Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-06
Times Sacrificed.
,pr,w the London Star, 2lst,

-, ,rodnlous Britons by whom the
uoHo ,n'agarded As an mtallible oracle
xl"1mS ,hot relates to the American war,
q" have found their faith soreIy Tried
,.rIay The Times mas been showing
, ,vssks back that Lee must overwheIm
VS. r"sisranoe, aud march upon Wash
~ and Lee has been himself over
~" ,Dd and is marching quite the other
PEN be Times had been proving for |
~, ,h hack that Vlcksburg was abso-
!, i Ir imnreguable, and behold, Weeks
m'ey , 49,. surrendered. The great lead
y ,nrnal,n an some of the papers
W 5o their small best to follow its
~ w. wore nut to sad shifts yesterday TO
imam decent show of composure and
;s,en,y. One or tNo OF the latter
nne1 ,6e clumsy and dull aruhce Of
';n, not to believe the news at all
,b,s sort of trck was too open, gross
naInable for the Times, Therefore,
: Estimating the effect Of the recent events
-adonlel a char 'ctarlsuc mode OF break
ts own fall. IT ignored, or almost
;seored the capture of Vicksburg, which
4,I,ncsd at AS AN event scarcely worth
mqnuunmg, and II argued that "whether
A. second south RI INVASION is to be re-
~rded as failure depends entirely on
q purpose with winch 1t was undertake
10 be sure Lee may have Invaded
,,relv for the purpose of being driven
K. and IN this hight hi, repuise ought,
oubt. tobe regarded as a confederate
tory. Indeed, the gentleman who tel
,,raps 10 the Times ITS special express
fom New YorN brwely assumes tins
ront of view, for he suggests that ten
lee never lntende 20 make the action at
Getlvsburg decisive victory tor his own
sde and, Of course, the failure was part
a his plan. The leading article sug-
eests that the whole expedition may have
been only a gigantic raid, and that Lee
having made a " calculation, IN winch the
material advantage to be gained was bal
anced bv a possible loss IN the process,
was quite content 10 be driven out so long
as he couldararry OF good store OF plan-
der in his flight. Rather than acEho"l-
edoe even Indirectly its own blunders and
blindness, the Times prefers to degrade
Tits pet hero into southern Rob 10y
But this ingenious fiction Of the runaway
raid does not serve. The very day be
fore ten. Lees defeat the Richmond I'm
1ulrer declared that "Oae thing, however
splain-Gen. Lees movements are dl
rerted, not to indiscrmInate plumber ant
devastation, but TO the winning OF veto
nv" Lees fame, such as II Is, mus. u
ruuad from the disgrace which his Lon
d5n adulator would now, 10 save ITS o."
credit, heap upon him. Tie came not
smereIy rob, but 30 conquer; he dld h
best 10 win, and, having been defeated, d
BIT east acknowledges the de eat "u
leaves the field to the vlctors.
Ell N,,biro copId he more surprisluglo r;
.;o,,.I EToI;shrap tnqn the manner
',,bi,.h tho Tr,mas and some one or tV
o,har ;ournals bav. ON iaavnred 10 delud
u the n1bGr of ENGLAND regarding the char
acter the objects and the events of tn
war hov who bbndlv look the leade,
ami the CORRESPONDENT, Of the Tunes Il
gosnaj must have behaved three DAYS a.
That the Federal STATE, were literally pTo
trs1a md defenceIas, nj the feet IF An or
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