The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-03

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The following IS lse ftoa Hon
VIM. G. Riyes to Mr. A Deane. 3
Lynchburg. II will bs sead with th
deepest interest;
Mr DEAR SIR: lewn hQm you vif]
great regret, that some 0f car fellow.cifl
zeals are good deal disconE>ged by recen
events in our military operasion5, while "a,
yonnelf, am glad to sea. retain your sccaa
we not, IN some degree, The spoilesf eA;tlre,
OF that marvellous good fortune, which, b,
the gracious providence 0f God, has, Tor III
most part, attended us si,icc the commence
/ lnent OF this gigantic conflict Aud hat,
not our very successes, lcng continued :,
they have been, nnsfruBGfOnf minds for th,
tiisripiineof those occaslbnal reverses .whicl
none can hope. to escape slnjd the insxorabi,
vicisslfudes Of war;
When We recollect, not merely the dis
parity Of numbers aud material wealth he
tween us and our adversasIe1. bat that The,
were IN possession of the whole army ar
navy OF the United Sfate6s the creation ID
the Joint efforts and contributions OF fh1
entlre Union for. perf9d Of seyenty-o -oIi
years that all those baSk1e8 Of manu6ac
turing industry, most essential to the os,era
lions OF war, had. becnsla3 fablished an
10 fail activity with them Anl that 81 IS.
same time they had he.aivantage Of al opeY
ana unrestricted intercourse with flle rest o.
lhe world to supply any deficikncy which
might exist in their resources: while. at ti,.
commencement Of the war, We had moi !
snip or soldier, were without the mum
lions oi war, or amy existing establishment
tof furnishing them, even to percussion
caps, and cut OFF from all foreign supplies
Dy the blockade Of our whole coast-the OK.
tent and magnitude OF what we have accom.
pllshed OHght to be matter Of grateful as
fOnishment to ourselves, as it is of specia,
wonder to the other nations of the earth.-
with ail these odds against us, what a long
and dazzling roll Of victories have we fur,
nlshed for the pen of the future historian
of the war!
Virginia, embracing the seat of Govern.
ment OF che Confederacy, has been the select.
cd OBJECT against which the most formidable
ana imposing enterprises of the enemy have
been directed. How "lame and impotent"
the conclusion of all these. vaunted expedi-
tions, so often and SO pompously gotten up,
for the capture OF Richmond and tue subiu-
CATION OF Virginia, let Bethel, Manassas.
Leesburg, in the. first year Of the war-tlie
plains OF Williamsburg, the bloody pane
rama of battle fields around the beleagured
capital, the blaze of successive victories with
which Jackson lighted upr the Valley of the
from iIarper's Ferry to Port Re
pnDilc, Cedar Mountain, Manassas again, the
closing and overwhelming discontinue ut
in the second year. of the
war, and the grand rout, after four days con.
tMuous conflict, of Charlottesville and Ma
rye's Heights, in the present year, followed
oy the enemy's third expulsion from the Val
ley-iet those memorable fields, with their
solemn and truthful voices, tell.
During this period, too, the army of North
eEn virginia. under its illustrious leader,
liade TWO bold and successful incursions in
TO tue encmy's territory; levied contribu-
llons upon 1t; gave battle to his concentrated
leglohs on his own soil, crippliug and in
netting heavy losses upon him; and then re-
turned ut leisure to resume its attitude of
calm defiance andproud invincibility at home.
such is general outline of the ehistory of
The war on the Atlantic side of the Confede-
Iacy. outskirts and fragmentary portions
Of territory have, in some INSTANCES, beer.-
temporarily and reluctantly abandoned 70
The enemy, as not justifying the attempt to
defend them at the risk Of the central and
more important portions; but inno case has
The heart or grand interior Of tisSterritory
been yet penetrated.
In the Valley of the Mississippi the course
of events has been more chequered by alter
nate good and bad fortune. Springfield, Co
lumbns, Shiloh, and even Murfreesboro',
were noble successes for us. Fort DoneH
sop, Corinth, New Orleans, recall the re-
membrance of sad disasters; and to these
has been recently added the loss Of Vieks
burg and Port Hudson. ! have no dsposi-
ton to extenuate the gravity of any of these
disasters. But looking at them in their very
worst aspect, there is nothing in any or all
of them to give rise to a feeling of despond-
ency. The enemy is rs far as ever from the
great object he had in view-the free and un-
lnolcste1 navigation of the Mississippi for
purposes. Its banks are still
accessible for hundreds Of miles, within our
to our sharpshoOters and movable
batteries, that can and will prevent the use
OF the river by trading vessels, and etiectu-
ally interdict it to all practical commerce
The inhabitants Of the country are more
than ever by the ontrages Of the enc
my, and redoubled efforts will be made to
render his local success bootless TO him.
We have two powerful and noble -armies'un-
der Johnston and Bragg on the eastern side
of The river, which are strengthened daily
both by the Confederate cOnscripiion and by
The jealous cooperation Of the adjacent
State Governments; while on the western
side of the river are the enterprising and in
iiomitable commands of Price, of Kirby
Smith, OF Taylor, and of Magruder, to strike
wherever the enemy may present himself.
When this situation is compared With the
many unavoidable reyesses and endless diff
culties which our brave ancestors had to en-
and SO glorio,lsly surmounted, IN
their struggle for Independence, who does
not feel his spirit febuked at the slightest
thought of discOuragement under our pres
ent circumstances Recollect the condition
of Washington in thesecond year of the war
Of the Revolution, when, after successive
and severe disasters on Long Island, at New
York, at White Plains, and the loss Of Fort
Washington, on the Hudson, with its garri-
son, he was compelled to retreat through the
Jerseys, "pushed," to use his own EXPIRES
siye language, ''from place to place, till We
wefe obliged to cross the Delaware with less
than three thousand men fit for duty, !" and
the reluctant confession was extorted from
his firm and manly breast that unless "a new
army can be speedily recruited the game Is
pretty nearly up''-eyen in this extremity
there was no despondency, no discourage
ment. The pressure and magnitude OF the
dangers only supplied new energies OF ac'
ton, and stimulated to redOutled. excrtiOii,
and in few days the brilliant achievements
of Trenton and Princeton redressed the bal
ance Of victory.
In every period of the revolutionary con-
test a large portion OF our territory was
overrun antFoccnpiei BY the enemy In the
South, Greene was compelled to retire be.
fore Cornwallis, as Washington had done L.-
fore the Howes in the North. Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia. each and
all of them, east Of the Blue Mountains
were oyerrun fer atime by the armies of the
enemy. while all the chief cities in the North
and in the South-BostOn, Newport, New
York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Norfolk, vii
minpton. Charleston, and Savannah-were
all, for longer or shorter period, in his pos
session. But If the country was oyerrui, the
hearts of the people were. not oyerawed.- :
With them and their trusted servants, whe