The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-23

Washington, lying drunk in the run shops on
the cellar doors, IN the gnitefs, and thinking
of nothing bni getting back home. We were
satisfied then. we are iatistird now, that
Washington might have been taken bv "a hand.
ful OF men, almost hv II charge Of cavalry
We could not understand the ;tiyaftager ~
delay We knew nothing of military tactics
hut the modicam of common sen.e with which
we We're gifted by cur Creator enabled us io
doubt the policy which left to a conquered
and dispirIted enemy the leisure TO recover
from his terror, 10 restore discipline, recrUt
his forces, TO drill his men, TO erect gigantic
Notifications. But we said nothing of ali this,
because our Generals had the matter in they
own hands, and best knew what tley We're
capable of performing. When, therefore, we
learned that their reason for not following Il
panic stricken enemy twenty olive miles Was
that they had not provision and transportation
sufficient to carry them that distance, we
thought the public ought TO be satisfied We
had read, nevertheless. THAT CESAR had pur-
sued poMrEY from the plains OF Ihess;,'y to
the sea beach of Alexandria, after the battle
of Pharsaia, although previously 70 that bat
lie lie had been on the point OF breaking up
his camp for want OF provisions We bad,
moreover, read the first proclamation OF Gen.
BoNArAKrE to his army in Italy, in which lac
tells them that in the course OF fourteen days
they>had gained six victories and destroyed
two armies that they had gained battles
without cannon, crossed rivers without pan
tons, made forced marches without shoes, and
watched al night under arms without brandy,
and sometimes even without provisions '--that
they had been "bereft even II necessaries at
the commencement of the campaign, bar that
now lat the date of the proclamation "thcy
enjoyed plenty" for that 1.-THE magazines taken
from the enemy We're numerous still the
public, deeply as they were chasrined at the
disappointment, acquiesced in the apology Tor
the Gencrals, that they had not transportation
and provisions Tor SO short distance, and we
felt no disposition to disturb its verdict.
We have already said that the advantages
which would have ensned to the Confederate
States from an advance at that period, were
not TO be estimated hy amy process known 10
arithmetic. Some OF then, however, lie SO
paipably OF the surface that we cannot forbear
to notice them IN passing. We should have
captured the city of Baltimore, aud purged il
of the foul vermin who have converted it into
2 hest for their tSbc We should have pre-
vented the abduct ION ami incarceration of eur
friends, WHO have been abducted and iucarce-
rated only because they We're our friends We
should have captured the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, and by throwing IA strong body OF
troops upon the rear OF the Yankee uag;u-
ders III Western Virginia, have rendered their
capture and destruction inevitable. We should
have protected North Carolina from invasion.
We should have arrested the progress OF the
Yankee arms in Missouri, ana placed thar n;lI-
liant State in her ti1Ie position. We should
have enabled Kentucky to purge OH the vile
i0custs that in1est her. We should have en-
tered the Yankee territory, aud made them
renbie for their own capital. We should
have taken PHILADELPHIA, and held il az a
pledge for the Withdrawal OF LiECoLN's
scoundrels from Fortress Monroe, and Of lis
fleet from the blockade Of our ports In
a word. we should have gone into The midst ot
the Yankees. broken up their military oYsani-
z;ttion, laid Boston and New York at our feet,
compelled them to sue for terms. alsl eXacted
ample indemnity for all their robberies, all
their injuries and all their insults
Another opportunity now offers itself. We
have numerous army on the potJuae--it
burns for Distinction and pants for the hour
that is to call il into action Ii its ardor lie
Het restrained, before Christmas It can plan,
the eolors If the Confederate States upon
Faneuil Hall 1t will lave battles 10 fight:
but that Is what il most eagerly longs for L
will have rivers to cross: brt Col. NATTER
tells liz that rivers, 30 far from being an usu.
pertbie barrier. DO not even form Il good DO
sition. If they cannot be crossed at one place.
they can at another When did the Rhine
ever consutute an insuperable object TO an army
wishing TO invade France or Germany or the
Po to an army wishing to invade Lombardy
When did any great river Oder hn nsupersble
obstacle 10 Il resoiuie General and & brave
army? IN the name of the united South, then
let our armies advance while the weather is
fine and everything propitious.