Barrycdog
Major
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2013
- Location
- Buford, Georgia
Daily Intelligencer, Sept. 25, 1863 -- page 1
SILENCE ENJOINED
The Columbia (S.C.) Guardian has the following hints to newspapers:
Some weeks ago our newspapers informed the Yankee's that an enormous amount of rolling stock had been carried up to Grenada, But not content with this, some correspondents told their readers and the Yankees that General Johnston was rebuilding the bridge over the Pearl river in order to run off this stock and save it. In other words Grant was told to hurry up his raiding parties. He was not slow to take up the hint thus given to him, and a terrible calamity has been the result.
Privateering might have been carried on for years from the waters of North Carolina, had not our newspapers told the Yankees where our cruisers made their rendezvous. The capture of the Hatteras, Roanoke Island and Newbern, was the result of this babbling.
A Chattanooga paper a few days since informed Rosecrans where General Forrest was, and was duly published the Dutchmans proclamation inviting our soldiers to desert.
The Charleston papers tell Gillmore, from day to day the effect of his fire, and warn him of the preparations of Beauregard is making.
The Yankees are duly apprised of every movement of our troops. They are told all about our plans, hopes and fears: they are taught where our weak and strong points. - Every combination of our military leaders against the vandals is proclaimed form the house top.
Can nothing bee done to arrest this terrible evil? Would not a law depriving every indiscreet and babbling writer of his exemption papers and lacing him in the ranks be worth to our cause an army of fifty thousand men? Thu, though, would be wicked. It would be muzzling the press.
SILENCE ENJOINED
The Columbia (S.C.) Guardian has the following hints to newspapers:
Some weeks ago our newspapers informed the Yankee's that an enormous amount of rolling stock had been carried up to Grenada, But not content with this, some correspondents told their readers and the Yankees that General Johnston was rebuilding the bridge over the Pearl river in order to run off this stock and save it. In other words Grant was told to hurry up his raiding parties. He was not slow to take up the hint thus given to him, and a terrible calamity has been the result.
Privateering might have been carried on for years from the waters of North Carolina, had not our newspapers told the Yankees where our cruisers made their rendezvous. The capture of the Hatteras, Roanoke Island and Newbern, was the result of this babbling.
A Chattanooga paper a few days since informed Rosecrans where General Forrest was, and was duly published the Dutchmans proclamation inviting our soldiers to desert.
The Charleston papers tell Gillmore, from day to day the effect of his fire, and warn him of the preparations of Beauregard is making.
The Yankees are duly apprised of every movement of our troops. They are told all about our plans, hopes and fears: they are taught where our weak and strong points. - Every combination of our military leaders against the vandals is proclaimed form the house top.
Can nothing bee done to arrest this terrible evil? Would not a law depriving every indiscreet and babbling writer of his exemption papers and lacing him in the ranks be worth to our cause an army of fifty thousand men? Thu, though, would be wicked. It would be muzzling the press.
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