Year: 1861




Al mOthine journal lafaents tliaA ths sx-
pedition, which has BY this time, lNe tnaY
hope, effected landing on the coast Of
South Carolina, was not sent = month ago
to Texas The reason given for this re-
great Is that il would have been easier to
land an army on the Texas shore, and that
the people Of that State have now been
taught BY suffering the value Of the Union.


We cannot agree with our cotomporary.
The fighting might be n little easier in
Texas than 10 South Carolina, butthe NOR
al effect of successful blow in the latter
State will be infinitely greater possess
Texas might be convenience to the in
babitants, butit would not materially change
the aspect Of the campaign. We should
send a few thousand mon, at great expense,
to point so distant that they could not be
re-enforced, except at great risk and expense


where they would be without communi-
cations with head quarters for fifteen or
twenty days at time, and would be oppos-
ed by considerable portion Of a popula
tion almost every man Of which is by neces-
sity marksman and accustomed TO military
life. And if notwithstanding all this, our
dLulbo tuAiuttlubO tu0iF KIOuung Wiz ouNSSoo
would be of small account. d ~


But TO place an army in South Carolina
is to attack treason in its stronghold, and
bring gloom and dismay 10 the hearts of
the traitors who first plotted this infamous
conspiracy. To bombard Charleston and
raze it to the ground, leaving not one house
standing, would strike deathblow at the
insurreciion; and would be righteous vOn-
geance upon this vile hole, where treason
has been fermentiDg for quarter Of cen
tury. To raise our flag over the walls of
Fort Sumter would give confidence TO the
nation just in tho degree in which it would
alarm the insurgents.


For every reason South Carolina should
be made the battle field Of the war. It IS
the one State where hatred to the Union
and the constitution has infected nearly the
whole population. With characteristic sell
fshness the South CaroiuiRns, from the
very beginning of the rebellion, showed
their anxiety and determination, at every
hazard to keep the war out Of their borders.
Their intrigues precipitated poor Virginia
into rebellion; their demands made Davis
hasten the insurgent army to its posts in
the Old Dominion; they were the first to
march northward, and the loudest to declare
that their precious South Carolina must be


defended on the Potomac.


All the ruin which has befalen Virginia
a these calculating traitors are responsible
for; they see without thought Of regret


the fair fields ofsister States given up to
ravages of war; and they can only be touch
ed by bringing destruction to their own
} homes.


!; Moreover, the pity we naturally feel for
the losses sustained by the border States,
, neither we of the North nor their fellows
of the South will feel for South Carolina
! The deluded Kentucky and Tennessee men
who entered the Confederate army months
ago, declared that they "hated first an Alb
olitionist, and then South Caroliuisn;"
and the Palmetto chivalry have behaved
Themselves toward Virginians and others
with so much superciliousness and insult


that few of their friends would not like to
4 SEQ their pride humbled. 1au @
f South Carolina, then, is the true battle
field where this war should be fought out.
Her sands are the proper arena. Elsewhere


our armies injure property and destroy life
It with brotherly reluctance. But her con-
o duct has placed South Carolina outside the
. limit of our regard. On her soil hostile
e armies may meet as on neutral ground, and


we are much mistaken if the South would


not see with almost equal pleasure as the
e North, the tide of war confined to the lin
its of the most truculent, the most selfish,
the proudest and the meanest State of the
Union.--NeO York Post. ,-..-.... .....r,