The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-31
1hr fia,tsras Affair.

Oar people have been SO long u asccast omed
to the vieissituiss Of war that they have not
70. lsarnei hos to weigh success against mis-
haps, and 70 s,rike . balance est9een COCO
AMI evil so,tune. Thus far ii Is certainly true
tia. the balance in question has b,en largely
In our favor, and for that very reason, per
haps, we d. not bear cur reverses with all the
ca aan.mi:J becoming the cause we arc engaged
IL. We have been spoiled by success until
q small touch Of adversely goes harder with
" than it ought. We sosm TO have forgotten
tina. no war was ever yet conducted to an issue
without occasional TeseTses even to the most
fortunate.
We by DO means esteem the reverse at Hat
terss al air OF sufficient Importance to blunt
the hope even Of the least hopeful. We have
known from the hTst, that We had coast
moro than Thousand miles long to defend
against nm enemy who had command OF the
sea. We ought, therefore, to have bean Pro-
pa;sd to expect desee1tS Of tie KIND, pfaeacs0
on this OCCASION, at any LoSr " TIE day. IL
Is impossible TO defend 2 seaooard u sucn
vast Kent 50 ttsetu4iiy as 10 render . do
scent impossible. OaG Palicy is, or should Oe,
70 secure csrtsiD poin:s of peculiar imp aTtance,
and tun Is AL that any peser Oh easia Can DO
II the enemy had not landed at H4tteras, the
probability is that he would have landed
somewhere else. SO IA as We are concerted,
II il a. we'll that Ee landed where he dad as
anywhere else. Somemhese he was sure to
land.
WHAT does he gain by the capture Of Hat
seras! Does he wish to break up our priva-
tsers SAILING from tie coast OF North Carolina
H that 10 Lis object, the whole coast was aces
sibIs to his feet Dies he wish to establish
basis for future oper ations IN the Atlantic Cot
tan States? l, w.uli have been impossible TO
have prevented min from accomplishing tnas
object in some other place even II he had failed
1t Hatteras. We cannot prevent hun from
landing an army. TIE only thing we can do
il TO beat such army after it shall have
been landed. Is there any doubt about
our doing this? We conceive that tnere Is
none Whatever. If the volunteers Of North
Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina, can
able 70 send against them, then history is q
liar, and experience the Ia ost psipaSle of i'm
posters. In the meantime, We feel convinced
that 1t Is the intention Of the enemy to consti-
tute Hstseras base Of operations, for In
vading South Carolina and Georgia. Iae
New York Herald has been limiting at soma
such scheme for several weeks past, and We
regard this as tho first move in the game.
one respect. 1t will rOuso all the States to put
forth their full strength. Hitherto some Of
them have done SO only partially. Virginia
has nearly twelfth of her white population
In the field. She has $4,000 volunteers under
arms. Her population is about one-sevsrth
Of that Of the whole Confederation. Seven
times sixty Eve Thousand makes four hun
drsd and ffIy- i've thousand, and tha. is
the number of men we should have in
tho deld if all did cas- we'll as Virginia.
This affair will assist in rousing them, and We
shall soon have that number in the field.
With IN army of four hundred and fifty thou
Souo IN eho Hcfuy VIC A2AJ cddcVidtS Will cc1-
tainty on ealing our Christmas dinner in
New York. So far from feeling respondent,
We should be glad to see these expeditions
They split up the frees of the enemy, and
weaken him on the vital point. From thst
point nothing ought to divert our gaze. Brssk
through the line there and all these attempted
diversions 60 for nothing. The great objec. Of
these excursions is to turn our attention from
Manassas. It will not DO.