Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-13

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ALL FAILURES CF THE REBEL CAMPAIGNS IN
VIRGINIA DECLARED TO HAVE BEEN LEES,
From the Richmond Sentinel, JAM.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says that
the issue between that paper and this is
whether the acts of the President may be
criticised. Not at all. The question is
shall criticism be just and facts. correctly
stated. u -
Our notice of the article in the Chronicle
of the 24th ult., was caused by its extra.
ordinary character, appearing as it did in
paper conducted with much intellectual
ability. The Chronicle has not retracted-
as we hoped it would-the statements to
which We then took general exception. II
rather chooses to complain that We did not
respond specifically to it's accusations-
| We shall epdeavor to be distinct enough
now. The article of the Chronicle of De.
cember oath made an array in which every
important military mab9uvr since the
evacuation of Corinth is alleged to have
been disastrous or unwise, and is charged
| upon the President. In search of ridicule.
| instead of truth, it calls them the Presi.
dents Conversions" Passing over the al
legations which refer to distant points, we
take the following nearest home, as samples
Ofthe whole:
"These are not oil of the in
| noCent diversions of our constitutional
commanders in chief On the eve of the
battle of Charlottesville, when Hooker
1 confronted General Lee With one hundred
and thirty thousand men, Longstreet was
sent-on diVersiou-to Suffolk. His alb {.
sence was keenly felt by General Lee
Doing double duty, Jackson fell. The
most splendid victory of the war remained
indecisive from the want Of q few more
men. . s-t' s's' s,=' '-.'
ITO relieve Vicksburg a diversion into
Pennsylvania was undertaken, and Wash
iugton was not threatened by a corps op.
Grating along the Orange railroad, as was
recommended by General Lee. Mr.. Davis
could not spare the men from Richmond.
Hence Meade was enabled to follow the
movement of Gen. Lee and seize the
heights of Gettysburg.
To relieve Petersburg, less than fifteen
thousand men were sent upon diversion
into Maryland, after Hunter was driven to
the Ohio river. The 9th and 10Th CORPS
were ordered to reinforce Sheridan aud
! Crook; eleven thousand cavalry were
thrown upon Gen. Early's TANKS, in an
open country, far more favorable to their
evolutions than the wooded region along
the Appomattox, where they had been un-
able to operate effectively, The concen-
tration was fearfully against u.s."
Now we say to the Chr0nGcLe, and upon
authority, that each one of the statements
We have copied from its columns is wholly
uufouuded, and without a semblance of
justification or excuse in the facts of the
case. The manOeuvres of Gen. Lees cam.
paign have been all his own. Admirable
manoeuvres they have been, and most hap
PLY adapted to. the circumstances of the
country. They have won for him renown
of which we have no doubt the President
would be extremely proud, if it we're fairly
hisj bit he deserves no more of it than be-
longs to cordial approval of the policy
of the distinguished General and an admi-
ration of the genius which conceived it.
1t is difficult to understand how the
| Chronicle should have needed the assurance
we have now given. II is difficult to CON
ceive how it should have adopted ideas so
utterly improbable, and made assertions SO
edtirely opposed to the general understand
ing and tothe facts of the.case. 5The effect
of its article is more apparent. The Chron.
icIs has simply made an onslaught on Gen.
Lees reputation through the sides of the
President. Was this the design2 Itlooks
so. 1t looks as if, in the very breath with
which the commauder-in.chiefi is claimed
for General Lee, an effort is made to pull
ulm OOHuS 10 OldSL us lhlu6 huu 10 tuSSLEOS
his usefulness by attacks on his strategy
through the President as blind. Listen
to the summing up of the Chronicle. The
very next paragraph to those above quoted
reads thus So
"Could any system be more unfortunate
than that from the effeots of which We are
now sufferiug2 Since the war began
Gen. Johnston has been pressing the policy
of concentration; is it not the policy oi
common sense? G e =
Here the attack is almost open. The
disguise is almost thrown of. Genera
Lees manosuvres, happily. as they have re-
suited for the country, aud though for q
long time his counseIs were shared aud
supported By Stonewall Jackson, are be
rated as ''pnfortInste" and contrary L
"common sense ~
If some hidden, unavowed object requir.
ed General Lee to be assailed, it was, per
haps, "strategio" to assail him throngl
another. The admiration of the peopl
for his magnificent talents, their gratitud
for his services, and Veneration for hi
character, were too great and passionate
) TO permit an open assault Hence, it
) shreWed strategy to ascrtbe his policy L
I another, before attacking il as stupid; a
: ruinous, as "unfortunate," and opposed t
! ''comm6n sense" What good end Is aime
- 1T in this attempt to undermine his faml
and to destroy him IN the very moment 9
entTusttHg tveyythiRg to him, we leave fG
: the Chr0DieLe to explain. We0all the al
o tentiou of the people to the insiduou
Z character of the attack to which ne ls e1