Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-01-24

the coming winter not only with fofmidabls en-
emits, but etill more formidable supporters.
All Mr. Davis predictions haso been terribly
falsfed. Gen Sherman, instead Of giving to the
world "a nsw tditiou Of the disastrous retreats
fron Moscow" has marched quite unoppoaed
oVef 800 miles Of a hosul. State TO commence
new aud more menacing campaign. Gea. Hood,
instead Of recovering Tennessee and Kentucky,
has been ont-man@dvred and crushed by foe
ho dcspisCd. The Georgian campaign of tho
Confedefscy has ended as fatally for IL as tho
Poksburg cnmpalgn. In both oasos Mr. Davis
vas careful beforehand to explain tho momeu-
lOuj character Of the issue; 10 both cases bis own
Importers will be apt lei bis words, while be
an hoped for suco,ss, far outweigh the words
a which he tries 10 depreeiate the Significance
failure IL is profile, wo think, that the com
x winter will test the mettle OF the Southern
elple's resistance as il hai never been tested
set
On the mind of the North the Effect Of these
great events can scarcely be lees powerful -
i'eIhtp4 the most str kiug immediate effect will
. new conf lenc' not only in the ability OF
,h0sc generals whom, after painful sliding. tue
war ha4 ut length brought to ths top, but in
-hillty to cope With the parncular firm Of diff
uliy most Dyerp0wernsy to the Imagination
'he vast spaces over which their etrageuc lm-
hinati0ns must eztend. Gen. Grant aud Gen.
sherman haye both shown their power, not only
70 niatoe ivre, but to operate upon plan OF un-
lrscedented magnitule--to kHit together the
fleets OF operations hundreds OF miles apart, 10
IN Ike Victories Ia Tenaesses tell Immediately on
the rlmpaign in Mississippi, victories IN Miss &
,ippi react again On the osmpa'ga in Trnncssee,
and a succe sful occupation Of tue northeast OF
Georgia the stepping stone to more hVpefpl
INVASION II Virginia. Gen. Grant aud Gen.
herman have beth shown that mere space Is not
10 10 lch against item rs every one believed
lAul they are not limited to pricking few iso-
lated holgs, as It were, Ia different parts OF the
Confed racY, but they can buiId up the suo-
ce-ses sseu ELen divlded by the greatest breadths
If country. The North will not forget tnat
Grant was no sooner appointed to the command
of The Amy Of Tennessee, after the disaster at
ChckanAuga, than within month he tuTued
;he tables on his opponspl By the help Of the
great army and able lieutenant who had won
| Nioksburg under his directions.
Cieueral Sherman'4 march from Vioksbnfs 10
Chattanooga was, aB We showed at the time, one
Of bose brilliant operations from which even
eSpfricuGel generals are npt 10 shrink, and
which iu the hands Of Inferior generals become
| gseat disasters The failure Of Sherman's great
expedition in Alahami, which failed, though
without disaster, Ouy from the inilure OF the
supporting cavalry. not thea under his command,
was au exception which strengthened the evi-
denoc Of his ability for such operations The
march 70 Atlanta was Eot an operation Of this
| kinI. II vas u regular and most difficult cam
paigU, but OF couisc enc without which the re-
cent expedition would have been impossble.-
From Nleksturg to Savannah General Shermans
career has proved his own aud General Grants
etrst capacity for Knitting together the most
Ils'ant successes into one great result more i'm
poftlat than all If them taken together, be-
cause it shows the magnitude Vi their military
conceptions and The practical cohefence Of their
pinus.
aud what is more, the Federal generals 1nd
the yastiess Of the spaces over which they are
! compelled ho pass IN making the vIrious cam
paigns fl, into each other source OF strength
as well ns Of week.-mrs.. Tais last fact 10 due,
TO doubt, . the root OF the whole matier-ihe
slaTe'y which is the Southern crime aud Weak
ness. Wcic the South homogeneous pOpulR-
ton OF Nhte rnen, the arI,ies that might pene-
tratc It Ton.d pierce lac yAtiuus States only at
the cost tf dwiudiug yiribly with every days
march. As lis, the invading army is a sponge
watch sucks up strength and aid ss il proceeds.
General Sherman has reached the coasi, We are
told, with n larger army than that with which
be s,Ortel trom Atlanta. The great march has
not been loss but gain. Tits, however, is
mot due to auy geueraisbip, but 10 the cause in
waich the North s hShiing They have their
reward in n much more effective and satisfactory
shape than auy slave insurrectiou could have
given them.
AZ general result the North will doubtless
feel deeply the encouragement Of this great
suec ,ss, aud venture 10 inter from it that the
dirasiers If mere military iuoapac,ty are sub
stanially passed, aud that in each fresh cam
p1lgn they may look for greater and greater 70.
suits from the genius Of their lea lsrs mud their
peoples natural prepculerauce in Strength
ueueral q IS now tbs only Southern conman-
der who eau he regarded MS the equal Of Gene
rails Grnnt. sherman, Sheridan anl Thomas
it has been seen that the hes States produce
greater cTpp even Of military capacity, though
ta.y found it far in1re difficult TO detect on the
spur of the moment, than the slave States, that
the greatest weight OF intellect accompanied the
greatest weight oI material resources; that the
tendency OF every successive campaign is to in
crease still more the chances Of tue North that
it only needs iulomitHhle perseverance to sue
cecd Ia the end.