The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-07
telegraph
OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ARMIES
THE EFFICIENCY OF ONE AND DE.
mORALIZATION OF THE OTHER

mORALIZATION OF THE OTHER.
Prom me Herald
One real truth has finally made its way iuto the
heads OF the Southern leaders, generals, soldiers.
and even editors, and that is that a complete de-
morallzalion prevails in the Southern armies.
Hoods yagrsnt marsudcrs wandering miles from
the line Of march, announce il at every farm house
where they can steal chicken or dollar; and
HOOD himself announces IL in rcDeral orlers
Early does the same; Davis tells il, whispers h.
shouts II, and makes as much as he can of r. i'm
the Gath and Ashelun Of the Confgdcrlrv: and
the Richmond Enquirer declares that the II ,bsi
army will not fight In retrcat" that it is worth
LEES as an army and that if it Is not reorglniscd
the Southern cause is lost.
All this Is undoubtedly true Since the first
year OF the war there has not only been no inn.
ProNement m the Rebel armies, and in the etlcc-
tive war power Of the Rebellion, but there has
Deen actual deterioration in all. At the com
menCement The prospects of the South were aus
piCOus Tor success in war. On that side were
all the officers of the old army who were sun.
posed to have any more than ordinary ability
AlDe't sydney Johnston, Joe Johnston, Lee,
Beauregard, Bragg, Lowell, Gustayus Smith
Longsreet, hagruder-al supposed them TO be
very great men. And one Of the products in
IesdeIship OF the first year Of the war was Stone
wall Jackson.
The South had in its President man who was
supposed 10 possess for war administrative talent
OF the highest order and it had as many men as
10 could handle, and more than il could arm It's
q atf.
population fell into line also, and assumed mill
iGry form with great aptitude. Bull Run, the FIRST
considerable battle, was most decisive Southern
victory. II seemed rs If the South would 90
into existence as an independent nationality
without the necessity of any real struggle. OR
advances made in the West were made with such
uncertain steps that we were never certain of any
acquisition. And in the East the military south
ern success at Bull Run was followed by the an
utilization of Mcclellan on the Peninsula of
Pope IN front Of Washington, aud the advance OF
the Rebel forces into "a l1val State The Reb,I
lion went ahead splendidly.
but now Is all this now On our part there
haS been an immense progress. We have grown
INTO the war and have great armies. Since the
accession OF General Grant to the chief command
those armies have been handled with a purp1se
and skill beyond all praise. We arc making
gigantic strides to the fnal success. Vicksburg
missionary Ridge, Knoxville, Atlanta, the vii.
derness, Spottsylyauia, Coal Harbor the Weldon
road, Opequan, Fishers HILL Cedar creek Snch
II the summary OF the blows delivered In these
later months of the war, and they have brought
the rebellion to its knees Every one has had
great results and those results have not been suf
Tered TO escape. And under the great soldiers
that the war has mGde-under Grant sherman
sheridan, and Thomas--wc shall 20 ON in the
future IN the same magnificent way.
On our side, in the same period, there was a
most abundant will on the part of the people bgt
as TO all other material necessities of war we
were 10 state of helplcssness. We had hardy,
brave, aud earnest men In oyerwhelniny numbers
and that was all. We had no man able to put them
70 the proper use. Fifty thousand of them died
without any result. Our part of the war was
administered with general aud particular imbe-
cihty without parallel Every lunctiOnary WAS
Dusy with contracts, and the enemy was lef5 to do
as ne chooses Our senior Major Generals were
Butler, Fremont, and Mcclellan, and their most
distinguished sIbordinates were Hleck, Pope,
and Burnside. None ofthese were abir 10 handie
properly ten thousand men. Great battles were
great, purposccss saughtcrs; and even when the
enemy was driven IL hsd but little better effect
upon the war than when il was the other way.
While we have made this splendid progress
while our armies have become efficient and ali
the worthless leaders have been set aside, the
South is where II was in the first year of the war
II even it IS no worse. Its great leaders chosen
trom the start have all proved failures nor has
1t found any new ones. Johnston is laid aside as
Worthless-he was one Of the Bull Run heroes
and the man that was put in his place is Hood.
Beauregard was another Bull Run hero-he also
mas proved failure but fortunately, he is not
yet laid aside. Bragg was another great leader,
and has almost constantly failed in the many
attempts he has made. So has Longstreet.
Lee is the only Southern leader who has main
famed an even respectable reputation through
the hard trials of war. all of OuC present great
soldiers have been developed and brought for
ward in and by the war; but where arc the new
men That the war has brought out in the Rebel
armies The first and the last of them is Hood.
Perhaps the Rebel armies are not absolutely
worse row than az the commencement but they
are no better and the fact that makes them seem
hOleS ltidb ia tuG commencement tney tOugat
with our raw and newly raised mon, aud now
they fight with steady, well-traincd veteran SOL
dieTs.
This makes the contrast, and shows to the
Southern leaders the real worthlcssness of those
troops that they though. were such splendid fell
lows when they drove our frightened militia from
Bull Rum This is tho reason why we hear of
no more Southern victories except in the Rich
mond papers. Who remembers the last South
eIn victory? Charlottesville, fought eighteen
months ago, was the last SOHthern victory in the
East; and Chickamauga, fought year ago,
was the last in the Wet. Aud neither of these
was tOldiers battle, where the two armies are
brought fairly face to face and ea,h has a chance
to win.
One was victory over Hooker, the other over |
Rosecraus aud the battles were lost through the
failures OF those men, aud not OF their armies. |
But they were the last Soa,hem victories, and |
they Will remain the last. Since those battles we
have gone forward under other men in one coz
tinuous career Of trumph, and We will keep on |
It until there shall be thing LETT OF the Rebel
lion but the horrible record it uas III tds in our |
national hi. tory.
SHINES AGAIN tTLOAT.