The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1864.

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ing, upon the other hand, how decisively the inflo.
ence of Russia operates upon the policy of Prussia
at every important period, and that the Xreuz
Zei-
tang party—the best friends of Russia—ale now at
the head of affairs in Prussia, the protracting tactics
of Danmark appear in quite a different light, and
it is impossible to deny the likelihood that her dur-
ing hopes may to some extent be realised.
" We trust that Et decision will be come to in good
time at Vienna and Berlin, and a stroke be made
through the Russo-Danish calculations. But every
day's delay increases the danger that the prelimi•
naries conquered in blood shall remain a dead letter,
and that Germany will again be
she has already seen twice in the Schleswig' Holstein
question a peace giving the dwarf a right to
offered that which
mock and challenge the giant for another decen-

nium."

and principal adviser and councillor P Or would it
not be for Mr Lincoln's interest and that of his
party to lay an injunction upon that voluble tongue
and forbid it to make any more speeches until after
the election P

But Mr Seward's speech had its gcol parts, and
was singularly and gratuitously chivalrous towards
his colleagues, lie positively went cut of his way
to champion Mr Secretary Welles and Mr Secretary,
Stanton, who are beyond doubt the two most un-
popular men in America. To Mr Welles—known
in the navy and to the newspapers as " Rip Van
Winkle "—the man of a bygone age, and not at this
moment half awake—is attributed by popular opi-
nion the damaging fact that a few Confederate war
steamers have been enabled to drive American corn•
merce from the ocean, or send it into British bot-
toms—and to Mr. Stanton is, in like manner, attri-

Juted every failure and reverse of the Federal arms
hat has occurred since the dismsssal of Mr. Simon

Cameron to the splendid exile of the embassy to St.
Petersburg. For these maligned and persecuted
Ministers, Mr. Seward has nothing but words of
graciousness. Like a good fairy, he drops pearls
from his mouth, and like Ophelia in her madness
he turns every affliction into favour and prettiness.
The victory in Mobile Bay is not so much due to
Admiral Farragut as to Secretary Welles. " Far-
ragut's fleet," says Mr. Seward, " did not make it-
self, nor did Farragut make it. It was prepared by
the Secretary of the Navy." And as for Mr Stanton
—a man whose war dispatches are no more accu-
rate than Seward's orations, the world is ignorant
of its greatest men. "He that shall record the
history of this war truthfully and impartially,"
exclaims the joyous sage of Auburn, " will write
that, since the days of Carnot, no man has organ-
ised victory with ability equal to that of Stanton."
Bat alas ! what is the use of ability if it be nnac-
companied by success? Carnot was successful, and
Stanton is not. Richmond is yet uncaptured, and
Washington on Mr. Seward's own showing is still
beleagured, These facts reduce the ability of the
War Secretary to a point at which its value ceases
to be appreciable to the fervent patriotism of the

public.
The military situation no longer commends itself
to the exultation of sensible people. 11r. Seward's
" eggshell" has still some vitality in it, and may yet
be hatched into a very formidable cockatrice. Gen-
eral Sherman admits that although he has taken
Atlanta, he did not consider it prudent to attack
the undefeated army of the Confederates in the new
position which they have assumed at 30 miles south
of that city; and Secretary Stanton, aware of the
fact, notifies the public, through General Dix, that
he supposes it to be General Sherman's design to
withdraw his advance columns, give his army rest
in Atlanta, and re-establish his communications
with his bases of supplies, which have been broken
by the Confederate Generals Wheeler and Forrest.
General Sherman, in a letter that reads as if it were
not quite genuine, says if he has not achieved a vic-
tory, he does not know what a victory is ; but if the
capture of a city from which the enemy had removed
all the valuables long before, and the occupation by
the said enemy of a new position cf his own choice
and in which his opponent does not see fit to assail
him, is a great victory, it is difficult to define what
can be meant by a small one. Evidently the great
battle of the Georgian campaign has yet to be
fought, and Sherman's position, 140 miles from his
true base, and with enemies in front and rear and all
around, cannot well be considered by any impartial
critic or spectator as wholly devoid of peril. At
Petersburg and Richmond there is no change,
though there are many indications of a renewed
conflict for the possession of that portion of the
Weldon Railroad which the Federal army continues
to hold. Even should the Confederates deem it

wise to leave Grant in unmolested occupation of
that point, the necessity lies heavy upon Grant of
making a movement of some kind, with or without
reinforcements. Burmuda Hundred is proverbially
unhealthy. The autumnal damps and fogs will
soon be upon it, and his men must either die, fight,
or remove to a healthier abiding place. It would
appear, however, that the initiative of fighting
will not be taken by General Lee ; that a pores
tion of General Early's corps has returned from
the Shenandoah to take part in the onslaught, and
that news of a great battle may be expected every
day. General Grant, in a singular letter to a pri.
vats friend, which has been sent to all the journals
for publication, asserts that " the rebels have now in
their ranks their last man, and that they have robbed
the cradle and the grave equally to get their present
force." This is a strong figure of speech, and if there
be really babies and dead men in the Confederate
ranks, as the General says, Grant will have an easy
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tenacity of purpose. This quality may be a virtue,
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Grant's tenacity, which has already cost 100,000
men, may not cost him, before all is over, one half
of his remaining army and the last shred of his
military reputation.