Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28
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rcom the Richmond Examiner. Jsnusry IL.

The loss OF our last fort by the fal Of
Fort Fisher will be no evil inlshe, end, IL II
serves to spur the country on TO decisive
action. Nothing can DO more inglorious
nor deplorable than to sit still, harmoni.
ously resigned aud hopeful while our re-
sources and armies are gambled away 10
full view by weak but presumpiuous Off
cials. Nothing Is more absurd than
make believe COED cheer and buncombe
confidence, In the face OF manifest and fatal
mismanagemcnt. .-.--
All the elouueuce and all the blather 10 the
world will not alter facts or prevent the
people Of this country from fighting FOE the
glory Of Mr.. Davis from Missssippi.sor de-
tending their liberty, lives and property.
Iftbey aIe doing the. last-named business,
they cannot Justify themselves to their own
consciences tor intrustng their affairs any
longer 10 the unlimited, uncontrolled, aud
uncoutested direction OF persons who daily
furnish new proofs of unskillfulness and bad
Judgment aud detective character. La the
ext few weeks affairs must be definitely
arranged %
But the spring campaign finds johnson
at the place Of that sixty-four thousand
men turued over to him six months since
| if Lee is commauder.in chief OF the whole
military power OF the Confederaey, inGe
pendent by legislative enactmsn; OF oil con.
troll and restriction and interference, with
authority to assign Generals and other Off
GERS to command, transfer armies, and TO
give unity of plan and aim TO the whole
operations of war, the full force OF this
people will re-appear. II there shall be no
real change of men, bat only sham altera
tion, only repetition Of the old dnplieity
by which the power has remained in the
same puuy hands, while the responsibility
of the mi,fJrlunes they have worked has
been shifted over to Johnston, to Beaure.
gard, and lately TO General Lee; the
struggle must still continue, for neither
compromise by The North or submission by
the South is p s.ible. and, 10 one way or
the her, the war must be waged but is
as oei tain that, under these last conditions
we will enter upon the coming campaign
with foiled hopes, diminished energy aud
! forebodings of continuation to that series
OF disasters which has been uninterrupted
since the removal of the only general who
has commanded with profit the Army oI
the Central South. A change Of men ba.
become public necessity. That any
sacrifice Of self can be obtained by persnad
: ing Mr. Davis, few will believe. They
. have not the slightest probability Of John
ston's restoration to TO command OF bis
e army and if Hood, whose name has beer
. sent 10 the Senate for conf nation as
D full general. is ever relieved. no will b,
replaced by Dick Taylor, the President
$ brother in law. There is really no pros
n pect of . change 10 the executive policy
4 The defects of mind and character whcl
have produced the past will continue L
= operate in the future even's Whethe
Congress has The constitutional power t
4 interfere is not necessary TO be acsertaine
until it has proved what it has never show
= "a disposition to be other than regi:
). try OF executive DEGREES.