Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-25
THE WAR IN TENNESSEE.
From, the Inckrnn lN,is.n Annual


From the Jackson (Niise.) Appeal.
From all accounts that reach us we are led
to the conclusion that ere great while Gen.
Bragg lctl be forced either to engage Rose
Grams IN battle, or fall back upon Chattaaoo-
ga. The country would deplore the necessi-
ty which may force him to the adoption of the
latter alternative. 1t is all important that we
continue to hold middle Tennessee and north
Alabama, otherwise lce shall find ourselves in
StTaftened circumstances for army supplies an
other gear hence.
The tederals are devastating the country as
they advance, rendering it impossible for the
farmers TO raise a crop this season, and to
blot out middle Tennessee, Kentucky, north
Alabama, and north Mississippi, from the
producing sections of the confederacy, would
be more seriously felt than the loss of Rich
mond, Charleston, or Vicksburg. It lcould
pT0re long step in the direction of our sub
Jugation By starvation.
We sincerely hope that our generals are
fully alive to the necessity and importance of
holding middle Tennessee, and that the hands
of Gen. Bragg will be strengthened with a
force sufficient for this purpose. Our own
impression is, that the operations of the enc
my about Vicksburg is a mere feint to hold our
army there and at Port Hudson, while the en-
envy are sending most of their reinforcements
to Rosecrans.
To surrender Middle Tennessee TO our foe,
moreover, 1could place as to great disaduqa-
tage should negotiations for peace be entered
into during the spring or summer. 1t is
our policy, and should be our main effort, not
only to hold all we possess, but to reclaim as
much of southern territory as possible. We
could not treat for peace on anything like
equal terms with all the border states, Ten
nessee included, in the hands of the enemy.
From the Jackson Appeal march,.
Our information is that the force under
Gen. Johnston is now intrenched in the yicin-
ity of Tullahooma, having withdrawn from the
neighborhood of Shelbyville. The position
was, we have seen stated long ago selected
as the most easily defended one between Nash
vile and Chattanooga, by president Davis
himself, and, as it has been approved by Gen.
Johnston, we may indulge every hope that the
willy federal commander will be forced, If he
GdUance to gre battle upon ground that wiU
at least afford our troops an equal chance
The blunder at Stone riyer, rhich lcas foHop-
ed By such wholesale slaughter, riU not be re-
peated.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
ON CONSERVATIVES AND ABoLITIoNIsrs
Between the two classes of our mortal foe
men at the north there is little to choose. One
is commercial and the other crazy. If the
latter are more cruel and devilsh in their
10th, the former are more persistent and sys-
tematic in action. If we had only the luna
tics to deal with we might hope for lucid
interval, or possibly that their insanity might
vary its form. But of the commercial classes
we can entertain no such expectations. They
have invested their money in the war, and
they intend to get it back, if they send every
dollar they have left after that which is gone.
If we we were called upon to say which is the
worse man, Wendell Phillips, who is the en-
bodlment of Massachusetts fanaticism, Ed
ward Everett, who represents its conserYa-
tism or Caleb Cushing, its politician, who
should lind no difficulty in a reply. We hare
INFINITELY more respect for Wendell Thtllips,
or any honest fanatic, than either of the 9Th
erS The fanatic has priaciples-slich rs tbey
Gre-lohite the commercial class has no oyjuci?.
pie iotaterer but selfsitnesS. If it is opposed
to abolitionism, it is because the success of
abohtionsm would be fatal to trade. Could
conservatism be convinced that freeing the
slaves would increase the production of cot
ton, it would be converted in an hour into tho
very genins of universal emancipation. We
dread and detest such an enemy as this more
than honest abolitionism. We despiSe and
erecrate Edacayd Ere,et and Caleb GUSHING
more than Phillips or Garrison. No man Of
honor could take Everett or Gushing by the
negro in the south as degraded as Gushing, he
ought instantly to be freed and sent to Massa-
chusetts.
PROPHECY OF PEACE.
=, me Fredericksburg correspondent of the
tallahassee Floridian tells the following
strange story:
Winnie speaking of peace, there is a e-
gend connected with spring near Fredericks-
burg winch will relate for the benefit of the
curious. According to tradition, This snrng
was discovered running three months bpfore
the revolutionary war. Three months Ioforo
treaty of peace it dried up and noosoS ~
run. 1t commenced running AGAR "' .J.o ~
months before the war of 1913 and t,iee
months before its close as in the revolnt;n 80
airy war, it again dried up; and SO with tho
Mexican war. Three months before the fan
of fort Sumter it again commenced running
and a short time since dried up give rs
my author for this an aged man who was born
and is living near the spring, and who has
considerable property, and offers to bet it all
that we will have peace in three months from
the drying up of the spring"