Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-12-05

in the action. On the 10th Norfolk was ia
ken without resistance by General Wool
And on the same day Pensacola, with its navy
yards and forts, was abandoned aud DESTROYED
by the rebels. On the Ilth the Merrimac. the
bulwark Of the rebellion, the bugbear of all
tmid souls in the North, and the myth Of won.
dering Europe, was abandoned and blown up
by Commodore Tatnall. On the 3th Suffolk,
Virginia, was occspied by our troops And
on the same day the rebel steamer Planter,
with four guns, was brought out Of Charleston
to the Union feet, by its heroic colored pilot,
| Robert Smalls The retreat down the She
nandoah Wiley and the hard fought battle in
| front Of Winchester, which followed on the
oath and 25th, while unfavorable in their re-
suits to the Union arms, give proof Of the val
or and unfinching frmness OF our taoOps, and
| Of the military capacity of General Banks
On the 9th was fought the battle of Hanover
Court House, where the enemys force was de-
stroyed. On the 29th Corinth was evacuated
by Beauregard's army.
On the lst Of june General Fremont at
tackled and put to flight General "Stouewall"
Jacksohn's army, and occupied Strasburg, Va.
The battle of Fair Oaks occurred on the aame
day, which ended in the flight of rhe whole
Confederate army. On the 9th tke great ma
val victory Of Memphis was won, and Mem
phis occupied by the Union troops On the
sth the Confederate forces were driven from
the field at Gross Keys.
Midsummer, it must be allowed, Witnessed
great slackeniug 10 the onward movement Of
Union armies. The victories of Yorktown,
Williamsburg West Point Hanover Court
House and Fair Oaks, which had bro4zht our
army within sight Of ''the spires Of Richmond"
were followed by the disastrous retreat down
the Peninsula. The terrible affair OF Manas-
sss and the second Bull Run must be added 10
the list Of caamities. The causes Of these
lamentable reverses are yet to be brought to
light, and their authors, iif individuals are re-
sponsible for them. to be held to a stern reck-
oning at the bar of public opinion and of his
tory.
But what great war was ever carried on
without checks, delays and disasters Alex
ander has been reckoned the type of rapid and
resistless conquest and yet he was the larger
part OF year in reducing the single city Of
Tyre-a longer time than sUfiesd to conquer
Norfolk, Columbus, Nashville, Memphis and
New Orleans-the last greater city than
Tyre, and made impregnable as far as could
be done by the strongest defences and desper-
ate determination of its defenders. Gustavus
Adolphus aud his great Generals were IS years
in breaking the power Of Austria All Eu-
rope combined was occupied for more than ten
years in humbling Napoleon. England re-
quired full two years to reclaim her revolted
province in India. France, England and Sar-
dinia united, were longer ia reducing Sehasto-
pol than our Government has been in recover
ing the long list Of cities and Notifications we
have enumerated above
Sharpsburg, Aatietam, Iuka and Corinth,
have already made a brilliant record for the
first months Of Autumn. The nation ia ami
mated with the feeling that it has re-entered
on the career Of success, and never was in full
Ter vigor or higher hope than at this hour
The credit of the country is uuimpaired, its
finances well organized and exhaustIess.
The loyalty of Maryland is assured; that Of
Missouri and Kentucky rapidly tending to the
same condition. New Orleans, having enjoyed
for six months the beniticent sway of the Fed
eral Government, is fast subsiding into con-
tentment and loyalty. The Mississippi, the
Potomac, and almost the entire Atlantic sea-
board, are in our possession. After eighteen
months Of war the Government has at its COM
mand the most magnificent army and navy on
foot or af0at
The Administration has not "been failure"
It has been grand and brilliant success. His
tory will so count it. We challenge the an
nails Of the past to furnish an example Of equal
achievement in the same time and under such
stupegdous difficulties. The American people
are proving that they 50 regard it by the gen
erous and enthusiastic loyalty with which they
are putting their treasure and blood at its dis
posal. And it remainly only for the President
to push forward our armies at once upon the
rebels; TO continue to "move upon the enemy's
works." to give rein to the enterprise, the skill
and the daring and patriotin determination
which have been developed and trained during
the past year of the war; to speedily make an
end of the gigantic iniquity; and the name OF
Abraham Lincoln will stand on the future an
nails of his country illustrated by renown as
pure and undying as that of George Washing-
ton.