The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-09
Nhe Louisvi4rs yeusnaa en- tne
Situation.


Nhe Louisvians journal en- tne
Situation.
We dislike exceedingly TO refer to the
Louisville Journal in our columns it Is
such q qualification to that pspsr to know
that il is noticed Bat, during the last
two or three days, we have noticed az
ticies relative to the military situstion,
against which we cannot avoid protest.
ing, so manifesily incOrEeot-not to say
malicious,-ars they, in almost every
particular. Ons Of these articles begins
by comparing the insctivity Of Grant
with the alerlness Of the rebels, in the
following strain:
Our troops in front Of and at Chatta-
nooga have been doing nothing for . long
time. They are doing nothing now.
There seems to be no probability OF. their
doing anything for some time to come.
In the meanwhile the rebel army,
lately Bragg's, TOW JohnstOn's, is evil
IDENTIFY active.
This is putting the case strongly; is
drawing = parallel between Grant and
bis rival, by no means Aattering to the
former; the one does nothing; the other
is working necessarily. The Journal
then says:
Whilst our great army at Chattanooga
are eating their rstions, and the horses
and mules their forage, transported there
At vast trouble and expense, . compare
lively small force is commanded to &C.
cupy Knoxville and was bat lately COM
handed 10 hold possession of all Eastern
Tennessee. But the occupation Of East
Tennessee beyond Knoxville was found
impossible. Our troops, thrust forward
beyond that stronghold, have been driven
baok into it by the overwhelming mum
bers of Longstreet, who, as we sal d
Yesterday, was at the last dates threaten
ing the stronghold itself. What bis
strength is we suppose that no one on the
Federal side knows, bat we see it stated,
that, two'weeks sgo, trains were continu-
ally laundering into the vicinity of his
camp. every one laden to its utmost ca
pacitv with reinforecements from Lees
army of Virginia. Still no movement is
made from Chattanooga for the succor Of
the belesguered army at Knoxville.
The first CLAUSE is written in pure
malice; the Journal knows, if it knows
anything, that neither the men nor the
animals had full ratiOns, until recently;
and it is also aware that an advance
would have placed Grants forces in 8
helpless condition. II was only re-
Gently that transportation was 50 far
perfected IS to give hope that Chatts-
nOOgS could be made base of supplies.
But il is not in the charge of inactiv-
ity alone, that the Journal gives vent to
its spleen it magnifes q little skirmish
in which our cavalry were driven in, into
great disaster; and is entirely regardless
of the fact that we have gained several
advantages, far more than compromising
for trifling discontinue. The statement
that Longstrset is being REINFORCED, is
true; but that which Immediately follows
is not; TO assert that our army at Knox
Vile has not been REINFORCED, is either
70 acknowledge ones self, wofully ignor-
ant. or q deliberate falsifer. Those who
know Gen. Grant, will little heed such
statements from paper which is determ-
ined to do all in its power to irjure the
national cause, in conjunction with such
men as Vallandighsm, and the Woods.
It is amusing to see the adulator Of
Gen. Mcclellan, the man who never sd
vanced, unless under positive orders, and
not always then, and who always follow
ed q forward movement by . counter
march, charging Gen. Grant with mac
tivity. But there is reason for this; the
Journal does not desire to see rebels dis
comforted; and Mcclellan never discom-
forted them, Besides, Gen. Grant has
been named in connection with the Presi-
dency; and although he will hardly be
nominated in 1854, and although he would
bsrdly accept the place during the PEN
dency Of hostilities, yet be will almost
certainly be chosen four years hence.
tbs this which troubles the Journal;
Grant although a conservative before the
war, is sn anti-slsvery man now, and
that paper feels that it has an especial
mission to fulfill, in prsising all incom-
peteut pro slavery, and villifying an COM
petent but snti.slsvery Generals.