Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-19

OsAGkQ4H4FAs-A - QAAANS 4lrA-LNNAa
as the boys say. And in The second plaec,
/ ii always implied lie. The lie is tbAtthe
advance upon Manassas was premature,
The advance should haye been made the
very day that Alexandtiawas taken And
there was not day from the oeynPation 0f
AFlihgt66 heights Until The I'D anOe took
place, when vigorous and dssisive Com
mandeF-in-C Chief, wtlh-a real war policy,
could not have routed the rebels at MAuas-
sas. The responsibility for the disaster OF
the 2lstIJ Jnly,- rests upon GenI3Seott and
the War Department, and not upon tho
men who cried Hforward to Richmond"
That cry WAS right, and was timely
The army which. advanced upon Ma
nassas, did not show what work
could be done with Imsn in three
months The army had bad no General.
It bud straggledjand !oAfedIaWay It's time.
Scott studied the map of Virginia in his
room, and talked of his 'tplani, which s'did
not reaniEe cayalFy, Z or Apytling else in
particular, aHd Gen. ManSheld, nted pas
ses 10 thespies from NiggfBiag gsfid was very
'bpsily employedat that. The main body
of the army was t-ObstiEately held fast
Ion the Washington side ofthe river many
weeks without being brigaded, and without
target shooting for paslilne. General Nc
Dowell had a few regiments on the other
side building forts. The army WAS not
put under McDowells chRrge tor instruc
ton, or he would have instructed it to some
purpose. Aud when the forward move
ment was made, after six weeks de.ay- To
obtain transportation to moveitwenty-fE'
miles along a railroad track, twelve thou.
sand good troops were idling near Wnsi-
ingtpn, and the army under Patterson,
connected with Washington by rail
road and telegraph, might Rs well have
been in Patagonia rs trampiug about Har-
pers Ferry, We had ample, superabuud
ant forces TO have whipped the enemy at
ManRRSas They we're not used. ThellOgs
of the battle is not to be attributed TO tho
impotence OF the people, OF which MIR.
Seward writes abroad and Mr.. Cameron
speaks Mt hume-but to the apathy fths
authorities. 1t is about time the old Sian
der upon the people nudythe press, which
is repeated as an. excuse for wrapping ilie
army in napkins were silenced forever
For months it has been next to treason TO
talk OF. advancing an inch toward the enc
my. There has been no end of wisdom
afoat of the unavailability OF raw troops.
and the Importance of gaining time. Ma
poIepn wrote to Augereau on this 2lst OF
February, 1914;
What l. Six hours after receiving the
first troops from Spain yOu are not in the
field Six hours of rest is quiet enough
for them. ] conquered at Nangis with tbs
brigade Of Dungeons coming from Spain,
who from Bayonne had not drawn reIn:-i
Do you, say that the six battalions from
Mines want clothes and equipRge, and are
nhiustructed q Augerean, tVkat miserable
excuses! j have destroyed 10000 enemies
With battalions of cOnscrlpt, scarcely cloth
ed aud without cartridge boxes. The
National Guards are pitifull have here
1000 from Angers and Brelagne an round
hats, Without cartridge b0res, but lOith gOOi
l9ead0Fs = md \ haps made keul; hsik. There
iis pa money, do you saN But where du
you expect to get money but from tue
pockets of the eneny2 YOu have no
teams Seize them You have no maga-
kline Tutl Tut this is too ridiculous
+ order you to yuf youryelfiH the field twflVe
h0UrS utter !Yo,l receiUs this kstteT. lfyou 0Ts
still the Augerean of Castiglione, keep
your commands ar If your sixty years are too
much for you, reliuquish It to thei oldest. .ot
your general olEicers. The country Is me-
naced and IN danger. II can only be SdUed bY.
daring and dlqcTity and not 6Y ram delays. y
These words have the war music in
them. If one of our generals were to talk
SO, people would be frightened, aud posi-
bly, the general might be mOdihed5 Ad-
mirably appropriate to our case are the
words, "The countEy-is menAced7 and in
danger IT, can only DO saved hy datina
and alaerity, and. not by vaio delays
But now VIC must fight, or ouriuatiouali-i
ty will perish. II we go atit on the Mis-
sissippi, the Ohio, the Potomac, nnd the
coast, in Missouri. Kentucky, Virginia aud b
South Carolina, we can pass the crisis of
our civil war sntely in thirty days, and
present ourseIYes to Great Britain in good
lcondition. At present, our diplomacy.
our legislation, all that we have, is Goa
temptible, because. our arms are undistin-
lRushed. No wonder the British bluster,
aud treat US as If were parcel of llptten-
tots. Let the world see that our army Is
eomposed Of soldiers and is not y large
mob. which is weakness rather than u
power, and we shall be respected and have
K right to self-respect once more. Our
military situation between GAnHdaAud the
States is one that pecnli-
,lrly demands activity live could move
men on the Napoleonic style, we might
crush the rebel armies with. our whole
strength, and then launch Que whole fore.
at the British possessions, and sweep re-
6ellion and the relics of European ,Fulr
from the acknowledgements we might
expect millenium of peace; for there
would be none in all the world 10 molesl
or make us afraid. l,- ia
From New Creek.
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