The New York herald., 1862-01-23
JEFF DAVIS INJURING THE REBEL CAUSE.
From the Memphis Argus, Jan s.

knowledge Of the disease s half the This
ism applicable to political III physical disease and
knowledge Of how the fracture the best key the
surgeon have to obtain him mental view Of the shat
tered bones We measure the value OF household SER
vitor by the efficiency displayed by him in the past and
should we that Of public and paid official How is
the househod2 what kind Of housekeeper Where
steward. Where confusion and needless want exist,
the steward and so 1t should be with the rulers
Of nations
we hape vet to learn that this Confederacy is the private
propyof Jefferson Davis the joint domain Of hts Cab
net and find it still harder to comprehend how either
the President his Cabinet to bs considered tho
auocra dispensers OF veal and woe to this people
trammelled by any responsibility to the same.
We for one and far from considering that in
voting for the secession Of Tennessee from the des
potsm Of Lincoln, we were merely making choice be
tween two irresponsible Sultans propped by dup
eating divans. We never meant in abandoning
the Union to abandon with it the rights Of speech
and OF the press and long as we can wag tongue or
WELD pen shall do both in the assertion of TRUTH
however paatnbe unpaaabls to Presidents Cabinets
minorities, or maOrites.
Our assertion, last Tuesday, Of the true state Of our of
fairs, has caused quite 'ar among tec home soidte1s
irresIosJie and illegal Uedeys Of authority, de-, mon
who holding their positions from the higher servtors Of
the people, think II sacriege, and weakening Of the
cause to fault any Of their acts or no acts and who
TO deny our statements would cover tho sins Of
their superiors by asserting that statement of the
results arising from said sins is encouragement and com
fort the enemy We seldom anathematze, but in such
connect scarce help sayingsomething OF the
enemy. We sspoke and speak OF the state Of this CON
federacy which judging from policy Of both Cabinets
70 SSf own: .'''' :
Wa SPOKE and speak Of 0e iuco'ducsino Of ibis luar,
,catch has noW taken from our homes some three four
hundred tAosand Of bea and traves ,Ohch has para
lyzed all business, that which puts ne money so
iuy spare iso he pockets e the creatures Of said Pres
said much might have been done In Il that hiss
been left undone. Those At tho head Of Affairs
leaders to the war-we ask, how are they leading
through it'
We have been made TO stand still and take such cuffs
and kicks as the Northernsr chose to give, when he
rails blamed FOR not doing what appears they not
permitted to do Tho smothered report OF Beauregsrd
has made that truth clear enough We have for months
and months been told that England would do our lighting
for us the We have been told everything
this thing-that in tho cities Of the North lie the
keys Of bockadsd ports and the peace We seek and
need.
We access 10 shat peace rendered more and more
distant by the wondrousIy accumuating power OF the
easy six months ago difficult to-day, and likely to bem
possible tomorrow We that from shoe latche to
steam engine, we lack everything, and that the families
of obedient soldiers suffering from the seeming
fabulous prices they have TO pay for everything OF do
mestic We look 70 the future, and seeing but
ask ourselves ask readers ask rulers why all
looks darker and darker day follows day and
armies prepare TO rot in their camps while their mothers
and sisters suffer from their absence at home.
Three times since the inception OF this war has the
road been opened unto us into the very heart OF the
North In July after Manassas: when Fremont resigned,
Resuregard Price or Johnston; but We ask why they
not permitted to do what they wished to do and
could then have our peace and our liberty
Whom do we blamey The meu at Richmond. Not ours
the place " ask why's aud wherefores. We peo
pie situated We say the leaders 70 the have
been the leaders through it, aud simply state the re
suits
One years retcent suffering is enough and
and intend to be, puff sheet for Jefferson
Davis any other statesman politician in out Of
place power, speak the mere plainly We believe
less sduation, real and hollow Of our public men, who
have yet done nothing. would have been attended with
more beneHcent results; and wo also believe that the
press ceases this slavsh adulation and con-
fusion Of the with any set of men, the sooner tho
cause likely to prosper