Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-20
FROM THE SOUTH.
REBEL VIEWS OF THE COMING CAMPAIGN
A Sweeping Northern Invasion the
Only Chance to the ssConfederacy.o
From the Savannah Republican,

from the Savannah Republican,
Z We advanced the opinion in January that,
Notwithstanding the threatening aspect of
affairs further south, the next grand battle
of the war, and the last, would be fought
by the army Of Northern Virginia, and
probably on field north of the Potomac
p Winter still fingers and puts veto on all
military movements off serious nature, but
the clans are gathering for the coming con-
. fiict, and by a strange concert both sides are
looking to the region of the Potomac as the
theater for dggressiUe operations, II any move
mention our part south of the line Of Penn
sylvania, may be considered aggressive. A
few weeks will develop the programme for
the spring campaign, and we look for some-
thing on scale Of grandeur that will be
unequalled by any martial array of modern
times, Fl 2Tfn#r y 3. IT4t aEP
TO our mind, 1t is evidently the policy of
the Confederacy to cease from mere defen-
sive warfare. We should collect together
our scattered force-a thing not yet done in
this war-and by one grand, self-sustaining
Increment press fortodrd and carry the aodr into
the enen,ys country. We should sendno more
corporaPs guards there to be cut to pieces,
surrounded or driven back from sheer pau
r city of numbers. And furthermore, II we
Invade at all, we must do it for the express
purpose of making the enemy feel the hard
ships of war in all its legitimate horrors
We, have handled the Yankees with kid
gloves far too long for our good. Every
civilized office or generous consideration
has fallen unappreciated on their marble
hearts, and even been turned to our disad-
vantage. Whilst we have been acting the
Christian, they have been playing the rob
Der, the tyrant and the desolator. We have
ara oil 10 kha,,
pie, would have borne it, and under the
provocation the world and good morals will
sustain us in change of policy. Lee had
Harrisburg and Philadelphia at his mercy
year ago, and spared them both. How have
his moderation and generosity been requi-
'tede~ Let the wrongs of, Morgan, and the
spirits of our murdered people. and the late
diabolical plot against Richmond and its
inhabitants answer the question. Let the
desolated fields, the blazing habitations, and
the homeless, penniless women and children.
Of the West make their response. The
truth Is, we have made sad mistake In
bestowing all our charity and humanity
upon villainous, merciless foe, and retain
ing none of it for their suffering victims
among our own people. 1t is time that
these latter were claiming something ofour
consideration and protection.
LHcft tct VIC fCttfJ tOttft utt TO uttCIu-
ant horrors, d,oGy from our oioa soil to the soil
OF, tho enemy. Increase the army Of Northern
Virginia TO t,oo hundred thousand effective men;
push them Jor,oard, and let them desolate as
they 90, and zoe shall haze peace within sirty
days. Perhaps Lee is too tender hearted for
such a mission; If so, while we would not
transfer his command to another, we would
send him forth with specific and perempto-
ry orders. fi. ts.dl ss 4 7.fE y-ta
We need haze no fears of points south ,oiM
such an army n,ouing into Pennsyluanid and
Ne,o York. Our small garrison, with the
Home Guards, would not only protect the
country. but retake every Southern post
on the mainland now held by the enemy.
The latter MOULD hare use for their troops else
tohere, and By a rapid movement zoe can readily
accomplish our purpose taking Baltimore and
Washington before they get there.
But it is said that invasion will unite the
North and make them too strong for us.
Experience has .proued the absurdity of this
opinion. SAlLithe Yankees that intend to fght
are already in ue field, and, instead of resist
ing, the remaining population will quail
before the advance of our victorious le-
gions. e1HV
9 Nor ,oiU IL impede the progress Of the peace
party at the North, but rather strengthen it
by adding to the reasons why peace should
be made, to take the place of'unsuccessful
and ruinpus war. IL is good rule TO judge
che enemy By ourselves. When have our peo-
pie been SO disheartened and our cause look
ed 50 gloomy, as in the hour of disaster,
when the iron heel Of the oppressor and the
personal hardships of war were felt by
large bodies of our inhabitantsp It is sac
rifice, and the keen pangs Of losses sustain
ed, that incline men to a cessation of strife,
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