The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-05-30
APRoN-STRINGS.

Rosecrans is a Christian, and closed his
dispatch after the battle of Murfreesboro
with solemn Latin thanks to God. as the
rebel Gen. Lee, after the victory of Chsncel-
lorville, did in English. But none of our
victorious Western generals ever thanked
heaven for the Allegheny Mountains. Yet,
to them they owe full as much as to any
other instrumentality. They are their per-
petual rampant, and defend them from enc
mics against which no. skill yet discovered
has been of any avail They could over
come the immense difficulties of the field,
they could pick out the inconceivable en-
tanglements incident to an army suddenly
organized of democratic materials, they
could fight and conquer the enemy;--but
what army and what general has ever been
able TO resist or to endure the city of Wash
ington? From this invincible danger the
Alleghanies are perpetual protection, and
shut off fatal influence, just as they screen
the Great Valley from ocean winds. Let
US be more duly grateful for the Allegheny
! Mountains
1t is an admirable qualify in azaleas and
rhododendrons that they flourish and bloom
in forests, and under the drip of trees, where
most shrubs would utterly refuse to live.
Can we not get some azalea geuerals-some
rhododendron generals Either we must
have generals that can blossom in the shade,
or else we must move Washington. Gen
erals do not thrive under the drip of the
Capitol At thirty-six hours distance from
Washington, armies and generals succeed.
At twenty hours they just hold their own;
but within six hours they are as dead as a
field of wheat under the shadow of upas-
trees.
Pets are all very well in their way, but
they may be too expensive. Our Govern
ment has one army, under brave old Heintz
Gilman, which it cuddles right under the
Capitol. That ought to suffice for the most
extravagant philoprogenitiveness. But no
Every few weeks we have it chronicled that
the President has gone to visit the Army Of
! the Potomac; or that the President has Just
returned from the headquarters of General
the fourth, fifth, or sixth in succession OF
| the Potomac, as the case may be. Then we
are told what the President thinks and feels.
He is comforted. He is hopeful; or he is
less sad than he was; or he speaks more
confidently. But they never tell us how
the Commanding General feels after one
of these periodical Governmental caresses
! Two pet armies are an expensive luxury.
And as it seems impossible TO tear the army
! from the fond embraces of Washington and
move it out of reach Of the enmity of love,
could we not remove Washington Sup
! pose, after Grant has taken Vicksburg and
Roseorans has Matched al Murfreesboro, the
Government should be removed to CinciD-
natl or to Chicago, and give the Army of
the Potomac a chance ? The Army of TIE
Potomac, like a fond mothers only son, has
been wonderfully vel brought up, but has
never yet been suffered to go out without
its mothers leave. 1t is quite old enough
now to go alone. Instead of cutting the
apron string, however, it seems another one
is about 10 be sewed on.
The New York Evening Post says: awe
learn by special advices from Washington.
that Gen. Halleck is about to take the field
in person, not, it is understood, with the
purpose Of relieving Gen. Hooker from his
command, but that he may be in the very
presence Of transporting events. and the bet
ter able to influence their general direc-
| ton
Poor Hooker! Happy Lee " Y In
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