Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-07-11
THE RETREAT.

4 correspondent of the n. Y. Tribune,
writing to that paper, thus speaks Of the
causes which led to the retreat. The writer
yields sound and vigorous pen:
We march now through the White Oak
Swamp, to change, in twelve hours time the
base Of great army-doomcd where it was,
and having now but little grace of delay ac-
corded to it by an active and brave enemy, nu-
merous enough to cncircle us at any point and
to outnumber us at all. The movement is bold,
soldier-likc and brilliant, but eminently haz-
ardous 1t is made by the light of the burn
ing of every one of the bridges which We
hominy, and within hearing of the ,lestruc-
ton, by our own hands, Of the railroad which
gave us supplies and was to secure us retreat
The movement will probably be successful,
though its trail will be bloody. The uorld
| ,eiU regard it as a mastery stroke Of genius
The army will so regard it, and will feel for
its commander the admiration and gratitude
that saviors of men ever enkindlc in loyal
hearts. But the brilliancy Of this movement
will not for an instant dazzle the eyes of the
wronged and wrathrul men of the Army OF
the Potomac, nor will it dazzle the sight OF
the angry people so as to for moment
obscure their perception Of the crime against
the nation, which has maRe this change 0,
base and front imperioasly necessary This
crime is the refusal to reinforce Mcclellan
| don't care about the question-which legis.
lators, soldiers, and politicians have debated
of this Generals fitness to command.
| The York and James River Peninsula was
not the place for that discussion. The hour
of the junction Of Beauregard's and Jackson
| forces to those of johnson is not the time fol
such a debate. care not for any criticism
of Gen. McClcllans campaign on this PENN
sula or on the Potomac. have blows, bu,
not a word, for the untimely causist, in OF
out Of administrative Office, who, under the
roar of Rebel cannon sweeping our ranks
with shot and shell, meets the demand for
aid to this army with chronological measure
of delays at Fort Monroe, at Yorktown, al
| Williamsburg, at Seven Pines. don't care
whether there were delays or no DELAYS
| whether they were McClcllan's delays, the
Quartermastcr Generals delays, or the delays
of the elements! No man, no party, no in.
terest, shall, with my assent or my silence
be permitted to mix up with the sacred right
| of an outnumbercd American Army to de
manl help from their countrymcn and Il
promptly receive it, collateral questions Of fit
ness, Of vigor, Of fidelity in commanders
When loyal New York regiments, lifted from
their feet by the fire Of Rebel bri.ades, cry
out Of their wounds and death for help; when
the choicest of New England ana Michigan
and Pennsylvania troops, outnu,nbered in
front and in both tanks by whole division.
Of the enemy, beg for achievements, say
that the blacklist crime that Power can com
NIT is to stalk upon the field Of peril and say
"Soldiers, have no faith in your command
or! Let your martyrdom proceeds' AND
so says this Army of the Potomac. And i
registers tonight vows of vengeance as i
marches in the dark from position which
their diminished numbers disabled them from
holding, but which is consccrated to then
forever by their sufferings, their labors, ant
their wrongs The politicians md statesme,
uho LETT ms here to be 0utnumberel and cut ot
from our supplies and the possibility Of retrea
are doomed men.
| Iowa STATE BoNps.--Iowa State scvcn's t,
| tho amount Of $4,000, were sold in the stool
market in New York last Thursday at 96 cts
1t will be remembered that the bids for thes
bonds. when they were issued last year, rang
ed under s5 cts, except small amoun
which brought 90. but which can hardly b
calculated in estimating the then value o
low. koplr in Wall Street Now thc rr;c