Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-01-06

1U8oDAY MOANING. ...... Jan. .. 1858.
r. cooUocsscus legislative Co0mtssse
- ne Fredericksburg Disastes.
The following 10 an extract from alet
IT, to The Sditsf OF the Waterbury
Assr;ees Of December 90, 1862, from
Hon. L. W. Cos, one Of the republican
commistss cent By the Connecticut Log
islaturs y Fredericksbarg, after the bat.
Gle, % leok aftsr the dead and wounded
from that State.
The letter il under date Of December
81, from hospital headquarters -
You have no idea Of the depression
there 10 in the army At the result of this
third attempt to 60 to Richmond. That
it 10 . complete failure no one can deny.
The causes Of il may be 40 open ques-
ton; but one thing is certain that
there will have to be different manage
msnt, or we shall not be nation much
longer, and shall have JEFF Davis to
rule over rs. dare not write what |
think to you from what can gather in
the limited time have had for observa.
ton and thought: but this is certain !:
that the President has got TO stop acting
a. Commander-in-Chief, . part Of his
cabinet be removed, and another man
placed 1t the head Of tho army, pol'ti-
clans in and ous Of Congress silenced,
and, more than all, the people take hold
Of the interests Of the country, stop car.
rying on the war for selfish ends, and
also oil keep quiet and let the army
alone.
have found bnt one opinion in the
army abou. the merits Of generals. The
army, almost to man, are for McClel
Ian I; and, If you expect the army to
conquer . peace, you have got to give
them . choice. II 10 NJ clear to them
~ the sunshine, and that, too, with the
best friends OF Burnside, who is much
respected by al, but he has no. the ca
paclty tor the moving Of an army Of
this magnitude.
All OF the sick at Belle Plain, and
down TO the regiments coming here,
and oil the wounded who could DO
moved, we're sent to Washington before
my arrival, and thatyou will find from
other sources. /. w. Coz
We commend this to the undivided
attention Of the Abolitionists and Re-
publican Mcclellan haters in this part
Of tho country. Seeing is believing
consequently even = Republican legs
lator from Connecticut is compelled, up.
on visiting the army, to report to his
fellow-citizens that Mcclellan is the man
to lead the Army Of the Potomac.
There is another nportant feature
in the above that can hardly escape
public attention. The true condition Of
an army at that point is not wesl known
to the country. The rigid censorship
that the War Department has brought
to bear upon the telegraph shuts of all
truth, and If It gets to the people at al,
it comes in some roundabout way, by
private correspondence. 1t is now about
three weeks since the defeat OF Burn
side at Fredericksburg, since which
time his entire army, with all the other
Federal forces in and about Virginia,
have been quietly resting upon their
arms; unless when stirred up little by
some rebel cavalry raid. The country
il getting tired Of this, yet it j. appa-
rent that there is dead lock, aud our
army knows not where to strike the
next blow, il. indeed, it were in condi-
ton to do 80, which is exceedingly aues-
tionable, and what is more, it 10 so very
indiffsrently commanded that if there
Was q good chance to strike, and if the
army were iu condition 10 deal blow,
the act would almost certainly result in
ignominious defeat.