Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-01-24

NOW Anu Lucu We nave 1QQlCaIlOQS OF the ter
rible straits-to which the Southern States are
put, and the impotence with which the people
submit to the burdens imposed on them by the
leaders OF the rebellion. A gentleman from
Memphis has furnished the Evansville (Ind.)
Journal with q copy of the Memphis Argus of
the 9TH, which contains an article that occs-
stoned considerable excitement at the " Bluff
City," and induced the vigilance committee to
wait upon the editor. As it goes to show that
everything in the South does not ego as merry
asa marriage bell, we copy it in full:
INJURISG THE CAUSE.
From the Argus Of the 5th.
GA knowledge Of the disease is half the
cure" This truism is as applicable to political
as to physical disease, and a knowledge of how
the fracture came is the best key the surgeon
can have to obtain him q mental view of the
shattered bones. We measure the value of a
household servitor by the efficiency displayed
by him in the past; and 90 should we that of q
public and paid official. Hsw is the house
hold ? means what kind Of housekeeper
Where order and happiness reign, there we
say rules the good steward; where confusion
and needless want exists, we censure the
steward, and so it should be with the rulers of
nations.
We have yet to learn that this Confederacy
is the private property Of Jefferson Davis, or
the joint domain Of his Cabinet, and we find it
still harder to comprehend how either the
President or his Cabinet came to be considered
the autOcrat dispensers Of veal and woe to this
people, untrammeled by any responsibility to
to the same.
We, for one, were and are far from consid-
ering that in voting for the secession of Ten
neSSee from the despotism of Lincoln we were
merely making q choice between two irrespon-
sible sultsns, propped by duplicating divans
We never meant in abandoning the Union to
abandon with it the rights of speech and of
the press, and as long as We can wag tongue
or WELD pen We shall do both in the assertion
OF truth, however palatable or unpalatable to
Presidents, Cabinets, minorities or msjorities
Our assertion, last Tuecday, Of the true state
OF our affairs, has caused quite q hutter among
few home soldiers, irresponsible and illegal
wielders of authority, ETC., men who holding
their positions from the higher servitors of the
people, think it sacrilege, and weakening of
the cause, to fault any Of their acts or no acts
and who, unable to deny our statements, would
cover the sins Of their superiors by asserting
that statement of the results arising from
said sins is encouragement and comfort to the
enemy. We seldom anathematize but in such
connection We can scarce help saying some
thing Of the enemy. We spoke and speak of
the state of this Confederacy, which, judging
from the policy Of both cabinets, is already
better known to the Federal Cabinet than It
Is to our own.
We spoke and speak of the ill-conductinp of
this war, which has now taken from our homes
best and brsyest; which has paralyzed all bust
ness, save that which puts the money We can
20 lily spare into the pockets of the creatures
OF said President and Cabinet. OF this war We
spoke, when We sald so much might have been
done IN 1t that has been left undone. Those at
the head Of affairs were leaders to the war.
We ask how are they leading throughit it?
When have been made to stand still, and
such cuffs and kicks as the Northerner chooses
20 give, when he pleased and where he pleased
We have heard our generals blamed for not
doing what IL appears they were not permitted
70 do The smothered report Of Beauregard
has made that truth clear enough. We have
for months and months been told that England
would do our fighting for us on the seas We
have been told everything save this one thing:
that in the cities of the North lie the keys of
our bloekaded ports, and the peace we seek
and need.
We see access to that peace rendered more
and more distant by he ondrously -accumu.
lating power of the Federal armies and navy
We see the sdyance That wss easy six months
ago d.EcuIt to-day, a1d likely TO be impossible
tomorrow. We see that from shoe Iatchet
to steam engine We lack everything, and that
the families Of our Obedient soldiers are suffer-
ing from the seeming fabulous prices they have
to pay for everything Of domestic use. We
look to the future, and, seeing nothing but
war, ask ourselves, ask our readers, ask our
rulers, tOhy all looks darker and darker, as
ohy IOllONs uays huu our vast armies prepare
to rot in their camps, while mothers and sisters
suffer from their absence at home.
Three times since the inception Of this war
has the road been opened unto rs into the very
heart Of the North. In July, after Manassas;
when Fremont resigned; when johnson moved
to Bowling Green. We blame not Besuregard,
Price or johnson; but we ask why they were
not permitted to do what they wished to do,
and could then have done-secured our peace
and our liberty? Whom do We blame The
men at Richmond. Not ours the place to ask
why's and wherefores. We say our people are
so situated. We say the leaders to the war
have been the leaders through it; and we SIM
ply state the results
One years reticent suffering is enough; and
as We never were, and never intend TO be.
puf-sheet for Jefferson Davis, or any other
statesman or politician, in or out of place or
power, We speak the more plainly. We believe
less adulati0n, real and hollow, of our public
men, who have yet done nothing, woald have
been attended with more benefcent results;
and dare also believe that the sooner our press
ceases this slaVish sdulation, and confusion of
the cause with any set Of men, the sooner is
the cause likely to prosper.
Via Evansville, Ind, We have the Memphis
Appeal, which contains the following signi6-
can't editorial-uhich means q good deal more
than they say outright:
Price Ii in full retreat south ward. Price will
probably continue in full retreat, for there are
seysral-indeed, no less than three-Federal
armies, each as large, better armed, and better
equipped, conyerging upon him. His past
victories have been rendered valueless Fed
erai forces have been massed in Kentucky too
great for man Of Sydney Johnston's cslibre
80 venture to attack, and the paralysing of
Price through the withdrawal Of MeCuIIoch
has rendered the oyerrunning Of Missouri 10
the Arkansas frontier an easy task 10 the Fed
erals. We're forced back out Of Missouri
check-msted in Kentucky. Chase has obtained
his money in Wall street. -
The blockade Is unbreaksbls by us as vet
In one word, we're hemmed in We've al
lowed the moment Of victory to pass We were
so anxiously watching the operations of Eng
land, that We stand aghast on turning our ewes
homeHard again TO find ourselves ten-fold
worse on than We were ere the commencement
Of Prices last forward march, and that ac-
oursedly used sensationism, the arrest of
Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Day follows day,
and in lieu Of being weakened, We find the