Daily Democrat And News

MOVING FORWARD.

No time is being lost. In stopping at different points to administer a little wholesome punishment to rebels, our army scarcely loses a step, but keeps moving forward towards the Gulf. Already Kentucky is free from the rebel flag, and we may safely assert that very little, if any more blood will be spilled in ridding Tennessee of the enemies of the Union. In Arkansas nothing of a serious character need be apprehended. What, then, is the true condition of affairs?

There are now only three States over which our flag does not wave.

Virginia is nearly surrounded. We have the grand army of the Potomac on her northern border, ready to seize the first opportunity to pounce upon the rebel army at Manassas; all her eastern shore is ours, and Burnside and Goldsborough are astonishing the Virginians on the southwest. On her western borders the rebels have no foothold. A glance at the map will show that Virginia is now nearly surrounded. Her immense army might as well be withdrawn at once; there is no longer anything for it to do.

The fight will very soon be confined entirely to the cotton States—or rather the States that border on the Gulf of Mexico and Georgia, South and North Carolina. In the latter State we have a strong foothold and a powerful force to maintain it. In South Carolina and Georgia there is also a formidable Federal force, and the chances are that the chief cities of both States are within the grasp of our men. Florida is being well taken care of, and our force at Ship Island will soon be augmented and commanded by Gen. Butler, which is pretty good proof that the wool will soon fly in that direction.

Verily the Anaconda is compressing the carcass of secessiondom on all sides. It requires but the same resolute action which we have noticed for a few days past to render victory universal throughout the entire land of treason.

The Union is now safe, and troops are marching forward gloriously, and the accursed scheme by which it was sought to overthrow the Union and the Constitution is meeting its just doom.

Let the army move forward, and by the time navigation is open on the upper Mississippi may it also be extended to the Balize.