Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1862-08-15
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For SIX months, -. oo
For twelve months, 80
From the English Press
Cause f the English Attacks. On McClel
Ian.
From the London Herald (Derby's organ)
July Is.
It is no longer possible to doubt that McClel
JAMS army has sustained decided defeat
Whatever lingering faith 10 the Army Of the
Potomac may have been kept alive by the am
bigunus wording of New York telegrams, there
ia now no chance of concealng the misfortune
that has befalen the Norshern invader, of
sustaining the fiction Of Northern i'll hyincibilit..
The second campaign closes did the first,
with disaster and humiliation to the Federal
arms.
Gen, Mcclellan commanded. Young and
active, great strategist on paper, severe
critic Of our Crimea blunders, with unlimited
power ut his back, the unstlnted conn.
dsace of the whole of the North to support
him. his army saluted him as if with the sure
presertment Of victory the Northern Press
could find no parallel for him save in the great
est soldier Of IA odern days, and christened
him the Young Napoleon But we venture
srn times, achieved such small results
with the magnificent material entrusted to
hm. For months few mud embankments
and quaker guns, served to keep Washington
In terror and Rhen the order Of advance was
given, the grand army Of the Potomac found
the lines Of Manassas evacuated. Mcclellan s
plans were upset. The Confederates were dis
obiging enough to insist upon choosing their
own ground for fighting. and the Yonng Ma
peleon was nonplused. But Richmond vas to
be taken somehow, and the point OF attack
changed. Suddenly the great army was brok-
en- up. and the bulk of il transported to York
town peninsula. Those who knew their man
at orce declared the Young Napoleon's chances
gone. There was some hope in the inert
strength of his undivided force; very little in
his own military skill. The events of the cam>
paign in the Yorktown peninsula have removed
all doubts about his claim to be conside cred a
great commander At Yorktown the Confed.
crates retired becanss it did not suit them to
fight at disadvantages. At Williamsburg be
lost guns and prisoners, and publicly attrib>
used the success he claimed, to the valor Of
one brigade. At West Point more guns and
more prisoners were lost, and again q timely
brigade. saved the honor of the army. Al Fair
Oaks q division was cut to peices, its guns,
camp and materials captured, and now, from
being tho assistant. McClelian's army, or all
that remained OF it, is shut up between the
ChickahoFainy and the James Rivers indebted
70 the protection Of gun boats for escape from
destruction or surrender. In one particular
only has Mcclellan succeeded in resem bling
his great Tnas4er-he has written excellent pa
rodies of his dispatches. t
From the London Times, July 12.
At the present it cannot be said that there
is any probability of the reduction Of Rich
moBd. The Cosfederates by using oil the
strength and roasing all the enthusiasm of the
country, have brought together armies in Vir-
ginia with which the Federals find it impossi.
BILE TO cope. It is impossible to refuse adnli.
ration to people which, invaded by commu-
nifty three times as numerous as itself, and de-
Il prived OF military supplies from foreign coun-
NJ tries, is yet able not only to oppose . stub
born resistance TO its enemies, but to taka the
Offensive and infct on them the most severe
defeats. The present situation of the two ar
mics is likely to give the greatest encourage,
mint 10 tks South, snd 70 raise " The highest