Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-20
ABOUT BULLS RUX AND MAxAs-
SAS.

ABOUT BULLS RUN AND MANAS-
SAs.
The Reason why the Confederate
did Pursue-- They are urged 'on
10 " Warrington.
lFf5a IAs Richmond Di,p,;sl
The vey wort couase iors Tor GeGerais
10 the heid are aa mpatien, popu!4e-. II
we aie to believe General Seoit. the ca
lamity tlutl has recently overwhelmed the
gr'ad fsukee army Was caused BY sgrrsg-
drr!ug us own op.aiUus ol policy and
ubeyiag the order OF the Yankee mob,
headed by Grre.sy BLAIR. Had Wilson
The MOI, uaIrr these dauZaty command
err, drove bin into hali.e which Va, lit
tie better than slaughter and ruin
\ like lmPttivuye prevails amlng the
SJu,brra people f1r forward mUveme-i
upon Washington city. This movement il
dpuhIrss 10 prrpinuIu; but We had 0e..
ter leave it 10 our Generals 10 choose Jte
time sad ntuaer %! masking u /. Is the
l' -lr't wisdom TO prof by an enemy eI-
Psnencc, aai d! would be as criminal as
luhvi;i o. 10, after witnessing 80 .ing'i
au 10 stance VI ruin from fgDliug helo:e be-
{ log ready for rl. VS. shJu'i commit the
same blunier aud run tbs hazard OF the
same discontinue
What though d. nigh, have been passi-
Ole Tor onr Generals to nave entered WASH
Z lngton city upon the heels OF toe tugliiSes
the other DAY DOE, the tact that q teal np-
parfntly 50 improbable and certainly -
h'%'fl'us m'y'i ave been performed. c"n-
demH TIE stherd;hiP "hleu refused u en-
/ h'rA an such " venture We i"inN NOT
/ Tue army ~ Nauns'a is no" well as'rf-
famed 10 have numbered less Than id''y
thousand, OF these ten or twelve
/ thousand had nNde forced march i'9'D
/ Winchester, and WAS almost ton exhausted
/ To- 20 into the cngagcmcu, On The 2lsi.-
/ Tary fought the blstle all that dag un,i!
night. aud came out OF it absolutely ex-
/ hnu.tcd and broken down. Were those
| men uhvsictlIy Gamble. in that condition,
/ OF pnr,uiny A Gyiar enemy tyenty--eyyn
miles. and of si0ri,ipy works on the Putl-
1 mac bristliuy with artillery and manned
I by thirty TO forty thou.,uI fresh fruops
/ We cannot imagine uu enterprise more pu-
PROMISING, h,k.trdgps and cbimcricl! than
| the gt,cmpt OF les, than forty thousand ia.
| ded men to Storm works OF lie formidable
! character of those about Afliugrua and
the Lunt Rr;irc. having seventy thousand
men behind tlrcm ON ih,s SIDE aud the 9TH
or of the Potomac River.
II our Generals had been gifted with
nrr..cience .nnprhprn,n. If they had known
| The inter confusion and p,nic with which
the encmy we're aee,ng away. if they had
be,p nhlr +, letc,t ala DISTANCE of tyrn,y.
6rc miles I'M. mun,rn,nry datcnrcle.gnr..
oftbc vork. an the p,t,m,r they would
d,ub,le,, hays mnr,h.I E,rw,rJ thpir
tVenty or ,hirtv thous,nl men s,ormci
tbs Corti;raiion; nj tbr enemy and con-
\ lr6nted twice their nmtnber of pantc-
str cEsh regtinsnis. Nat ll,sy did not nos
stSs faculties al PERCEPTION thus pcurt,,.r.
lug, and pf course not arrogating the part
Of dcmi.gods, they took the part OF Gcaer.
ais. Nothing is more easy than cstuc,sm
after The event--uolhing more difficult than
choosing the precise moment TOR the otca-
sion before theeSCnt IiNtpcleon bad tore
seen tue re.nlsmess Of Gronchc before the
fact, nothing would have been more easy
than to have uvoided it, and nothing more
certain than victory for the French at
Waterloo. But even the genius OF Bona
parte could not penetrate twelve hours iu-
to tue future, or twelve miles into tie dis.
hucr, anu in consequence the greatest BAT.
tie In history was lost by the greatest
general the world ever saw.
1t is doubtful whether Johnston and
Beanrerard would have pursued the enemy
to tue precincts Of Washington on the
night OF the battle. it they could haze
| known in advance, aud At that distance OF
OF the scenes that were nhout to transpirc
on the Potomac; for their lille army coG.
situated the sole barrier rof Nir.inja
against the invaders; IL was ualisciplincd
aud amused 10 rapid movements, and WIS
liable to ;ail into utter confusion in thr
pursuit as the elImy was IN the light
Rapid movements are very practicable for
thoroughly disciplined regulars, like the
armies Of Napoleon, aud are attended with
iuic !o',, disorder or hazard, Bat rapid
movements over long distances amid mo.
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