The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-11
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WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPT. IL Is

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INrrpEScE.-If anything were wantin.
! ''poking fun ut the Yankees when it laud
| their valor 80 excessively it is in the hab
Of doing, it would be supplied by the follow
ing paragraph
Northern Snperiority in Arms.-The late na val
( battle at HatteTas Inlet demonstrates tbs
/ superiority OF Northern arms and Northern
| prowess. The accurate aim of the shells
! considering the roughness of the sea- is sur
/ prising, The sarne superiority was observit-
bic in the sinking Of the priyateer Petrol by
signal she'll and at Bull Run. There and
elsewhere the enemy have met our troops in
superior numbers, yet their loss is inyaria.
oly more than ours. 1t was SO at Wilson's
creek, before Manassa Junction, and West
| ern Virginia. Our superiority of mum bers
and of armament Mt Hatteras Inlet is the ex-
ceptlon TO the general rule: but it does no
take away from the merit of precision and
the skill which has distinguished our troops
and naval officers throughout this and every
engagement since The war began, wherever
mere We're competent commanders in charge
In hand hand lighting, and in the use OF
cannon, as Well as IN / be rifle, the North has
established its superiority. and the result OF
lhe recent ntactlon On the coast of North Caro-
una VIII be to give increased confidence to
our troops, and show the Powers of Europe
tnat they ought not to arrive at hasty con
cluSlons from the disaster ut Bull Run"
The Yankee ships during the present wal
have repeatedly engaged our batteries Oh shore
at sewell'ssnd Pigs points, at Aqua creek
at Matthias point and elsewhere. Yet until
the affair at Hatteras, they never succeeded in
killing or crippling single man, while our men
slaughtered them by wholesale. At Hatteras
they kept out of range of the few guns we
had mounted, and sheled us at will Their
aim not being disturbed by the fear of casual
ties, they fired with more accuracy than usual
The greatest coward on earth can take deadly
| aim from behind hedge. Still we are called
on TO admire this feat, az a proof of Yankee
manhood The priyateer Pctrel, little bark
of some hundred or two tons. was fired
| into by a frigate and sunk Here is AN.
other proof OF Yankee superiority But tn,
grand proof was at Bull Kun We all know
how that was, and consequently we all know,
what to think of Yankee superiority
AS for the affair in Western Virginia, it con
sisted IN the defeat and capture of 243 meu
by three thousand Yankees. In hand hano
lighting, the Yankees have never given d
chance to test their manhood They have in
varlasbly fed before We could cross bayonel,
with them. Capt DooLEY, with his Mont
gomery Guards tried to reach them with tn,
oayonet at the combat of Bull Run, and Capt
BoGGs tried to do the same They had as wei
nave tried 10 cha rye q flock Of wild geese. -
The Yankees were nowhere, long before they
could get to them, nor was there any chance
OF getting near them. To put a stop at once
TO all these lies about superior numbers on oul
i
side, we Will state that at Bethel there were OF
our side one North Carolina regiment. about
l20 Howitzers, and four companies of Virginis
infantry, numbering in all ,l60 men, of whom
not 500 were engaged, while the Yankees. aC
cordng to BUTLER's own report, brought siy
regiments into the feld-that is 10 saw at least
o,ooo men-that there are now, in this city
PRISONERS representing thirty eight regiments
engaged in the battle of Mannassa, all o1
which attacked JoHsToN's force, never mum
bering $4,000 men-and that they We're as
sisted By ten thousand regulars. But there is
no use in boasting. The thing will be tried
over again, and then shall see where the
manhood lies. We ask only one favor. and
that Is, that McCLELLAN will not boast OF
overwhelming numbers before he sets out
and then attempt To cover the shame of defea,
by lying as McDowELL did.
At Bethel a company of North Carolina in
fantry jumped over the breastwork and tried
TO charge the Yankees. They ran before ou
men could get within fifty yards of them
Our men at Manassa made seven distinct
hayonet charges, always with the same result
The Yankees never would wait for them
Hand 10 hand Pooh. Catch Yankee al
that. There is one kind of superiority which
we willing concede to them. They can bea
our men running.