The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-07-02

gether 10000 men. Instead Of selecting one
Of their veteran chiefs for the Command of
this army, the Directory placed at its head
young man but six and twenty years old.
whose name, although well known in French
military circles, had never beer heard Of be.
yond the limits Of France until the preceding
Autumn, when his military skill had been
employed TO defend the Convention against
the fury of the insurgent Sections Of Paris.
L IS true that while an officer of artillery he
had captured Foulon; but the glory Of that
achievement had been appropriated by the
Deputies OF the Convention, and his name
had noterpn been mentioned in the dispatch.
L is true that he had held the command Of
the artillery in the army Of the Alps--the
very army thai he was now called on 10 com.
mand IN chief. and that lis advice had caus-
ed the General in command to be several
times victorious but he had dever received
either thanks or acknowledgment for his in
estimable services. AT the opening Of the
campaign of 1896, 1t would have appeared to
an Indifferent observer, that while the nigh
ty hosts Of Moreau and Jourdan must newt
ably plant the tr-colored standard on the
walls Of Vienna, the feeble army Of Italy,
led by an unknown youth, must just as in.
eyiiably be driven back with disgrace and
ruin into France by the powerful forces Of
Austria aad Sardinia. The result was di-
rectly the contrary. The armies Of Moreaa
and Jourd4n did nothing. The army of Bo-
naparte. in one fortnight after the campaign
had opened. had gained six victories, forced
the Strdiuans 10 seek sepirate peace with
The Republic, fnrmed treaty by which six
principal towns on the Po were given up to,
It, and thus entirely disposed Of an enemy
who had at his command an army Of fifty.
thousand men. The res. Of that wonderful
camp4ign, in which FIVE armies, each double
the size Of the French, were cut to pieces
and dispersed, in which the Pope was humil-
lated. Venice subjugated, the face OF all
Italy entirely changed, and the armies. OF
France carried to within one hundred miles
Of the Austrian capital, need not be repested
here. Suffice il 70 say, that the vast ARMIES,
from which 80 murh was expected, did vIr.
tually nothing, while from the httle band
@hich.bad been expected At most to hold its
SAFETY, victory and glory. The different
fate of the two is easily explained. The
Erst were sluggish and tardy in their move.
ments, never anticipated an enemy, always
suffered him 10 concentrate his forces, aud
prided themselves highly upon skillful re.
Ireats. Tie other moved with the rapldity
Il lightning, carried no useless baggage,
marched thirty miles day, and fought
b,tile sYery Jay, never suffered an enemy TO
,enpjte his forces after he had once divided
tbp.n, seized the interior line, where they
could always strike right and leit at wills
and thus louad the means Of substituting by
skiII and activity the services OF l0O,OoV
men.
like the French Republic in l796, we
have ,hfec principal armies in the held, two
of them magniicen. hosts, large enough, one
would suppose, 10 march through Yaakee.
dam and . AMI their banners on Faneuh nan,
One Of them has just executed mastery
moycment, which places il some itty miles
II more Ia the rear OF its former pnsi,ion
the oher is literally in state OF siege. al
most in sight Of the Confederate capital.
N4iiher of them seem to enlertaln the slIght'
e.t design of attacking their enemy, although
!, /. believed that bnth are at least equal ~
nnmbefs 10 the respective force opposea 20
,bs,n and far superior in yalor. Ihey ssem
bsnt an ndhering 10 The policy whien 'ney
have parsued from the beginning '"s
w4r; tie policy Of spading aud alisnlng, - -
,.i.inr works Tor the enemy 70 shrn, anu y
abandoning them as soOn y the sns,. 80. ~
- nfl. With them the whole war consists i
n dseoyerrs means 4 avoid oa'.e, "a ,s.,,s,. anu
nroyi,led this can be ooialhe' s's!
themselves with very liifl' else. ....,. h,, ,
Our .nI third a., army + ! S.nd i heroes. and !.
; il'l,s Nj 49, 80 man ebo i himself ne nero o.
~ \ ~ ase a.d country. Like sonnpar,s ten 70
la Isly jackson mlsss al depend upon 80; env, nsnn
gy, astI,, il, ,si ndemiiabIe resolution has n.
{ ron W.. ;.,a !" ii. men. Like Bonsp'rte. ne
{ iusea l"'o f,r his enemy to unite his iorees.
aeIs, !, ,t,aes him in sdtrenchments. Lxs
{ am y ~ III makes activity supply tue
bon =, 81 numbers, and resolution the dehclen-
place s,si,ments. !" lie attacks his enemies
tIsy q g.,l ~ before they can unite--he rouu
; - u';r - enc place to-day and IN anoine'
J .ns@ ',..row !. he assaults powerful diylslo'
'O'''s. .nnnels il to retire on SUNDAY
- NJ a. crosses a river, burns down
! M',l" hsh;nd him. and utterly anniniiate'