The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-07
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We had been disposed until recent occur
rencss TO think highly OF this man rs al il
Ger and gentleman. His treatment OF the
prisoners taken at Rich Mountain was said to
have been humane aud liberal, AMI il marked
contrast with ths brutality of other Yankee
officers. To be sure. we could not reconcile
With our notions of 81 honorable man com
pact to retain his salary as President Of rail
road company while ne was commanding tbs
amy of the Yankee Government III the
field. We thought it little inconsat'
ent, also. that hs should bs leading sDed
an army sgalnst the South while he
was declaring in private that he would muen
rather lead IN army against New England
But we were willing to overlook all this, IL
consideration Of the literally 30 whioh we
have alluded.
We are now satisiied that We gave II n crsdit
to which he is TIC. entitled. His sTlug tls'
PATCHES 70 his master at Washington prove
him to be TO better taau Wool and Butler
FROM the field at Williamsburg, whers thirty
thousand Of lis men were routed By one third
OF their number, iosiDg eleven suls and S;9G
prisoners, he wrote that he had gained great
victory From Seven Zines, where our men,
with only half his icree, routed his troops,
captured their batteries, seized their campo,
and drove them peV meN into the swamp,
where the into. yeniion OF night alone saved
them from utter destruction, he again wrote
that he was victorious These arc the tricks
of a vulgar traggart, net OF great General.
They are designed, fret, to impose on tbs
Yankees; next, to impose on Europe. But
lying proclamations cannot long impose either
on Yankees or Europe. People will begin to
ask, if he is always victorious, why he does
not press en- cur army and au1ihilate i; at a
blow.
1t lie said, we know not with what truth,
that battalion of negroes has been organ
lied in Williamsburg by Bis orders. Yet, be-
fore the war, he pretended to be az violently
opposed to atolitionism as any man in South
Carolina. l, is we'll known. that as he came
along from the Peninsula the slaves were
everywhere taken by his men ard carried II
by his orders. The war he has made upon us,
is such war as pirates aud buccaneers would
maAe, if they should be let loose upon Us. H.
deed what is be but the captain of q hugo
horde Of pirates, making war upon principles
which are abhoTrent alike to the cGstc IL OF
nations, and the law of God? In no other WEI
of modern times did tbs invading party ever
arm the slave agaiust his master. L zen in
the invasion OF Russia, Napoleon refused the
assistance Of the Russian ssIfs, who sent a
deputation TO ffsr tie services of many mi
lions The Yankee Government, and Nc
Clelian as one of their agents, ENJOY the su-
preme distin ction of being toe Only modern
invaders, who ever conj.soende1 TO inaagu
rate warfare 60 savage. Ia the days
of the decline Of the Roman Rspuhlic, when
the whole community was utterly corrupted,
but seventeen yeas before it fell under the
fortune and geuius of Jalius Csesar--tae worst
man that Rome ever produced oven Catilins,
tho oonspirator against his country, refused TO
enlist tho slaves who locked to his standard
in great numbers, although his army was
small, and he was faced by overwhelming
numbers. He rather to suffer defeat
and death than e be handed down to posteri-
~ - q man who had involved his country IN
the horrors of a ssrvis war. The conduct ot
the Roman-outlaw and corspirator though he
Was-puts to thame the Yankee General, ia
vored By bis Government, and swelling in all
the importance Of fictitious victory.