Nebraska advertiser., 1864-07-28

The Georgia Constituencies Of June
29gh, contains a very interesting article
on the war. Il trys hard to open the
eyes of its readers to the real danger,
and talks plainly, and says: God help
them to have more judgment" And says:
The magnificent army of Sherman,
has, without loss and without battle,
forced back one of our best armies, I'M
der a favorite General: and if he only
had intended a rand, the destruction of
The vast agricultural interest Of the gran
airy of our State, is a loss we are i'll pre-
pared to endure, and totally unprepared
to retrive.
After mentioning several instances in
which their Generals had predicted ruin
to our armies, which was generally fol,
lowed by a reverse to their own, it goes
on:
Yet grave papers, with able editors,
talk of the certainty that Sherman can
never take his army back to Chatlanoo.
ga, and congratulate the enemy that he
has marched into a trap. We once had
some experience with an old rat that al
ways sprung the steel-trap from the I'M.
der side, aud always took off the bait and
never got caught. The Yankees have a
peculiar faculty Of marching into traps
and staying there. Our only common
tary upon such wiring is, that such traps
as half a State, and the best half at that
are so expensive as TO perhaps awaken
smiles in the North and in Europe, when
we boast of them.
In like manner DOVE talk abou! Grant,
and amuse ourselves over a set of facts
which are far from amusing.
In our judgment the plan Of the cam
paign is at last developed. Western Vir-
ginia, the Valley and its resources, is, by
this movement on Staunton and LexIng-
ton, to be rendered unavailable for pro.
visions. Grant is to throw his army into
Notifications across the railroads from
Richmond south, and so cut off our army
supplies, Thus the starvation of a siege
will be as efectualIy secured as if an
army could be found large enough to sur
round the legions Of Lee, as Grant did
Pemberton; provided, of course, that the
Danville road shares the same fate thai
the Weldon road probably will.
If Lee chooses to stop the game by q
fight, he has to put his finger on the slip
perry Grant and stop his aea-Iike flank.
ihgs and having found him and stopped
him for a fight, will have to charge the
hills Grant will occupy and the trenches
Grant viii dig. II President Davis con,
cludes to swap capitals, and giving Grant
Richmond, starts of ahead of him foI
Washington, we will have the army tc
subsist in the desert waste between the
two capitals have to make time on foo
that will beat the transports on the Poto.
mae and the Chesapeake have the forti.
fcations Of Washington to storm and g
siege to Stand there should we get inside
JEFF. has doubtless concluded "to swap
and learned by this time that sit takes
two to make s5argain."
We lose Richmond if we hold the Wei
don and Danville railroads we lose the
railroads if we save Richmond, or we at.
tack Grant in his nightly trenches if WE
try to save both. It is true that Genera
Beauregard could still keep south Of
Grant, and prevent rsids into Carolina
but could not keep him from stopping the
roads south, unless he has enough men Il
attack grant in reverse, and place him be.
tween two fires. We hope Grant thinks
he has. This is a game with no possible
hindrance, perfectly plain to even such
unmiIitary comprehension as our own, anc
we respectfully submit that there is nc
fun IN it;
When the supplies of Sherman are
cut off, as we trust they will be, and the
great raider of Mississippi, broken in
battle or starved out, begins a disastrou:
retreat over the country himself has de.
wasted; when Johnson thunders on hi:
flying rear and Forrest stops his flight
when the fords of the Tennessee are in
peril, and Chattanooga again besieged
when Western Tennessee looks up in the
hope, and johnson, the traitor, trembles
! n the Qualifications of Nashville, then III