Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-01-16
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How John BAN Looms ~ ds.
Mr.. John Bull has had another dissp-
pointmsnt in his Ane calculations. General
Sherman unwittingly knocked into flinders
the pretty theories of war which the edi-
torial Bull is in the habit Of fnvsn+ing for
the benefit Of his exceedingly credulous
readers. When Shermsa calculated to go
on a pheasant Journey from Atlanta to
Savannah, egjoying the fine weather, solid
highways and ztrutting turkeys Of Geol gis
@E~s season, and Mr.. Bull got the frat
enkings ofthe intended movements be pom
dered, for brisf spell, over al the mar
velous doings of his English martial an
cestry from the days of Julius Csesar's IN
7ssim of Brittania down to the Iron
Dukes Peninsular war and thel later opera
tons in the Crimes, and concluded that
Sherman was mad esp or an idiot. The
idea Of sfying column" marching three
huRd7sd miles, through the very heart of
the rebellion, seemed to Mr.. Bull so stu
pendously absurd and impossible, that he
did not even attempt to eonceslhis hilarity
over the prospective defeat of the hero Of
the West. He We'd even with his bombss-
tic Richmond brethren in portrsying the
certain destruction that awaited such rash
ness. Sherman wss marching not only to
the coast but to destruction. Very inter
esting parallels, for the infant John Bulls,
we're drawn between Napoleon's advance
upon Moscow and sherman's retreat to the
Atlantic. As Mr.. Bull looked across three
thousand miles of salt water, he figured
the chivslric sons of Georgia and the Car
olinas, thicker than leaves in Yallambrosa,
rushing to the fiery onset with Sherman
and grinding him to powder between the
furious millstoues of their lordly wrath.
AIr. Bull had besn informed by General
Grant that the rebellion was a shell, but
the increduleus Bull, fortified with labOri-
Gus statistics of able-bodled men in the
South, compiled by the Richmond and
New York. rebsl press, did not believe it,
He secuted the idea Of exhaustion in the
South. The wish being father to the
thought, and fond hope out-stripping- the
actual, cur ancestral Bull, portrayed the
fntflity of sll hope OF escape for Sherman,
and already gIoated over his imagined dea-
truction. The weakened Confederate
loan. under the stimulus Of these views,
began to gather little strength, and cot
ton was disposed to be buOyant.
Unfortunately, however, for Mr.. Bull
Sherman concluded to dissppoint their
gloomy prophecies The heroic sons Of
the South csme not out. They wanted
both numbers and pluck. In vain did
Brown and Cobb and the "Gallant Creole
summon them to arms. They had no.
stomach for the grim Sherman who was
cutting o swathe hundred miles vida
through the most populous and fertile por-
tions Of Georgia, with bis four advancing
columns. Thus Mr. Bull was destined to
sore disappointment not only of his wishes,
but also Of sn his fne-spun theories of
strategy and tactics. On the reception of
the news of the taking of Savannah, he
was accordingly obliged to come down.
Now the London Post, the Government
organ, says the march must "evsr possess a
paramount claim to remembrance" The
risk Sherman incurred would have "de-
TERED most men" Praise is now lavished
upon the wonderful campaign. The march
from Atlanta was entirely voluntary, not
compulsory. It wss "dietatea by the hopes
of capturing the principal toa0ys on his lsne
Of march, Of Devastating the country ana
finally of being able, With the sea as a base
Of operations, to employ his arry to better
Gduantags thar he could haze done By re-.
nsaiains IN Northern Georgia"
1t is the usual story, however. Success
has silenced csptious criticism and hum
bled the snObbery of the English rebel
press. They are compelled to admire the
wonderful valor Of cur troops and the
splendid success of General Sherman.