The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-09
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EIGHT MONTHS CAMpAresrNa AND THE RI
suLT.-The season for active military opera
tons has so nearly closed that we can now es.
innate the results Of the first years struggle
between the North and South. If we take
as the standard of comparison what the az
gressive section proposed at the outset and
have endeavored to accomplish, the case is
clear that its campaign has been complete
failure. The North was 10 have oyerrun the
South in two months; it was to have taken
Richmond, Nashville, New Orleans, and &
dozen other cities and its armies were to
have wintered in our seats of wealth, luxury,
and fashion. In no part of this brilliant and
luxurious programme have they succeeded
They have not single city of any size in the
South nor do they hold single county of the
whole Confederacy in undisturbed possession
except where the inhabitants themselves, by
their own disloyal agency, secured them
possession. 1t is remarkable fact,
paign in which the North have put forth its
most strenuous exertions, that they hold no
portion of the Southern territory except snch
rs was virtually surrendered to them by dis.
loyal Southern people. In every other re-
speet, but in reference TO this striking fact,
the campaign has been a complete failure
Whenever they have attempted to penetrate
our country in force, they have been driven
back with ruin and slaughter. Nowhere,
where the people have in mass opposed them,
have they been able to establish themselves
upon firm footing.
This great fact cannot fail to have its pro-
per effect upon the public opinion of the world.
Four hundred millions of dollars have been
expended from three to four hundred thou
sand troops brought into the field; eight
months Of strenuous campaigning has been
performed and the grand result is the pos
session of a half Yanheelied and exposed por
ton OF Virginia of part Of he ntucky vol
UNFAIRLY surrendered to them by the treaehery
Of a set of disgraeed politicians and timid pro-
perty ho!ders and of those regions Of Mis-
souri, where the g Union sentiment was
strong enough TO prevent the military organi-
zation of the true Southern people. They
have conquered nothing, They bold no part
of our coil, except that which our people sur.
rendered into their hands. They have won
no victories. They have gained no glory or
renown. They came into the war, proud of
their strength and confident Of their pro vess,
expecting to frighten us by their mere ap.
proach. They go out of the campaign smart
ing under repeated defeats, the laughing stock
OF the world, aad feeling i'll their hearts their
utter infeTiority to us in all the qualities of
warriors.
The worst spent four hundred millions that
ever slipped out of public treasury, have been
the millions which the North has paid for
eight months of campaigning, which has re-
suited in nothing but in teaching them that
their volunteers are towards, and cannot be
trusted in the field. 1t reminds US of the
vast pains and expense which Xerxes, Da-
rius, and those Eastern commanders Of
myriads, were at, to learn experimentally the
same sad truth of their armies. A nation NAV
have wealth in it's exchequer, arms in its arse
nails, supplies in unbounded profusion, and it
may have troops by the million, and yet, un-
less those men have the true pluck of warriors,
and be capable of fighting bravely in the field
these grand appurtenances Of military power
ere butas sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
They can effect no more in the field, agains.
brave men, than Chinese army with hun
dred thousand gongs against brigade of Bri-
tish regulars.
The North have brought vast concourse
of men into thsGeld They have expended
au ocean of money. They have planned stu
pendous campaigns. They proposed to ac-
c0mplish long triumphant marches; to utterly
subjugate eleven sovereign States; to take pos
session of wealthy and luxuriant cities; to
apportion vast landed properties among their
troops; to set several millions of negroes free
and to establish the Federal Government:
throughout the old Union in such inpregnab.e
strength, that nothing could shake it, and
none dispute It's supremacy, forever more
Trey proposed to do all this in q very few
months. 4 man in their midst who lad limited
a doubt of its accomplishment in less than
four months from the date Of Lincolns call
for seyeDty-tbree regiments, would have been
instantly bastiled in Fort Lafayette But
nothing of all this splendid programme has
been accomplished Their money is gone, the
prestige of their troops lost, and footing ia OBJ
tanned nowhere in the South, except where
treaehery and deception have accomplished
for them what their valor could not Nay
they have lost ground for whereas they felt
secure of Kentucky, that State, after hard
fighting, is sure now to be ours; and whereas
they thought they had effectually overrun Mis-
souri,, they find the indomitable spirit Of that
people nnconquerabie, and that they have snf-
fered their severest reverses in the very State
which they thought most surely their own.
The South, on the other hand, commenced
the campaign, proposing nothing but self de-
fence; and that defence she has successfully
made. At the outset Of war for which she
was not prepared, and which she did not ex-
pect, she was incapable Of undertaking often
sive warfare. She planted herself upon the
defensive; and che has succeeded in whipping
the North and battling all their grand designs.
She has inspired her soldiers with tho pres
tige Of victory, and viii, in another campaign,
be ready to avail herself of this prestige, and
Of her more perfect state Of preparation, to
make her adyersaries feel her power with q
vengeance. They are already aware that we
are their masters; and ia another campaign
we will assert that character upon them with
strong hand.