Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-08-11

boFo' if he left General Pembertoa with orders to
collect provision and ammunition, and sped to Tul:
lahoma to rectfy errors, lol Yicksburg is starved
out When Grant burst through tAe screen OF
scattered troops at Grand Gulf aud its environs,
General Johnston hurried to jackson and began
with all possible dispatch to organize an army, OF
| which General Loring's gallant band formed nu
ceus. He had few men, and no artIllery.the ar
tilery had all gone in that battle at BAKERS creek,
| where Pemberton was surprised, one hall oil MS
| army not engaged and the other half routed The
railroad had been torn up, and it was slow tedie
Gus process to transport guns to jackson. All that
| human skill could devise, and human energy ac-
complish, the people believe that General Johnston
| did and they cannot be hoodwinked, deuded or
| pursuaded to cast one iota of blame upon him.
They know where the responsibility belongs, and
there they are determined it shall rest Despite
the sneers of Absolutists and of those who incline
to military dictatorship, vox PoPULL Vox DEL .
The people are weary of the hagrant mismanage-
ment of the Government The spirit OF resistance
is as strong as ever and the devotion to our cause
as 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 change, deeming it inexpedient to complain
publicly; until the abuses and grievances have
grown colossal and national patience is exhausted.
Look beyond the Mississippi What humiliating
spectacle meets the eye? Missouri, the noblest OF
all the Border States (saEe Virginia. utterly aban-
doned to her prosecutors; while MlssourIs blood
poured out in Vicksburg, and MissOuri's troops
who never surrendered before, were made to stack
their arms by order Of Gen. Pemberton. A large
portion of Arkansas oVerrun and held in Federal
bondage simply because Mr.. Davis protegs No q
General Holmes-is kept in command, despite the
prayers Of the State, and the irrsprsssible com-
Psai7ts Of The army. II 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 disgraceful
fact that the army, which numbered thirty thou
sand when he assumed command of the Depart
ment, dwindled down without q battle, and solely
from discomfort unpublished assertions and mis-
management, to seventeen thousand. Mr.. Davis
knew that the Trans Mississippi Army longed for
General Price, believing that he would lead it to
victory. Why was lie subordinated to such Gen-
eral as Holmes-hmself substitute for ueth
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 VatteI? That monarch
was urged TO prosecute old personal feud but he
sternly and Indignantly replied: 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 chrouc antlpathes, his bitter
prejudices, his puere partalitieS, and his dOting
faVOritismS 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 i'm
molaed to the obscure hatred Of provincial politics.
or the forgotten qusrres of the War Department at
Washington. He seems to have mastered but one
axiom of Maehiavelli: The dssenSionS ofindivduals
contribute to the welfare Of the State" Owing to
the nveterate characteristics of the President some
Of the most important nay vital portions Of the lan
have been con6ded to the hands of officers who fill
all of SheridanS famous categOrieS Men Of tried
nna%Llity' aud convicted deficiency; OF contriysd
and Ssd sG Holmes whatever
estimate Mr.. Davis may place upon these officers,
the army loatheS their Names and deSpises their
capacity He cannot be ignorant of the fact that
nothing so completely demoralizes troops as wan.
Of confidence in their leaders. To-day we are reap
ing the bitter harvest, of what lmund Burke has
well termed "the ill husbandry of injustice" The
evil does not seem to have yet reached its climax
but patience is now no longer a virtue.
General Pemberton has addressed a Circular Or
der to the plroed army OF Vicksburg, stating that
the soldiers are to reaSSemble at DemopolIS, Ala
bama, where they will again receive arms and
equipments to meet the enemy" Does he expect
to enjoy the privilege Of surrendering the said arms
at some other VickSburg? 1t is rumored that he
has gone to Demopolis, and that he will yet be
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, a
bitter truth, that the troops are rapidly deserving
in that army; they never trusted General Penher-
ton they charge the loss of VlckSburg to his stu
pidity or lethargy and If he is ever to command
Missssippians again, those paroled men will never
reassemble at Demopolis, TO become a second time
his victims These are facts which Mr.. Davis would
do we'll to consider He has alienated the hearts of
the people by his stubborn ollies 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 them ? We doubt
it. Judging from the analogy Of the painful past.
The people do not share in his chrome haucinatiOn
that he is great Military Genius and can direct
the campaigns in distant States with unerrng skill.
They would rather trust Generals Beauregard and
johnson, EwelI, 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 mismanage-
ment in the Post Office Department, depre ciaton
of the currency and the gigantic mischief resulting
from the present system of blockade running
Today our people lift their eyes towards Richmond,
and cry, with Tennyson:
"Ah God for a man with heart, head, hand,
Like some of the simple great ones gone
Forever, and ever by
The country is not discouraged by FederaEadvances
but we know that unless the errors of the past are
promptly corrected, the future holds no promise.
God forbid that our fair and beloved land should be
ruined by our own malsdministration, or that our
people should lack the proper energy and indepen-
dence to teach their Executive that he is their
want, not their master-their instrument, not their
Dictator 0CCIDENT.
FROM MIssIssIPPL-Alluding to the report Of
the deSerton of Mississippi troops, which he does
not believe the editor Of the Macon Telegraph says :
1--WE have the best accounts of the temper and
spirit of Gen Johnston's army, from friend who