Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-03-25
Green zflt. freeman
MONTPELIER Vt.
Tuesday Morning, March -, 1862
The splgit Of the Southern Press.

The Spirit Of the Southern Press,
There is much entertaining, if not profitable
reading in the rebel papers, they exhibit such
marvellous Ingenuity in accounting for Their de-
faats without contcssng It's real source in the
weakncssol thcr cause. Hhercmcdics proposed
are various, and the less feasible and practicable
the moro are they enlarged upon and magnidcd.
4 correspondent, from Richmond thinks the War
Depa ment needs reorganizing He says.
ali oar Government really desires yord Rich
mon. Of Llncolu'5 spies, let a watch be placed
upon ,ho only men WHO can possibly possess in
formation Of intended military movements, The
cmp'o4(l5 II The Confederate Var Department.
Besioo the President and Secretary Of War, and
rerhaps another member or two Of the Cabipe J.,
none otaer han these men can possibly be IN any
Of tie secrets OF the War Department. and
throu ia them, and through them alone is con-
yeyc4 to Washington Whatever information Of
Confederate military movements that reaches
the Federal Government. 4 complete recon.
struclon Of all the Dtpartu ents, particularly
the V ar Bureau is what Is wanted, and those
who ocslrc to catch Abolition spies must look
for item IN .no persons Of men filing high posi-
tions and not OF seedy chaps who cannot even
obtain iong-rangc view Of either the President
OF his Cabinet"
Hero is another hIc N Secretary Benjamin
Slr. Bepjlmiu may possess all the qualities
OF an able War Secretary, bat he has not lately
troubled tie people with exhibitions Of them
and the belief thus gains currency that his po-
>ition could be better filled by some one who has
o., "A ,var mot ,,,Iitios afudv -
Some Southern man Of an inventive turn Of
mind, really an original genius, has propolndcd
che following startling interrogatory
"While Bucl's rcvelIle is heard 1T Nashville,
hills OF Clncinnati?'
The answer was not given, but is probably
reserved for our next" 1t is unQuestionably
conundrum.
Somebody is hit by this paragraph
A man who had seen the inside Of q military
school, and was therefore qualified for anything,
located Fort Henry in mud hole and the I'm
ionists obtain possession Of the Tennessee river
bridge These acs have thrown the line Of de-
fence far back into Tennessee, and Buell. holds
Nashville"
And also by this
Floyd ran like u moral coward from the field,
and by his disgraceiu weakness caused the ca
pitulation and surrender he lacked the honesty
to share, and by his example sulled forever the
reputation of Pillow, by inducing him to forget
duty and remember but number one
\ correspondent writing from Nashville to
Memphis paper, works himself up to this terri
Bile threat
70 feel that we are in the hands OF the hated
Yankee, that We are no longer treemen, that we
are bound under the same odous despotlsn that
can disgrace Gods creation, is sore trial in
deed, and could believe that our present con-
dtlon IS 10 continue. without any form of relief g.,
| would pray to God in his mercy to strike us
from existence. But do not despair-we will
soon drive the accused creatures back to their
dens, there TO deyour each other
There have been 10 arrests as yet, but we are
70 be terribly oppressed, how or in what way
know not.
ltmnst be dreadful thing for those Nash
vile rebels " TO be terribly oppressed and not
know how it is done They couldn't be cx
pectcd to grin and bear any such tyranny as
that,
Ou the whole, u real, live, rebel paper is YER,
entertaining reading in tins March weather.