The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-08-21
The Daily Times Farther Explains its Buoy
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FROM Tue ~ ! TfcoHidA
It seems hardly worth while to notice paper
ths. contradicts itself Oh alternate days. But the
DdiIy Times, after ALL is the best exponent among
the morning twopennies of the common, vacil-
iating. unthinkiug throng. The Herald 30 habit
ually plays the bufsoon that no one knows cares
whether 1t ia in fun in earnest in haiti writes
whether its ''puffs are meant for compliment or for
satire. The Tribune, ever driving AFTER and ever
missing its underhand and base objects, keeps
In the foreground the cry of the negro, and speaks
of nothing except in correlation 20 this idol, in
making shrines for which il has hoped Tor much
profit. The Daily Times is your true shop keeper.
What do you wish, sir," "Angthias TO acconmo.
date YOU, sir /" I'VE have al, colors here, sir p
I'll our assortment to-day does not suit you, we
have ordered something altogether diverse. and ii
will be out in a day or twoT Thus. two days al
ter its "buoyant' article of last week, it had a
leading article Of two columns of the very most
doleful declarations of dismay that we have seen
In any American paper. In its issue of last Sul.
day il returns to explains the "buoyant" Thus:
1.-The popular expectations based ON mis-
apprehension az to the actual aad possible power
the phrase crushing out the rebellion really meant
There isl however, as we remarked on previous
day. positive gain. if not cheer TO us, in the fact
that we know this
When the Times says the ''popnlar' expectations,
it must not except itself and its conductors
whether these be popular Or not. II 1t says that
i,s expectations were not biased on Risappre
heusonn &c. Il would stamp itself as sci.fuI de-
CeiyHr, Tor, through lODg InQNttis OF Iast year,
cried TRAITOR" "Secesfionist, Southern syInpa
thizer" at those who did rightly apprehend 'the
actual and possible power Of tie reoss." We told
the truth last year, and that we were not in 'eT-
roy' was even then made manifest BY the tact that
William a. Seward sent armed men to our office,
and locked us up in Fort Lafayette, and that while
we were there locked up for publishing the Free
mans Appeal the same w. II. Seward excused him.
self for not interfering with Russell OF the Lon.
dom Times, bv quoting Jeffsrson's words that Ter
roy NAV safely be tolerated SO long as reason Is
lef. free to comba, it t. Russels error, 1t thus ap
pears saved him, while our freedom from error
made certain officials think that our words could
nor 'safely be tolerated. by the policy that those
words opposed.
their most obtuse ignorance Of what every man ut
to write on our politics ought to have known say
sroartly, I'VE nov know this." Bat the little !a!-
lows have the audaeity to say farther:
I'VE knos that If Gen. Mcclellan had had tifty
thousand more soldiers last month the rebel host
would assuredly have been overcome. Richmond
would have fallen, and Davis and the remnants OF
his army and Government would probably, by this
time have been far South rs Soufh Caroiina--
Had he that number Of additional troops to-day.
he would bring the campaign in Virginia to
speedy and triumphant end
Ane the little people of the Daily Times one
whit more sure of all this than they were last year
Of the thousand and one foolish things that they
said then that they knsw and said We were traitors
for denyings ..,.,,e..,
Last week, the LdGt ls"fe Ane" tDo' - "o
saIvation of the so.csied Confederscy depended Oil
Il, the rebels could no. raise len thousand more
men than are now arrayed I Dis week, the samt
little peoples paper publishes from its own CORES.
pondenf In MeCiellans army, the report brought
kack hv one Of the released chaPlains OF the Union
army-Father O'Hsgan. That report says, as the
resuit of free and full intercourse with al Glasses
at Richmond, that "they boas, that they can IN .
far less public manner, call to te support OF 'neif
canitsI from i've hundred thousand to six hundred
thousand men As yet, their drafts upon the souin.
rn militia have been restricted 10 soldiers unaef
thirty Ave wears Of are. They will now, II neces
-sary fand they speak In the mosf indifferent man.
ner shout the nscessityo draft or cali INTO ine hsia
men between the ages Of thirty.iive and MY
This boast Of the rebels u, of course, eAssss
rated Six, or five hundred th0nsand msh, are mol
% easily 10 be improvised by the South. The I'm
different manner" II assumed, net real But fhe
rrsi Il that the South have lad. hitherto all the
man that could be effectively uBed. and that the
nonpiy e very fer from exhausted. Meantime, hoae
No. the Ti1ses know that with ATTY Thousand
mora saIdiersr .HcCtsllan conld have taken Rich'
mondf How does The !iaes think y knows tGa.
1ith ..thst number Of additional troops today nc
srs,n hrine the campaign In Virginia 70 9 speedy
80 s'A .rs.mnhanf sn8T Wouid ''6fty thousand
racee soadIcrg' addsd 10 the decipated leei0ns on
~ Iannes river make thA4 army e4A11 In numosl
q - entrnrch1d md ds6ant foe thAts dstsrmined
to hoad Hiehnond 81 dief Whist trash, then, 9
~ ~. Is ~ tAat Aty thoasand os one nnnasss
tharsas1 rsere e H. A6n troops esuid .osin9 g.
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