Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-07-22
From WnahIng.on,
From our Special COrrs,pOndsnt.l

sg WAsH1RoT0N, July ls. 1851.
We have little to-day that win interest
your readers. Many of the members were
away yestarday a agalavanting on the
other side of the river under the expectation
OF seeing 6ght In this they we're mista-
ken, andpFObably viii be to-day. From re-
ports this morning it seems that Gen. Nc
Dowen had no resistance at Fairfax Court
House further than shots from murderers in
the bushes-the main army having lett with
out their breakfast The impression smong
military men is that there will be fight at
Manassas. They say that they must fight or
their army will be destroyed BY demoraliza-
ton. They have already retreated so con-
stantly when attacked, that THAR men are
coming to the opinion that there is some
thing terrible in the valcr of Northern sol
diers, and this is against them. one-half
Of their army is made up Of impressed men,
badly fed and equipped, brought here to
fght against government that they have
ever been taught to obey and which they
kaow is the best on earth-distrusting also
their own leadera On the other hand, our
men have gone into this war not for pay, but
because it is a duty which they owe to the
Government which they have an interest in
and which they love and respect. Another
thing, they feel and know they are in the
right, and their opponents In the wrong
They know that this whole rebellion is
based on wrong. There IS a moral bravery
i which outweighs the physical, and this brave.
~ is what makes our troops as a wall of
FIRE to the Southrsn. What must they them
i selves think Of a Government that forces
every man able to bear arms into its mill
tary service, as has been done by Governor
Letcher in his last call for two thousand
troops from a few neighboring counties.
Even my 0lniGbIe temper becomes aroused
when meet men who had been fleeing for
their lives, leaving family and property be-
hind rather than be forced to fight against the
government that they love. ] have seen men
here within two days who have been two
days without food while fugitives in getting
kere. There has been nothing like It in
the history of the world. A gentleman
from Loudon county told me that they we're
taking every man in his country able to bear
arms and driving (not draf.ing) them at the
point of the bayonet into the rebel service
He says, that q man who pfuBes to braYl
In favor of rebellion, and does not offer
everything he has TO it. is considered an en-
emy; be must not even sag that be is lpiliiHq
to remain in the Union. IF be does he is
1 ia 18th har,,, ropo or drf,ap H-or, 3bo
country. He says that when the facts are
known the people oe the North will be
4 shocked almost beyond endurance on learn
ing Of the barbsrities that have been prac-
ticed by these miscreants. The language of
one man from the South is the voice o. all
urging the President tc push forward his ar
mics snd relieve the cSuntry Of a worse than
barbaric condition. In regard to war news,
il is as uncertain with IS, as with you-xhat
is reported as fact is disputed in an hour
The heat is eXtrSzne here end our men suffer
greatly unleys they move at night
! Congress did little OF note yesterday fur
ther than you got in the papers. Mr.. KeI-
log0, of Illinois, made dash at the investi-
eating Committee, with a view to stopping
the investigation, but did not succeed. Mem
bers believed be was acting under instruc-
tions, and voted him down. The plea for
stopping the investigation was, that it would
create distrust in the Administration by the
people of the country. There is fnttering
somewhere, and this UcnGre is determined
to ind the leaks If these are any. A vener-
able ex-senator, and one who has been
prominent before the country, told mo yes
terday that this was the best and strongest
Congress that he had ever known, and that
the Senate is stronger than it had besn for
thirty years. Whatever lack Of confidence
there may be in certain individuals, the coun-
try may rest assured that their interests will
be watched By Congress, and closely. W.