The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-02-03

rur,ous Oasburss Against Jefs
DNvAos

We take the following from the Char
lot.eviIe (va.) Chronicle !
If Mr.. Davis and the court were only .
ro;no TO dash out their own brains, We /
migl,t rally from the calamity; but they /
.,e 1raogipp the whole secession deet a.
tor ,hem. We know that we are told that (
". must hold up the hands of the Gov |
er,mept. We have been told 50 for near
IL four years. And if ever press and peo- +,
p,e did lend an -unquestioning confidence {
II their rulers-if ever whole country 1
did place itself implicitly in the hands OF
the Executive-if ever men and treasures
were laid at the feet of one man-if ever
.hip was surrendered to helmsman-lt has
been done right here in these Confederate
States. This Government is (aod has
been property all in all. Our whole male
nopula,ion was freely rendered. We have
permitted it to ssue Treasury notes, bonds,
certificates of Indebtedness to over VI ,oUo'
Dop 900 We have this year paid six per
cen Of our whole properly IN taxes
We have allowed it 10 impress horses
wagons. cattle, graio at nominal prices,
until il has left the country almost bare. |
We have seen Congress Lid at its feet,
without spirit or will of its own. Wei
have seen the Constitutional advisers OF
the President So total ignored that We
have never had solitary cabinet meeting
We have seen the higher appointments OF
the army all entirely regulated by the, will
of Mr.. Davis. We have seen General
Pembsrton made Lieutenant General with
W. 10
him under Instructions from Richmond.
sacrifice the Mississippi Valley and an
army Of thirty tn ,usand veterans. We
have seen New Orleans fall from incom
petent measures to defend it.
We have seen Gen. Bragg defeated at
Missionary Ridge from an uutimely divis-
ion Of his army in fruitless expedition
against Knoxville. We have seen this Of
fcer, after he bad lost the confidence oil
the country and was driven from his com
mand by public sentiment, made sort OF
director. general OF our armies in Rich
mond. We have seen Gen. Johnston ab
ruptly dismissed from the army in Geor
gia Just when his services were most need
ed. We. have seen Gen. Hood-a plain
untried young man-advanced to the
command 10 this State, merely to lose At
lauta, after several i'll advised and fearful
massacres. We have seen the Presiden
repair in person to the theatre of his dis
aster only to inaugurate under the same
General a campaign which startled thu
country in lis inception and which b; ter
minated in the investment of Savannah
and its garrison and the bloody victory
and defeats of Franklin and Nashville.
We now await. with the most painful
suspense every breath from Savannah; We
hear Through Northern official dispatches
certainly that Hood has lost sixteen pie.
ces OF artillery on one occasion aud forty
odd on another, with we know not how
many prisoners. We hear from General
Hoods own lips that in his " victory a
Franklin" he lost thirteen Generals klllet
and wounded or captured. He has ceased
TO advance; he has begun to retreat. In
the Valley here we hsvenopposed forct
of cavalry, armed with nothing but single
barreisd ulu kets, to superior force o
the finest cavalry in The world, armed
with sabres, pistols and the seven shoot
ing Spencer rifle.
In the Traus Mississippi Gen. Tyler i.
removed for his Spring campaign anc
Gen. Kirby Smith, who has not done the
frs solitary thing, has been buried inglo
riously in Northwestern Louisiana during
the whole OF this eventtui year. Forrest
whose military genius fl ted him for th
most important enterprises, has been lea
diog small body of raiding cavalry. Gen
Bragg. it is true, was dispatched to chez
Gen. Sherman; but 1t appears so far ha
not met with success.
Our hnauees, oar rvar and barbor de
lenses, our international negotiations
our domestic pohlics have been mana gee
on precisely the same extraordinary way
For the first we have never derived an,
material benefit from our commanding
staples of cotton and tobacco. Fur The
second, the proposition to construct gun
boats in the beginning of the war was re
j-c,ed. For the third we have not ap
piled to European Powers in the only wa,
that we could reach them aud we have
encouraged at the North Republican pol
tlcians against their opponents. For the
last, We have asfar as ii has been possible
under the circumstances systematically Of
tended one OF the creates original parties
in our mdst.
.'.afiy Ill 'hihgs nave Deen done In 8
malign, perverted way; We have been
breathing an impure air we have beer
nourlsh'ng vicious blood; we have sesr
WIN refracted light; we have prophesi-
ed win s'anmerlng lips. Our leader i.
eM'clea win proud flesh; be sees with al
cblique eye; bis ear has no sense Of harm ;.
N.Y. nc mas no idea OF proportions, no idea
Of relation; be- affected with color hind
ness; ne combines like the kaleidoscope
ne sees with the vividhess of the madman
put tneie Is a villainous demon within
thas wrests things out of their places; lik,
some me Instrument In its. conception.
chord or string has been broken, ane
what should have discoursed eloquent mu
sic, utters harsh discordsnt sounds.