Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-11-24

Gov Smith Gov. Vance Bot the most significant fact
a. indicating that this struggle OF the South for ndePond
eHce will never DO abandoned for years 10 come that
every the streets in the railroad cars aud among
private circes-the proprety Of armDg aud putting Tho
negro into the ranks Is eagerly discussed There has
always in tbs South been sentimental antpathyto setting
children to do the work OF in other words TO seek
Ing from feeble unwarlihe and submissive race the en-
hibon Of passions and the exercise Of qualities which
have been always regarded the attributes OF dominant
and superior race. But it remains if occasion demands
for the South TO exhibit how the negro when placed side
by side with the master whom he has known and loved
since the infancy Of BOTH will fight for the maintenance of
slavery against his brethren who to compass it's for
cble abolition. The words recently employed by Mr.
Lincoln to the effect that he had two hundred thousand
negroes under and h, he should like to how any
Northern who proposed to employ only white soldiers
would carry on this war, have sunk deep into many
Southern hesrt 1t will be strange corolSry to this war
tho campaign of 1865 finds two hundred thousand armed
negroes from the North trying conclusions with two hum
dred thousand armed negroes from the South and If tho
of blood which has already been spilled 10 dsrkensd
by fresh current to bs added to it year. flowing from
the veins Of that hapes race which likely to be In
volyed IN conflict whose passions II cannot share and
whose prizes II cannot appreciate. st 4gi +.
have for thinking that there gross exsggera
ton about the numbers which ordinarily assigned a.
estimates Of Grants strength the material Of
which his army composed compare with the material Of
that army which advanced on Richmond under Gen. Mo.
Clean or even OF that army which fought the battles of
May last. There moment when desertsrs
came into the Confederate nes and It observed that
these deserters not Of yOre chiefly Ishmen Eng
lshmen Germans, but they number among them many
NOrthernsrs Of American birth. Two nights ago hun
dred deserters escaped from Grants meshes aud sur
rendered themselves to Lee of whom upwards Of ninety
were mon born upon this continent. ts
n THE CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA.
Ia speaking of the campaign Georgia the writer states
that Johston could not have saved Atlanta had he con-
tnued 10 command and that the delay of six weeks Hood
gained by his desperate fighting worth all the lives
that ii cost He says: A.. ~ E
Those six weeks threw Shermans success 80 Tar back
into the Year that no fresh western campaign grand
scale possible in 1864 for the Yankees 1t has been
said that singular and unprecedented fact that In
spite Of Johnstoas ncesant retreats his army continued
to place the utmost faith In him. and that 1t never de-
moralized answer that bis army demoralxed and
that because it was it took pleasure in and ap
proved the retrOgrade tactics OF Gen Johnston.
It not necessary to say now on this subject than
that ia my belief Atlanta never would have fallen had
every man in Hoods army officer and private striven to
do hs whole duty stfenuousy It's impossible, however
now regret that Atlanta should have fallen The nd
cations that liza fall is going to be of the greatest
blessings the Coafederaes that has occurred since the
commencement of tho war ss will subsequently explain
But in order to reap these benefits which TO be
like fruit ripe for the pluckng it is necessary that there
should be such lack of spirit earnestness peryaded
portions Of Hoods army at the commencement OF Septem
ber and it il my hope that spirit has possessed
it, for the following reasons:
1t mu be known to your readers before the arrival Of
this letter that President Davis has just returned to Rich
mond after Wait to Georgia The reslt of his visit ID
that Gen Beauregsrd put in command of the whole OF
the southwest Of the Conederacy this side Of the Mis-
sssippi just Gen Lee is in command Of Virginia and
North Carolina It must be owned that the srduous task
assigned to Gen. Beauregard is psricaos0 pe.am opus
alec " but ny belief that of all the Confederacy
he is after Gen. Lee, the test for the placs. 1t 10
secret that the contact into which Beauregard has lately
been thrown with Lee has contributed to elevate him
greatly in Lees estma on Perhaps the brightest attr
butte of Beauregards military genius 10 that his views OF
campaigns OF strategy and Of large systems of defence
wide arreachng and comprehensive. He has benefited
kuOWledQo
much any distinguished officer who has been engaged
10 it, aud there is in him disposition to intrigue to
work secretly and indirectly by inspiration from
papers to sin against any of the aIoms prescribed by
the code for the guidance OF great soldiers IN all ages
Beaurgards personal characteristics are still further
sketched, and the writer says:
have the best authority for saying that the baldest
move which has yet been attempted 10 this warhe
by which Hood through his army from the south to
the north of Atlanta and fixed his claws upon the line Gf
Shermans communicatonsis of Hoods sole Originaton
1t remains to be whether the event Of Shermans
adopting almost the only course which seems open to
himI mean 10 the event Of his attacking Hood behind
his enrencbmeDts-the much-sbussd Confederate army
Of the West will strike blow which, il successful will
do more to end the war than dozens Of such battles
fought In 1861 and 1861 1t my belief that Hoods
army insplred by the manifest sagacy which Is dis
closed in the move which hiss just made will prove itself
worthy OF its vigorous young commander and will gain fot
tsef and for him reputation which will eclipse the
paratve failures Of three and half years If there
war in which raudaee, Paadaes toujoars Pagdace
should be the motto of Southern Generals it s the
which we here engaged The two most successful
Generals of this war--Stonewa jackson and Lee-ars
the rashes and the present promising and daring
Of Hood will prove (unless mstaken) before October
has closed that 1t is only by rashness that telling and stag
gering blows be dealt.
1t may be that hereafter Sherman will discoss much
strategic ability he has heretofore displayed parnacy
while advancing Atlanta but it be confessed that
appearances that be showed blind and arrogant depe
citation Of his enemy and culpabe inactivity about wstch
ing that enemy after the Federas had got possession
Of Atlanta Ii to hardly conceivable that succor
to Sherman from the North before his supplies
reduced to compel him to issue forth from his
stronghold Of Atlanta We have all read with what shouts
and accamatons, with what peang of bells and what dis
charges Of cannon, shermans great Union victory and
the capture OF Atlanta celebrated in the Northern
States yet there believe that the Conederates
justified in thinking that out of this capture of Atlanta
will arise for their enemies such discontinue has not
been hitherto paralleled in the Of this The
disparity between the armies Of Sherman and Hood s ii
am rightly informed, by considerable. From
this passage of the the Federas will learn what they
have been told thousand times by all dspassonate spec
tsorshst to take towns 10 the interior of hostile
territories like these Southern States s thing to hold
them 10 another.