Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-27
General Price.

The New Orleans correspondent OF the
Charleston Courier writes as follows:
II have rarely known 90 strong senti-
ment Of disapprobation az has been aroused
in the people of New Orlesns by the TumoF.
vague az it is, that General Price is 10 be
superseded IN the chief command oil the Mia
souri, army, by gentleman whose merits
seem to be unknown TO the public, except
that he is Z graduate of West Point, and was
a. officer Of the old army The mere init
nation of such q purpose, u9fouuded 90 il
may be in fact, has provoked invidious COM
parieons between the results accomplished
by General Price, and the results accom-
plished by Shoes who entered ihe service with
The prestige OF scientific military training
He marches from the Southern extremity Of
she Stat. to the Missouri River. takes Lex
ingtCn with It's garrison of four thousand, all
their arms, their horses, wag0nt, artillery
and oash solee Fremont dow n 10 she Ar kan
sas line, At al expense 20 the Federal Gov
eminent of twelve or fifteen Millions Of dol
lars follows Hunter up, and by these move
menss secures the Mississippi valley from in
vasion. His aggressive movements, il pop
uiar estimation, are doing quite as much 10
redeem Kentucky and save Tennessee as
Generals Polk and Johnston are doing al
Columbus and Bowling Green. lie marches
| aad couuter-narches an army OF twenty or
thirty thousand men through a remote sud
desolsted county, hundred and fifty miles
| In each direction, and no one heats VOID
| OF complaint iron him &c 10 the nsnficiency
| Of bis subsistence, or the inef1cieney Of his
| transportation. In fact, am told he can
| park bis whole wagon train In Eve acre
| Geld, astonishing as it may be TO ibe diBci-
pies OF Winfield Scott, and, like The Roman
/ leEious, feeds himself as he goes. His victo-
r;es being fruits pslpable &c the common
| scnse OF the people, and In view Of the fer
/ tiliiy of his resources, his seif-relisDce, hi,
| Incompatible economy, his skiil and valor,
| they would deprecste his loss, or the reduc
tion OF his authority, rs the removal o? one
Of tae grand pillars OF hope. Nor is the fact
10 be denied that bis psoclsimed policy Of
| defending the State by carrying the war into
the enemy's country, and subs;sting upon
them as they have been subsisting upon bis
| people. IL in accord with the wishes Of the
/ whole South"
Let him cross the Mississippi into Iilinoi.
with q column Of thirty or forty thousand
men, and the redemption OF Kentucky and
she advance OF our lines 10 the Ohio river
menaciug every farm, town and city North
OF il. becomes . comparatively easy iask
Napoleon's military judgment refused TO re-
establish Poland as an independent national
I ity. for the reason that it was one dead level,
embracing no point of strategic defence, and
liable at any moment to be overrnn by a
lneighbor. Such lie exactly the condition Of
the West, between the Alleghanies and the
Mississippi, aud centaurs OF Missouri are full
ly ss competent TO demonstrate the vulner-
ability of sueh country as the Cossack:
Of The Don. The West has no Pyrenees, nc
Balkan Pass, no Cumberland Gap. no Ma
nsssas, and whenever the towns aid cities Of
I that vast expanse OF indefensible soil have %
exhaust their energies aud their means il
the effort to protect their own homes, you on
fthe Atlantic coast and we in the Valley will
have little cause Of anxiety. And II Is graf
fying to learn that the policy Of Gen. Price
! In thIr regard Is likely 10 meet tie approval
of she distinguished soldier and statesman a
the bead OF The Government. an net a
liberty 10 mention the sources OF ny fniorms,
4 ton, bat the fact comes rom high authority
that President Davis has determined ths
the period has arrived when aggressive war
fare, upon every favorable opportunity, Il
ioaz policy. = @sszSA