Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-12-23
AitBBmono Enqnlrcf,
~ rsDAY MORNING, DEC. %, 1862.
~ TYLER, WISE L ALLEGRE.
,,r WAR AND THE YANKEE GENERALS.

4 r1y WAR AND TIN YANhkE GENhhaLS.
/, is s,lausi impossible to form any opml"n
t, the probability of Yankee action under
:. mor,itcssion of defeat. But, if the past
>, i,;m any criticism for the future, Burn
/ IL will not ,nly be decapitated, like his
4 ..,.,sssors, Mcdowell, Scntt, Mcclellan,
,,,.. .nd Buell., but drawn and quartercd,' .
.n,It;csl sutchery can invent the means.
ra- present war, 81 tar US the Ian-
= ale concerned, has witnessed more
.,,;cn change. Of commanding oflilers than
/ -, o,hcr war Of the world.
/ Government like that of the United
,..,rs, based upon the universal suffrage Of a
,,.,y.rng and incons,aat people, is ever
.rlrr the strain to avert popular feeling and
! ,is.apoin,mcnt frcrn itself to some one else j
,cas as success attends its efort,ell goes '-s''
larry as mar riage he'll, hut ~henever disas-.
and defeat has nvertaken its army, the in
.,tsot rabble, thoughtless and incapable OF
,.a,c:icn, immediately growl complaints,
.,I ,he Government seeks to shift the re-
;non,tiiitr fro,n itself to the head Of the
.,i,rtuns,, commander. Such weakness on
=. r,.t of the ulers, and such INCONSISTENCY
d. the part Of the people. and such nnfairness
nj dishonesty IN the part Of both, argues
,u;onsl instability, that foreign governments
.,,opt fail to observe, and upon which in
~. tire they will have to act.
The Grtes. OF The u. 5. Il my at Bull Run,
xss 10. chargeable TO Scott ard Mcdowell
hey isi shown military capacity in no o!
sn,ry decree. and the iuluc histo'y Of that
.uupaiyn Nil do justice TO the ability AMI
,-pr siship Of these commanders, and yet
...k snt ishteneL administration sacrificed
hose officers To aplease estiess and un-
.essuni.ls - un:ry. Mcclellan. who had risen
oto notice by reason Of the battle Of Rich
NSunta,. WAS made to suFercede Mcdowell
,,a S.ctt. Th. battles Of Yorktown, Will
,u.burs, Seven Pines, MechsDicsville.
,;,nss Mill. Savage Station, Malvern Hill
and Shar,r,hurg all iousht under his com.
c,ud. and sii clauu,d aS victories, never
,,e;rss resulted in his decaP,tation, and
Po,r was i,ve-trd with Supreus command.
t',dar Mountain, Rrppahaunock, Thorough
fre. Manassas and Uhantilly- all rtctor1es-
resulted III suuercejure Of the hero whose
.teiyuarters wGs ia The saddle"
Ru5Ii. whose advance from the Ohio was
rr-rd ID with the rictGrieS of Forts Henry,
pvnsidson, Columbus, Island No. 10, Shiloh
snd Sperryvillt, has also fallen, and like Nc
Iowell, IS now before court martial.
With such retrospect, what standard
shall measure the humiliation IN store tor
Rurnsiy Will he be sent to New Jersey,
he Botany Bay for Federal commanders, or
to M,nnesota. The Siberia of the United States,
OF will he brons hi before a court martial,
like Mcdowell, Porter and Buell.
We mske these inquiries not from any par
,su's. interest in the fate oil ofBlrnsideb but call
.ag al,eution to the instability and vacilation
q the United States, aud congra,ulating the
people Of the Confederate States upon their
sSapc i,n.u association with a people whom
diversity throws into such paroxisms OF eN-
;.:euent as to compel their government to
4t With insensate ani1nosity against officers
Tao have done IS well with the troops furnish
ID .hctp. Is real Napoleon CT Wellington
could have done. "A nation of Soyere'gns
I4nno, he expected to stand killing at the
saarand of one Of their temporary COM
aaners. Toey vote themselves out whenever
lie ire Of thn enemy becomes ''lnore than
ll:nan nature can stand, and their soldiers
il. both the Judges to determine upon ana
lie sor.rsigas TO execute the backward move
-rn,.
Universal suffrage exercised on the battle
kid, under the tirr of al enemy,w'lt always
,e council of war, end i'll failing back. >
81 Efforts .: Company, Field or brigade o.
:!prs can stay the movement OF countermand
.,c orders of the "Soverrigns;" they have
rv,ei themselves cut and out they go, AlcClel'
An or Burnside to the contrary notTithstand
u.
10 cover up and conceal u defect Of nationa
ia -actcr, resulting from universal suffrage
;,src.sed by aliens and .fore'gners just from
;4rupe, fighting for pay, AMI feeling no inter
Is, in the war nor pride in tho country
me administration at Washington have un.
.-aitat,ngly disgracod every commander who
as ev"ced any ability until The command o.
'air my devolved upon Burnside. To judge
Of lis ability as commander, it is only nc
crSs,ry to STATE, t:.at rom the balcony Of the
phillips House. in Stafford County, be
~nt his troops 10 the fight in columns
sf attack "ioubttd on the ceatre," thus
tarnishng ready food for every Inusket
tall, cannon ball, slug, schrapnel, can-
aisler and fragment of shell, discharged by
he Confederate army. Universal suffrage
las nearly brought about the universal de-
Nructon Of the Yankee army.
SUPPORTING THE CREDIT OF THE coNFEDR-