The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-12-03
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pondent mon whom it prides itself, and whose
constant effort is TO depreciate Union victo-
ries and Union movements, and to eulogize
and exalt those of the enemy.
Here is sample taken from that paper of
Yesterday, Dec. I'd:
Nor does the theory which the confederate
leaders are known to entertain ia regard to
Sherman's expedition, tend to re-assure the
authorities here. They regard it as retreat
to the sea, in order to save his army, and be-
cause he could not retreat from Georgia by
any other route than the one he is now NOV
ing on. IL cannot be denied that there is
plausibility in this view.
Look at the last sentence of the above. SIT
cannot be denied that there is pldusibility in
this uiec." In what view? Why, that Sher-
man, in his mastery march of conquest
through the very heart of the enemy's coun-
try, is actually retreating to the sea TO
SAVE HIS ARMY! Aud this vile SANDER is
paraded gleefully in Portland newspaper, as
though it were solemn truth. But read the
following from the same source:
1t is beyond dispute that our inability to
make OF Atlanta what we intended, namely,
fortified base for Sherman's subsequent OPP
eralions, broke up all the plans which it was
intended that Sherman should carry out; and
made it necessary for him to get out of tad
scrape. which the folly of Mr.. Lincoln, and
the failure of Gen. Grant, had got him into,
the best way he could.
While the concurrent testimony Of both
loyal and rebel authority is, that Sherman is
in region where few troops except raw mill
tia can be brought 10 oppose him, this delec-
table correspondent finds a ready mill in
the columns of the Advertiser for such
grist al this:
There is nothing, however, to prevent Gen.
Beauregard from having brought 5000 of
Gen. Hoods troops from Corinth land that
would still leave Hood with 80 000) to Macon
by railroad, by the time Gen Sherman reached
the latter place. And it was no doubt the I'M
expected presence of those troops there, that
has caused Gen. Sherman to forego his inten-
ton OF capturing Macon, and that has COM
PEELED him to leave that place on the right.
and hasten on to Augusta. There is nothing
to prevent Gen. Lee from having sent 10000
of his troops to Augusta, who could have
been there before Sherman's arrival at that
olace; 10000 troops can have been sent from
Charleston and Savannah, and 5000 from
Florida. This makes $4,000 good troops, which
Sherman will probably find confronting him
at Augusta, besides the 10000 militia from
Georgia and South Carolina that have un-
doubtedly been raised for that purpose.
After getting off the above he then adds,
the italics his:
Gen. Thomas has been defeated by Gen.
Hood, ,oith heauy loss, and has retre0ted to
Ndshoills.
The editor of the Advertiser feels called
upon to give his correspondent generous
paper:
The agdr neius from our reliable and dis
corning correspondent DION, speaks but little
encouragement to the over sanguine subjuga-
tionists of the administration party. The
daily telegraph reports are mere sensation
and deceptive rumors. 1t is the summing up
OF actual results, and aggregating them in
the perspicuous style of DION, that ap
proaches reliable history.
But this editors wish is SO far and so truly
the father TO his thought, that he is not salts
fed with this general aspsrsion OF the Gov
eminent and endorsement OF his lying cor
respondent, SO he adds, in still another
paragraph, in language plainly showing his
oninaus, but the precise meaning OF which is
about as clear as mud:
The rumors which prevailed in New York
on Monday OF disaster to Gen. Thomas and
his retreat on Nashville, are confirmed by the
letter OF our Washington correspondent, and
| by the brief accounts received by telegraph
yesterday, of subsequent battle near Frank
lin, Tenn. and a victory to Gen. Thomas.
Thus it is that democrats who depend for
information upon this vile sheet are made to
believe that every Union gain is a rebel vic
tory, Cna5 Granr IS a TarIure, that SHERMAN
has been forced by rebel strategy into despe-
ration, that Sheridan has been worsted by
| Early, that Thomas has been badly defeated
| by Hood, and that all prospect of making
any campaign success on our part has died
out! And this stuff is contained in the same
paper in which appears by telegraph, before
the ink in which the lie is written could dry,
the news of Thomas's glorious victories, and
Snerman's steady progress to final triumph!
| To show the difference between copperhead-
ism such as the Adpertiser represents, and a
democratic spirit, we copy the following from
yesterdays Boston Post:
| General Hood has been disastrously defeat
ed in Tennessee, losing in killed and wounded
six thousand men. Gems. Schoheld and Thorn
as have repealed the Confederate forces there,
and driven them, defeated them, and captur-
ed a great number This will cripple Hood
essentially, and leave East Tennessee free
| from apprehension on his account, and proves,
ut the same time, the ability of our forces to
take care of the rebels in Sherman's rear
The work 10 going bravely on, and we hope
soon to hear OF him from Savannah, Charles
ton, and call along the coast"