The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-20

Excsss.. 80, AZ 4so
"Now the question is VINO wilt draw the gold
frSt-the bank creditors or the Government
creditors -
The New York Herald makes the loan an
occasion for i castigation of Lincoln's Cabi-
net thus
Now that our moneyed men have decided
TO furnish the sineWs of war, it is their duty
Oh behalf of themselves, the people and hu-
lnanity the world over, 10 insist that the
funds furnished by them shah not be waste
fully spent on favCrites and corrupt con-
trac tors around the War Department, or frit-
tered away by sleepy, sluggish and imbecile
officials in the Navy Bureau; but spent, as il
is designed, in vigorous prosecution OF the
war by land, and making the blockade SO
etectual that no vessel of the enemy can
obtain ingress egress from any harbor,
bay, creek or inlet from the Chesa peake TO the
Rio Graude. They should demand of the
President, as they have not only the right
but the duty to do, that more honesty and
energy should be infused in the War and
Navy Departments, and men OF talents and
craftsmanship placed at their head The
country has already lost enough through the
imbecility of one Welles, at the head of the
Navy Department.
We have been long enough di.graced in the
eyes OF the world, having TWENTY-FIVE mil
lions sustaining the Government, contending
with less than eight millions, and at the same
tim9 sending out armies one third OF the num-
oers against US. The Secretary OF War, in his
message to Congress, stated that he had &c
copied three hundred and ten thousand troops
and rejected as many more. Where are those
troops They certainly were not a. Big Bethel
nor mas there been large enough force at
Fortress Monroe at any time to carry on the
war IN that section with vigor. General Me-
DoWell, Wnen ne was com PEELED to march on
Manassas with his thirty five thousand men,
and there battle with three times his rum ber
certainly did not have any such force as the
Secretary OF War would have as infer was at
the command of the Government The small
namoers In the two positions referred to
would lead US 10 look for them at the West ,
but II they are there, why was the gallaut
Lyon compelled TO sacrifice his life at the
Mead OF handful OF men, lighting force four
times as great IS his
The public insis that this game hiss been
played long enough, and now call upon the
President and his advisers to work fer the
country, and not the sacrifice Of our COM
manders and brave soldiers nigh ting against
three ana four times their numbers. We
have long enough listened to the complai II Is
OF the treatment of the soldiers who have left
home and offered themselves Oh the affairs of
their country, aud now ask that men may be
place in the War department who will no
longer fawn upo.. favoritss, while the gallant
soldiers are Kept without their pay and treat
ed mora like brutes than men. We trust that
our fnanciers will that this change at
least Is made, upon which depends the sue
cess OF our cause and the cause OF freedom for
all time To come.
The Herald's attempt to gloss over Federal
defeats by attributing them to disparity Of
numbers is sheer nonsense. But few weeks
ago, the same mendacious sheet paradod the
vastness OF the grand army"i In flaming CAPT
talE, and whenever a defeat took place II was
attributed to nothing but "nasked batteries"
Any intelligent reader con see through the
cobweb texture of the Hsrald's assumptions
Ut Q glance. Those who know the facts, know