Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-01-23

A Savage attack on JeR. Davis, the
Confederate Congress. Virginia Leg
tsIature, and Almost Everybody aud
Everything Else in Ihs South. The
Past, the Measure or Gbe Future
Necessity Of n Convention OF the
states, DC, &c
from the Richmond Examiner, January III
The loss Of our last fort by the fall of
Fort Fisher will be no evil in the end, if 1t
serves to spur the country on to decisive
action Nothing can be more inglortous
nor deplorable than to sit still harmoni-
ously resigned and hopeful while our re-
sources and armies are gsmbled away in
full view by weak but presumptuous Off
cials. Nothing is more absurd than make
believe good cheer and buncombe conf
dence, in the face of manifest and fatal
mismanagement. All the eloquence and
all tho blather in the world will not alter
facts or prevent the people of this country
from fighting for the glory of Mr.. Davis
from Mississippi, or defending their liberty,
lives and property. If they are doing the
last-named business, they cannot justify
themselves to their own oonsciences for
intrusting their affairs any longer to the
unlimited, uncontrolled, and uncontested
discretion of persons who daily furnish
new proofs of unskllfulness and bad judg-
ment and detective character. In the
next few weeks affairs must be definitely
arranged.
But the spring campaign finds johnson
at the head of what Hood has left In the
place of that sixty-four thousand men
turned over to him six months since-it
Lee is commsuder-in-chief of the whole
military power of the Conlederscy, inde-
pendent by legislative enactment Of all
control and restriction and interference
with authority to assign Generals and other
officers to com nand, 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. If there shall be NO
real change of men, but only sham alter
stion. only a repetition of the old duplicity
| by which the power has remained in the
same puny hands, while the responsibility
of the misfortunes they have worked
has been shifted over to Johnston, to Beau
regard, and lately to General Lee; the
struggle must still continue, for neither
compromise by the North or submission by
the South is impossible, and, in one way OF
the other, the war must be wsged; but is
/ as certain that, unoer tnese Iast conoltlons
we will enter upon the coming campaign
with faded hopes, diminished energy and
forebodings of continuation to that series
of disasters which has been uninterrupted
sincs the removal Of the only general who
has commanded with profit the Army OF
the Central South. A change Of men has
become public necessity. That any sacri-
fee of self can be obtained by persuading
Mr.. Davis, few will believe. They have
not the slightest probability of Johnston's
restoration to the command Of his army,
and if Hood, whose name has been sent to
the Senate for confirmation as 8 full gene
raj, is ever relieved, he will be replaced BY
Diok Taylor, the Presidents brother-in-
law. There is really no prospect of q
change in the executive policy. The de-
fects of mind and character which have
produced the past will continue TO operate
| in the future events. Whether Congress
has the constitutional power to interfere is
not necessary to be sscertsined until Il
has proved what it hss never shown-a dis.
position to be other than registry of exec
| utiye DEGREES,