The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-05-15
,n,n.y MORNING. MAYl5, 1863.


ahs summer campaign has begun auspicious
3, sar tss Southern Confedetacy. The hsttles
,,a Hgi1eyHcss and Fredericksburg (,ha
md bave added largely 10 the renown Of
=. cans Of the South rs a wSrlike and resoiu,e
.,,e determined to.be free. The bold cav.
aI,y raid under Stoneman is more than off
.;.a nv that under Jones and Imboden -
s.o,eman did very little injary TO the rail.
IDS and none TO the canal. He burned some
,.;ases .ranning the caaaI, and very sub
..,,.sI ore at Elk Island builtby Mr. Ran
,.9loh Harrison; but these were all Tor the ac-
~s,na,odsiion Of neighborhood communities
qhs transportation along the canal is nos at all
;n,euup.ed by anything the raiders did These
t.,ts illus, rate the wsnton and ruthless spirit
= opr invaders Driven by Fitzhugh Leo
from Columbia, where their msin feat of dia
liam was to have been performed, they a,
,aek AID destroy Ike Little neighborhood
b,;,sss. initiating the mastiif, who, kicked out
f he kitchen, falls rpon the fist innocent
6oek tba: ia in his way.
I'm tbs other hand, Jones and Imboden have
,.,uraed 50 fely with GOO prisoners and several
,.oosani horses and>cat,le, after having sc.
,;,..ly injured the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
,osd snd the Chesapeake and OHIO Caaal.-
they moreover, penetrated into Maryland
and Pennsylvania, exciting the widest alarm
Ia, our men should imi, ate the vaudslism N OF
he Yankees in the'r invasion CT the South -
Their raid will certainly offset S.oaeman g.
The merit of raid consists in rs destructive.
,ess snd that Of our raid makers having done
more iuiurv than t5at of,he Yankees, OF course
). ia the better raid of the two.
The summer, we repeat, begins auapiciously
far our arms in Virginia. What IL we loose a
e,od ami great man and soma of our best
t-oops-it WAS the will of Proviasnce -
They paIished, if they did perish, worthily as
,bey wished, in tteir eountry's cause, au1idsl
the shouts Of triumph. Bat they perished not
their spirit and example live, and we know
that the cause which made stnh Heroes will
eop.iaue to vindicate itself to the day Of final
deiyeTanee
Ia the Southwes. the combined aquatic aud
laudfshts hsve been all gloriously il our favor.
Ia the skirmishipg and maneuvring on the land
,bsrs is merely the premoDi.oTy Of greater cen
ajcts and immineat events that are TO follow
81, in most of these We have had ths advan.
,age and they display the maintenance CT the
Ligh courage aid eonstancy Of the soldier Of
tie S)rth, which in the battlefield have made
him tqlal to the immense cdds brought against
him. The grea. achievements III Virginia will
e5eer up the Southern heart, and we hop. and
bsleve will be initiated in the Southwest by
deeds alike honorable to our fame and strength
eling to Gu cause
TIE midsummer sau will soon be upon the
S.u:h and what the enemy does he rns. do
c .ckiy. Faithfully coufding in our msa and
tal cause, ws caanct believe that the enemy
is destined 10 goin any material advsntaSes,
near or remote. If we foil him, however
Southern gun aud the Southern malaria, which
vii be equal to a large army against him,
while at home ne mEst @ustain the damaging
c0ase q7ences Of retarded advance aod
Ios,ponsd suti lgation Of the South. TIE ele-
Esas Of dissatis action ard 6isaord will be
p5wariai IN marriDs the sehames Of the Wash-
II ron daspotism in proportion to tie iirmness
and Success with which We rapalsa its armies
IN The South
This is he conclusion TO which We must al
way1e0me. After all, it is alone upon cur
own courage and fidelity that we Can rely
Discori al the home of the invader-ayeTsion
% hin amongst civilized people abrcai-can
saly be made active and efficient for his dig
c'mti.ure by our own undying and unfiagsing
devotion TO our beloved country. Thank Gcd!
We have the men who can exhibit those yir-
Iasa IN their nob,est form.