The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-05-23

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FRIDAY 3cBrINS .Ias %. 'ess
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Lena u Or tAa War.
There were those who imagined when the
present dilBcultiss commenced that there ~eo'o
b % war II al, or, ii any, one of incons'"s'
raAIs magnitude and brief d"'snoo. Eve"
sftor Il had commenced and expanded !" P''
x>utous Dimensions, there were some wh" De
nsv>d thai, though furious ~ the hurricane
vo.,A rrovs A trsnsisnt. But what eye can
now pierce the gloom that seems 70 nave con-
vsrted dav into night What heart, however
..nsuins. can bs now beguiled by ths hops OF
q spssdy peace The seven years war Of the
sr,a Revolution may have been short war in
.ouparison with that which has dragged is
.iov length through whole year with DO de
c&eive rssults. and No other effect than ~ in
ssesss ne mutual bitterness Of the contsndins
partasa
The North proolsi@sd NJ the outsst that this
wa " Be - short aud sharp war" Its ne
esssties required that the war should be OF
this character, and the wish was "father to
he thought" Mcclellan declared long ago
that the war would be "brief and desperate
And yet, though moro than year has passed
the Grand Army has only reached the neigh
borhood Of Richmond, which is but the TIRES.
hold Of it, journey and, but for its water ia
silitss, it never could have approached even
this beginning Of it, tolls. How can We ex-
pest war to be short, even on the superstition
that the North will be ultimately victorious,
II il takes the invader year to advance TWEEN
,v.6vs miles from the water courses If their
operations are 20 clumsily and tediously con
ducssd when they have command of the seas
and rivers and unbounded facilities of water
transportation, what will they become when
hey have no such advantages, and must wagon
the supplies of great army over vast dis
tancss In . country which can afford them no
means Of support The war, instead of being
''short and sharp" is the longest and duilss'
war recorded in history. The brief and dos
perste" campaign promised by the young
Napoleon" as his insane admirers call McCiel-
Ian, il about as much like the rapid operations
Of Bonsparte as prolonged death by the rope
4 Ike the instant work of the Huillotne.
A "short and sharp war" would be far
more comfortable process than the bunglIng
cruelty of the present invasion. The North ia
making itself ridiculous by its crazy ambition
70 achieve great military distinction. All En-
rope il laughing at the contrast between Its
slow, awkward ways and it's high Scum /.
ING, vaipglorious preGensions. Whilst brave
enough, soldering is evidently not 'ts VEGA
,ion. But who ever saw & man that was salts
led with the gifts and calling which nature
endowed him with, aud did not prefer To shine
in something for which hs had no talent? So
n II with Yankee Doodle Bargaining and
trade, manufactures and commerce, are his vo-
cation but he is determined to prove himself
q great military genius, and has only made
himself great laughing stock Still, You can
never convince him to the contrary, and he
would oarry on the war for twenty years if
for no other purpeee than to satisfy himself
and the world of his superior military talents
and prowess.
There are, however, more powerful springs
Of sction-onpidity, revenge, aud tanaticism
which will never suffer this invasion to end
Wull0t tu0 Awful 10 ooiO w i0io0 q hA@h VI
dollar for its prosecution. The South Ought
TO look steadily in the face this inevitable re-
suit. We may as we'll prepare ourselves st
once TO spend the rest of our days in 4 state
Of wN Nor will i, be without some compen-
sssing advantages. twillseparate us forever,
in fac, a. we'll as in name, from our execrated
susmies. 1t will consummate in every heart
ordinances Of secession, 80 that no future
event can by any possibility make US sgain
oBs people. II will render our tisndsh perse-
sos0n 20 hateful that, when peace returns.
thsy win have NO heart to settle among US
the greatest danger we now have to apprs.
bend from them. 1t will enable US to build mp
spd perfect man ufactures Of our own, SO that
We shall be under no necessity hereafter Of
booking 10 the Yankees for manufactures, even
II We were mean spirited and ignoble euongh
u d. 10. It will, in short, make two nations
Of North and South more completely than II
ever could be done by any formal act OF sepa'
ration on the part of the South, or any &C.
knowledgment by the North, after snort
wa, of Southern independence.
The negrs and the Yankee -Tas Yankee
Nanss the Nesro-acd His OPtnfsn CT
Hin.
La Cur paper Of Wednesday appeared &C.
ri>s Of letters from correspondents OF New
York and Philadelphia journals attached to
,hs Federal army in the Peninsula. They were
dsted in New Kent county. One of them,
dstsd at New Kent C. H May 18th, has the
following paragraph. which we think worthy
H.
overlook the closing sentence Of the extract,
wherein il displayed the predominating pas.
sion of tho Yankee for plumber. The writer