The eastern clarion., 1861-08-02
( From tho Mobile Tr5ms
The Enemy Account Of the Battle

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-Fr0m tho Mobile TdJns
The Eneny's Account Of the Battle.
We received yesterday a large number
Of New York papers by favor of gentle
man who left that city last Monday even
ing. Among them is a copy Of the Even
ing Empress.
The Express says
"The record we make this P. NJ, we are
deeply panied to see and to say, is rather
Of a Route than Of a Battle, beyond the
Bulls Run batteries-and the record is
the most painful we have ever had to
make in our long life Of editorial expert
ence. The loss OF life must be deplorable,
as well as the loss Of war material-and
when we receive the details we fear they
viii be agony to families, and friends
The public atiiiction, however, IS now 50
great, that private grief is all absorbed IN
the great calamity.
The "On to Richmond" nonsense we
have been having from campaign Editors,
in their sky-high attics and closets in New
York has doubtless stimulated the Presl-
dent and his Cabinet, never so deaf as
they ought to be to their own party jour
nalism, to urge on General Scott to march
before he was ready, and when he had
confessed publicly he was not ready. His
plan of marching in a common onset the
three Generals, Mcclellan, Patterson and
| Mcdowell, has failed, from the haste in
which Mcdowell has been driven on to
the attack, by "Public Opinion" made in
New York city by Republican journalism,
and these operated upon the Government
in Washington. NcD0welIs force 1t
would seem, has been put to panic and
fight by the conviction OF his men, that
Gen. Johnston was cooperating with Gen.
Beauregard and that it was a fight Of one
against two the two having the protec-
ton of hidden batteries planted where
foliage and leaves could cover them
Hence, inexperienced, andinagood degree
undrilled volunteer troops, were seized
with panic, and in consequence OF that
Panic, Artillery Baggage Trains, almost
every thing, seem to have been lost-as
but few infantry were left to protect hors
es, or wagons, teamsters-6r the men, III
y authority over them. The Enemy
). Cavalry, of which we are destitute, doubt
less added to the confusion, and slaugh
3 ter-and hence, the deplorable tale We
\ read.
q This defeat, however, will in no degree
i weaken the Northern country or the Nor
IS thern people-but, on the contrary, Wi
|, arouse them to unparalleled eXertions anc
!. call forth their fun strength. 1t is very
E true that it will highly encourage the
r. Southern people also-but the North ha'
y not yet begun to put forth its strength
. while the South is strained to the utmost
q -T-ssgrss44,s. .-'--sa s. ;.e+ .,e.g and i
n would be folly so to consider it. 1t IS no
d safe, for the soldiers Just stricken by ont
y panic may be so stricken by another; tha
re even Notifications may not be considered
q protection strong enough for them. 1t l
,r- not safe, because now General Patterson
he columns are not safe, and because 1t is t
M be presumed the combined forces OF tn
10 enemy will be directed against them, an,
cd may defeat them, which would opel
ay Washington by the way Of the uppe
y Potomac Hence, the movements nov
making by Brig. Gen. Hall in this city
and Of the 7th Regiment, once more t
start to protect Washington, seem wise.-
Indeed, Just now, we may look for a re
rising in Baltimore, and in other disatteC
N ted parts of Maryland-if there be no
or overwhelming forces in and about Wasl
I'd ington."
n The Cincinnati and Cleveland (Ohio
n papers of the 9th acknowledge tn
I corn, and own up, like good fellows, t
as very bad nogging, The Cleveland Dali
st Press has the following grim joke on tn
d. occasion;
II. BULL's Run RAcEs.-Under the circum
stances, the best time ever made il
America was at Bulls Run, on the even
&c ing of the Dist. A body Of $4,000 mer
m after fighting sixteen hours ran twenty-tiy
in miles. . We may safely challapge the an
IN nails Of the world to produce the evidenc
of an equal performance. As good fight
CT ing doubtless has been done, and pehap
er as good running, but an equal amount Q
ID each within the same twenty-four hours
,s. never,
,r All those papers, simultaneously will
y the Express, unite in the opinion tha
p Gen. Scott, under the goadings of tn
~ Lincoln press of N. Y, marched on befor
n. he was ready-that, in other words, tn
d Lincoln papers and not Scott, are in com
d mand This, however, is a subterfuge.
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