Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-02-17
CROAKERs AND FAULT.FINDERs


In the loose parishes Il the press, these two cha,
GIL BSsEitS fssaE iajsss Of insseur.sv veo e;
Discrimination. IN de language ofPolitici Boon.
omy, the Croaker is IN "unproductive consumer
aad Is little better than 4 nuisance Hs creates
nbthngtHs Is either profitable OF agreeable to thu
human family. His musings areimorbid, his spec.
ulations gloomy he is q miserable dyspeptc him.
self and he would infect all mankind With bis own
atrsbllious hue. Not SO the Fault finder. He il
sharp eyed critic; practice makes him perfect in
the art Of anmadversion, and his we'll directed Ger
snres often constitute him terror to evil doers-
But alas, 1t too often happens that he meets with
the fate Of wisdom crying out in the Streets and bin
warnings As unheeded But that's no faux Of his
but rather IF the perversity snd obstinsey of the
human hart = IE.iEiiE ~ stG.if.z is
We could fill broadsids with illustrations Of this
melancholy trust; but wiz content ourselves with
one Or two that present themselves nd are put to
After Bragg made bis famous campaign into Ken.
lucky m 1869, and was continued f. command Of
the Western army, the whole race Of Faultanders
clamorous against the wisdom Of the governments
action. They commented with great freedom upon
the incidents Of the campaign; and commended With
great vehemence, and show of reason, thse the
General who permitted his adversarys With inferior
forces, to march by him, few miles Of his bead.
quarters, with flank exposed, and .unattaeked;- go
to Louisville, get reinforcements return ard drive
him out Of the State, was unfit to command any
army, That such failure, the .grossest and most
fragrant Of this or any war, damned the leader for
all time; and If in any contingency he should, by
good luck, win victory, he would be incapable Of
pro6ting by it The Fault Rndersspoke, as it WERE
With the inspired tongues Of the prophets of old
But they had their labor for their pans. Bragg
was confined in command. He was driven from
Middle Tennessee. He took shelter at Chattanooga.
He was pursued by the enemy in three separate
columns, who took him by surprise, and drove him
from that position. AT Chickamauga, he won 4
splendid victory and did not reap single fruit from
it. At Lookout Mountain, he occupied what was
represented as an impregnable position, and from
that he was routed with the loss even of honor.
If the fault finders had been listened TO- our coun.
try would have been saved the humiliation and
shame Of this long continued series Of disastrous
reverses. :: 80" 60
Again: when little more than twelve months ago,
oil Northern Virginia was free of the enemy, and
was open to our commissares; the people in that
region and particularly in the Northern Neck, where
there was great abundance of corn, wheat and meat
entreated our authorities to take their surplus pro-
visions. Their request was dsregarded; and our
army was supplied with -four At that very time,
manufactured on Staunton river. The fault finders
naa mere vue 0eiu LOT Tue e1efeiSe OIL toedr WIS,
and they were not idle. Som, the northern dis.
trcts were closed to us and the supplies from the
South became much diminished The army was
reduced to half rations. The fault finders became
more boisterous; but unfortunately Congress sided
with the white washers, and sought TO- bolster up
the commissarat by establishing the system Of i'm
pressments for the support of the army. With
that system in hand, the Commissary General has
succeeded IN provoking almost universal discomfort
among the people, and very nearly starved both the
has joined the faultfnders and though til Twelve
. or twenty four months too late, the CRY is wide
spread for his instant decspitation.
These citations will serve for the present. We
may hereafter have word or two moro to say in
behalf of fault 6nders.-Rieh Wing.