, 1862-01-14
IWKFlUEEX OF TkAE ARIHEs
What the Rebels Think of the Ins
activity Of Our Troops.

Can any loyal nan read the following Wits
ont experiencing feelings OF indignation and
cha.rin, not at the enemy, but ut the de-
nothirg-ro1ic Of our pro-slayery gcneral+:
1Fiom the Iuchmond Dispatch, Jan.s-l
1splcIsIyE RESULTS OF FEDERAL ENTER
PRIsEs.
The dcvelopments of the last four weeks Of
the war have been the most remarkable that
have occurred during its entire progress. Tue
beginning Of December saw the Yankees in full
force, apparently ready for decisive battlc
At ill the Important points Of the
frontier. On the Potomac they had tic
best appointed ARMY on the continent. suited
by theif own authorities to be two hundred :
thousand strong. ID Kentucky they had
maascd together two immense forces, Of thirty
to fI1y thousand each, which menaced Colun~
hua and Bowling Green, aud al Indications
pointed with certainty to al Immediate ad-
TuDcv upon cur lines, at 4 time when We we're
weak, and were poorly able to withstand as
sault from heary columns. Zollleo1er was
pressed before Cumberland Gap by (urec
more than double his own: Pound Gap WAS
at the mercy Of Nelson, having only q thou-
fand men to oppot1s e. aEalnst Ten thonsana;
which 1c now confeEses to have been fifteen
thousand strong, against Floyd, having on15
about twcnty-thrcc hundred men ]; Rey
nolds was On Cheat Mountain with 1--WE
thousand, opposed by johnson with only
twelve Or thirteen hundred; and sher-
man had succeeded in landing fifteen Or
twenty Thousand men at Beaufort, while NC
had in that region at the time but few tlous
and forces, little better than militia, poorly
provided with arms and ammunition. And
10 crown all, the splendid weather invited
them 10 the charge.
Then Has presented the golden opportunity
to strike at every one Of these points. Bold,
effective blows, stricken then simultaneously
by all their armies, could not have filled to
crush our strength III several quarters, and put
gloomy face upon onr affairs. Success at
Columbus and Bowling Green would have
bean almost anulhilating to our fortunes i'll
the West. Success at Cumberland and Pound
Gaps would have cut our connections with
Tennessee and Kentucky irretrieyably. Sue
cess IN capturing our army in the KAnaWha
giuia next spring to the easy invasion OF the
enemy. a vigorous push from Beaufort upon
the Charleston and Savannah Railroad would
farc separated those two cities, and cut our
our army Of the seaboard in two.
But the enemy have let the golden oppor-
tunitJ slip through their fingers. They hav.:
allowed us time to make gond our defence5 in
| every Threatened quarter. The energy Of the
| Southern people has been aroused by the in1-
| minent danger, and we are non safe in every
| point where before we were SO vulnerable.
! Our danger is passed, and we :rc now 4 liberty
!
which prevented the enemy from using an
| opportunity which Will never return to him.
| 10 what cause is the enemy's fai1ure every
| where to advance attributable? II clearly wis
not due to the want Of men, to the want oi
! supplies, or to the want of preparation in f1-
| ever better armed, better clothed, OF better
furnished With provisions and ammunition.
! This W;,s not only the case with particular
corps, Int was the case with al. And get,
though fully prepared for effective operations
though the whole world WIS expecting he lrJ
blows to be struck and decisive results to b
achieved, their armies everywhere either re
manned stcck-stIll, or 15uominiously and mos1
strangely and suddenly stampeded from II
imaginary and non-pursuing foe.
strange phenomenon. Tie Yankees do no1
enlist 10 light; they enlist only to draw pay
The cessation Of Southern trade having put
stop to their factories and mechanical trades
the operatives hare had no other means O
livelihood than enlistment; the clrsks ant
| foremen have, under the same necessity, take1
Licltcnancies and Captaincies, and the bosse
are forced to play Colonies. They have III
gone into the army as 4 means Of livelihood
and without any sort Of intention to throq
away their lives. They took TO the army Il
keep body aud soul together, and without til
re1notest thought Of employing that metho4
for separating the two.
Accordingly, when Mcclellan orders an ad
vance from the Potomac, as he is said to Iuss
done repeatedly, these well-fed, wcu-clothed
well-paid ard salaried men Of war pcrsistentl
10 not march. So in Kentucky, where the
bad every opportunity fora victory, and 50 q
Beaufort, When the panic created by thei
landing invited an advance. All around tn
frohtlcr they exhibit this same frugal reggar
t for life aud comfort, and the same stolid iul
mobility under orders for IN ADVANCE, n
regard The last four weeks as decisive Of til
war, not merely BY its results, or rather bas
Tcnness OF results favorable to the enemy, bu
hy It's clear development Of the fact that th
Yankees have enlisted in tic army for livin
! and with a fixed objection to hard fighting.
| TIE WEATHER PRorIT1oUs, But TIE FEDEssA
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