THE GREAT REBELLION: The Rebel Leaders Quarreling Among Themselves; BITTER DENUNCIATIONS OF DAVIS; Cause of the Withdrawal of the Rebel Troops to Centerville (8/24/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 8/24/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Friday, Aug. 23.

The Government has reliable information that a quarrel has broken out among the leading traitors of the rebel States, that promises to be as disastrous to them as was the Bull Run affair to us. The belligerents are TOOMBS and the Virginians and North Carolinians on the one side, and DAVIS, WIGFALL and the extremists of South Carolina on the other. The complaint among the disaffected is, that DAVIS is making rather fast to the legitimate results of treason, the abnegation of State and individual rights.

The Governor of Georgia, you recollect, protested against some acts of President DAVIS, and it is here understood that in doing so he acted in concert with the malcontents at Richmond. The quarrel between these parties has already reached the extent that the disaffected do not hesitate to openly denounce DAVIS in the streets and public places of Richmond.

The near approach of the time for choosing a permanent President is probably the cause of this outburst, and it is supposed the coming canvass for the successorship will be as embittered as any Presidential contest under the old Government. Strangely enough, South Carolina, that has always been so clamorous for State Rights, is now the firmest for a consolidated Government; but the Virginia politicians are true to the principles of '98.

It has been ascertained that the late withdrawal of rebel troops back to Centreville was in reality a stampede of eleven regiments, who took a fright, and abandoning everything, run for the rear as fast as they could go, and until daylight revealed to them the fact that there were no Union troops following.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The Great Rebellion: The Rebel Leaders Quarreling Among Themselves – 2-3
Affairs on the Upper Potomac – 3
From London: The Battle of Bull Run, and its Effect upon European Nations – 3-4
The Battle of Bull Run: Another Letter from Mr. Russell, the Correspondent of the London Times – 4-6
Affairs in Arizona – 6
Editorial: The Suppression of Newspapers – 6-7
The Special Correspondent Convalescent – 7
From Long Branch: Exhibition of Life-saving Apparatus – 7-8
Impossibility of an Impenetrable Blockade – 8
On to Richmond – 8
Passports to Europe – 8
Gov. Morgan’s Proclamation – 8

[mikeus_maximus]

Looks like the press was just as hyperbolic and wrong then too. The rumors of the Confederacy’s imminent demise were unfortunately greatly exaggerated.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

I have a Delorean.

If I can get the timing right, I’ll go back to 1859 and start the real, “Atlanta Journal & Constitution,” to counter the propaganda of the NYT.

Wish me luck.

5.56mm