Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-09-05
PRETTY SEVERE.

In the midst of the general de-
hnoralization Of the North, re find
some remarkable and shining ex-
.ceptions. 1t is well known that
the New York "News" and ebay
Book" have unfineh;ngly opposed
this war fom the beginning, and,
down to our latest advices, eontin-
ue to do so. The obstinacy and
ability with which they make their
attacks is undoubtedly having a
good effect on the popular opinion
of the North, and, if they are not
stopped by the mandate of the
jirrepressible conflict usurper will
be instrumental in doing great
good to thecaus of the South.
I, In addition to these in New
York city, is the ''Courier DIES Etats
Unis," the organ of the French
population eff that city. which has
been bold and strong in its denun-
citation of the wicked falsifCations
Of the tools of Lincoln connected
with the press. The New Or
leans s'Bee" has translated an arti-
Gle from that journal, an extract
from which we give below, exhibi-
ting the fearlessness with which
it speaks out. Its obliged not on
ly to influence the Frenchmen in
New York, but the citizens of the
French empire. The Courier
says:
I "They (the leaders, have per.
verted facts, altered figures, sup.
pressed reverses, exaggerated adj
vantages, and have constantly pre-.
sentcd the material as we'll as
moral condition Of. things in q
false light. Two months have
elapsed, and the people are still
without an official report of the
affair CT Great Bethel, while they
have been flooded with extrava
giant bulletins of McClellans vic
tories in Western Virginia. Gen
Mcdowell enters Fairfax c. FL
without firing gun, and this ex
plot is proclaimed far and wide
but when the next day Gen. Tyler
attacks the batteries at Bulls Bun
and is driven back three miles by
the enemy, no report whatever o.
this repulse is published. Defeat
upon defeat Of the Sccessionists @.
Missouri is announced, but the fac
that in the midst of these reverses
their bands are swelling to the
magnitude of al army is carefully
concealed.
/ at is by thousand devices O
this kind that the North has beef
! aroused and excited and induced
to make enormous sacrifices
submitted to because they We're sale
to be of short duration. Now thai
an event of great magnitude, which
cannot be hidden, tears away
the veil, the effort is made to ein,
ploy the same tactics, and to re
duce it to Insignificant proportions
1t is the duty of the Independent
press to discountenance such pro.
ceedings, and it is important that
the extent and the real significa.
ton CT the disaster of the 21st Of
July should be made known
The disaster proves two things
first, that the South is determined
to oppose a desperate resistance tc
, the North, next, that it commands
the means so to do. If, therefore,
the North persists in seeking to re-
duce the South by force of arms,
it now knows that it has before it
not a war of parade, or a simple
military excursion, but a fortnida-
bic and tremendous struggle in
which every step will be made
across seas of blood and ruin, and
of which the end, after all, is
highly uncertain. Let the leaders,
then, cease to delude the people,
:. and let the latter reflect maturely
, and understandingly."
I The Vicksburg Wing says that
nearly every lady, old and young,
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