The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-03
Rebel View OF tho approaching Cam
paIgn.
From the RiehTnond Inquirer, April p.


From the Richmond Inquirer, April -
With what will the President electri-
fy the country before the meeting of
tho next Congress, which assemblies
now in less than thirty days2 VIII it
be Maximillian's recOgnition2 ? VIII it
be France and England combining to
raise the blockade VIII it be a vic
tory? OF all the good news that the
President could communicate, a vic
tory would most electrify his fellow-citi-
zens and most depress the public
enemy.
Grant is said to be planning another
ION to Richmond with Smith and
Burnside upon hanks or rear The vast
preparations for the campaign are du-
ly notified to our authorities, indeed, so
publicly has the concentration being
made, so ostentatious are the enemy Of
all their arrangements that one cannot
but doubt if these indications are not
designed to deceive.
The press of the United States have
duly advised us of the reorganization
of the Army of the Potomac, and so
circumstantially and fully that it was
no difficult matter to correctly estimate
its effective strength Gen Burnside
writes letters, which are published in
the New \ NOrk papers, that he is pre-
pairing a command for early active op-
erations, that Annapolis is his rendez-
yous, and we are further informed that
North Carolina is his destination.
Gen. Smith has been carried to For
tress Monroe in the most public man
ner, accompanying Gen. Grant, and the
two corps that he is to command in an
expedition up the Peninsula, are pub
lished in the principal journals of the
country, and these most Obligingly
brought to our authorities by the enc
my's flag Of truce boat If no. efforts
have been made to conceal these prepa-
rations, certainly none have been taken
to prevent our learning them, for the
flag Of truce boat has regularly deliver
ed full files of the papers that were
known 20 contain them Why, then,
has this publicity been given to prepa-
rations that all military experience
teaches should be most sedulously kept
secret
Can it be supposed that Gen. Grant is
so confident of success that, like the
Carthagenian General, he should prefer
to fight two armies to falling upon one ?
Is it to be supposed that he has been so
intoxicated by success that he despises
the usual precautions the rudiments OF
military science demand We can
| hardly think so nor will the authorities
of the Confederate States be deceived
by this shallow device We see no evi-
dence of concentration on our part-no
passage Of troops from one department
to another Beauregard still watches
the enemy from the Notifications of
Charleston, or seeks a fight in the
swamps of Florida
From Southwestern Virginia we hear
rumOrs of movements into Kentucky
and Tennessee. Pickett and Whiting
still hold their positions in North Caro-
lima, and the Z" all is quiet on the
| Rapidan is unbroken by even q rumor
What efforts, then, are being made to
meet this threatened advance
We can only conclude that newspa-
per strategy and editorial campaigns
have failed to make that impression
which takes action, and that our author
tiles, in possession of better informa-
ton, are biding their time, and holding
positions, which, like that of South
western Virginia, is point from which
an advance can be made right through
the center of the enemy's lines, and
into the very heart Of his territory, put
ting in jeopardy the State Of Kentucky,
turning all positions in East Tennessee,
and like Gen. Braggs campaign, throw
ing the enemy back upon Ohio, by
threatening Cincinnati and Louisville.
General Grants presence with the
army Of the Potomac, furnishes no cri-
terion by which one should decide that
he is there for the purpose of command
ing another advance on Richmond
Having commanded in Tennessee and
the West but very recently, and having
placed Sherman in immediate com
mand, all necessary preparations for
an advance against Johnston may be
made there, Just as secretly as they
have been openly conducted in the
East, and within a few hours the rail
roads transport Grant and his head
quarters from the field in the East
to the field in the West, and be
swept down upon Johnston while the
public in Virginia are straining their
eyes TO see his advance, or their ears to
hear the distant thunders Of his ap-
proach.