M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-12-04
War News OF the Week.

War News OF the Week,
"On to Richmond" appears t.
have taken sudden fall iD the col.
nmns Of the Republican press. The
They have got rid Of Mcclellan
bought over !lalIeck to the negro sen
SatlJrists, and taken charge of the
whole concern On the ABOLITION theo.
ry. In "Ionr days" Richmond was to
be taken, Several -four days" are
past and - well, it is not worth while
to take up space about it. Burnside
is at Falmouth and Lee at Frederisks.
ourgh, and the broad Or narrow, we
never saw it, tappahannock lying
peaceably between them. Of course
the two armies, p'rhapi nearly equal
IN numbers, are busy preparing to
hold their positions, or whatever els
may at any moment decided upon.
Stonewnll jackson, OF whom every
body is making enquiry about, is 10
Gated all round creation here, there,
everywhere. This is as near as We
can ix his headquarters from the
thousand stories told by 'intelIigent
contrabands,' and 'reLiable deserters
from the rebel army called specials
for the New York Daily papers.
The most remarkable evidence of
the faseaoods OF the past year and
half, afoat in the country, was a long
and labored article in the Cincinnati
Gazette, published on the removal OF
Mcclellan. excusng that cruel and
partisan act. 1t went over the whole
listoryIof our campaigne from the
time Mcclellan was called to the ar.
my in Western Virginia t. tho day he
was rudely dismissed from the army,
proving, or trying to prove, which is
the same thing in this connection,
thaa we had nothing but defeats, dis
asters and bad management from the
first to the last.
Now we appeal to the recollection
OF every reader, if these same Repub
ican papers, and such Democratic pa
pers as followed closely in their tracks
il they have not been filed, column
after column aud page after page,
with announcements OF the most tire,
mendous victories on wars records
Great head lines introduced them t.
the reader aud the news boys sold
them by hundreds of thousands to the
anxious crowd, and rabid war politics
ians echoed them to the life. Wer
these things not so! If they were 81
with what dGcency do theae papers
now tell US that our Generals wrr,
failures and our campaigns defeats
and disasters. The South scarcely
claims so much for themselves as
these northern papers now yiCld them.
How long 7 oh! now long will our
people follow lights 80 falso-lead crs
80 unwOrthy-papcrs whose inpu.
dence or necessity requires su h deo
reflections from a straight AMI manly
cou3e 2 While tho people give cre>
dcnce to such false leaders, and sup
port them in their course Of deception
they will be sure TO continue in it.
A congregation may complain of their
preacher preaching politics, as long
and as lond as they please, yet so long
as they pay his SaIery AMI feed his
family, he cares just as much for the
opinion OF his hearers as he does for
the horses tied to the fence outside the
church. But stop his pay and be will
crouch at your feet.
The preparations continue on a
grand scale for the Mississippi expe.
dition. From it's very magnitude it
must necessarily move slowly. Haste
may answer for small army, but il
is utter destruction to a large one.-|
When it was found that t 9 South
could not be whipped with an army
OF $4,000 men; it was inexcusable and
ulsgracelnl Ignorance for any nan 10
suppose that our war would be a short
one. Yet men in high places contin.
ned to announce such opinions, and
then in low places were silly enough
to believe them. Betwixt those who |
told lies and those who Swallowed
them, they have brought the country '