4PPENDIX. 107 faith at all. My own impression is, that the movement of General McClellan’s army from its demonstrations along the Potomac to the base upon the James, selected for its operations against Richmond, could it have been put into execution as the author planned it, might well have proved so eminently and brilliantly successful, as to take its place in military history with such openings of a campaign, as Moreau's passage of the Rhine in 1800, and the Marshal de Saxe’s sudden and magnificent transition from the demonstrations against Antwerp to the operations against Maestricht, in the Flemish campaign of 1748. Note D.—Page 59. CENSORSHIP OF THE SOUTHERN PRESS. The Prince only echoes a belief very general at the North, when he speaks of the “ Complete Censorship of the Southern Press,” but this belief is certainly unfounded. It is a curious trait of the existing war that every attempt on the part of the Richmond government to exercise a centralized control over the institutions of the different seceded States has been instantly, and so far as I know, successfully repelled by public sentiment. Reporters for the press were excluded from the lines of the Southern armies in the field early in the current year, but this was a military measure, and was acquiesced in as such. A tacit agreement subsequently grew up between the War Department and the Press that great reticence should be observed in regard to military movements. But a proposition to establish a formal censorship, made in January or February, 1861, was instantly sneered and shouted down throughout the South, and when, not very long afterwards, the commander of the department of Henrico, Brigadier General Winder, permitted himself to threaten certain papers in Richmond with “suppression,” he was met with open and
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