Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-24
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AT ST. Louis and Chicago there are very
earnest complaints that troops for the defense
and rescue Of Missouri have been taken from
Fremont and transferred to Washington and
other places We can not explain fully the
reasons for these complaints, but we will copy
some OF the paragraphs in which they are ut
tered. The Chicago Tribune, noticing the
recent withdrawal of five regiments from Gen.
Fremonts command to be sent to Washing
ton, said -
But is il not burning shame that New
York. New England, Pennsylvania, and New
Jersey. with the aid OF the Ohio, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Indiana and Minnesota men already
on the Potomac, cannot defend the capital ana
through il their own Chief cities, without strip
ming orr army OF the west OF five thousand
troops, in crisis like thls nat is me east
doing? Why should they, so rich IN men,
call on the west Have we h re nothing 10
do2 Is not Cairo threatened? Is St Louis
sats7 Is Missouri pacifed Is the corps ddr-
NEE in Nelo Orleans full 10 ovegttolChg
Hare not he D,iliidrQ authorities at Wash
i0gtoa heard of Polk PHow Hardee, No
Calioch, Price, Ruins, JET. Thompson, and Mart
Green, tcith heir $4,000 toliowerS Is Fremont
to be treated as Lyon ecas? We tell the laggards
OF the Atlantic seah0ard that 1t is time Tor
them to bestir themselves. They have now
got from us of the northwest nine regiments
from Michigan, six from Wisconsin, and one
under orders from Minnesota, six from lndi
ana. AMI more from her are required, and will
soon be on their way and from Illinois, in ad
dition TO Turchin's and Eecker's intautrv-the
nineteenth and twenty. tourth-three regiments
of cavalry, Farnsworth, Bracket, and Dick
ey's are commanded to goa total OF 30OOO,
to say nothing of the Indiana aud Ohio men
under Gen. Rosencranz doing good service in
western Virginia. YET the hard fighting is to
be in the valley of the Mississippi
The St. Louis Democrat also, abiding to
the same matter represents that the weak
ness at Lexington and at the other points in
Missouri, is due to such interference with
the troops under Fremont The Democrat
says =
"The meaning or necessity of this action Of
the administration has not TRANSFERRED, bit we
tell the war department that if Gen. Fremont
is to be crippled in this manner, the cause OF
the Union in this state and the west will have
to suffer greater disasters than the people can
afford to bear. Three fourths of the towns of
the state are in the hands OF the rebels, and
the forces under General Fremont are of
and drafts of this kind very much in
crease the embarrassment under which he
labors. The news from Lexington is dis
cOuraging, and at almost any moment we may
hear OF its falling into the hands of the enemy.
A large proportion of the very forces ordered
to lis relief is now on its way to Washington.
If Lexington is taken, and the few thousand
brave men who are defending it fall into the
hands of an oyerpowering foe, how will the
NJ ,l.r
hope for favorable results, but we protest
against the Strengthening of the secure and
popul0us east at the expense OF the weakened
and important west.
We cannot say how much justice there is
in such complaints, but every one can see
that Lexington and some other points in Mis-
souri, have been LETT too much exposed tt
capture. The federal force in them is toe
weak. and MheS6 dolacked by The enemy IL help
is too far away. 1t is possible, however, that
much of what is charged to the policy at
Washington should be imputed to other
causes. The surrender of Col. Mulligan to
Price and his crew, after a long and heroic
defense, will doubtless bring the whole matter
into discussion and draw out all the facts
necessary to a just Judgment of the reasons
why he was not reinforced in time to repel
the invaders. The prevalent belief has been
that there were federal troops enough in Mis-
souri, to hold in check any invasion and soon
clear the state of hostile armies All the
troops raised in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and
Missouri, aud most of those raised in Indiana,
were supposed to be in Missouri and at
Cairo.
1t is plain enough that there is work on
hand in Missouri The commander Of that
department certainly needs large force, well
furnished and skiltully handled and he will
find it necessary to postpone any contemplated
expedition down the Mississippi, until Price,
Mccullough, Hardee, and the rest of the
Polk and Pillow, federal army in Kentucky
will be likely to find occupation for them. Al
any rate the present position of affairs at the
west indicates that there will be active move
menis in both states during the next few
months. The present position at Washington
is not likely to be maintained much longer
The rebels there must attack our lines or re-
tract before long, and the termination of the
existing position there will be felt everywhere
else. Another successful attack on the south
ern coast would be likely to weaken if not
break up Beauregard's army, by drawing
homeward the troops from the gulf states.
Therefore a change on the Potomac is near at
hand.
PRINCE NAPOLEON IN BosToN.-His impe-