The New York herald., 1864-11-27


0ensuFes ago, who. describing the lass ooaassrs-
WV y os house BY English foray srs exclams:-
Ihe Devil receive their souls therefor
u mad NOS been burnt this year and more.
one may form now Z kind OF estimate a
inc real amount Of progress 10 oonqusriag . ooun
w woco results from tho simply overrupning
or marching hostile armies through Il. When
shs people OF that country are truly spirited and
resolute. tho progress IL not only nothing. but
there real progress the other way. f the Yankees
had any chance OF subdung the SOUTH h was BY fraud
oy false pressnces OF fratsruaI feeling by orbsaring -
waste and destroy where they had Mor the moment
power to DO So and especially BY taking good
70 burt or harm those who scmswhat Inclined to
heststiue tmorous sort Of Uuioulsm When Lord Corn
wallis advanced, Green rctrsaed from South Carolina
Into Virginia, tho from America 10 Eng and was
highly encouraging and triumphant, and the bells
ruug out from London 20 Carlisle; but the country
through which those armies passed not becoming
British a that while iuhabtaut OF those regions
forever thereafter the sight or . rcd
rag acts upon bull. That triumphant march of Corn
wallis made an end Of toryism the South and Insured
tho ultimate expulsion OF the invading foe.
This 10 . lesson which has sometimes been referred
TO and ncucated before In the OF the and 10
some may possibly appear hsaress to be told that In
order TO make all countymen staunoh patriots there
II no surer or more speedy way than to make them
homeless beggars. Yet there who do actually
need teaching a. sharp ~ this. nothing short Of II
would stir them up TO patriotic duty and fsacrncs
then comes this passing through the nre which purges
away the baser elements the indoens abbness
OF society," and leaves the nation In splendid training
fght. II the people through whose towns and farms
Sherman ID passing remain true themselves
to their State, then not only viii eorgs be
hut hto kn~A -
see again the Ohio Potomac.
rIRADH AGAINST sHERxAN-HB Is ACCUSED BY
TIE REBELS or VIOLATING ALL KNOWN RULES or
MILITARY sCI1NCR.
[From the Richmond whg. Nov. 2l.l
We do not understand precisely why Il 10 that the
Yankees 60 into exstaeiss OF delight and admiration
over shernans movements In Georgia, unless bs that
they consider themselves bound to applaud everything
done TO be done by their military lenders How
could they manest their intense appreciation Of their
own 'greatnessf" How else they make the world
believe that they really tho greatest and smartest
people 10 all creationi And being the greatest and
smarsst people OF this any other age OF their
generals must be tho greatest and smartes known In
history; their movements the most marvellous their
marches che most extraordinary. and their campaigns
the most magnificent Is, therefore, matter Of prn
c'ps with them to declare that shermsns movement
the grandest abest prooundes Of this any other
but We must CONFESS thas We cannot u She
Yankees see Il. We do mot for . uuderrats It's
importasce. or tho audaciy by which is characterized
In this respect certainly does differ from any previous
movement Of any other Yankee general It is The first
tine shat any Yankee commander has venured 10 sepa.
rate himself frcm his base OF operations and piunge
boldly into the very heart Of hostile country.
Grants dash At Pemberton's communications and his
march from Grand Gulf to Jackson similar In ap-
ps.rance, but in reality very different since Grant
Immediately reracsd his steps the Mississippi! whore
be reopened communications With the operating Geet
Sherman's movement 10 certainly without example in
tins Indeed It Is without example in any OF
modern timcs, and 10, seemingly, insoen disregard
0! all tho principles Of strategy explained and
pract'ced by tho masters Of the military art. This
fact, 90 far from justyng the oxtrAvagant rejocngs
and si more exravaRant expectations OF the Yankees
should naturally inspire them with apprehension
AMI alarm But instead OF cody calculating the
chances Of and or taking iD,o account
the various Of opposition that Sherman may
encounter thcy that arrang precludng
tho possibility OF failure have been mado. Already they
the Yankee prisoners Andersonvo and Mien and
Florence liberated by their conquerng bre,hreu already
they behold Sherman, with his lesons entering Charleston
and Savannah after capturing aud destroying Macon aud
Augusta; OF sweeping unopposed through Georgia and
South Carolina and North Carolina and up TO the very
banks Of the James, adding his trIumphart ferces to
Grants wearled divisions, and ending the by the
capture OF Richmond tho whole srebei" government
o. the Army Of Northern Virginia and It's formidable com
mandsr Just such programme has been ske,ched ous
ard over again for the Yankee armies by the
imaginative Leditors and tie creduors people Of the
North. But the progress OF their armies towards the
contamination Of these remarkable projects has been
hh retarded By the obstacles which reasoning peo
pie might have forcsecn and which all sensible people
did foresee. These obstacles still exist and WILL
presume provo obstinate as ever. scarcely sup
possible that In campaign OF thirty sxty days Sher-
will accomplish than IL has taken him and his
predecessors nearly years 10 effect this while
deprived OF all the immense advantages OF open
ncaoDs and unlimited transportation hitherto enjoyed.
The TACT is indeed that Shern1ans march looks
like retreat han odua~ce; like offensive than
aggressive movement. II is clear that Hoods march
upon his munications rendered his situation at At
lanta extremely uneasy and indeed untenabe that be
found n impossible TO anticipate his adversary, or TO
battle his designs and that an abandonment OF Atlanta
thence became absolutely necessary But TO simply
tire upon Chattanooga, or as II was probable would be
the result upon Nashv would be TO give up all that
predecessors had fought for since the capture
OF Fort Doneson, to acknowledge himself outgeucraed
and 10 confess that hi advance iato Georgia
take and . failure Political motives precluded this
course All that left 10 do just hat he has
10 tempt the psrs OF march through Georgia 70 the
coast TO establish new base Of operations 70 effect
successful OF this bind. with its concomitant
destruction Of Confederate depots and stores tho
inevta abesurrendsr OF all the country lying between the
Atlantic and the Tennessee.
We think he mistaken In his calculations and his
pectatous but not inseDsibe to the fact that
man OF shermans uudoubted ability and asuteness must
have such expectations and made such calculations
He would have commenced his march from Atlanta
~ n1rlA Ana1t aark ehA
safety He would have violated nsgrantly the
rules and principles Of military science had he not
thought he could do with impunisy. He would
have exposed bis army 70 destruction had he not
been convinced that there were many chances
for him than against him. We cannot say, there