The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-06-30
A New Road TO Peace.

THE Yankee Generals have been engaged for
the last two months in very laudable effort TO
bring this bloody and unnecessary wnr 10 q, SAM
mary close. Fully aware of the fanatical and OBJ
stinate disposition of their Government, which re-
fuses to heed the calls Of humanity, and the de-
ma"'ls Of the people for peace. or ace tls ruin
aud bankruptcy in tbs path of the fa-ais-. Drns~-
system which is cer4sia fate tu stop the con-
test, and at the time place Il beyond the
power OF the Governments to renew Il. Grant in
Virginia, Sherman in Georgia, and Banks in
Louisiana, have evidently been acting in concert
and foP the accomplishment of the same Iaudabic
purpose. The plan is to rush the Federal armies
against our brcasrwotks and Notifications and gel
the greatest possible number of their men sIaugss
tered in the least possible tune. The sooner they
get their men killed up. the sooner the war
will close
In the prosecution Of this praiscwortby policy
Grant has succreded in losing somewhere in the
ncighborhood OF one hundred thousand men since
he crossed the Rapdan and re - still buSiIy Gu
gagged in crowding his men up to lines of irc
and death, where they melt away dai V by thous
ands. Sherman, who is had imitator of his
iltustrious conmandcr-in chief, is trcadiug close
upon his heels in the work of getting his army scd
up. From Dalton to Kenncsaw mountain he has
presented his columns on every occasion both BY
night aud day, as marks for the fatal rifles and
still m deadly artillery of the brave Confede-
rates. lie sees his piled in heaps before our
brcastworks, and still he presses them on. They
must be consumed before the war can close. His
losses up TO the great fight of Monday were esti-
mated by the Northern papers at 10000. That
night VIII add i've six thousand more 20 the
count Sherman knows that johnson :. non, il, =.
strong position, IN which he possesses unlimited
facilities for slaughtering the most magnificent
SCALE and he will no doubt continue to send np a
sufficient number To Keep troops regularly en-,
Ployed so long as his stock holds out
But CT all the Yaskcc Generals Nathaniel F.
Banks, sometimes called the Commissary is the
most csnsumately sklful in the art Of getting an ar
my suddenly and summa ~ used up He can start
out with an army OF 10000 men, ard lose all S,st n
very poor body guard in month Only few
weeks since the Yankee army in Louisiana nu-
merous and well appointed, with banners fyinr
and proudly defiant, marched ont for the sonaucst
Of Texas. Where now is that mighty :,ost rhc
places which knew them once will know them no
more forever. They have vanished, and are gone
Their putrid and purifying carcAsScs strew the
plain, and Banks himself having performed his
work, and fulfilled his mission has Disappeared
from the scene.
And in this connection it would be improper tn
omit mention of Grierson and Sturgis IN their
peculiar line Of getting Yankee troops slaughtered,
they have few supcrors Iu proportion to the mum
Der placed undertaken control they have proba-
bly, succeeded in making way with as many ms
either Banks, Grant, or Sherman They led ar
army out from Memphis against Forrest, and it
has not been heard from since
Against the system which the Yankee Generals
have inaugurated, it is Impossible for the Ii neoln
Government to stand up much longer. 1t will
soon have no armies, either to upon us, or
to defend ITSELF aud will therefore be compelled
abandon the contest from sheer 6 exhaustion We
are, therefore, hopeful of early peace and con-
sequeptly look for the evacuation of our terrific
ries before the leaves begin TO fail,