The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-11-05
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movements ought to take the place of strategic
generals in the field.
For eighteen months, we have been trying to put
down one Of the most wicked rebellious; one that
was inaugurated without provoca,iou one tina;
originated in the minds Of iends and incarna,e de-
mons, at the presence Of whom hell's most heated
walls would deepen into bushes Of the darkest
crimson. Such ART the beings, who being moved
by envy and murder whose spiritual instructor is
the Prince of the power oc the air, have brought
us into this conflict and these are the ones, and
upon their heads, rests the blood of thousands who
have already seen the end Of the soldiers race.
Has hell in its deepest departments Of perdition
any reserved punishment sufficient tor the merit OF
these worst Of God -forsaken murderersf Upon
such unpriucipled men as these, who have come
out in open rebellion against one of the most sacred
institutions Of the world against a government
whose constitution they have sworn to sustain -
ought to rest the dire wrath Of this great Republic
But when we sit down to mediate on the all-ab
sorbing topic of the day, we can but grow discour.
aged, when in our reflections we see that $1,000,
900 have gained little success foe Of onl,
1000, ,0OO And must this nation die at last and it,
inhabitants ever after live and die. abashed viii
the shame of incompetency to sustain ourselves
against but one-third our number? Every man
will say no. But in the minds of many of om
great men, the word no, and the action yes, seem
to be the best process of making gain AMI while
this is their motto, our armies will ever be sur
rounding, and ever be failing to bag the forces ar
rayed against us. The common soldiers, who have
sacrificed much or all Of their worldly gain, left
the pleasant of their childhood and bid fare
we'll to their aged parents, with their blessing of
:" MAY the sword of the Lord and of Gideon 60 with
you." resting upon them, and probably giving the
last kiss and saying the final goodbye to their
fond wives and little ones, stand ready, with
obedience uppermoSt in their hearts 10 execute the
orders of their superors; with the strongest Of
desires, that the execution of the same may result
in the downfall of the opposing monster. But in
war there is no sympathy. No matter how patri-
otic soldier may be, no matter how delightful
home he has left, or how much he would like to
meet his loved ones in his own house, when the
orders come, he must grid on his belt and away to
the field of carnage and of blood, and there with
few of his comrades, must stand in the heat of the
battle, while within hearing distance are thirty, or
forty or fifty thousand armed warriors resting them
selves in the shade Of some oak pine, all anxious
for orders go to the assistance of their brothers
who are failing in their blood before superior
forces, while sJae devilish old tratorous or cow
ardly General, is pleased with the thought that he
is palming off on the mind Of the public the idea
that he is accomplishing most noble and strategic
movement Once, twice. yea thrice, these strategic
nnD bav gray for hundreds a
our noble boys, and cursed our country with long
to be remembered shame, at the thought that other
nations have lost so much confidence in our speed
to accomplish great ends.
1t is true that many of our Generals are wise
and noble men, and desire in their hearts to
end of this rebellion; but at the same lime there
are others who but drones, sapping from the
government hive the most costly earnings of 9TH
ers, purchased with the groans and blood and dying
agonies of those who have gone before. The blood
and dying agoneS of these sons of liberty, will
cry out from the ground for vengeance upon those
shOulder-strapped deccivers. who have thus rudely
cansed them to be torn from their homes, without
having effected, what the wise would presume to
call victory notwithstanding the General spreads
the news that, by this grand strategic move, he
mas gained tne point IN view, ana Is now on Tue
eve of bagging the whole rebel command. He has
at last succeeded in getting his foe into the great
room of operative action, by having placed as a
bait, in the door, some two thousand men, who
have been inhumanly murdered by the overwhelm-
ing force of hell-hounds, as they bore on for its
possession. The General noted for his strategy,
then removes his defiant reserves, to nice ele
vations, where he orders his artillery to be planted
in such manner as to bear almost directly ON the
camp of the enemy, first being sure that his guns
are out of range.
Now commences the process of bagging or ami
hilating the whole rebel army, who by this time
are demoralized that for them to escape will be
an impossibility. Heavens, how the strategic
commander watches, he sleeps neither by night
nor day, until with much difficulty he is at last
made to believe that they are all bagged--in Rich
mond or some other rebel defence
Now God only knows what will be the result Of
this bagGing campaign but in the estimation of
hundreds Of our best fighting men, if we continue
on this way, will soon all be strategically baggcd
in a strategcal bag, strategically emptied of
the last cent of treasure and be srategcally COM
PEELED to yield the point to the strategy of our
Southern foes, who have thus far succeeded best
in strategic moves.
j. JEFF. PARSONS.