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heir crops. Why should the Federal wish to invade Missouri or Arkansas, if we had no army in either? He knows that if we beat him in Tennessee, we will march into Louisville, Paducah, Cairo and St. Louis, and he will send every soldier to prevent us from whipping him there. It is plain, then, that by going into Tennessee we are going to Missouri by another and a surer road. Instead of entering Missouri by the southwest, we shall enter it on the east. By the one route our brave army under Van-Dorn and Price would enter Missouri, without chances of reinforcement, at points where the enemy could, by means of the railroads leading from St. Louis, send immense numbers to impede our advance; while, by the other route through Tennessee, our army will march along with the splendid armies under Polk, Hardee, Bragg, and Beauregard, which are now flushed with a splendid victory just obtained over our enemies. Who does not know that a victory obtained by us in Tennessee is just as valuable