New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-04
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Whether Government, assailed as ours Is,
imperiled as it has been, ought or ought not 70
permit the publication under its protection and
! flag of periodicals openly, unequvocaiiy de-
vo.cd ~ the cause of its would-be assassins, is
crave question. Our hesitating Judgment is
tba, il is wise to permit such issues, so long as
trutb and LOYALTY are not too grossly outraged
thereby. standing firmly on the ground taken
by the Press Of this City at meeting called
expressly to consider the subject. We deny
most alphabetically the assumption of a right TO
print Rebel journal in any locality over which
floats the National flag; but we incline to the
belief that more is gained than lost by per-
hitting Treason to unmask itself in the face OF
a loyal people. The fact that this City Is
'hot-bed of smothered treason, swarming with
Rebel refugees, blockade-runners, smugglers,
sedtiou.mongers, financiers and spies, tends TO
complicate the problem, but does not sut1ce 70
overcome our natural leaning to the largest
liberty of utterance. But the condition that
the Rebel organ, in its systematic assaults on
the National authority, shall evince some show
of respect for TRUTH is indispensable.
Just at present, every loyal heart is oppressed
with solicitude respecting Sherman and his GAL
liant army. Most of us have relatives in that
army; all have dear friends there; but anxiety
as to their fate is quite subordinate to our con-
Germ for the fate Of our country. What is the
strength of that army how is it provided with
q att,f IN I
for crossing the rain.swollen rivers, and smaller
streams of the CarOlinasl how wide is thc'area
which its cavalry is enabled to sweep IN It's
inevitable quest of foragel What are the
chances of its effecting before battle junction
with our forces already in North Carolina
viii it be able to intercept and overwhem
Hardee or must it meet and fight at dlsadyant-
age the late garrisOns of Savannah and Charles
ton. as well as the remnant of Hoods army,
combined with all that Beauregard has been
able to gather in the Carolinas, and such por'
ton of the Army of Virginia as Lee has been
able to send Cor lead) to the Iadkin! While
every loyal brain is busy with these grave
problems, The Daily Nens puts forth leader
on "The Struggle in Carolina" which, after
asserting that "the AbolitionistS " make Gen.
Sherman's whole force a little less than Seventy
Thousand, while "ne are bound to regard it as,
at the most, from Fifty to Sixty Thousand
thus proceeds:
The Aboiitionisfs estimate the number opposing
Sherman az 5000 This they arrive NJ ny the ioo"ns
:" Beaurerard's Main Army. 5000
Uardee's Corps. ..-.-..--..--.-.-....'-
Braggs Corps. observation-disclosures. .."I|WV
Hills Corps e'vCo
Hamptons Cavalry --.---.-.-..----..--'iV'VV
We brand the above as an audacious,
unpalliatcd. reasonable fabrication. 1.-The
Abolitionists" have done nothing Of the kind
and the pretense that they have is calculated to
blanch the cheek and pain the heart OF many a
loyal wife, mother or sister. How many men
Lee has been able to send or lead South from
the Army of Virginia, we cannot guess; but,
apart from these, we do not believe that
Beauregard was able to turn over to Johnston
so many as 10000 men, nor thatzanything like
Is, 600 are now under the command OF the latter
The Ners proceeds to increase the above
numbers considerably, by way of correction,
and sums up thus
"TS. Black Repubicaa estimate assuming all the con-
carnations it supposes actually made thus places
Beauregards army ninety thousand strong. Si'y
and Is believe os the reasons stated above,
the full number OF the army which SHERMAN can nave
led INTO the bloody struggle that believe has already
taken place on the borders Of North Carona while the
force by which lie has been attacked must on The shor-
n9 Of The faetioatss Of the Adm'HisiraiioH number
half many more
These false assertions are put forth by The
Neus in confessed anticipation of tidings which
it hopes to receive in time for to-day'S celebra-
ton. "damping the rejocings Of the creatures
of Mr.. Lincoln" Ought treason, in City at
least nominally loyal to be so impudent as this
TENNESSEE.