Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-24
from the Charlottesville (Va.,) Chronicle Dec % |
CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE.

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 Nashville-what then ? Mr..
Davis, in one of his Georgia speeches,
(perhaps the one in which announced that
General Johnston was no soldier,) gave
out 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 entirel through
conspiracy. Sherman's whole army wss
to be dispersed and absorbed He-the
President-had put his hand on the plough
and furrow was to be run which would
put the affairs of the Contederacy on en-
tirely on new footing, and startle the
nations which were looking on. He sol
EMMY took the responsibility-and he shall
have it. His organs cried-look and We
were to see what we should see.
We were "oficially" informed some
time since that there was some excellent
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 I've
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 we wanted him land at
some unfxed period he would meet with
universal destruction. This is played out.
Without change, the government itself
Sill 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 surrendered 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 was freely rendered.
We have permitted it to Issue Treasury
notes, bonds, certificates of Indebtedness,
to over fifteen hundred millions. We
have this year paid six per cent of our
whole property in taxes.
We have allowed it to impress horses,
wagons, cattle, grain, at nominal prices,
until it has left the country almost bare
We have seen Congress laid at its feet
without spirit or will Gifts own. We have
seen the constitutional advisers of the
President so totally ignored that we have
never had solitary cabinet meeting
We have seen the higher appointments in
the army all entirely regulated by the will
of Mr.. Davis. We have seen General
Pemberton made a Lieutenant General
without a single achievement. We have
seen him under instructions from Rich
mond, sacrifice the Mississippi Valley and
an army of thirty thousand veterans. We
have seen New Orleans fall from incom-
petent measures to defend it.
We have seen>Gen. Bragg defeated at
Missionary Ridge from an untimely divis-
ion veE his army in a fruitless expedition
against Knoxville. We have seen this
officer, after he had lost the confidence of
the country, and was driven from his COM
mand by public sentiment, made sort of
directer-geaeral Of our armies in Rich
mend. We have seen Gen. Johnston alb
ruptly dismissed from the army in Geor-
,ia just when his services were most need
ID. We have seen Gen. Hood plain,
lntried young msR-advanced to the COM
nand in this State, tgaerely to lose Atlanta,
tter several ill-adviaed and fearful mas
acres. We have seen the President re-
air in person to the theatre of his disaster
My to inaugnrate under the same Gene
u campaign which startled the country
/ it's fneeption, and which has terminated
the investsaaet of Savannah and its gar
son, and the bloody victory q and Ge- |
ats of Franklin and Nashville. 4
We now await with the most painful /
apense every breath from Savannah we
ar Through Northern official dispatches :
~ that Hood has lost sixteen pieces /,