The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-06
a FAILuRE.-We bear that there are aome

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a FAILURE-We hear that there are some
eminent martial men, ut present in civil life,
who have no hesitation in expressing their
opinion that the military operations of the
Southern Generals have, thus far, been u fail
ure.
These distinguished military volcanoes have
let Off q good deal of excoriatng lava since the
war commenced. Vesuvius, in full blast, has
become a mere tea-kettle to the wrath and
noise OF their eruptions. They have never
been able to approve IA single movement that
Johnston, Beauregard, or Magruder, have
made. Nothing but an excess of magnaniu-
ity has prevented them from ex.inguishing
the Generals aforesaid, by proceeding to the
seat Of war and taking command of the army
themselves. 1t is believed, however, that IN
and make their winter quarters in the North
Pole, these warlike lights, which are at present
under Il bushel, will transfer themselves at
once to Manassas. They will not have the
slightest hesitation in doing 80, in the event
that Prince Sa-am Saam supersedes General
Mcclellan. Probably the Prince Sa-am Sa-am
has no equal this side OF Hindostan except
these masked batteries in private life, who are
waiting for him to come over. We therefore
advise, invoke, and exhort, the. said Johnston.
Beauregard and Magruder, to disperse the enc
my forthwith, or else disperse to their own re.
spective places of abode. If they do not cap
ture Washington forthwith, and annex Penn
s.-f xTar11n and q,
federacy before Christmas, let them give place
to those who will.
For ourselves being profoundly ignorant Of
the science of war, we are not able to gaze
into milestone with the piercing vision CT
those war hawks who are looking down con-
temptuously from the peaceful roosts Of pri-
vate life upon the camp and battle field We
are not able to see that the military operations
OF our Generals have been failure. We can
see that the military operations of the North
have failed, because they undertook to capture
Richmond by the Goth July, and they are no
| nearer the object now than they were when
they ilfst crossed the Potomac. But have the
Southern Generals undertaken 50 do VI hat they
have not accomplished They undertook L;
| defend the South from subjugation. Have they
failed in that They undertook to hold ana
maintain line of defence which would rem
der the capital of Virginia secure. Have they
failed in that! They undertook to hold the
important key OF Manassas, and has that been
wrested from their hands They never did
| undertake to capture the city of Washington,
| or to do more than compel the enemy to $ let
| us alone" to prevent them from striking 4
| fatal blow at our Independence, and from
| bringing us under the dominion OF Lin
| coin. Have they failed in that 7 4
| failure! Was Bethel ii failure Was Bull
| Run failure Was the battle of Manassas
a failure Were Carnifax Ferry and Green
brier River failures' Was Leesburg a fail
ure Is the possession of Norfolk and its
immense Navy Yard failure Look back at
| the hour VIXEN the Pawnee was expected TO
| come up the James River, and could have
come up without passing one fortifcation ;
when the York River had not gun upon it
when five hundred men was the extent Of our
force on the Peninsula, and fifteen hundred
the whole army at Manassas; when there
| was not one solitary cannon on the Potomac.
Look at those places now, bristling with
enormous camps and the most formidable sr-
| tiiiery, so powerfully manned and defended
that in every attempt made upon them by the
enemy he has been scattered like chatf be-
fore the tempest, and call all that a failure!
| One of the most quiet and effective opera
tions of the war, the blockading of the Po-
tomac, is curious kind of failure In our
| untutored Judgment nothing could have been
more creditable and successful than the man
| her in which that failure was accomplished
| 1t was II work OF tremendous labor, and whicl,
occupied months, and had to be performed
almost in the presence of a vast feet of the
enemy, yetit was conducted with such discre-
ton and silence that the enemy knew nothing
ef it till the batteries were unmasked, and the
principal avenue to his capital was block
AIDED. 4 failure. Look at Virginia when
the Pawnee was expected up the james,
and when Jackson fell a. Alexandria, and
look at it now, and call the summer campaign
"a failure