The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-07-12
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A esvvvspos1sns u The New York Hsraid, WHOSE
lsstsr ws rspahiishsd day o. Two slsce. tells ms
tAse Art2s,ssa'e stanpede was 10 stampede 1t all
hat n was grand strategic novemsaa mstue.ly
eoAstdessA and decided On sevsfsi days befote Il
eommrneeds thai II was exeeased with .ae greatest
dsiibsssua Ill the Ssores uunitiean a. war; wound.
-. ~, &c. having besn rr.novrs Nom tho white
nsesc aud The other hns ,A,s On the railroad seve.
raldays before hans. ~ means At the transports.
I. hardly ~cstA while 10 notice This unblushine
SaeeAcod fsrteer than to say that II Is totally
variance not only with what every man In u y
community knows to bs true. bot also with the
esae<rnsnt Of the correspondent Of the New York
1v~~. whom we take to have been the great racer,
Baymend himself--the same who made such excel
tsAt tt,ne tom thu fields Of Soferino and hull Run
a14 who, not content with the ianf already won
came here to try his speed upon the swamp lands
OF the Chickshenny. There H., nevertheless a
circumstances In this connection which Il il bsfv,Iy
prcrer TO pess unaoticed In the hrrfy of this
'Mf.tesie movement the Ysnke<s, we are told
burned the residences of Gel Lee. fthe White
Hense.) Mr. Glasgow. and Mr. Ws;kins. all n New
keut county, and al on the railroad The impress.
mon here has been thaA these houses were used As
hospitals. and that they We're destroyed to prevent
- osaacal stores which they contained, in vas,
quantities, from falling into our hands If shcse
stcres hod all been removed. then The destruction
w. - act of wan,on aud malignant barbarism
Which. Of all nations protesting TO he civilized,
could have been rerPesrnted by tho Yankees alone
The correspondent Of the Bse;:s, in its ankle y
- psllase the disaster a Mcclellan infic,s
rtoas wound upon "a. military reputation IT, with
out any pressing cause, he undertook 10 make a
aAnk march witt, army of more than one huns
sksd thousand men. in presence Of a powerful enc
my already In position, an prepared 10 attack him
The instant he commenced the i4ovenent he vie
lated fundamental principle which has never been
infFinged without disaster. Frederick the Great
attempted this mainuvre at kolin, and II nearly
cost him his crown. Wurmeer tried it at Csseiglione
aad he was driven out of Italy. Kutdsoff tried II
ct Austsrlitz, and It resulted l.. one 81 the NOR
sisnal defeats known to history. Marmonktried i,
as salamancx, and lcss hair his army by trying ii.
Mcdowell tried it ~ Manassas, and 1t came nes,
giving rs posses:ion of " ashington. To suppose
that Mcclellan would attempt II, when he wis
watched by q man whom he Is known to re-
veES as the FIRST General Of the age at the head of
in army which had proved itself more than match
for his own, and which he believed to be superior
in numbers- without any sort Of eompalsion-ist to
uAAesrate his intelligence az greatly as it was
ovefrated before he undertook this expedition.
He aoes not deserve this at the hands of
Trend or foe. The simple truth ia, that he was
compelled TO do what he did do. He was badly beat
"a, aad his retreat by his rear was cut off by the
operations Of Stonswsli jackson. He Yves sur.
prised and out generated, and he had 10 get off in
the best way he could That he 60, off at all is mi
racie and due lesswe are tcldto his own skill than
60 tho short eomiBgs Of some of our own Generals.
The works he had erected this side of the Chick
ahominy covered, we told, an extent of ground
equal 10 the area of the corporation Of Richmond.
Al tho Hoaahs and all the correspondents in the
world cannot convince any sensible man that he
would leave such works as these-within seven
miles of Richmond-to occupy position eighteen
miles further Of unless be had been compelled to
do it. These enormous works were surrounded by
m immense moat, and We're to serve as the basis
ID his operations against Richmond. He was to
creep up by inches, until he got near enough to
throw shells into the town AS for marching boldly
up and attacking the ar,uy of Gen Lee, that enter
ed not into his tactics. He hss passion for bat
lies ike Bcrodino being conscious, probably, that
his troops cannot stand before ours in the open
fjetl.