The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-12-10

s Of course heartily sick Of that announce
nent. However. | incline to think that |
he people Of the north are little too i'm
patient, and far too hasty in their judg.
nents of the actions of our amy and its
generals. The only proper way to determ-
ne whether We have made any real progre.S 5
n crushing the rebellion is by instituting a
between the relative stragetic
positions Of the opposing armies as they
we're one year ago, and as they are now
Let the grumblcrs Of the press and of the
people look at the facts and see if the Un-
on army has made no progress since the
first day of November, 4. d. 1861. Then
the rebels held the most important stra-
fegic points both east and west; nou they
are all ours. They then held the southern
and western Missouri, nearly all Of Ken
lucky, all the strong"olds in Virginia, with
one exception, ID they threw defiance in
our very teeth almost ut the portals Of the
Nations Capitol. Since that time we have
taken Columbus. the key to the Mississippi,
New Madrid is ours and the banner of the
Union floats in triumph over Memphis and
Nashville, the Commercial and Legislative
cap'taS of Tennessee. Missouri is restored
to us by our victorious aru,s; The Bragg
arts are driven from Kentucky, across Ten
'eSsee and into Alabama and Georgia New
Orleans. the h'pe and pride of the whole
southern contheveracy, is ours to-day; in
Texas the rebel banner is traled in the ius,
while the glorious stars and stripes are
waving in triumph; North Carolina is vir.
t'aIiy and strategetically ours, and the
same is true Of Charleston, S. c., Savan
nah, Ga, and Mobile, Ala, and with the
TALL of those cities We checkmate the rebels
in all the cottoh states. One year ago the
Federal flag was not recognized in the val
ley of the Mississippi, south of Cairo and
Birds Point; to-day i. floats to the breeze
in every state from ST Paul to the Gulf
Even Mississippi, the dshonored home of
jeff. Davis, possesses but single strong.
hold for the rebellion. In Virginia the
points gained by our army are of the most
vital and permanent importance to the Fed
eral Government and Of trrible disaster to
the confeleracy. Portsmouth, Gosport
Navy Yard, Norfolk, western and northern
Virginia, and all the country leading to III"
rebel capital, have all fallen into our hands
within the past year. The rebel bug bear
navy has been destroyed the Merrinac is
deiunct, and it is plain enough that at the
proper moment. the fact will be demons STRAIT
ed that our iron clads on James River will
send their iron compliments plumb to tn.
heart Of Richmond. These are grea.
achievements, and when viewed in the light
of the truth and canlor, those WHO ARE so
CONTINUALLY FAULT FINDING BECAUSE TIE
ARMY DON'T MOVE. PROVE THEMSELVES TO BE
VERY FoEGETFUL OF FACTS Or VERY STUPID
IN CALCULATING RESULTS.
The present aspect Of affairs is most
cheering to the hearts Of good Union men.
ten. Burnside has the best equipped army
the world ever saw, and you may determine
that IT Is ION to Richmond r. and no back
out. In Tennessee we have, in my ju.Ig-
ment, one of our ablest commanders, Gen.
Ro>ecranS, with troops enough to drive the
enemy to his last trump. Grants army is
composed Of as good fighting men as ever
fired gun, and with Netherlands expetli-
ton and the corps in Missouri, the rebels
must soon be driven to the ulf The
rebellion is surrounded by wall of bayo,
nets on the north and west, and by the iron
clads on the east and south. It's fate is as
certain as time lasts. and just as the cri,ni.
nals deserve and brave and masnanimous
foe can intict. Politicians may howl, con-
tractors may figure. tr:itors may plot, and
grumblers may scold- all to their hearts
content, but Uncle Sam has got jeff Davis
and his confederacy just where Paddy had
the hen-right by thu neck now let him
wring! and never mind the pieces Let
Greeley on one side, and Ben Wood on tho
other, both go to the devil where they be-
long, and let the poor stick, in. the muds who
hang to tn, ir coat tails, 60 with them -
Abraham Lincoln is President! Thank
the Lord he knows his business, and il the
radicals expect to exotic him by crying
''go on T. or the conservatives to embarrass
him by crying "hold up" they aro both
mistaken. What q pity it Is
that men like Phillips or John Van Buren
can't get into power; but then, they don't
want Office oh no Of course not
Printer desires to return thanks for cop.
ies Of the TINES very welcome visitor