisiana completely at our
mercy. But this is but small part of
the fruit of these great achievements.
Grant has not only taken Vicksburg
but he'll as destroyeds rebel army of near
ly $4,000 men since be crossed the
Mississippi in May and commenced his
march on Vicksburg. He has taken
from this army all its material of war,
its arms, cannon and ammunition. In
this time he has captured nearly if not
quite 800 pieces of artillery and 40, 900
prisoners, besides the great number of
the enemy put hors az combat in his
numerous battles. He, has destroyed
mills, navy yards, steamboats,, rams,
and all the formidable preparations of
the rebels up the Yazoo river for an
active river campaign against our
w estern fleet. In a word, be- has, SO
far as any thing more than guerrilla
warfare is, concerned, put all end to
the military power of the Confederacy
in the vicinity of his operations alive to
form the nucleus, if let alone, of any
serious disturbance. He has beside
this, released his own army, larger, bet
ter appointed, with moro artillery than
ever before, and flushed and triumph
ant with its brilliant successes, to hurl
itself upon such forces of the rebels
between .Vicksburg and the Gulf as
may have the rashness to stand in its
way, or be too slow of foot to escape
it's swift and tireiess marches. Already
this army has. smitten johnson again
and again, and is rapidly scattering
and destroying his army, now the only
rebel force of magnitude west of Geor-
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Although Banks successes since be
commenced his campaign, marching
from New Orleans 10 the investment
OF, Port Hudson, have been less mag
uificent, they are not less complete. ia
themselves, and hardly take less impor-
tant positions in this great Western
and South Western campaign. The
army from New England and the East,
moving up from New Orleans, have
met and shaken hands with the army of
the w est moving down from. Cairo, on
the banks of. the Mississippi, and the
old Stars and Stripes now float on the
tide Of that inland sea of commerce
from the Lake to the Gull. s;s,a. ,st :,
Further East Gen. Rosecrans has
pushed back and conquered the rebel
forces under Bragg, and with his old
vigor and success is finishing up the
campaign in bis department. He has
cleared all Middle Tennessee of trail
tors, and it now seems impossible that
the rebel army in his front will not be
scattered or destroyed. ess
And in the East the cause of the
Union, is brighter than ever before.
| The Army of the Potomac has woD a
a splendid victory, and given Lees
army, the best of all the rebel armies.
a stunning blow at Gettysburg. And
If this victory was not made as com
lplete as We could wish by the utter des-
TRACTION Of Lees army, let us not there
fore depreciate il, but estimate it at
what it really was, a severe and .disas.
trous defeat of an army entirely conf
dent of victory, an army that has, al
the first opportunity, retreated across
the Potomac, and is making all haste
to put as great distance as possible
between itself and the Army OF thu
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