The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-07

Rebel View Of the Approaching
Campaign.
With what will the President electrify
the country before the meeting of the next
Congress, which assemblies now in less than
thirty days3 Will it be Maximilian's re-
cognition? Will it be France and England
combining TO raise the blockade? Will it
be victory? or all the good news that
the President could communicate, victo-
ry would most electrify his fellow.citizens
and most depress the public enemy.
Grant is said to be planning another ION
to Richmond with Smith and Burnside
upon TANKS or rear. The vast preparations
for the campaign are duly notified to our
authorities, indeed, 90 publicly has the
concentration being made, SO ostentAtious
that one cannot but doubt II these indica-
tons are not designed to deceive.
The press Of the United States have duly
advised us Of the reorganization Of the Ar
my Of the Potomac, and 30 circunstan-
TALLY and fully that it was NO di6cult mat
ter to correctly estimate its effective
strength. Gen. Burnside writes letters,
which are published in the New York pa
pers, that he il preparing . command for
his rendezvous, and we are further inform
ed that North Carolina is his destination.
Gen. Smith has been carried to Fortress
Monroe in the most public manner, accom-.
panying Gen. Grant, and the two corps that
he is to command in an exhibition up the
peninsula, are published in the principal
journals Of the country, and these most
obligingly brought to our authorities by
the enemy's Gag Of truce boat. II no ef-
forts have been made to conceal these prep
aratiOns, certainly none have been taken
to prevent our learning them, for the flag
Of truce boat has regularly delivered full
files of the papers that were known to
contain them. Why, then, has this pub
hcity been given to preparations that all
military experience teachers should be most
sedulously kept secret?
Can it be supposed that General Grant il
20 confident Of success that, like the Car
thagenian General, he should prefer to fight
two armies to falling upon one? IL It to
be supposed that he has been 20 intoxicated
by success that he despises the usual pre-
cautions which the rudiments Of military
science demandf We can hardly think 90,
nor will the authorities Of the Confederate
States be deceived by this shallow device.
We see no evidence 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 fight in the
swamps Of Florida.
From southwestern Virginia we hear ru-
mOrs Of movements into Kentucky and
Tennessee. Pickett and Whiting still hold
their positions in North Carolina, and the
''all is quiet" on the Rapidan is unbrOken
by even u rumor. What efforts, then, are
being made to meet this threatened ad-
vance?
We can only conclude that newspaper
strategy and editorial campaigns have
failed to make that impression which takes
action, and that our authorities, in possess
sion Of better information, are biding their
time, and holding positions which, like that
of Southwestern Virginia, is a 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,
putting in jeopardy the State of Kentucky,
turning all positions in East Tennessee, and
like Gen. Bragg's campaign, throwing
the enemy back upon Ohio, by threatening
Cincinnati and Louisville.
Gen. Grants presence with the Army OF
the Potomac, furnishes no criterion by
the purpose of commanding another ad-
vance on Richmond. Having commanded
in the west and Tennessee but very recent
~, aud having placed Sherman in immedi-
ate command, all necessary preparations
for an advance against Johnston may be
made there, just AZ secretly az they have
been openly conducted in the East, and
within few hours the railroads transport
Grant and his headq from the "field'
In the East to the ''field' in the West, and
be swept down upon Johnston while the
public tn Virginia are straining their eyes
to see his advance, or their ears to hear the
distant thunders of his approach.-Rich.
saond Enquirer. AprH y. .