The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-06

NO. OK.
n"ss than bsaa Il bask. We "a ~ disalle
Y; ~ did NOS even e4ipple Il We bs0ho
down no pest Of ~ osesnis ai3op. We I'D -
even ds1stVe Il Ct any Of ~ artillery,
or sny Hpofsaot portion Of it, 1staial of
my hsl tt only leee On both oecasioas wae
. ios Of ssssn8tb; asd - this wss sepsirel
a1tsr The hA1ale Of Antisean By nsw sseesaione,
% the sene thing will qniskly fellow upon tAc
battle Of 0sstysSasg. O4hs1 armiss VIII -
dspisted, II nesd Be, 70 bring % this Old glsns
champion 70 his old strength. We nsy o vel
sss S.S !, 8 5. one e ~ - rs :se
win kesp up iss Army Of vlssi.ia 70 TIE O.
most poselhls s1esasy; ehas Il win nahe thaA
army iss forlosn hcpe, o. q always hao naAaS
~ naia bolWark; and thai On t6e taae Of thas
ssmv hangs the fAls Of the rsbsliioa.
The gravsst miSaks In osF military uanAee-
Virginia has been confronted By aa army Of
Only about the sams naGsii1is, Or, q. lease,
Of no sush prspondssAnse q was assss.
sasy.. considsring that The proper vo,e Of
the latter was attask, as6 shas Of Tie
former only defence. Az army operating
Y h..;s h,ssils ,s L. county. az.asss e > sasny
cssuarily iahoss undssssess disedsan6aee !: ara
this esn b sountsshalaud Qnly bgU4seI
tionass sapsriofisy In nsessFsAl sstsneth. f1e
Army OF the Potomae has never ~ sny such
supsFiority. H1wevsf trus IL M b. thai i,e
gsueralahip has been ofssn very fAalty, stiI1
the main causs Of it, failuzss has bssn In in
snfacieucy Of force for the work in haud -
From the outset, the troe policy hi been TO
seproaeh Rlehmond sinaltaneoosly from dif
fersnt directions, 30 - b compel Lee TO divide
his army, and exo,ss each fraction Of It 70 .
largely sursricr free. A. Il 10, hs has aiWays
hesn able 70 pit his army - unit against a. !;
and, with the consummats ski'i with which hs
has handled ii, the wonder rather 10 that on
tina: we have not oyssfuu Virginia, ~ was Esss
anticipated
Tho frat object of Less army IL upAoabssd-
ly the defence OF Il chmond. Bat Il does not
nscossarily follow that the first object Of she
Riobnond i"' It Mso. .r%y ,nS fs Ia so 90 do:s Rich
mond; but Richmond may fall and leave I.ss's
army sill "a formidable assvsr. The Confsd.
sraey can give up the ono and yet BE- great
military power bat to loose the other 10 death
ins siiabls and immediate. Too much inpor-
tance bas been attached to local conquests.
AIRY valne only Just ss far a. they can serve
as footho!ds f,om which the rebel armies can
he more edsctuaily assailed, just 90 far are
they to bs przsd. They are to be estimated
solely by q military standard; not at all BY
territorial measurements The Confedsracy
has no geographical entity. It. 10 but the sha.
power, pow and itself i once disappss.s. Bus this
power Hes In. the armies and nowhere else.
The first duty, theYefore-we may say, In TACT,
the Only duly; for that done, al! 10 dOne-is to
destroy the armies. And 40 Lees army 10 now
almost the only ono Of any considerable pow
or ex,ssing in the Confsdsraey, 1t is the duty OF
our Govsrnment to mahe, now and hcncefoTtb,
the destruction Of that army Ito ono grsas pnr-
pose.
There In bnt one way TO secare this. and
that 10 tins concentration ot overwhelming
forces into Vngiasa. Our recent SUCCESSES tn
the ,nthwsse nave released from activa sef-
vice an immense number Of veteran soldiers
Probably it woutd not be too much to say that
from tao armies Of Grant, Banks, aud Ross-
Grams, sixty thon, sand men could be spared, and
yst !eave forces amply large enough to meet
:il the trecpe that could be mustered agaioes
them by tho rebels III that quarter OF the conn
try. With the aid Of the rapidly multiplying
nsgro regiments, whose fighting qualities are
now universally acknowledged, It would Seem
that there could be no ques ion of this ability
M4nssR5Fi sjhauasndnf the Western seldiere-
some thirty or forty regiments there made up
Of Eastern msn-~ihus 70 he thrown, by tho
Knoxville road, through Eastern Tennessee
and Western Virginia, upon Lees hAak, ana
day to be rein forced up to its proper sfandArd
By the new draft, 1t would be physica!sy I'M
possible for I.se to hold ont for any long Pc
riOd. Of course he, too, would be 70 some OK
tent reinforesd as he has been already since
the battle Of Gettysburg. Bas the forces and
the resources cf she Confedsraey are now too
much reduced to admit Of any sash confFion'
tion to lie favorits srmy IA thus lee IN our
power, in respect to The Army Of the Potomac.
Undoubtediy, JEFF Davis will strain every On
srsy to the utmost to keep rp tho efficiency OF
Lees command, for he Knows that hls Iale 90
pends upon it. bat our own Goyernmsnt has
10 put forth only 4 limited measure OF the
saoe energy to insure the complete breaking
up Of that command and wish it tho ins'anta'
neous aud absolute collapse Of the Couasds'
TaEy.