The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-08-26
n Csvnine Aat1Mn ana Winter.


IA oinser who como down In the same train with
the prisoners last Saturday, and who converted
ftvsay wftA them and with those taken Al Cedar
RIA ays ,Asy vesy ssnsrally expesssed this ore
oo>naen with regard 10 tAe var: They did not ex'
mlnsA 70 rula the country aud to compel the inhab
tsantA by the strong argument Of absolute starva
ton, 70 rsaNrn 10 the Union. rhiA they meant to
do BY continual incuratons--by the destruction o
Aossss-by the ruin Of crops-by the deportation
al aserses--by the plumber Of cattle. horses hog,
and every living thing on The plantation That
THE b he system determined upon BY niger powers
thaa sAeee soldier. Ne do not doubt The whole
country On both sides Of tho Jamcs, the Rappahan
neck aaA the Potomac, a. far up a. Richmond on
he rst.named river, and - the mountains on the
osAsss, hss bssu reduced to . desert. man may
travel for miles 10 any direction without meeting or
ovsstskins human being. The houses along the
roea sr, q silent - death. The inhabitants have
asa: he Enclosures ars ali broken down; the win.
Aows ~ doors ere STAYED In; the very 'abomna'
ton Of Oscillation sits brooding in silence the
lanA Such are the fruits of the defensive policy
80 called. We presume. because It defends moth.
iae,as grove wa called Gin Latp) "laems" because
IL light could not penetrate II. Such, We say are
IL .iss Of this policy, which 1t would be IN abuse
q salogy 70 call internal" We have a long line
81 foasisr the land, which It 10 impossbcto de-
fsnA We have still longer seaboard. with scarcely
vessel Our enemy has men enough on land and
several hundred vessels aaoat Uader these circum'
stances. We have been called upon to stand BY the
defensive policy.
From al iuaica tons this policy is to be persisted
"a. Uuder the stimulus Of overwhelming terror
our Congress pa ssed Conscripticn law, and it
savsa the country. They then dispersed to parts
uakpown. and left the country to take care OF itself
The immediate danger il over They have re assem-
hlsd. and the first ehor; Of the session is directed
70 the undoing Of all that the CONSUMPTION has
done The President tells liz, in substance, that we
do not want any more men Gen. Foote introduces
bill to upset the Con scrip,ion law, and the mem.
hsrs spending the precious time that should be
spent in preparing to meet the emergency which Il
most assuredly approaching, in idle talk. We only
hspe they may not find out, in the next sixty days:
that they have mo more business before 'hen.'
and "skedaddle," as they did last spring, leaving
the capital Of the Confederacy in danger second
time from an Eruption Of The Northern barbariars
History is repeating itself after An interval of only
. single year. We sre about TO reeaac, tie scenes
of the post Manassas era. Lincoln is rapidly rails.
ing his 600 900 men besides building feet OF Merr
macs and Monitors. We are laughing at him a, we
were last year, and indulging ourselves in the de
fusion that the will not be Forthcoming. In
six weeks the frost will be here and upon the back
Of it, nothing is more probable than that we slai
have the Tank ees once more. To suppose. ATE
the experience Of last year, that the toooU0 Yam
KEGS will not be forthcoming is TO indulge in
dream, which it were gross fattery to the dreamer
to stgnatiss as Authorization. 1t is some thing even
beyond natuation. II Is absolute, unalloyed, papa-
bic idiocy. If those who indulge in it ha alone 20
suffer we should not feel disposed to arouse them
We should be rather pleased than otherwise TO Sea
them pay the penalty Of their folly. But, unfor
tunately, is as true now a. ii has ever beeD that
when rulers turn fools the pespIr suffer for it.
1t il true we have need of more TO day, |
and may no, have to morrow. But will any man
undertake to say what We may want month |
heness The Northern papers TEEN with accounts
Of the successful progress OF the system instituted
for raising men. New regiments ere pouring into
Washington. The draft is prosecuted throughout
Yankeedom with unsparng viger. Our soil is still
occupied by the destroying hos, Of the enemy. Are
We never to make An effort to transfer the to
the territories of the enemy3 Is this defensive
war; to be perssvered in until not enc blade of
grass be lef; in tho whole country II we expect
ever to end it, we must invade the enemy S
country. and make him feel the evils be is nfeting
ON u At present he feels comparatively little of
ifs pressure. He il snug at home and sends on. his
msrauders to plumber ID. If be be beaten, he has
only to retire for awhile until he can recruit lie
need not fear for his own home He has nothing
to think Of but how he shall best annoy us. We
had hoped that, after our late great Successes
should have put an end to this system by invading
the enemy But it seems our hopes are vain
We are to have no more men for the present. The
wretched system of feeding the war by piece-meal
is to be kept up Our rulers will never learn that
half q million Of men now are better than a million
year from this time. 1t is dsheartening but there
h no help for it.