Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-01-07
DAILY LEADER
Rebel Accounts of Hoods CampaIgn--
The Rebels not believed TO have been
Totally AnnthflRted.
from the Richmond Wing, Dec. sO.l

The Rebels not believed 60 have been
Totally AnnthtlRted.
from the Richmond Wing, Dec. sO.l Cd
Although it was rumored several dsys
ago that dispatches had been received at
the War Office from General Hoo6 vet
| from their not having been divulged, we
are bound to couelude that the rurmor was
I false. We can, at least, see no earthly rea-
son why they should not be published, had
they been actually received. No color that
they could put upon the operations of Gen
Hood could be gloomier than that with
which the public Imagination, wrought at
one time to q pitch of unendurable inten-
sity, has already invested them. Our only
source Of information continues to be des-
patches and letters, from the Ysnkee com
msnder in Tennessee, and the correspond
ents of newspapers who are with the army.
From these alone have we hitherto receiv-
ed any intelligence from the neighborhood
Of Nashville, 10 these alone are we indebt-
ed for all we know with regard to otheposi-
tion of HoFd, and 10 the accounts they
transmit to the Yankee journals, is alone
due the despondency which had at one
time settled down upon the public mind
like dark shadow, lut which Is now grad
ually dispensing before the light of hope
and reflection. 1t may not be amiss, while
IN this state of uncertainty, TO inquire into
the probabilities connected wi, b these
Yankee reports, which have had such a
powerful effect upon the spirits of our
people
The utterly mendacious character Of the
Yankee nation has long since grown into
aproyerb. 1t is known, not only to us
who are placed in the best situation to
judge, but to Europe and the world at
large. To lie Like bulletin was once a
popular saying. 70 lie like Yankee Is a
saying of even wider application; but to
lie at once like bulletin and 3 Yankee
is TO fill the fullest measure Of mendacity !
Ofnecessity Yankee bulletin must be The =
perfection ofsll lying, and it is TO Yankee
bulletins that we have been trusting ali I
this time for news from General Hood. !
Well as we know their character we have
suffered their bulletins to throw US into
spasms Of apprehension, never once sus-
pecting falsehood or even eXaggeratiOn,
where, from former experience, we had no
right TO expect anything else. We have
observed this disposition in cur people
more than once since this war began. Des-
pising the Yankees as the most consum-
mate of lisrs, the ingenious people have
out TO invent any tale, 0 matter how in
credible, in order TO insure belief. But
ew weeks ago they told the most mon
trous lies about Prices expedition We
zBow now that they lies but we suffered
hem then 10 throw us into an agony Of |
ioubt' Last summer and fall, while their
Residential canvass was in progress, their
slegrsph teemed With victories, most of
hem as ideal as the land Of Utopia, and t
ret we gave some faith 10 them, until the
'rogress Of time demon strsted their false
cod. Now, again, we are in psroXysm,
7ith quite ss mnch csuse, sad possibly no
nore.
We have not, nor have ever had, avery I
igh opinion of Hoods talents, though he :
brave and deserving soldier. But up
\ careful study and comparison Of the @
nemy's own statements, we have come to
le conclusion not only that he has not
cen anpihilated, IS they pretend, but that
Q has, in fact, sustained no irreI arabic
issster. The Yankees, as liars are al Il
ays apt to do, prove too much. If Hood
ad been 70 dissstTously defeated be would
ave lost more that eight huRdre1 prison. u
s in the battle, and would have Ietreated
loIe than twenty-five miles in the two
rst days, and more than nineteen in She
lreo succeeding If he had lost ton
lousand meniL would have been pur- 9
lit much moro rapid than that of Thomas, r
he, i've days after the bsttlo had only vi
lVaDced tWenty-six miles in pursuit. If Sc
e Lad lost twenty thousand men in sll ,
II Of thirty five thousand, ss the Yankees
" he would not have made stand
rty rdiIns from the field of battle. Ifhs
ID lest iifty-eight cannon, still less would {, 81
, have made 8 stand. IF his army was =
soFganizsd after loeinE so large portion
it, il won ID have disbanded, which they >.
, not prete'.4T that it has done. The
hole sts'7nent is genuine Yankee, made
, # lies and buster, designed for the
tiLude of New York, manufactured for =
e drsft market. r
We suspect the truth to bs that Hood, in
lding thst he could not take Nashville; | 3
signed to draw off and that in attempt ia
e to do be was attacked that a drawn
title was fought on the 18th; that Hood
owiy retired. and that Thomas did not
ire to follow HIM so closely as to bring o.
] general engagement. Re
We strongly suspect that this is about 81
e extent of Hoods disaster. be hss al =
ady been joined by Forrest, and the
,ry name Of Forrest, is tower of
rength Hoods army is not destroye ed, :
Yankeedom would havo us believe. n
ct our people, therefore, lift up their
arts