Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-10-16

+. stealing back toWardSt1eicity u
lately beleaguered; feeling his wa
along the banks Of his protectin
river with cautious leisure, an
venturing ehly where his girinboat
can accompany him, and can she
the wuods. in his front tosmak
sure there is nc Confederate fore
that can, harm him. : While hi
flags Of truce are refused, am
while he IS unable to count hi
own dead or gather in his wound
ed, it is pitial'te to hear him tall
of the Confederate loss. Perhap
we might pity him, under the cir
eumstances, for stating in his dis
patches to w asliington that at zone
O'clock on fhe Fourth of July
the great day. of Independence
the bands were playing. the na
tional sslutes being fired, and
things looking bright" but it is
not pardonable in a General SO ut.
terly beaten and so nearly destroy
ed 10 rc-sssert in that same dis
patch that Our frees were not
beaten III any conflict, nor. could
they be driven from the field by
the uttermost-- efforts of the. enc
N.Y." Neither is.it pardonable IN
a General addressing an army, yet
painting from seventeen nlles'
run to parody the language Of Ma
poleon, and tell his wretched fol
lowers that they may always say
with pride, Il belonged to the ar
my of the Potomac" We, under
stand the fortitude and determin-
alton of a brave man under defeat,
but these Qualities never lack the
dignity of truth, and are never
seen draped in tawdry falsehood.
But we shall probably be asked Is q
.rl.a4 - - 49, 49,,
laii should talk this trash to his
army and to his Government
We answer, first, that official doc
uments are the materials OF histo-
ry. and that it is the business of
every man to expose those who
falsify them. |eraeity in men
who bold conspicuous positions is
also q quality which it IS the in
terest OF all mankind to insist upon
ON pain Of infamy. But Principal
ly it is the interest Of humanity
that we desire to cry down this
newly adopted custom of SYSTEM
attic falsehood. While the Amerl-
can press is gagged; while private
opinions in the Northerh States are
under the suppression of terror
ism; while the Government prints
what it pleases, and points to It's
public dispatches as thetonly cur
rent facts, it is important that ev-
cry free voice should cry q warm
ing against the deception Which is
beiitg practi<ed upon the people Of
America! These false h 90 d 5,
which are so ridiculous here,
where i've compare them with the
accounts of eyewitness tfilsInit-
ted from the spot, may have the
effect cf hardening the North to
the further prosecution of this
hopeless and sapguinary invasion.
We, believe that, if the history
of those six days. fighting could
be fairly told all over the North
ern States, the effect wculd be
TO put an end to this war. Not
that the North would be dauhted
by the carnage or think itself una
bic to continue the contest, but
u
that lie further pursued, and not
worth the sacrifice demanded. 1t
is very different to give up the de-
sire to possess anotherman's house,
and to surrender the determina-
ton Of defending y0urown. ou
nav eHsily come to- find the first
to be an Observation-Disclosures; you
can never come Ito find the last
an object to be ebandoned. This
forgotten by the Jew
shallow reasoners in this country
who afe constantly telling us thai
"a. .Go0. .G00T mast in the ehd beat
S.0eO,OO8.isoISo they would, no.
doubt, ,o-ifo the. two populations
weald meet ia some great prairie;
and fight it out at once. But, as
the 201OOo.0Oo can only send .
Der Of r their numbers against the
5000, 900, and must naihtain
these at distance from thme,
the figures are by no means CON
elusives In practice the 20 0s0QO,-
600 dwindle down s8'thas fracsion