The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-02-03
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Lee GeneralisSimO.

Lee Ucn cf8l1SSlmOs
Both the rebel congress and president
have been compelled to yield to popular
clamor. Gen. Lee is made generalissimo,
Gen. Johnston is placed in command in
Virginia, the rebel cabinet is in process of
reorganization, and there is general de-
termination to take new start and make
a final rally for victory and independence.
This new spasm of courage has been much
promoted by the peace enterprises from
our side, which have been interpreted as
evidences of weakness. In the matter of
the appointment of Lee to the general
command, a letter from President Davis
to the officers of the Virginia legislature,
dated on the 18th, is published. Davis
expressed concurrence in the opinion of
the legislature that Gen. Lee should be
placed in command of all the armies. and
said that he had been so until he himself
had asked to he relieved from it or from
the command of the army of Virginia,
and Davis chose to retain him in the lat
ter place. He had since endeavored to
persuade Gen. Lee to resume the general
command, but without effect. So it
seems there is no real confit with Davis
on this point, and it is to be presumed
that Lee and Davis are in entire harmony.
Notwithstanding the restoration of good
feeling at Richmond, some of their pa
pcrs still divide their luminosity between
Davis and the Yankees. The Examiner
of the 24th says:
ga long series of blunders, convincing
some sooner, others later, have now pro-
duced very general, indeed we might
say a universal, belief among all intelli-
gent observers, that our government, as it
is now conducted, is not equal to great
occasion. That feeling of confidence, SO
carefully nurtured, has been hopelesslv
broken. That great element of success is
gone from us unless in some way we re-
form the administration of our govern
ment. The brightest intellect of the
country does not now have control of the
government. No great plans of action
have been conceived or held in view by
any of those who are ruling the powers of
their government. For this the people
are to blame, and this the people must
correct. We are working through a
great and portentous occasion without
that exhauSting draft on the intellectual
capacity of the country which is as imper-
ative necessity now as draft on the
physical resources can be. Wherever this
higher order of mind in this country may
be found. we at least know that it is not
now to be found in the existing organiza-
ton Of the government There it is Vi
tality wanted to-day and tomorrow. and
we must draw for it. We listen now for
the trumpet. not for the penny whistle"
The Wing pours out its walls of wrath
uponthe deteSted Yankees with great vigor
These sentences are specimens of long
article:
"a FeeIec cannibal, or the kaffir, NAV
be regarded as benet;,ctors to the human
race. but idiots alone will 80 regard the
Yankee The most ScnSeleSS and slayiSh
spirit in the South may consider the Yam
kec :; benetactor, but even such Il spirit
will not regard it a blessing to pay such ::
bcnrtactor the cost and charges of S,lbirl-
eating Us. 1t has been no light matter 10
bring the war 10 the present pass. The
SIM total i countrd by billions and Vet
the work is by no means finished. Every
cent of I'LL these billions will have to be
paid by the >nhIugating people. Nothing
is more certain than this. The coward
who hopes 10y submission to save hi> slaves
and his land will find, when too late. that
his laui and his slaves will not BEGIN to
pay the price of his submission, for sub
mission is not the ending of the war. but
the beginning of many wars. War with
England. war with France, both of which
wars will be immediate, with endless war.
i'll future. If We own ourselves whipped
before we are whipped, we will but get a
worse whipping. and have TO pay for il
in the bargain. We had better rot be
whipped. There is no possibility, if We
stand up mantully TO the fight, and re-
member that submission to Yankees doc,
not mean the di>banding of our armies
and the return to our peaceful homes. but
the march into the SHOWS of Canada and
the deadly miaSmuS of Mexico