Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-19
REGARDS BLAST"
L,sss Heard From on the
N. Jefferson Davis IN
|iustly censured.
LA Ambition Of Officers
l..msn Often the Cause of
h Bnemy's Victory.
history will Relate the
/, They Occurred TO Flu
lure Generations.

oS. Tax, Nov. 10.-"Beau-
All, y as 1t Is appropriately
hlished ia the Century for
z has been extensively copied
generally commented on,
bv the active participants in
between the states" 1t is
many that this is a late
as the question as to "who
no was not" responsible for
OF the war, which ended
su,ly to our hopes and ex-
Its nearly twenty years
anners we're furled, ourarms
and the little remnant of
dispersed and with heavy
rned to their desolate homes,
fought ill-timed nov to at
" the fault of our failure at
our late chieftain, who so
bore our burdens and who
ongh the trying ordeal with
buimpaired, with honor I'M
with y name standing in
on the pages Of history syn
With all that Is great aud
ljne, Of the countless hosts
10 arms in what they knew
BOW no y, was u just cause,
tx4nship in this proud re-
Ter fi'ty millions Of brave (?)
mutry whose liberties he
wisdom OF his cOunsels,
" Instrumental in perpetu-
whose glories I'm war have
y won by his trusty sword.
some of the heroes
lost cause have
blumes in their own l4uda-
Davis, though adding bright
ust and im partial history,
q nothing specially for his
hicatiOn or defense. While
lr heroes whom the South
and honors have for q profit
srd-estned prestige of their
enterprises of doubtful merit
ionable morality, Mr.. Davis
fled retirement asking moth
pnly claiming the poor privi-
lug q citizen of his own
pc, "a peer OF the noblest of
though he dwelt ia u fisher
~ II might be termed pre-
10 one who occupied a very
position in the Con-
army to criticise the say
writings Of those who were
igh Ia au hOrity, but the war
BUD II Is not i'm proper for
70 discuss orders after they
led TIE humblest soldier
iman army might know "a
u, and Won MOltke with all
iary science and strategy
successfully gsinsay it. The
saidness, the temper, the
d an army is rarely ever
b ils great commanders. 1t
almost as difficult for him to
3 Important miuutia, rs for
saenti6c physician correctly
seacase without seeing the
oatfelying alone on his theo-
q precedents. The Con-
army from first to
eQnposed largely OF intel
mixing men from all the walks
iag were actuated by the
Impulses and most patriotic
la9e in the ranks were
: quAl il not superior,
Aaa lalsllectual, to those who
81 10 brief authority over
Hila b0soms barred to the
l1 hope deferred, their com
by thousands, aud other
MANNED for life aud In
sAnoes on account of the in
road management of theiI
ass-lour years of this sad
1usht those to think who
ply thought before; and
uem who survive to-day srt
: with no science but ex
and no strategy but hard
% Judge of some of the
n our Successes and also
sons of our defeats. Some OF
aud we claim the right Ia
y was not In the conception
aus OF our government, bul
ualner of the execution OF
- tnat brought us dire de-
writer never belonged 10 the
army, and only speaks in
f'uis' but all our armies were
VI the same material, men
sal and impulsive, elated al.
seu,orallzatiOn by successes
se1 almost TO dependency
DlsatisetiOn aud distrust,
slons arose, swept throu sh
quickly aud quietly as tin,
pleath Of an epidemic. /
~ a army, after gaining
blll Run, was (aJ Gen
ss seems TO argue IL should
q 10 condition TO follow uI
' aud attempt thu
~ Washington, theI
= was "a mode
gained but little In Oul
" Tour years, for attempt,
kind afterwards made by
army commanders, VINO
Nipiined soldiers and wer,
say surrounded by NOR,
|llns circumstances, met with
49,. 'ss' bull Run was the firsI
- ni. OF any consequence OF
kol'e soldiers, while gallant
IN gs."ste new aud undlscip.
so,s aste fresh from their homes
ssa, u 70 restraint, aud on this
4 infant over their first vic.
4 NJ ssasonAble TO suppose tina
s. yIss In the condition (witl
le,r,antryl TO be annlhilatec
who ~ L.. ~.