New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-08
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY JANUARY g. 1863 p O

ers, he crossed the great body of his army and
assailed the Rebel nights just south of the city.
The attack failed-bis columns Of assault were
repulsed with heavy loss and he recrossed his
army, took up bis pOntoons and has ever since
stood still on the north bank of the river,
which the Rebels are much too wise to cross,
save clandestinely on feet horses, for n noe
turunl raid and surprise. Meantime the Reb-
els continue to extend aud strengthen their
defensive works across the river, as if in con-
slant apprehension Of fresh advance on our
part.
The moment it was known here that Gen.
Burnside's attack on the Rebel breastworks
had failed, the entire anti-Repubcan press Oh
the loyal States, but especially that OF this
City, raised concerted howl against the Fed
eral authorities at Washington as the response
bic authors Of this failure. "Again have you,
Abraham Lincoln, by the hands of Edwin NJ.
Stanton and Henry W. Halleck, sent twenty
thousand of our brave soldiers to useless
was the substance Of The
Horld's indictment, eagerly echoed by The
Herald, Express, Journal Of Commerce, &c. 1t
was in vain that we entrcated them to forbear
to await the publication of the evdence--to
kno,o whereof they affirmed-to strike, but
hear They were hOs on tue scent Of party
capital-bcnt on turning to political account
the disappointment, anguish, aud dismay OF
a smitten and sorrowing people. They openly
charged the Administration with having over.
ruled Gen. Burnside and his subordinate COM
rnanders, and rnshed the Army upon impregna-
bic batteries in defiance of all Military opinion.
And. though these calumnes have since been
thoroughly disproved by the emphatic and cir
Gums antinl testimony of Gems. Burnside, Hal
leck, Meias, Sumner, Hooker, &C., they have
not vet been retracted, and are to this hour
implicitly believed by hundreds of thousands.
What mu.t be their effect upon tic Army
in which these journals are widely circulated
Can men be in good condition for further
eiforts involving peril and sacrifice who have
been made to believe that their lives
ere simply thrown away, by incapable
and laundering civilians who oyerIule tae
Judgment and direct the movements OF their
Generals What is the inevitable answer to
these questions
But we are not left to differences. From O
hundred similar testimonies, we select that Of
the chaplain Of the 32d Regiment New-YOrA
State Volunteers, who, writing to The Amstsr-
dam Weekly Dispatch on the 23d ult., just
after having joined his regiment on the Rap
pahannock. Gays:
You csnno. expect any with regard 10 the move.
sui, OF tho grand amy its intentions this REGION
You probably know IL Amsterdam about tho genesi
movements In the army than In this brigade not ok
eeping the General Ba. can tell yol this, there TERRELL!
eelng Of dependency 10 the army especially among thu
officers They fss that the only commander wa0 capable
lead ,Lsp safely aad surely victory ,rsalrsls4
and hindsed ia bis by pir,y pocians and thea
discharged for doing whs, they had prevented HIN from
doing And then 10 cap ALL ueg led into the ty Jdts
II dDs-fon a9ainH me yeoarOnee OF all military Guth''
ip Ju, a ne mitigation O Il act Of men rho kneO nothing u
rAat hey ros Undertaking 30 manage
Ths people, Ms Editor know very little yet to the
real o. tho disaster to our srmys: Fredericksbug
But ,hs army does not hold Burnside TespOnsibo."
All this ia wei known here to be false
wickedly Gtrociously false. Yet the journals
which originated and reiterated do not retract
it. They sent it flying through the camps OF
the Grand Army on the heels Of a sad repulse,
and il is still at work there on their authority,
causing all manner of encouragement, demon
alization, and dsaiiection. Those wicked cal.
umries on the President and his Immediate
military suborduates have weakened the Army
Of the Potomac far more than did its failure
Mt Fredericksburg. And now the authors OF
this mischief turn cOoily around and wonder
why the Grand Army is not over the Kappa.
baunock and fur on It's way to Richmond