Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-06
THE EVENING NEWS.
SUPPLEMENT
The SDrinp Campaign.

we are daily led more thoroughly to ap-
preciate the Importance of the coming
campaign. The hopes with which we
follow every new development, however
slight, and our profound convictions OF
our ultimate and not remote success, con-
trast as they will with the co-relative an
ticipations of the South, are not such as
to precipitate our action. At time when
there is comparatively but little military
movement of any kind, we may rest sure
that quiet kind of work is going on which
will tell immensely in future loglstics. But
while Gen. Grant and Gen Sherman, who
will be the chief actors in the opening OF
the campaign are perfecting their strategic
plans so as to direct their tactics TO the
greatest advantage when really before the
foe, the Southern leaders, likewise, have
done all within the scope of their ability
to avert the final failure which the North
feels sure awaits them. We know that
the last CONSUMPTION in the Confederacy
will sweep it out, root and branch. Six
teen and sixty march side by side, and
women, children, and slaves, and overseers
are about all that remain of the Southern
people, as distinguished from the army.
This last desperate CONSUMPTION effort was
not made without an anticipation, if not
expectation, of corresponding future good.
The wounded MAI has limb amputated
to save his life. The Confederacy sacIi-
fees the flower of the youth, as well as the
ashes of the aged, in the hope, which IL
next door to despair, of maintaining its
- 7. is ret 70 I've thought of for
a moment, that destitute md wretched as
the South are, they have thus been ran.ccd
to cry for quarter without the shadow of
resistance.
The rebels are fond of raid occasionally
and now that they are destitute of food
and forage, they ought to be fonder of it
than ever. Some of the greatest loyal ex-
elements and demonstrations that have
existed during the war have been the off
spring of these rebel raids. From the les
son which they were taught at Gettysburg
however, they have learned to be less
blindly daring. To feel desperate, and
yet to have been taught prudence enough
not to act desperately, is, indeed, q terrible
dilemma to be placed in. The perplexities
of this dilemma, if the seeming strategy of
the Division of the Mississippi be carried
out, will soon be pushed to their utmost
verge. The Mobile papers have anticipa-
ted the invasion o. Central Alabama by
Sherman. and it is reported that Selma,
which is located in the very centre OF
Alabama, was to receive large convoy OF
non-combatants from Mobile, as it was
thought that city was about to be attacked
by our forces. The district Of country
included between Meridian and Selma and
Mobile is in form almost right-angled
triangle, of which the distance between
Selma and Mobile may be called the by
pothenuse. This district, as we have be-
fore remarked, is of material value to US.
But we must be prepared for delay and
seeming inaction for the cooperation of
Grant and Sherman to be ultimately sue
ccssful. The name which we are to place
beside Gettysburg and Chattanooga, and
which will be synonymous through all
time with the destruction of the rebellion
is not to be hastily or lightly won. 1t
must be borne in mind that grand tactics
on paper have not unfrequently proved
grand failures in the field.
In both North and South, once the
equal arms of the united nation, the mo-
tives are at work which will terminate the
struggle. Looking at the situation
through our present spectacles, Mobile
seems to be the key which, once delivered
into our keeping, would unlock the rusty
doors of rebellion. 1t has been long since
those portals have been opened TO the
genial air of liberty; it has been long
since the sunshine of prosperity flooded
the broad Southern lands. The spring
campaign, if fierce and desperate one,
will, it is hoped, be final. The prepare
tons which on both sides have been ma
king, and are now being made, suggest
that not only is the struggle itself porten-
tous, but that upon the issue of that strug-
gle depends decision which will affect
the fate of the world.-Forney's Press.