The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-27

The Yankee prwsrapcr correspondents who re-
company the Grand Army are by no means the
mos, nsignfean, part Of the complicated machine
nv employed for The overthrow Of Southern indie
rendcncc II the Northern public and the outside
world were dependent upon the official dispatches
Ut their Generals for the scenes and incidents Of
The invasion, Il would vote the whole thing an In.
euIerable bore and refuse any further supplies.
The Generals give professional reports merely,
and though the dryness Of such productions is re-
1ev~d in their case by fertility Of invention pccu
liar TO their race, the filing np Of tho outlines the
grouping and coloring Is we'll creation Of facts,
are the peculiar province Of the newspaper CORES
,,smucuss vvrpn esen caSoi,itru. ~-asred them 10
be expelled from the army. he showed his miserable
jealousy of genius for MunchaMscnism superior
even to his own. To find his most mendacioss re.
ports transcribed by the exaggerations of news
paper letter was more than he could bear
'Dus for example. when he declared that IL the hat
tie Of Chick aheminv had begun two hours earlier
he would have been in Richmond by night, he might
naturally have cliciia,ed himself upon the produc
ton Of a lie which the invention of Gulver would
despair Of rivalling And yet, scarcely had he time
10 fat,er himself upon this unapproachable achieve
anen,, before letter appeared in Of tho North
ern newspapers, in which the writer declared that
the rebel troops were actually chased into Rich
anond at the point Of the hayonet! How Mcclellan
must have blushed and sickened at seeing himself
thus beaten at the only weapons by which he has
distinguished himself during this whole war! Why
had he never thought OF rounding Off his dispatch
with that most beautiful and transcendent fiction
No wonder tina. lac raves at the sight of "a newspa-
yer correspondent like mad dog at the sight oi
water.
But Mcclellan should remember that every mar
has his trade and that one will think the less Of
him for being surpassed In branch of art to which
he was not educated, by those who have made it the
study and business of their lives Mcclellan was
drained at West Point, where his associates were
generally men Of chivalry, who regard truth as
virtue History teaches us that in the early times
truth was always the attribute Of hero, and ii re
manned a principle of honor amcag soldiers wher
Mcclellan was at West Point. Hence, it is obvious
that he could not be expected to enter ne lists
fiction with Yankee newspaper correspondents ant
come off the victor. These men have been edu
Gated from their childhood to the art and nyster,
Ut manufacturing lies vocation which is now re
garded and honored by all intelligent and depravet
Yankees as one Of the fine arts. To take NAKED
lie and give il the shape and colorins Of TRUTH o.
10 produce a composite creation of truth and false
hood to be In effect entire aud unmitgatet
lie and yet have such proportions and air OF reality
Ss to impose upon the unwary. regarded q.
achievements worthy to take rank with the pro
ductions of Canova and Raphael 1t is the highes,
ambition OF the votaries of this art to make theil
work resemble nature much as possible. We
may depend upon it that bungling member Of
the profession has been sent by tho Northern
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None but the very elite Of the worlds liars meu
who would despise themselves if they had ever
oreathed q truthful breath, men who would manu-
facture the largest amount of fslsehood ont Of the
smallest material of fact would be permitted to ac
company an expedition in which everything de.
pended on magnnying numbers, undertaking enc
mics, msrepresenting public opinion, and deceiving
the whole world Justice compels us to admit that
the newspaper correspondents of the North have
fully warranted the confidence reposed in them by
Their employers. 1t is impossible that could be
more fertile. interruptions, audacous and defiant OF
truth and honor than these.thoroughbrcd liars art
lists, who have reused the jealousy of Mcclellan
who considering the disadvantages Of an education
among gentlemen, had proved himself no mean
proficient i'm har