The New York herald., 1864-11-02


disorganized and quarrslling factIonsl In
1868 new men and new measures will super.
sede you all. This Is your last chance Of sx.
hibiting yourselves and your corruptions.
Our Generals and Armies and che
Democratic Papers.
No one who sees the democratic papers can
have failed to notice the tone OF disparage-
ment in which they habitually speak Of the
great leader Of our armies, General Grant, or
with what malign ingenuity they torture the
news to make every movement look like dis
aster. Towards Sherman their conduct is the
same, and they never make any attempt to
conceal the sneer with which they always 40.
company the name Of the gallant Sheridan.
Though Union victory may be demonstrated
by such an overthrow of the enemy as puts an
army out Of existence. the democr attic journals
cannot sec 1t; but let ever so small repulse
result from any movement Of our forces, and
then indeed the democratic Journalists have
eyss-then they can see wonderfully. Let but
q company give way. or q frightened team
ster hurry bis wagon to the rear, and our
army Is "reuted," while the loss Of cannon
renders 1t certain that we have had Waterloo
defeat. II rebel army Of twenty thousand
men loses thirty cannon, that Of course Is q
very small matter. as there ars plenty Of
cannon in Richmond.
This is the way in which the democratic pa
pers have spoken for months past; but they
have now suddenly launched out into even
more crazy folly than this, as if their opposi-
ton to our armies and generals became greater
and more intense in proportion as the condi
ton OF the confederacy becomes more and
more hopeless. In the World and the Ne,cs Of
Monday were articles on Grants campaign, on
tions in the valley. The World announces
that Grants campaign against Richmond is
ended, and that it has ended Of course, in fail
ure. The World is in hurry That Grants
campaign has ended is . thought certainly be-
gotten of the Worlds wishes. The World
wishes, and Lee wishes, and JEFF. Davis
wishes, that this campaign had ended.
They would like very well to be rid Of
Grant in that way; but their wishes do not
affect the matter. Let them not lay to their
little souls the 6attering JUNCTION that Grant is
at last going to leave them alone. Let them
not suppose that they may at last
cease to tremble for their capital
and their cause, and that they can
finally sit down and say-"Ths great agony is
over and we are safe yet" The great agony
is not over. Grant does not end campaigns in
that way. Fort Henry, Vicksburg and Mis-
sionary Ridge can bear witness that Grant is
not general after the democratic heart; he
does not sit down at the very hour when
sitting down will protract the rebellion and
going ahead will terminate it.
The World also informs its readers that
Sherman's campaign is failure. His great
advance from Chattanooga aud all those splen-
did operations at Ressacca, Anatoona, Kenesaw
Mountain, the passage Of Chattahoochee, the
great battles near Atlanta and the capture OF
that city. All these were useless, says that
immense military man the editor of the World.
And why is this grand campaign failure? 1t
is failure because Hood can still make an
Intellectual attempt on Shermans communion
tons. Because Hood can still be beaten on
Sherman's line of supplies, Shermans cam
paign 10 q failure. 1t is also . failure because
If Hood cannnt stay in Atlanta, he can, say
the democratic organs, 60 somewhere else;
and may be he can 20 into Ten
nessee, whispers the NeUs. The military
situation 10 the Southwest, as given by the
democratic journals, is about this:-Shermans
hundred thousand soldiers are lost on some
little by path in the Georgia or Alabama
woods, and Hoods thirty thousand stragglers
are spread out 10 such magnificent way that
they can at pleasure occupy every important
point betwe-n Nashville and Mobile; and Sher-
man is such an ass and Hood such a genius,
that matters will remsin in that position until
the United States recognizes the independence
Of the Southern rebels. But the most
remarkable Of the democratic military articles
is the account in the Ne,rs OF Sheridan's late
battle in the valley. Some few days after that
battle the Necs and other rebel papers, in the
attempt TO find some comfort, said that il
was not so bad for Early IS they expected
Thereupon the Richmond Enquirer Indignantly
asbed:-"What was expected that could have
been worse than this shameful defeat?' But
now the NeicS goes further. 1t finds, indeed
that Early's shameful defeat was no defeat
at all that il was, in fact, the other way, and
that Sheridan's splendid victory was "great
disaster" There, indeed is democratic logic
It is singular that these three generals, in
whom the democratic journalists see three
failures, are the ones who have achieved all
the tangible and real military successes Of this
war. All those great blows that have pros
trated the rebellion to its present hopeless
state have, in fact had their inspiration
directly from General Grant. The country
remembers very we'll that while Generals Nc
Clellan, Burnside, Pope, Booker and Meade, in
command Of the Army Of the Potomac, merely
heaped disaster on disaster and only prevented
the invasion Of the North, Grant drove the
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