The Evansville daily journal., 1862-01-18


fault any of their acts or no acts; and who, |
unable to deny our statements, would cover
the sins of their superiOrs by asserting that
a statement Of the results arising from said
sins is encouragement and comfort to the
enemy. We seldom auathematize, but in
such connection we can scarce help saying
something of the enemy. We spoke and
speak of the state of this Confederacy,
which, judging from the policy of both
Cabinets, is already better known to the
Federal Cabinet than it is to our own.
We spoke and speak Of the ill-couducting
of this war, which has now taken from our
homes some three or four hundred thous-
and of our best and bravest; which has
paralyzed all business, save that which pu's
! the money we can so lily spare, into the
pockets of the creatures of SAID President
/ and Cabinet. Of this war we spoke when
we said so much might have been dene in it
that has been left undone. Those at the
head of affairs were leaders 10 the war-we
| ask how are they leading through it
We have been made to stand still ard
take such cuffs and kicks as the Northerner
choose to give, a0hen he pleased and schge
be pleased. We have heard our Generals
blamed for not doing what it appears they
were not permitted to do. The smothered
report of Beauregard has made that truth
clear enough. We have for months and
months been told that England would do
our fighting for US on the seas. We have
been told everything, save this one thing
that in the cities of the North lie the keys
of our blockaded ports, and the peace we
seek and need
, We see access to that peace rendered
more and more distant by the wondrously
accumulating power of the Federal armies
and navy. We see the advance that was
easy six months ago, difficult to-day, and
likely to be impossible tomorrow. We se'
, that from a shoe Iatehet to steam engine
we lack everything, and that the families o
: our obedient soldiers are suffering from thl
4 seeming fabulous prices they have to pa,
/ for everything of domestic use. We lool
Q to the future and, seeing but war, ask cur
: selves, ask our readers, ask our rulers, aUh'
: all looks darker and darker as day follow
d day and our vast armies prepare to rot il
# their camps, while their mothers and sister
), suffer from their absence at home.
1t Three times since the inception of thi
c war has the road been opened unto as int
If the very heart of the North. In July afte
" Manassas; when Fremont resigned, wheI
o Johnston moved to Bowling Green. "
blame not Beauregard, Price or Johnston
n but we ask why they were not permitted {
o do what they wished to do and could the
L have done-seeured our peace and our lit
1t erty 2 Whom do we blame ? The men
1T Richmond. Not ours the place to ask why
is and wherefores. We say our people are s
re situated. We say the leaders to the ws
le have been the leaders through it; and v
Id simply state the results.
e, One years reticent suffering is enough
to and as we never were, and never intend
ID be- puff sheet for Jefferson Davis, or an
other statesman or politician in or out
e, place or power, we speak the more plsinl
r We believe less adulation, real and holloN
ne of our public men, who have yet done not
ii ing, would have been attended with mo
50 benefcent results and we also believe tn
fe the sooner cur press ceases this slavish ad
Ill lation, and confusion of the cause with al
lie set of men, the sooner is the canse likely
t. prosper.