Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-01-25
From the Charlottesville (Vn-,) Chronicle Dec o.
CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE.

From the CHARLOTTESVILLE (Vh,) Chrohcie1 Dee' @s'l
CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE.
We are not at all surprised at the news
from Tennessee. The thing was conceived
by President Davis, and the execution
committed to Gen. Hood. Suppose we
had taken .Nasllville-what then !! Mr..
Davis, in one of his Georgia speeches,
(perhaps the one in which announced that
General Johnston was no, soldior,) gave
ont that some terrible plan was on foot
which would annihilate Sherman as the
French were destroyed in the Russian
campaign. He spoke with great positive
ness, like one who sees entirely through
conspiracy. Sherman's whole army Wa
to be dispersed and absorbed. He--the
President put his hand on the plough
and fnrrow was to be run which would
put The affairs of the Confederacy on en-
tirely on a new footing, and startle the
nations which were looking on. lie SOL
emily took the responsibility and heshall
have it. His organs cried-look! and we
were to see what we should see.
We were Officially" informed some
time since that there was some excellent
news from Georgia, which, for prudential
reasons could not then be made public
We should be pleased to learn what it was.
Of course the fall of Savannah, or the fall
of Savannah and Augusta and Charleston
would be every small matters "-we
should then Just have Sherman where
we wanted him." Doubtless, If Richmond
were to fall, we should be informed in GER
tain quarters, that 'we had just gotten
Grant where 1--WE wanted him land at
some unfxed periodshe would meet with
universal destruction. This is played out.
Without change, the government itself
will allow some morning that things are
worse than they should be.
If Mr.. Davis and the Court were only
going to dash their own brains out, we
might rally from the calamity, but they
are dragging the whole secession fleet
after them. We know that we are told
that we must hold up the hands of the
government. We have been told so for
nearly four years. And if ever press and
people did lend an unquestioning conf
dence to their rulers-if ever whole
country did place itself implicitly in the
hands of the executive-if ever men and
treasures were laid at the feet of one man
if ever ship was,snrrendered to helmsman--
it has been done right here in these Con-
federate States. The. government is land
has been properly all:in all. Our whole
male population wac freely rendered.
We have permitted tito Issue Treasury
notes, bonds, certificates.'of Indebtedness,
to over fifteen hundred millions We
have this year paid sig per cent of our
whole property in taxes.
We have allowed it to impress horses,
wagons, cattle, grain; ct. nominal prices,
until it has left the country almost bare
We have seen Congress laid at its feet
without spirit or will of its own. We have
seen the constitutional advisers of the
President so totally ignored that we have
never had solitary cabinet meeting.-
We lave seen the higher,appaintments in
fhe array all entire]y regulated by the will
of Mr.. Davis. We have seen General
Pemberton ntade Lieutenant General
without single achievement. We have
seen him under instructions from Rich
mond, sacrifice the Mississippi Valley and
an army of thirty ti,ousandveterans. We
have seen New Orleans fall from incom-
petent measures to defend it.
We have seen Gen. Bragg defeated at
Missionary Ridge from an ulltimely divis-
ion of his army in ffsitless.eSpedition
against Knoxville. We"have seen this
officer, after he had lost the confidence OF
-she>eountry, and was driven from his COM
mand by public sentiment, nadea sort of
director-general of our armies in Rich
mond. Wel.ave seen Gen. Johnston ab-
auptly dismissed from the army in Geor-
gia Just when his services were most need
ed. We have seen Gen. uood-a plain.
untried young man-advanced to the COM
anand in this State, merely to lose Atlanta,
otter several ill-advised ard fearful mas
saeres. We Lave seen the President re-
paaf ia perseH to the theatre of his disaster
only to iaaugurase under the same Gene
raj campaign which startled the country
in its inception, and which lras terminated
IN the investmset OF Savannah and its gar
risor, and the bloody victory ~ and de-
,eats of franklin and Nashville.
We now await with tie most painful
Suspense eSsry breath from Savann ah !; we
hear Through Northern ofticixl disp atches
certainly that Hood has lost six Gen pieces