Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-11-09
From the New York Herald of Nov. I'd.
Our Generals and Armies and the Demo
cratic Papers.

No one who sees the democratic papers
can have failed TO notice the tone OF dispar-
agement in which they habitualy speak Of
the great leader of our armies General
Grant, or with what maiign ingenuity they
torture the news 10 make every movement
look like disaster Towards Sherman their
conduct Is the same, and they never make
any attempt to conceal the sneer with which
they always accompany the name of the gal
liant Sheridan. Though a Union victory
may be demonstrated by such an overthrow
OF the enemy as puts an army out OF eXls-
tence, the democratic journals cannot see Il;
but ct ever so small repulSe result from
any movement ot our forces. and then indeed
the democratic journalists have eyes-then
they can see wonderfully. Let but compa-
ny give way, or a frightened teamster hurry
his wagon to the rear and our army Is rout-
ed, while the loss Of a cannon renders it
certain that we have had Waterloo defeat
II 4 rebel army OF twenty thousand men los
es thirty cannon, that Of course Is a very
small matter, as there are plenty Of cannon
/ In Richmond.
This is the way in which the democratic
papers have spoken for months past but
they have now suddenly launched out into t.
ven more crazy folly than this, as if their op
position TO our armies and generals became
greater and more nteuseln proportion as the
condition of The cOntederacy becomes more
and more hopeless. In the World and the
Aescs Of Monday were articles Of Grant
campaign, on Sheruans 5 campaign and ON
Sheridan operations IN the valley. The
World announces that Grant campaign a
gainSt Richmond Is ended, anu that 1t has
ended. OF course, In failure The World Is
in a hurry. That. Grant campaign has end
ed Is a thought certainly begotten of the
Horids wishes. The lIo,fd wishes, and
Lee wishes, and JEFF Davis wishes that this
campaign had ended. They W uld like very
well to be rid OF Grant In that way; but their
wishes do not effect the matter. Let them
not lay to their little souls the hattering unc-
ton that Grant isat last going to leave them
alone. Let them not suppose that Il ey may
at last cease to tremble for their capital and
their cause, and that they can finally sit
down aud say-''The great agony Is over and
We are yet safe The great agony Is not O.
yer. Grant does not end campaigns in that
way. Fort Henry, Nick>burg and Nissiona-
" Ridge can bear witness that Grant Is not
u general aiterthe democratic heart; he does
not sit down at the very hour when sitting
down will protract the rebellion and going
| ahead will rminate it.
The H0rid also informs its readers that
| Sherman campaign Is failure. HIS great
| advance from Chattanooga aud all those
| splendid operations at Ressacca, Alatooua,
| kenesaw Mountain. the passage OF ChaJa
ahoochce. the great battles near Atlanta and
| the capture Of that city. All these are use
! less, says tnat immense military man the ed
! itor Of the World. Aud why Is this grand
ampagn a failure 1t Is a failure because
| Hood can still make an Intellectual attempt
on Sherman communications. Because
| Hood can still be beaten on sherman line
| Of supplies Sherman : campaign Is a fail
| ure. 1t Is also Il failure because If Hood
cannot stay IN Atlanta. he n, say the Dem
| OcIatic organs, 90 somewhere else and may
| he he can go into Tennessee, whispers the
| AeJcS. The military situation IN the South
west, as given by the democratic Journals, Is
about this sherman hundred thousand
! soldiers are lost on some little by-path IN the
| Georgia and Alabama woods, and Hood
! thirty thousand stIagglers are spread out in
| such magnificent way that they can al
! pleasure occupy every important point be
| tween Nashville and Mobile; and Sherman
! 5 such an as and Hood such genius, tina,
matters will remain in that position until the
! United States recognizes the independence
| OF the Southern rebels. But the most re-
markablc Of the democratic military articles
| l. the account in the -Aers Of Sheridan. ; late
| battle in the valley Some few days after
/ that battle the N,1os and other rebel papers,
! in the attempt 10 find some comfort, said chat
/ it was not 80 bad for Early as they expected.
| Thereupon the Richmond Eaqairer indig
| nrntIy asked -" y hat was expected that
! could have been worse than this shameful
| defeat?' But now the Nclcs goes further.
| 1t finds, indeed. that Early shameful de
! feat was no defeat at all, that 1t was IN fact
| the other way, and that Sheridaa ; splendid
! victory was a great disaster" There, in
! deed, Is democratic logic.
1t is singular that these three generals. IN
whom the democratic journalists see three
| failures, are the ones who have achieved all
! the tangible and reai military successes Of
! this war All those great blows that have
prostrated TIE rebellion to its present hope
! less state have. il fact, had their inspiration
! directly from General Grant. The country
| remembers very well that while Generals
! Mcclellan, Burnside, Pope, Hooker and
| Meade, in command of the Armyof the PO
| tomac, merely heaped disaster on disaster
and only prevented the invasion Of the
! North Grant drove the rebels out Of the
whole Western country and destroyed every
! Western army that took the field against
! him. He redeemed Missouri. Tennessee,
| Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana. Mississippi
aud Alabama, and sent our armies to the
very heart OF Georgia. No result had been
| achieved in the East in all that time except
! the repulse of two attempts at invasion. On
our own soil the men fought and won; but
under no general had they been able to hold u
| position In Virginia. Mcclellan was driven
| from in front Of Richmond; Pope was driy
| en- from herever the enemy could find him;
! Hooker was driven from the Rapidan. and
| Meade woIld not fight at all when he could
| by any means avoid it. Grant took com
! nand of the army OF the Potomac, and for
7 u | Il.