The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-09-08

Va have rar~ly ever aern reason 20 W.
ea.,tsa % military operations ~ The present. Tae
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A,s,aaN n 4 psithse TOO hot nor too eoid oos "a
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A..sa That cor leaders will take advansase o. "
:. $1,000. our late victories, We do not Doubt
-. mare than once had occaaiou to observe
49,. a.r,Amher and October have been favorise
no,sAs IN American military annals IN W "'''
ravoavsicu, the operations that ensured 'ne cap,
,nr, Of Duryoyns and his army were begun IN sep
s.unb,r The two bAstlee which crippled his FORCE
vsrs fought On the Sth and lsth OF that MONTH and
on the nth Of October he surreudersd al Saratoga
waGAipssaa performed the long march which
broushs him ftcn The banks Of the Hudson 70 those
az The York In September and October. and cap
,srsA Cornwallis and hh whole army on the is'n
AZ ()stober. The battle Of Hrandywine was fought
an he 18th Of September, and on this very day
fs,h sspsembsr) Green fought the desperate battle
az Yu,av. In the war Of 1872 the battles Of Lakes
Erie end CAamplain were fought In September
,hs one Sept 10Th, 1919. the other Sept nsh, 1914
both On Sunday Brown made his famous SORTS
from Lake Erie on the I'd September. 1914. On the
,ash AZ The sams month the British army was re
pulusd In its advance upon BALTIMORE and the next
A,v The bomosrdment of Fort AcHenry took place
On the eth of September, le47, our troops gained
v,csorv IN front Of Mexico, and on the Ian, u .
anniversary of the entry Of Jerusalem by Titus
and Of the entry Of Moscow by Napo!eon,l they
.ook possession Of the city. II Is worthy OF I,
mark that the allies landed in the Criues on the
IAN September, 1854, and one year after, on the
9th Of September, carried Ssbastopol BY storm
~ ~ L~nv> hasa mil
In their mind while they are preparing to add ne
trophies to those of which the montt OF September
- already crowned OF all the events TO which we
haye alluded, that Of the capture of Jerusalem was
Of course the most important. 1t effected the en-
tire over. brow Of people which God himself nad
selected Of Gil Others TO be the repository OF bis
law. end to whom, Of all others, he had chosen to
reveal himself - the God Of the Universe. II had
besu foretold sixteen hundred years before BY the
grsat Jewish lawgiver, in terms 80 exact that h:s
words read more like history than prophecy. The
Saviour of mankind himself had announced the
contamination az near at hand, not more than forty
wears before 1t WAS intimately connected with
the proofs which establish the truth of Revolution
and therefore affected the eternal welfare ct man.
kind The entry into Moscow was also Of great
sisniacance. 1t was the beginning Of the end, SO
far q the fortunes Of Napoleon were concerned
But should army push its successes so far as to
enter Washing ton on the 18th. I. will have accom-
plished feat of far more memorable Significance
than any other of the events enumerated save only
TN capture of jerusalem. 1t VIII have put the
Anishing stroke to the boosted Union, thst fabric
reared by our fathers in good faith, as temple OF
freedom, and converted By Yankee rascalty into a
den Of robbers. We confess TO slight touch Of
sapsrssition-s very slight touch indeed. We make
,hs acknowledgment because We believe sn men
how anxiousiy soaver they may strive TO conceal
n-have more or less of the same weakness. We
almost believe In lucky days. and have very strong
propensity to put faith in condolences. We VIII
not say our troops will enter Washington On the
1Ath but If they should do q" would it not BE
curiouaf