The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-08-29

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1SfnAY MOANING. AUGUST p. iecs.
- rrsssas Aspecs - he war
TAeu wAe 1aassr tlsnssaves that the Yankees
=. sasa e hssliisssA - hat NY cannot b M
49, 6 >easlnss them nscA longer, ere lahorine
r,Ass . aslaaasa Which nay prove disassrous II no.
eeal ~ Yanksss ars - rssoautsay bent upon
eousmahg ~ waf - We are upon bringing " !"
n end. 1Ais continent h - general that may
- &ssaeaaasd y universal II 10 confined 20 no
- eaass md no one party. There may % MOI
vsAual exceptions, bat hey ere scarcely numerous
snessA 70 prove he rule. The general denfe 10
svcaa he dral 10 10 proof Of the negative sac OF
~ proposatica. The hsrcsss advocates OF war
- aawuys 70 b found among those VINO wish 70
snarS nens Of its daasers Lincoln cannot, nc
worla discoutinns hostilltteA The fank"e Con.
sfsss cannot Do H. end the Yankee nation VIII nos
Ynese faess ars INSIDE apparent BY the convsrsat'on
a Nib Yankee prisoners taken Ia the Fremont
oos>tsv. Their tone H. In spite Of their reverses
~ only AsAsas bat trilmphans.y defiant. They
not enly do NOT admit that they were beaten In tie
hetlss before Richmond but claim victory IN every
sneoanter They not only do not affect 10 be tired
Of H. war bat exut IN the prospect of its indie ns
censmaanca What their programme Is we stated
The ethsr day. and this Il evidently the programme
oe thsar Government. They do not expect to sub
jugass -; that they regard Is impossible. Bit
hey desire to reduce tho country TO . wilderness
By rspsaesd incursions. They hope to compel tie
Southern States to beg 70 admission into the Union
that the Inhabitants may not perish for want os
bread They hope TO drive ont thu owners Of the
poal, ana TO settle It mp with Yankees. Many Of
them declared that such their Intention to Con-
fedscaas officers whs had interviews with them =
They azs animated by the true Goth and Vandai
nasit. They arc tiredof their own bleak and sterile
country, and they have fxed their eyes upon the
plessant places of the South They admire. en-
Enthusiastically, the magnificent Valley Of Virginia
end The glorious Piedmont region which they have
lately stripped of every green thing. They de
I'm 70 drive of the Inhabitants, never to return.
and to settle Il up with Yankees. The war Ia &c
sssums Q character resembling that Of the Pelo-
pounessiAn war, in which all Greece was desoated,
and whole cities and districts changed their nhsbi
tanta Such are the objects Of this internal war,
and thus far nothing has been done on our part 10
prevent its attainment. II is true We beat tee
enemy whenever we meet him in the field. We
rspsl him from particular sections Of country afer
he has converted them into bowling wilderness
Batthsre We stop. We sit down and rejoice and he
goss 70 work to raise new bands of plunderers
whom he may turn loose upon us once more -
There can be no other end TO such q system than
the complete depopulation of the country and It's
~ settlement by Yankees. There Is but one way
Of putting stop to IT, and that is by carrying the
war into the enenys territory.
Are We prepared for this stepa The spiri, Of
the army In high, the men are burning with rage,
they eagerly desire to avengs their rsvased coun.
try, and their outraged eouniryn.en and country
women They exut in q sense of their superb
osity, not only to the Yankees, but TO any army
that treads the earth. Their leaders sIe al men
trisd In the furnace Of repeated battles and found
wanting In no single instance. They have two
Generals whose deeds surpass those of all living
odcers. No General now alive ever tough. SO
many and such successful battles as Stoaewall
jackson. No General now alive ever conceived
and executed such vast military combinations as
Lee. with such signal success. We have. there
fore, in the army in the Generals and in the inferior
officers, every guarantee Of triumphant success 10
sny enterprise they may undertake.. But to lie
suecsssfal they must be backed by large military
force, such q does not now exist. True, il might
b. called into being. but We are told on high an
thosity that we want no more men IT present. and
Congress has been ten days wasting the precious
time, which the enemy are improving by recruiting
six hundred thousand fresh troops to pour upon
our bleeding and exhausted country. One ia en-
deavoring to overthrow the CONSUMPTION, and sub
stitute call on the Governors Of the States, tho
win be sure to send the men, if they Miak proper
and let it alone If they do not choose to do It, An
other means to test the cons:tuionsiity of the act
TO which We owe our very existence AZ people
Ike the man in the play, who would not tie his
neck handkerchief In a bow unless authorized by 3
warrant from Justice Of the Peace A third
has . scheme which be ia assured il much better
than any yet devised and fourth has another
scheme still better than this. Opinions seem to he
diverse a. the tempers and dispositions OF those
who hold them. In one thing, however they
all agree; In wasting precious time In making
speeches. in giving the enemy time to raise his
stx hundred thousand, In letting slip the oppor
tunity to transfer the from own fresides to
thsirA While they are talking, the North is ring.
Ing with preparations for the new armament Re-
cruiting il going on everywhere. One State offers
500 companies that Is e. OO0 men, and that State is
by no means the largest in the Yankee Union Of
what avail the kill Of our Generals, the valor
Of our soldiers, the spirit Of the whole Southern
population The torpor Of Manassas is upon us,
and unless the spell car be broken we may look
Forward to another winter of invasion and disaster
smother ION to Richmond" another Congressional
another discovery that members have
nothing more to do, not even to talk At the former
stampede they resembled the militia of Bladens.
burg, who, just as they were about to run, fred
volley into the British ranks hich was 80 deadly
that the oldest officers had never seen the like
Such vollsy our retrsating Congress fred on Nc
Clslan in the CONSUMPTION act. As they seem to be
preparing for fresh start we hope at least, they
viii give another such FIRE before they run off en-
tirely.
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