New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-07
The Richmond Dispatch on the Object 81
Gen. Lee Great Expeciations--T hey
Have Ne Idea that there was 70 be
Punishment for Invading the NORTH
The Posoufnc Army TO be Ragged.
From the kichmoud Di'pstch, Juiy


GEN. LEES OBJECTS.
We had thought that The Ner- York Times and
TRIBUNE and The Philadelphia Inquirer, had ems
crossed all the military talent OF the press. Ii is moi
so. however, ~ will be seen by the editorial which
we repubish this morning from The Nsw. YorA
World. These newspaper Generals certainly know
great deal more than the Generals in the field and
we cannot imagine why Lincoln does not dismiss
Hooker and put one of them the head OF his army
One thing, however, The World has guessed, az
we suspect rightly IN the present Instance. IL II,
that Gen. Lee intends something much more serioua
than mere incursion into Pennsylvania. Ihe pow'
erful force lie has with him, the skill with which be
unanswered to deceive Hooker and cross the Poto.
mac without molestation the Immense stores WHICH
he has already collected, or Is still collecting all n'
dictate an enterprise Of u serious character.
What it may be, We have no more means o.
sscertaining than The World itself, and should We
we set into guessing like that paper perhaps We
should mics the marx as far as it has probably done
We cannot, in the meantime, avoid smiling when
We read tie imagined contingencies, III Which
Hooker may get the better Of Lee, and perhaps.
"bag his army" We can only say, If Hooker can
bag Lee lie Is welcome TO him; but we should nos
DO surprised TO hear that LIE mad bagged Hooker.
Throughout the whole Confederacy the LigheH
degree OF confidence 10 felt in Gen. Lee. lie Peo
pie feel confident that he Is bent upon some enter
prise which will lave a most important bearing
upon the Issue Of The war. They feel assured thaS
so cautious 80 sagaclous 80 careful OF tue lives Of
his men, will not undertake any enterprise Of great
magnitude III which he does not see very bright
pros pect of success. They, therefore await toe
issue Of this expedition in colin and hopeful spirit
confident that II no great result be accomplished,
leaet NO great harm will be done.
In the meantime the spectacle which Is presenting
itself on the other side Of the Potomac shond strike
the souls OF all croakers with shame. The whole
population is in al agony OF terror. flying before
our legons, submitting ~ they advance. ALREADY
they begin to reckon up their sinsto remember ihe
smoking ruins Of the towns their soldiers have bufn
in the South-to call to mind the pumberless iamF
lies reduced to beggary by the inhuman baroaritiee
of their merciless Government. They begin F"
think these things, aud the thought drives toes
to despair. "ls there to be retaliation, they aSks
"ior all these enormities II there Is, then are w
lost forever" -,
How different was it two years ago, when We
whole North was pouring forth its iegions LOT 'ns
subjugation Of the South, when vii the clues OF
MARYLAND and Pennsy vsnia were filled with troops
raging for the spoils Of Richmond, when to douoe
that success was certain to incur the penalty OF
treasoni Now these very Rebels whom they were
cent to exterminste, after having beaten them n
inuumeratls battles upon the Southern soil, hAve
turned the tables upon thsm and are rioting 10 the
unbounded abundance of the Pennsylvania Valley.
Tho South is for time at least. relieved, and ths
North 10 bearing the whole burden OF the war.
Who would have dreamed Of such change i've
years asof