Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-11-12

azcW 20 set q Eercs
From he New York Hefsa, October Is
1t does not sppegr that the army Of the Po
tomsc is any nearer Richmond now than Il va,
befere the battle at BTistoe station. All com
( rlEndsrs Of TIA; army find he roads leading q
/ sA9 rebel capital By way of Ffederickeburg OF
! CuipepeT hard ones foT a. army 10 iEaEel over
ki2bmsud is not, ia sur oDinien, as We hav,
! hitherto declared IN these columns, q Peint o.
! sny ctacT thsn moral inpoFlauea in this war
/ S,gateFioally eansidsyod, its possession would
give us ne equivalent foT the labor asd life thet
I rs esPiure would cest Bat the authorities Of
/ tie War Department are not Of this opini0D; fol
/ fTo campaigns made against that city must be
Z accepted rs very pesisIve expression of their
/ desire 10 capture it. Since the GoverRmsnt de-
siTss 90 intensely ths capture Of that city, why
( isis net taken now, when the rebeisn Is sbsO-
Utely forc5d to c0ueeEtTate its armies a. another
! Poiag aud uncover that eityi E0Dgstreet, with
one entire third of Lees army, went to Georgia
sbout 8 Henth ago, and wo may sOea learn OF
a further depletion of Less army.
Gen. Lse recently advanced from the Rs2idan
10 near Ceuierynle-sxperimslt Had be
been resisted there would have bsen no battle
and no more Of his advance; bat, not resisted,
lo was able to effect considerable dsmege to the
EsiGoad, upon theiiue Of when our army must
operate as it again advances. he counts that
that damage cannot be repaired N less than
twenty or thirty days, and he has gained so
mach time With nc force at all, De hss Tsp-
dercd It Impossible that Meade shsUld strike him
within SO many days: Before those days sI-
piEs L0ugsGeet viii return, or Les will resort to
some ether equsty good dodge. And, while al
this shows 20 TARspsseaty the deienseiessness
Of Richmond ct the present time, we hear Of 10
active operations against it. Is R.chmeHi
wlTth less now than ii was whsn Pope, Burn
eide and Hooker, between them, sacrificed forty
eight thouasad men to gstit7
Evidently The TeA59n is not becsuse i would
BE- less PLEASANT 20 capluys Richmond now tlsa
then, But becsUss the G0vercmsnt has finally
seen ths h0pelessasEs Of an GdFaHee against
Richmond BY is tzvorite ruuto, and viii n0t,
-trcugh a slabboTn pride, Try the other way.
Pope ed the army # YJginis 10 90 10 Rsh.
'Rona by tie royal read, upon which the Wa
Department smiled is sppro7aL Burnside had
-hs amy OF tho Pssonsc for The same purpose, I
and ieT the same purpose Hooker had ''the bssG
army on the planet" Bsfa.e the close Of that
cswpaign whick Pope began, We had lost in the !
Er2is5 OF Virginia aud the POtomse fgliy thirty
igsasHna men. Burnside lost ia killed ard disa- !
bIed ten Thousand nan. Ard ia the sBbsag gEUUt |
csmPhigns On the same line We have loss, E05 |
merely n killed and wounded, hBt in kii.6d ana |
oIsEblgd, fully thirty thousand more Gnder the |
respective commands of Hooker aud Meade |
1I-A ti-ASG tAtAh tll las D1G4 lHE
The G07eTuDent's persistence in the advance /
against Richmond by its fsyorits rOu.s. Sach /
is the price that it costs ths c0un ~ for Gensia a
Hslleek 20 "stake HE military reputation" that l
tho overland route to Richmond is !he Oaly fes- |
sible enc.
Gen. Hslleck's military reputationl Nov We /
are aot Of The number Of these happy mindsd 1
persons who consider that n heavy stake, per Sc;
yet is stake that the nation Hlsy rue. Does
the cOuatIy know what it means when Gauersl /
Sel eek "stske5 his military Tsputslien on the
Overland roats7" Il means that thsre Is no 9th
eT way to the rebel capital Il means that if q
million mea viii be killed in that triangle be-
tween the Rapidaa and lhe RsppshsHueck il
the atssl13t = do what ten Thousand might east
.y % on be peninsula, the million must die. L
.uss avs that Gzn. Haileck il ccg8mttsd against
he peniusu.s route, and that BE- has made the
success cf th3 ether route a de5lion Of pride,
u ve- to b. riyer up while the 6aT !zs,s, what
ever It I-lsy cost the couutry.
Yet, EIth Ell the irimeRss anSe Obvious sdVsa-
s-e5 t.aG tha peninsula route sl lis worst had
10 -bc c.hsr J. presents a. the present Hms >
-Ec1cs Of SUCCESS tbEt II Old net present p laE
red iE 1862. Gsasrsl 5icCiellaI.'s peHinsais
C, p-iZH failed principally through causes tb4l
eoCil us5 possibly operate now. lt was lost al
attendance ca tbe Navy Department., and
though a h-ai necessity to E2aErsn2e the whole
3lsn Of the c-HpEigE, II consequence Ct the
tGiiUgs Of 4Aa Secretary OF The Navy 20 do Eyhst
zas expected Of him. Ali th85 could be done
b. Fer 81 Yorktown than higher up the country
Had the EaIrinac been so attended TO that tdo
yuE1Os.s could have gone up james river, tina.
river H5uid have baGR, IS CODtemplated IN the
''iyiEal plan, the iiEe Of our advance. AL tie
iEe Of f0rtfcsti0ua that began at Richmond
and stretched scrcss the peninsula, would bsvs
been Eufued upon the day Of iAe army's auival,
-ni We should have gcne on At oDes, reached
chmoad asgly in April, aEd doubtless have
taken it theR Bat GdeoB didn't have MS
.'lampi" Consequently didn't see lis part Of the
Arrangement; and General Mcclellan, hs7iRg
waited proper time fox Gideon, had to change
the river, as tho country knows.
New, bowevoT, there is no HerTimse at Nor
tclk, and shat route is open 70 Redmond which
The simplest consideration Of strategy and lCEis-
lcs viii coBvince any reasonable creature is sB-
BsriOT 10 every ether It vas lost, TOO, after this
officially was partially gel;en over, by the IL
eIieraEce ctthe War Department ID preventing
he junction Of AcD0weWs forces, snd the rs
asai 10 send AcClellaa rsinfoTesmeRis. TWsHty
housERd men sent to HarrissH's landing, when
Mcclellan Was within sight OF RiehmCnl, woald
ave saved iha hundred thousand which have
isee been sacrificed il TIE hsig dozen stts8pts
n the overland reuss. But Governments are
,ot rsRgcnabls creatures, and Gan Hsllock has
taxed BIS military reputation On ths success or
hs latter rOu,e, and re suppose we must theIe-
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