The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-06

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extended scale, and viii. probably. therein
more fully explain the manner In which no
got possession Of the present document on-
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tented with the following account OK H. gwen
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FINLAND, was not allowed to sxamine 1t any fur
'her than was necessary to satisfy mysslf OF III
are ismliar-s restriction to which I submitted
upon the undoubsed assurance that the same con
one TO whom It had been or would be shown IA
this restriction intended to assure the pccuni
nsdy value OF the manuscripts offered Tor sale;
posed. 30 that whom purchased them few days
afterwards, found myself in sole possession Of
Of the strang est secrets Of the Revolution
OF the character Of Mr.. MOORE, we know
nothing whatever. From his having been Sc
lected 70 NIL 90 important an Office as that Of
Librarian to the New York His torical Society,
we infer that it must 30 at least fair. Al any
rate, 1t is hardly to be presumed that he is ca
pablo of forging such paper rs this and. in
deed, the internal evidence afforded by the pa
per itself, annihilates any such presumption.
There seems 10 US to be but one supposition
that can save the reputation of Gen. LEB, and
that is, that he was not acting in good faith to
Sir WIN. HOWE, when he suggested this plan.
1t is we'll known that the latter had devised a
plan, to be carried into execution during the
summer OF III, for separating the Eastern
Colonies from the rest of the Confederation,
and subGuing them in their isolated condit ton,
before making any attempt upon the Middle
and Southern Colonies. This plan consisted,
in part, of powerful expedition, to be sent
from Canada by the route Of Lake Champlaln
and the Hudson River, under the command Of
General BURGOYNE. To further the object OF
this expedition, Sir WIN. HOWE was expected
to march from New York, up the Hudson,
with force sufficiently strong to overpower
all opposition, and the two expeditions were
TO unite somewhere in the intermediate
space. There seems to exist among military
men, at this day, little doubt that the sue
cessful execution Of this plan would have
greatly increased the peril to which the in
dependence of the States was exposed
Instead OF attempting his part Of it, however,
HOWE set sail from New York for the Chesa-
peake. and by doing so rendered cooperation
absolutely impossible. BURGOYNE, isolated
from all succor and hemmed i'll by an active
and en;erprising enemy i'll difficult ami tho
roughly hostile country. was compelled to lay
down his arms. The tide turned in favor of
the Americans from that moment, and it could
never be reversed. The whole world was
amazed at this movement OF HOWE at the time,
and the amazement, ms tead Of diminishing
grew stronger after the war, when it became
known that the plan for marching one army
down the Hudson and another up, was actu-
ally suggested by himself. 1t will be observed
that LEES plan is dated 29th March. Four
days after HOWE wrote to the Ministry that
he had abandoned the idea of attempting on the
Hudson any thing more serious than an occa-
sional diversion in favor OF the Canada army,
and a week after he wrote to Sir GUY earle
TON, the Governor of Canada, 4 confiden tial
letter, in which he said that operations had al
ready been determined on, which would rem
der it impossible for him to detach a corps up
the Hudson river in the beginning OF the cam
paign. In the letter to the Ministry he reveal
ed the plan which he afterwards adopted, and
which was that proposed by LEE in its most
essential features. There can be no doubt
that the Southern movement was fatal to the
interests of Great Britain, as well as opposed
to the most obvious principles OF military
science. Is the superstition too far fetched,
that LEE might have seen this, and have pro-
posed his plan for the very purpose of lead
ing HOWE Off from the spot where his pre-
sence might be fatal to the cause OF America