General Early's address to his Army.
We publish this noble address this morning. We do not recollect that we ever met with any paper which more commanded our admiration. The tone of deep and painful feeling which pervades it exacts the warmest sympathy with the writer, while we are in wonder at the powerful self-command which he is able to exercise at a moment so trying. It is from this paper that General Early did all that can do, and that the scandalous issue of so an enterprise is due to a cause not less the rage, namely, for plundering the enemy.General Early modestly calls the issue a "disaster" As compared with what it might and ought to have been, it certainly was a "disaster." In an absolute sense, however, it was no disaster, but, on the contrary, a great victory. It has crippled Sheridan most effectually and relieved us from all fears either of Lynchburg or Gordonsville. General Early has been, all the campaign, struggling against odds, and he has struggled in such a way that they have gained no advantages over him.--He has done his duty. Let others do theirs only as fully and we shall hear less complaint.
