Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-01

crossing, and below, nine miles, is another
bridge. Greensboro is eighty miles # a
Augusta.
sPECULATIoNs OF THE REBEL PRESS
The rebel press Is unanimously eng
in desperate effort to convince itself I'd
the people of two things-frst that Sher-
mans movement is retreat from anunten-
able position-second, that the citizens
must burn, destroy, lay waste before him,
obstruct his march, tear up bridges, cut
down trees, do everything to impede him.
To one or the other of these keys their
whole burden is pitched. Meantime the
Richmond papers are officially muzzied,
aud contain not word of news. This,
itself, is a most auspicuos omen, as they
would publish with pleasure any news OF
disaster to Sherman.
We give below sample editorial keyed
to the two tunes which we mentioned
above -
sHERAlAEs RETREAT FROM ATLANTA.
From the Savannah News, Nov. 22l
The present war has afforded practical
demonstrations of all the theories OF mill
tarv tsctics-of surprises, concentrations
celerity of movement, strategic feints, re-
treats, intrepid onsets and protracted
sieges-and to-day we are witnessing re-
enactment of that great military disaster,
the forced retreat of a 0setOrjoAs army
THROUGH a hostile country. As Napoleon
was forced to retreat from the conquest of
Moscow, so is his feeble and heaTtless imi-
tator, Sherman, forced TO retreat from At
lanta, the capture of which cost him the
loss of larger army than that which he
now commands The great aim of the
abolition despotism at Washington in the
commencement of the spring campaign
was the capture Of Richmond and Allan
ia. Tho conquest of one or both of these
great Confederate eenters was deemed es-
Sential to the maintenance Of black re-
publican ascendency, and hence the main
efforts of the Lincoln government were
directed to the accomplishments of those
objects. More than hundred thousand
lives were vainly sacrificed in the attempt
to reach Richmond, and to-day Lees heroic
veterans hold the remnant Of Grants
immense army covering before their i'm
of hard fighting, and after q sacrifice o.
nearly one hundred thousand troops, sue.
ceeded against vastly inferior force IL
obtaining possession of our great railroad
centre. But he found it barren victory
The ruin which he had wrought was n
compensation for the sacrifice he ha'
made-the tenantless houses, the devastat'
r ed fields ard acres of burying ground
with which he had surrounded himself, OF
fered no substance for the remnant o
his army. He found, too late, that con
quest was 1t victory. and that the army
whom he had vainly endeaYored TO subdut
still unconquered and defiant, had no
:, | only escaped his grasp, but has assumed
D position which threatened his destruction
Cut off from his base of supplies, the cou1
i trv in the track of his advance being eZ
!, hausted, surrounded on every side by
!; hostile people, starvation staring him /
u the face he was forced to look for II
d treat from his perilous position. Hl
I movement towards Chattanooga, as well q
the appearance of q large feet of suppl
: ships off Mobile few days since, leave n
doubt that he designed to seek wate
base and the cover OF gunboats at Mobile
. but the active operations of Forrest an
q the concentration of forces under Hood
: lower Alabama, rendered such retre'
impossible. Every other avenue Of eseaI
being closed, his last and only desperal
hope is to make his way through the II
terror of the State to the Atlantic coas
le While his main body will be compelled
d advance slowly through that section of Il
It State where he hopes to find subsistenc
h his light troops and cavalry will occupy
= wide breadth of country, threatening o.
principal towns, and by feints in all dire
tions, for a time, perhaps, succeed in d
ceiving US in regard to his real point
destination, and thus prevent a concentr
4 ton of our forces.
" A few days, however, will develop.his d
signs, when, if our united efforts are pro
erly directed, he will reap the reward
1s bis reckless teme-ity in utter annihilatio
II We have only to arouse our whole arm
n bearing people--hoVer on his front, fan
T and rear-remove from his reach or {
= stroy everything that will subsist man
- =. besst-retard his progress by every mea
~ in our power, and, when the proper TIL
comes fall upon him with the relentle
. vengeance of an insulted and outrag
people and there need be no doubt of
AZ az result. AS the great Napoleon found ]
Moscow, 30 will the brutal Sherman n
his Atlanta.