The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1865-01-07
FRIDAY MORNING. JAN. 6. 1866.
The Carnival il the Croakers.
Just now the croaksrs are in the how,


The Carnival II the Croakers.
Just now the croaksrs are in the hoy-da,y
OF their carnival. Everything has gone
wrong. The y knew i and told you so. Like
Jobs oomfortets. .theystrIl us We arc " :cked
nation and have deaed the Almighty: there
fore we deserve the ehastisement we have
\receiyed They. were long ago satisfied We
4 were onsthe rpad to ruin. Everybody else
saw it but those who were too short-sighted
or whose policy it was to fatter the people
and conceal the truth.i Such thing as gen
erous confideFce in glorious cause they do
not believe in, now that We have suffered
some revsrses to our arms. 1t is difficult to-
believe that the croakers would have claimed
credit for their vaticination if it had turned
out differently. Indeed It could not have
turned ont differently, so long as the crouk-
1Frs telieved 50. They are aloays right, and
when they wag theirfighteous heads we may
conclude that "a Daoiel has come to judg-
ment." Yet il is strange that croakers never
deliver a Judgment except when calamity
comes. When all is bright ami promising
they venture no opinion contrary to the ac-
clamation Of the public Their silence may
BE constrainedfand they may. like the Dutch
man son, be thinking "d-n it all the
time. But thdy never say SO. To all ap-
pearances they are as..amilble as a rosebud,
Stvhen all goes well But let disaster be
,lnnquncsdTlet a campaign go awry. aud
the Storm is visible in their cohn:enances,
tbey. .nre seen to5gesticulate VIOLENTLY their
heads are observed to sway to and fro, and
gf,e4iF-tongues arc heard te uttef thousand
II told you SOS r n Due minute. Everybody
is to blame but shcrnselves for the miswd-
venture The President, the commanding
General, sometimes even those devoted men.
whose kalor and whose tolls are thought by
innocent, confains people to be proof against
Ieproach, are gertIy twitted With not doing
their duty. by lhe street corner croaker.
Asia good, fair weatitOr' tho cry of frogs
+ seldom hsara e fret the air with its disso-
llant notes. and as it chorus breala forth in
!. s.-s-----, 49, sr.s.1 ss.s s1evp bass "
lhunle- to the shfL LiTebie Of the grnAsnoPer,
whenever the atmosphcre becomes sureharged
with noisome kab0rsl 50 lourishes or declines
the croakers' charps The traveller, unac-
customed to the sound grows melancholy
and subducd beneath its sombreland dreary
variations. It IS toned to sad reflection. 1t
has exhausted the gamut in its efforts to
reach the soul. and stir it up ts despair. Il
reyels in the Universal bankruptcy of hopeH
and confdenc& and is never so happy as
when it cam produce the greatest misery.
There are cF1hEsfs in all departments Of hui
man action-in' finance, in politics, IN re
ligion. There have been croakers in the
Confederate. States from the inception Of the
war. The Confederate er0aker could have
managed every thing successfully if he had
been charged with affairs. The war would
have been closed long since and independ
snce achieydd had his counsels prevailed.
lie allows nbthing to the magnitude of the
task, the vast armes-the immense fleets
the boundless resnnrces---tha rareietent de-.
.o~m;notioT 0f our adyersaries nothing 10
,bo noversv.of our resourees-the want OF
,,onev-thelabsence Of ordnance and of ma
.or;ol 10 Manufacture 1.-THE inequality IN
necessity OF organizatio n-the
.o,ol want y fleets. All these considerations
are Of no account. The point is, and it Is
desired thht every tnef should stick pin
.bere that the 5croaker 5 counsel has been
disrecardea, his valuable ADVICE has been con-
ternned, his sage proplsecics have been des-
n;ssa. Ttis-this alone is the cause Of all
our failures-all our woes. The Injury Is
therefore two folds which still further Jusil
lies the croaker's sq.iSfaction, not to say
IL Il, d;sreparding his counsel thS
country has been ruined. and. secondly, b.
has himself been despised. What mortal car
stand uplunder an accumulation Of such IN
! ;uries without croaking. that issfo say, th
ruin of his country and injury. to his owl
nride as = sage, statesman and military man
Tf tbe Government had only consulted him,
the Generals even had deigned to. take M
advice. the country might have been save
s from his croaking.
But this could not be. In its purblind an
headstreng peryersity. it was destined to ~
connter to the prejudices of the 'creake
Let it's nffer for its follies Or let i. = tr.
with as much philosophy as it can suamo'
70 listen TO the chosus Of the croakers wit
tbe same eauanimIty the experience
and beEAted Traveller calls to his assistanc
when harrassed by the piping notes OF Il
frogs who sing their melancholy songs IN Il
..ncighboriPg qaagmires
nsr From the Chronicle & Sentinel ,
learn that bothaof the printing Offices in S
v,hnah. fell into the. hands Of the yanke
We ore Informed both editors left before