Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-02-05
Watching the Lion while the Fox steals
the Chickens


Price is in full retreat southwark.
Prce will probably continue in full re
treat, for there are several-indeed no
less than three Federal armies, each as
large, better armed and better equipped,
converting upon him His past Victories
have been rendered valueless. Federal
forces have been massed in Kentucky. too
great for man Of Sidney Johnson c, Ii
bre to attack, and the paralyz;ng of Price
through the withdrawal of NcCulloch has
rendered the over running of Missouri to
the Arkansas frontier an easy task TO the
Federals We re forced back in Missouri
-check-mated in kentuckv.-Chase has
obtained his money IN Wall street
The blockade is unbreakable by us rs
yet In one word we re hemmed in.
We've allowed the moment of victory
to pass. We were so anxious watching
the operations Of England, tat we stand
aghast on turning our ewes homeward
again we find ourselves ten-fold worse off
than we were ere the commencement of
Price las forward march and that ac-
curScdly used sensatiOnisll, the arrest of
Messrs. Mason and SlidelI Dav follows
day, and in lieu Of being weakened, we
find the Federal armies, at all points be
ing strengthened. almost every article of
manulactur n and domestic necessity
quadrup!ei in price, and our money will
soon be exceeding scarce for lack of pa
per and the pasteboard whcrewith to
make it.
We pay fifteen cents apiece for sperm
candles, and are told we ought to be glad
to get them ut that Our twelve months
soldiers time will soon be up and we can
not help asking as they do them selves,
w hat have fha-- ] Ii
do? 1t is an old and ever proven truism
that where two nations are at war, that
which has the least means must find sue
cess IN early and rapid action for it can
gain little by time, while the other finds
in time the power to bring into efficient
use its more varied means
Cabined, cribbnd, confined as we were
and evidently would be- our shortest
clearest and most noble policy was to find
IN rapid use Of our early revolutionary
enthusiasm an Overmatch for the slower
and less spirited. but more enduring
North. Where shall we ask relief
Where should we ask it save in the camns
on whom have been Iav.shed our hearts
blood, our hopes, our wealth. our whole
where but upon the banks of the Polo-
mac When VIII we see the end of the
farce which Is there being enacted at our
expense
Indirectly every mouthfuI we eat is tax
ed, our babies wear tlxeI caps aaI sho :.
our boys write on taxed paper, our girls
wear taxed calicoes, our men do a taxed
business, and hopelessly ride in taxed
hearse to taxed grave and we. forsooth,
arc hurting the cause if we dare turn
from Messrs. Mason and SIidell to look at
the country we were born and bred in.
and, having looked, we are hurting the
cause if we dare tell what we see.
Our cause IS right, it Is holy Our suf-
ferins may be Gods price OF success, but
who, seeing what mi eht have Leen. and
knows what IS being suffered through its
beln5 undoae, can refrain from cursing
the scliishness or idiocy that stopped that
conquering Beauregard, that arrested the
march Of Price, that checked the gallant
Jackson
We have gazed deplorincly on the lion,
while the fox has been weaving his tolls
Our press and our people have trusted
far enough. We now ask are we to con
tinuc hcmmcd in for another six months
and lacking all things, or shall our armies
on to Washington and lack nothing
Memphis -41gus.