Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-02-28
SUCCESS SETTLES ALL QUESTIONS.


A great battle and great victory clear
The political atmosphere like thunder
storm. Who now distrusts the ability
and vigor of our generals, or growls about
;uaction? Where are the men who dared
saw less than two weeks ago, that Gen.
Mcclellan had no plan but that of perpet-
nal delay: The policy of waiting for
complete preparation, of allowing and
compelling the enemy to concentrate his
whole strength upon his outer line of de-
tense, and of moving simultaneously
against the most distant and important
roints is indicated by results, more glo-
.rous and decisive than we had dared hope
for By the recent actions we have taken
awo large divisions of the enemy's army,
ssnd hold as prisoners several of their
aolest generals, and seventeen thousand
of their best troops,-and, what is of
quite as much consequence, the musket
and cannon, without which the men ;,rc
powcrless, and which the confederates
cannot possibly replace. And we have
gained strategic positions which have
already compelled the enemy to abandon
Bowling Green. the Manassas of Ken
lucky, which will COMPEL the Rev. Gen.
Polk and his army to quit their strong
hold at Columbus or surrender, and which
open the road for the irresistible march
of our victorious legions to Nashville, to
Memphis and southwark through the
heart of the insurgent country to the
Gulf. H.r. #..
The back bone of the rebellion may
now be considered broken, without violence
to favorite figure of speech. The war is
not over the rebellion is not crushed out ;
the rebel leaders will fight hard yet, in
the energy of despair, for defeat is ruin.
worse than death. to them; and they will
hold to their hopeless work the men they
have deceived or forced into the criminal
enterprise, as long as they can. But the
staggering blows they have just received
have spread alarm and despair through
the entire South, already disheartcned
and demorailzed. What the captured
rebels say at fort Donelson confess-the
hopelessness of the rebel cause-must now
be evident to the whole South, and the
receptions and false pretences, in which
the rebellion had its origin and its life,
must be suddenly exposed and scattered
by the same great events that have ST.
fenced distrust and partisan NAL evidence
at the North.
There will now be no need of effort to
secure popular justice to the commander
in-chief, to the executive, to the gallant
leaders of our armies, or to any who have
contributed to the successes which are
transporting. All further arguments as to
whether Gen. Mcclellan has plan is put
at rest. The plan is developing grandly.
and there is no chance for doubt or cavil.
1t is the same plan devised by Gen. Nc
Clellan, who has grasped and controlled
its vast and comprehensive outlines, and
it is now being rapidly and irresistibly
executed by the skill and valor of our
generals and volunteers We need not
fear that history will fail justly to dis
tribute the honors 1t will be done at
the moment The hallucination no longer
prevails that in the military capacity Of
their leaders, or the sterling fighting quail
tiles of their men, the rebels have any
such superiority as has been sometimes
awarded to them. They did not even
suspect the general plan of the campaign
till it was too late to provide for meeting
our forces at the various exposed points
with any adequate resistance. To the
skill of our volunteers, and the patient
faith and patriotism of our people, are VIC
indebted under God for these distinguish
ed triumphs, which promise speedy deliv.
erance from the great national peril
Springfield Republican.
SICKNESS IN Observation-Disclosures in the
recollection of that famous individual, the