The New York herald., 1864-09-27

could to bring sbout tho present rebellion and
tho evils aad suffering that have followed.
Greeley should now secure tAs nomination Of
Fernando Wood In one sf the districts Of this
city A better and . more appropriate psir
than Chittenden and Wood cannot be found.
One IN original abolition disunionist ct heart
and BY preaching and practice; the other .
rebel sympatAiSer and secessonist Their
course Of action and doctrines al lead to one
and the same result-disunion and final separa-
ton Of the North and South, including tho sue
cess Of Jef. Davis and assooiatea
TIE Military Sisustien-Js8. Davis
Views and the Facts.
A short time ago Mr.. Jefferson Davis. Of tho
Southern confederacy. was complainant eaough
to give two vsgrant diplomstists bis ideas Of
the military situation. and to make . COMPARE
son, for Northern circulation. Of the respective
prospects Of our government aud Of the govern
ment ever which be presldsA His conclusion
was that hs should certainly say" that the
military position Of bis government was better
than that of ours. Wshavs always expected
that Mr.. Davis vsuld .ssy' just that, under
any oircuiIstaotea How many days would
tho confederscy stand il he should declare that
the South is beaten, and has no chance OF sue
| eesst But the reasons thss Davis gives for
this conclusion are remarkable ones, especially
for an ex-officer of the United States Army.
who ought not to lie too notorously. or be q
greater fool than Magruder. and who ought to
know the difference between . victory aud a
defeat
Davis reasons for the conclusion that
his prospects were better than ours were
these:-l. That the Confederates are not shut
up in Richmond, and that IL there is any capt
tai in danger it is the capital of the United
States early was then in Maryland). 2. That
Grant had been beaten by Lee and "driven"
from the RaHdan to the James and was held
IN check there, while Lee was able to invade
the North. 8. That if Sherman should take
Atlanta it would still more increase the length
OF his line aud make defeat the more disas-
trous-when it came. The mere statement Of
these reasons shows either how contemplate
Davis military Judgment is or what contempt
bic opinion he had Of the capacity Of his ar-
there are not two other men besides Jacqass
and Gilmore who could not have shown that
there was no truth in any one Of these reasons,
and that there was a most ridiculous dispropor-
ton between the reasons themselves and the
conclusion that they were made to stand for.
If the resume made by Davis was the best
that could be said for the Southern prospects,
then into what q hopeless condition must they
be fallen now. Since Davis spoke as above
bis view Of the situation has been tried by the
inevitable test Of time Events have cleared
up the very cloudy view that he had Of the
future, and have shown how pitifully false and
absurd was every one of the points from
which he derived his conclusion that the pros
poets OF the South were better than ours He
relied upon Early for his statement that Wash
ington was in danger. EARLY no sooner got in
front Of Washington than he ran away; and now
bis force, increased by ten thousand since that
time, is scattered up and down the Shenandoah
in the widest rout. More than half the men of
Early's army are killed. wounded, or prisoners
in our hands; half its artillery is taken, and
its organization is lost. So much for that dan
ger of Washington and invasion Of the North,
which Davis held up as bugbear to bis visit
ors and which he pretended more than
balanced the danger Of Richmond through
Grants presence on the James.
Has the capture of Atlanta destroyed Sher-
man? Not yet. 1t has added ten miles to his
line. But one who has not, like Mr. Davis, been
in the army, might suppose that if Sherman
could hold two hundred miles or line he could
hold two hundred and ten miles with little
effort Perhaps it was the last inch that was
camel. But this longer line was TO make Sher-
mans defeat, when it came, all the more dis
astrous. Whence is that defeat to Gomez Is
the long-iawed and low-broved Hood, who was
to fight 30 desperately for Atlanta. to admins
ter it? Has Davis got an army in bis breeches
pocket: Is it TO be given by an army made
up Of regiments like that Georgia regiment
that has Just laid down its arms and taken the
oath OF allegiance or is IL to be inflicted by
hordes OF Georgia militia, furnished by that
Governor Of Georgia who is making PROPOSE
tions for peace to General Sherman?
Davis said that Lee had beaten Grant from
the Rapidan 10 and across the James; that the
Confederates were not shut up in Richmond, and
that Richmond was not in danger. Grant
began operations at sixty miles from Rich
mond. and was driven TO within twenty
miles OF It. He has bombardsd city that is
one Of its dependencies; he has reduced it to
one railroad for supplies, and the journals Of
that city urge the non-combataDtf TO leave it
for fear Of famine. We should like TO know
how General Lee likes the result Of bis "victo-
ries" Are the rebels shut up in Ricbmondi
Most emphatically they are. Not by the mere
fact that Grant lies on one Of its railroads and
that Sheridan il likely to seize the other, but
by the greater fact that through our sue
cesses everywhere there is no Southern con-