The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-01-20
What the AntI-Adminis tration Paper
Think.
AN ATTACK ON JEFF. DAvIS-A CHANGE OF MEN
RENDERED. NECESSARY ny THE REPEATED DIsAs
TIERS or THE CONFEDERACY.
IErOm the Richmond Examiner

AN ATTACK ON JEFF DAvIS-A CHANGE OF MEN
RENDERED NECESSARY By THE REPEATED DIsAs-
TIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. IT,
The loss OF our best port by the fall % Fort Fisher will
10 no evil In the end II Il serves 10 spur the country
10 decisive action Nothing be ingorious and
deplorabe than to sit STILL tremendously resigned and
hopeful, while our resources and armies garnbcd
away IN full view by n weak but presumptuous official
Nothing IL absurd than make believe good cheer
and bnncombe confidence IN the face OF manifest and
fatal misnanagment All the eoquencc and all the blaher
In the world will not alter the facts prevent people
from thinking on them rae the people of this country
Gghng for the glory Of Mr. Davis from Mississippi or
defending their liberty lives and property II they
doing the last named business they Justify them
selves their own conscience or "a poseritv ~ abrn
doi,ing their fairs anu ioRger n he unliyd tp,ron
troi and ucontcsed discretion III cho niy fur
MIS- nor PROOFS ~ unsineSs and bad judgment anil de-
fectire cbdro.er
In Tho next few weeks affairs must be definitely ar
ranged " The spring campaign hnds Johnston ~ the
head Of What Hood has LEFT In place Of that magnificent
army 81 "a 900 men turned over to him sS months since
" Ice is the conmanderin chief Of the whole military
power ~ thc confcdcry nderendant by legislative On.
actmcnt o. AL control and restriction and Interference
with authority 10 assign general and other officers
mand, anscr armies and 70 give unity 81 plan aim
10 the whole operations of the wartho full force this
people Will reappcar
II Their" shall be real change Of men, but only
sham alterations only REPETITION Of Ne oh dupiciiy "
frtich Ne D0tcer has remained ne puny hands
while the responsibility Of all the M fotune they have
worked has been shifted oycro Johnston 10 Braurcgnrd
and lately 70 General Lee, the struggle must still con
tlnncfor neither compromise BY The North suhms
sion by the South Is pos blc aud In way OF n an
other the war must b. waged; but u u certain that
under these latter cond tons, oW cHr ~ conag
campaign 10Th faiei Aope dimipisled eaergy anil fsre
bodipg of0 continuation y nat serss n disoacs which
has uninterrupted the removal IL tie only
general who has commanded with profit The Army Of tho
Central South
a cbapge ofmea his tecome q puLiic neces,iiy That
any sacrifice self IT, obtained by persuading or i'll
visinc Mr Davis. fcw VIII believe There II not Tie
slightest probability Of Johnstons toraon e. The
mand Of hs army, and y Hood whose
has been sent into Tie Senate ftr confirmation
a. fn general y ever relieved he Y bc forthwith ~.
placed BY General Dick Taylor. the Presidents brother
IN aN. There = really no prospect n ch0Hge ~ Ercu
tire policy ne dgf cis ~ mind an rk0rlrir Wbicb harc
proiucfd NJ pra nm coEfinne 10 otsr1t, ~ future crc
whether Congress has tho tOus Dnsl power u inter.
fcrc IS necessary a. b. Hscgrnuet nuti u y proven
20 have, Whit i has shown disposition e. be
other Than tho registry IL executive DEGREES W. do not
perceive how any real alteration u q - made without
appcal-always contemplated ~ every American cousti.
tuton--to convention Of TIC Sta.nt lrNumately aud
ros lary called hy and constituted rom The conventions
or the people III separate states These hast can
be assembled only by nct ~ the Legislature, and
instead of cpela,ne lar tie next sprn4 election the
Legislature ~ virginia might - more properly employed
In assembling that supreme body Such body, reprc,
scnng The p,cplc - their soNetegn unity, y needed ia
virginia now u great error when the Convention
Of Virginia dispersed md the sooner 4 II recalled The
more useful i may BE-
And ao tho great mistake or Tai. epoch was tho carly
dissolution of the Convention VI The states aud the hsy
formation IL tlis Confederate government With ts
cnt and dry constitution, rs Prcsd NJ is departments
IT, Congress s contemplated political machinery II
might g0 wen enough ~ peace bat " totally unat for the
prod g1us strain ~ brute force directly applied IN
Tor tiiW NNt itA lNNlNNWal IN, gu a. thitl
IN tho rutcd states would have suited a. blt should
have retained the full, the uul mltod ppWcf Of tho
nation, " nc form q convention, composed q r.
personalities u tho people, cnring The WI d tho
poplc III % II sovereign capacity limited Nv no const
tuition. With The execution ~ that viii entrusted t. the
generals The nd. Who enjoyed thf esteem 81 the peo
pir ard n the ani under their dir elton Thus
n the On Revolution what u known In history ~ Tie
Continental Congress vac nothing Use than what W ar
familiar WITH 10 practice undcr the name " a oonvsn
ton II and viii ever b. the form 81 government
capabl' q exering The grcata Free III heart 81 a
nation s then placed 10 " hand that the whole
strength of volitioD II gained Not only were these
colonies under that form enabled a. breast the British
empire. Jui il will b. found that the prodgious
efforts ~ all nations have becn made under the cond
cne Tho Convention Of France IN 1893 the Long Pafa.
mcnt 81 the English Revolution, tho senate Of Rome, w
The gapplc with Carthage, Wcfe All COS crnmcnts % vii "a
tie nation acted affairs hy the simple fundamentally
" ~ ne emily representing Is ull powers capable %
making constitutions Il needed but unbound u.s. any
papars Deep the error Cf tho outicru stdos Wlcn
they surrender their convention ahd 80 hi lta place
SPECIES " wooden clock wound az ~ VI ycbf and
ont IL The peoples reach durag all tha time Whcn hty
iasAii8oa their cause With The name Ol politician aud