The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-28
CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
Bf 4RO. FITZHU aH.

~. Editor: We are preparing for be BOWS
Reoiew another essay on the "ConducA Of the
War" That Rtpiew appears hut once a
month, and hen ce, any suggestions we ma he
might, by delay, be robbed of their useful
ness. We have heretofore, and shall con.
tinue hereafter, to ask of you to publish in
advance what we write on this subject for
that Beuiep, because the Dispatch has more
than dou bic the circulation Of any paper In
the South.
We entirely concur in the Presidents de-
fsnsAve policy. Nay, more, We think 1t has
not been carried out properly. Our troops
should withdraw gradually into the in terror,
leave our enemies to dlsperse their vast mum.
bers around a circuit Of ten thousand miles,
and destroy them in detail by attacking them
from within, with superior forces, a: many
points in their boasted anaconda circle. They
have committed fatal error in thus diffu.
| sing their forces, and If 1t were too late for
them to retrieve that error. we would rot
mention it. Never, in the history Of war.
| fare, has SO gross a strategic blunder been
committed but great as their folly is ours
will be greater If we attempt TO confront the m
| all around their anaconda circle. We must
give up unimportant points, retreat to the
! in terror, and thence sally for tn and break up
| their magic circle.
| We agree with the President in another
matter. We think that men can do nothing
| we'll that they have Eo: learned by practice
| to do whilst young. Probably we 60 further
| than the President. We are positively sure
| that no man. over fifty, can learn to do we'll
| any thing to which he has not been accus.
| toned Heretofore. We don't want stump
orators for Generals. MIR. Carlyle has writ
ten SO ably, SO eioquently, and so philosophi
| cally on this subject, in his Latter Day Pom.
phlets, in his essays on "S,ump Orators and
Parliaments," that we request that You
| will publish some extracts from those essays,
which we send you.
| Ignorant people will charge us viii a dis.
position to ftattsr tho Executive; but al
| we'll In formed people know that we have the
ear OF the South, that we have devoted our.
selves for so many years past to the defence
| Of the South, and that we sustain the Presi.
| dent onl as the most fitting an d efficient in.
/ strume ent to carry the South triumphantly
and gloriously through her present embar.
| rassments.
| TER STUMP ORATOR.
| "1t lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all
| manner OF educational and other arrange.
ments fox several centuries back. to consider
| the faculty of eloquent speech. Our earliest
schoolmasterse reach as, as the one gift OF
| culture they have, the art Of spelling and
/ pronOuneipg, the rules of correct speech
rhe tories, logics follow, Ell biime myster es OF
/ grammar, whereby We may not only speak,
| bns write. ANA onward to the last OF our
| schcclmasters In the highest university, 1t ie
| sttil tntrinsically grammar, under various
figures of grammar. To speak in va
/ rious languages, on various things, but on
all of them to speak. and appropriately de.
| liver ourselves by tongneor pen-this is the
| SO olime goal toward which all manner OF
hene!lc INT preceptors and learned professors,
from the lowest nor nbook inward, are con
tinually urging and guiding us. Preceptor
seed plot seminary, as he we'll calls IL, OF
| crop Of young human souls, watches with
attentive view one organ OF his delightful Ii t.
tie seedlings gro wing TO De nen-ths tongue
He hopes we shall san get 10 speak yet, IL /,
please Heaven. Some OF you shall be book,
| writers, esegant review writers, and a3toniOh
mankind, my young friends osners In white
neckcloths shall do sermons by Blair and
Ljndley Murray-nay, by Jeremy Taylor and
Judicious Hooker, and bs priests to guide
men henvenward by skillfuLy brandished
handkerchief and the torch Of rhetoric Fol
others there IL Parliament and the election
beer barrel, and a course that leads men very
high indeed. These shall shake the Senate
house, the morning nswspapsrs-shaks tn,
very spheres, and by dexterous wagging o
the tongue, dfscnthran ma nkiud, and lead ou
afflicted country and us on the way We ar
TO 60. The way, II not whore noble deeds ar,
done, yet where noble words are spoken lead
Ing Ms, II not to the real Home Of the Gods
| at LEI ut to something which shall more or les
deceptively resemble 1t -
"ln fact, the spiritual detriment We uncon
| sciously sufier In every province Of oar AZ
| fairs from this our PROSTATE respect 70 pove
| Of speech - incalculable. For, indeed. II !!
! the natural cousummati D OF an epoch sucl
a. ours. 0tvipga nerni inaincerity Of min
| for several e nerations, you will csrtainl,
| ind tho taiker esta blished In the place Q
honor, and the daar hidden In the obscur
crowd, with activity famed, or working sor
. row3uily forward on paths nm worthy Of hin
, Al msr are devoutly PROSTATE, Worshiy
} | plpG the rloa uent talSe5 Np0 no UaN 1Rou
(hSt 8 seegaaiess Idol 10 II, oqt q y1ol, !
ssiSs1l.e. yfnIaSly tksfs e S0t n SaSSl