Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-08-12

boro'; If he left General Pemberton with orders 70
collect provision and ammunition and sped to Iui,
lahoma to rectify errors, 10 Vicksburg is starved
out When Grant burst through the screen OF
scattered troops at Grand Cult ana lis ens h
General Johnston hurried to Jackson ana began
With all possible dispatch to organize an army, OF
which General Lorng's gallant band formed no-
cleus He had few men, and no artlllery-tne n
tery had all gone in that battle at Bakers creek
where Pemberton was surprised, one nali oi as
army not engaged, and the other half routed Inc
railroad had been torn up, and it was SLOW, tsa'.
GUS process to transport guns to jackson. All 'nA'
human skill could DEVISE and human energy ac'
complish, the people believe that General Johnston
did and they cannot be hoodwinked, deluded or
pursusded to cast one iota Of blame upon him
They know where the responsibility belongs, anu
there they are determined it shall rest DesPlte
the sneers of Absoutists and of those who incline
to military dictatorship, vo1 PopuLI, vo1 DEL
The people are weary of the fragrant lnsmanage'
ment of the Government The spirit OF resistance
is strong ever, and the devotion TO our CAUSE
a. fervent and mistaken; but We are Disguised ana
disheartened at the course pursued by the Admin
istration. The causes of popular discomfort are
not new or recent; unfortunately they have TOO
long existed. But people have waited and hoped
for q change deeming it inexpedient to complain
publicly; until tho abuses and grievances nave
grown colossal and national patience is exhausted.
Look beyond the Mississippi! What Illuminating
spectacle meets the eyer Missouri, the noblest Of
oil the Border States, savc Virginia. utterly aban
doned to her prosecutors; while Missouris blood
was poured out in Vicksburg and Missouris troops
who never surrendered before, were made to stack
their arms by order Of Gen. Pembsrton. A large
portion of Arkansas overrun and held in Federal
bondage simply because Mr.. Davis protege No 3
General Homes-is kept in command, despite the
prayers of the State, and the irrepresslbie com
plants of the army If General Holmes be not IN
his dotage, the English language posses no syn
onym to indicate his stupidity and inertia. The
Administration is not ignorant OF the d'sgrace'ui
fact that the army, which numbered thirty thou
sand when he assumed command OF the Depart
ment dwindled down without . battle, and solely
from discomfort, unpublished assertions and mis-
management, to seventeen thousand. Mr.. Davis
knew that the Trans Mississippi Army lenged for
General Price, believing that he would lead it to
victory. Why was he subordinated to such Gen.
eral as Homes-himself substitute for Hethf
For the same reason that General Pemberton was
made to rank him; because he does not possess the
favor of the President. Does any man doubt that
had General Price been placed in General
Holmes position, he would ere this have redeemed
Missouri
Will no one who has the Presidential ear, render
the Confederacy service, by reminding him OF the
celebrated anecdote of Louis XII, which he must
have read, when he studied Vsttelf That monarch
urged to prosecute old personal feud, but he
sternly and Indignantly replied 1.-THE King Of
France does not revenge the injuries Of the Duke
of Orleans" Had the people dreamed that Mr.. Davis
would carry all his chrouic anhpathies, his bitter
prejudices his puerie partialities, and his dOtng
favortisms into the Presidential chair, they would
never have allowed him to fill it. Little did they
imagine that some of our noblest, purest patriots
greatest statesmen and abest Generals would BE- im
moated to the obscure hatred of provincial politics,
the forgotten quarrels of the War Department at
Washington. He seems to have mastered but one
axiom of Machiave: 1.-THE discussions ofindividuals
contribute to the welfare of the State" Owing to
the nveterate characteristics OF The President some
Of the most important nay vital portions the land
have been confidcd to the hands of officers who fill
Ill Of Sherdan's famous categories Men of tried
inability, and convicted deficiency; of contrived
weakness and Rxed inattention" Behold the por
trat of Lowell, Pemberton and Holmesl Whatever
estimate Mr. Davis may place upon these officers,
the army loathes their names, and despises their
capacity. He oanno: be ignorant of the fact that
nothing so completely demoralizes troops as want
of confidence in their leaders. To-day we aGs reap
ing the bitter harvest, Of what Edmund Burke has
well termed, ''the i'll husbsndry Of Injustice" The
evil does not seem to have yet reached its climax
but patience is now no longer virtue.
General Pemberton has addressed Circular Or
dor to the paroed army Of Vicksburg, stating that
the soldiers are to reassemble at Dsmopolis, Ala
bans. where they will again receive arms and
equipments to meet the enemy" Does he expec.
to enjoy the privilege Of surrenderng the said arms
at some other Vicksburg2 1t is rumored that be
has gone to Denopolis and that he will yet be re-
tanned in command. Will the people Of the Confed-
eracy have to support this outrage? We can tell
them that the army will not 1t is mournful,
bitter TRUTH that the troops are rapidly deserving
in that army they never trusted General Pember-
ton they charge the loss of Vcksburg to his stu
pidty or lethargy and if he is ever to command
Mssissippians again, those paroled men will never
reassemble at Demopoiis, 10 become q second time
his victims. These are facts which Mr. Davis would
do we'll to consider. He has aensted the hearts OF
the people, by his stubborn foes and the injustice
he has heaped upon some, whom they regarded as
their ablest Generals and truest friends. He owes
them the removal Of Generals Pemberton and Holmes
for the nation is weary and heartsick over their
manifold errors Will he remove themi We doubt
it. judging from the analogy Of the painful past
The people do not share in his chronic hallucination
that he is great Military Genius, and can direct
the campaigns in distant States with unerring skill
They would rather trust Generals Bsauregard and
johnson, Ewell, Price and Kirby Smith, Breckin.
ridge and G. w. Smith, and would be better pleased
if Mr.. Davis would employ himself in correcting
evils near his own door namely the misnanage-
ment I'D the foSt Omce Department. depreciation
OF the currency and the gigantic mischief resulting
from the present system of blockade running g
To-day, our people lift their eyes towards Richmond,
and cry, with Tennyson:
"Ah God for man with heart, head, hand,
Like some of the simple great ones gone
Forever, and ever by |"
The country is not discouraged by Federal advances,
but We know that unless the errors of the past arc
promptly corrected, the future holds no promise
nd fOph ri hat f4s~ ~,,l l.-1> =
ruined by our own maladministration, or that our
people should lack the proper energy and indepen.
dence to teach their Executive that he is their SER
want, not their rnsstsr-ther instrument, not their
Dictator. OCCIDENT.
FEox MISUNDERSTANDING to the report of
the desertion of Mississippi troops which be does
not 6e'eve the editor Of the Macon Telegraph says:
We save the best accounts Of the temper and
Spirit of Gen ,Iohnston's army from q fr;and 49,