The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-09
Brrniug telegraph
'IRIT OF TIE NEW YORK PRESS
|eading Editorials from the New York
Papers Thls Morning.
|EPORT OF THE REBEL SECRETARY
OF WAR

|
A report Of tue Rebel Secretary Of War, some
ur months old, has ben sent North 70. circula-
on as campaign document in the interest Of
&c Peace Democracy. We publish the chief
DrtiCn Of IL IN other columns, that our readers
ay gain some notion Of It's contents. The gene
reader would find muah more to interest him
the report If the retrospect which Il takes
'yeied the summer campaigns.
But for the partisanS Of Davis among ourselves.
will serve much better purpose than II il had
me down 10 later date, and taken a survey of
G Rebel disasters in Georgia and Mobile B,v.
Rebel disasters IN Virginia, and the shutting
OF ihe grand Rebel army, under Lee, within
pace Ct few square miles around the Confe.
rate capital Viewing the matter in this light,
e OF inc Mcclellan organs here introduces its
dcrs 20 the report with the remark that sit Is
able document, clear, and well written, and
esents the Southern face Of the war IN a light 50
vorao'e as to attract. without doubt, the atsen-
. m Of other nations
Among the matters thus favofably presented
'othcr nations" by the Rebel Secretary is an
icial history of the Klpatrick and Dahlgren
petitions against Richmond, which is a com
.Ddium Of nearly all the lies published In the
chmOhd press relating to the alleged atrocities
mmiited upon non onmbatantS by these officers
he story of the papers tpund on the gallant
gren'S body, purpOrting 80 have been the
icial instructions directing him 10 I2vage and
10 the sword the women aud chilnren in
chmond-being served up anew to ilustratss
d grace the narrative.
| Other nations" are at the same time assured
at although any retaliation would have been
,titied in return for these Federal outrages, ''it
s been thought TO comport more with the dig
~ OF an enlightened Government not 20 mete out
|aliation 10 the subordinate instruments Of an
MsTstao hue 70
Iribulion to the reprobation Of outraged Chris
ldom, and the lasting stigma Of recording his
. .y"
A large part Of the report is taken up with the
hasures which were under consideration for the
yanilation Of the Rebel army. On this point
find that Davis Secretary, after pointing out
various causes which have operated preiu-
,ially on the efficiency of the military forces of
South, makes the admission that sowing to
decadence Of the volunteering spirit, a large
.oportion of those liable to enrolment prefer
inns of exemption"
These claims, owing 10 their numbers, have to
treated summariy, compelling the Depart
bnt, as the Secretary says, to sacrifice expe-
lion 10 Justice" This, it must be admitted, is
Iher sorry picture of free people struggling
their independence in the last Southern ditch.
pr does the patriotic impulses OF the weather.
sses come up TO the full expectations of their
|nignant rulers. Mr. Secretary Seddon COM
ins that the farmers won't sell their grain for
XnIeueIhlc CuIFeuCyy ana nc auVlses that tueT
Ain be taken from them a. Government valua-
| n. Nay, further, he charges that railway
ards of directors do not freely give up their
es Of transportation in all cases.
And as the Government must have transporta-
! n, he recommends that the iron of old lines be
en up and rolled into new rails for such roads
the military authorities must have, and that
J whole railway business be taken out of private
nds altogether.
On this point of transportation the Rebel Secre-
+y's admissions are suggestive, and furnish q
lcical commentary, by anticipation, on Grants
zure OF the Weldon road. We can see by the
bit of Mr.. Seddons statement to what pinch,
en- four months ago, the military authorities at
rhmond were reduced TO keep their lines even
half running order, and yet how indispensable
ir maintenance in some shape had become to
existence of the Confederacy.