The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-07-28
tho brains he Ieft about loose.

the windows of the blockade and SC,
with European eyes hoW do ue look
We do not mean to form our hopes
upon what the paid journals Of Eng
land and France write for pccuniary
rccomponsc, but look at the scene a,
impartial eyes must see it.
Secretary Stanton recommends Il
tho Federal Congress that the law
which permits the drafted man to pay
three hundred dollars and stay out o,
tho army, be repealed. That shows
that Lincoln is afraid he has not mcr
enough to take the Confederacy Just
now. 1t also shows that he intends tc
try and get them. Brgo, a failure now
docs not stop the war!
Let us, then, earnestly bcsccch our
people to faithfully and steadily worl,
and hope for results, but let us not imi.
tate the enemy in vain and premature
boasts.
Let us not make ourselves q laugh.
ing stock of Europe, by winning vic.
tories on paper not yet won on the
field. bct Us not quicken the popular
pulse at home, which dreams and pro-
phecics of glorious victory; for no cx-
Ipecte1 evil harms halfso much, as the
blood that leaps forth in the ccstacy Oh
triumph, ebbing back in sick convul-
sion upon the disappointed heart.
Humility is as worthy virtue in q
people as in u person and q quiet
faith, as far removed from boastfil ar.
rogance as from cowardly despair, is
thespirit to carry us through. Il
| Abasement prccedcs promotion, in
the Divine DEGREES; and it is not alone
the Mason who teaches, "who so hum
bleth himself shall be exalted"
! President Davis is never so near the
standard of greatness, as when he
frankly owns our evil state; and feel
ing that there is much cause to doubt
our own strength, he tells Congress
and the world that we are in peril, and
calls the supplicating Sovereignties of
the nation, to join him upon set days
in prayer. aI . ...
The last time we saw him his words
werc-"Lct us do right and wo will
whip them yet"
God sees that the heel of the invader
is upon our hearthstoncs, and his pol
luton upon the affairs and graves and
maiden virtue; but let us hope that to
us are the words-"Though ye have
lion among the pots, yet shall yc be as
the wings ola dove covered with sill
vcr, and her feathers with yellow
gold"
Special Correspondence of tho Ga. constltutonsllst
. RICHMOND, juno II, 1864.
MEssRs. EDITORS: The evontful six
weeks, since Grants passage of tho
Rapidan on the. 9TH of May, seem as
they arc now drawing to their close
to unfold more fully tho plan of the
Yankee campaign-a plan that will
bo touched upon hereafter, after q re-
sumo of military operations up to date.
After the disasterous rcpulsc at Cold
Harbor, on the Sd inst, in his attempt
to cross tho Chicllahominy by way OF
McClellan's and New Bridge, Grant
lay quietly behind his powerful forti-
fications in the vicinity of the battle
field, for so long as to puzzle con-
lecture as to what might be his next
move. On the 18th that move came,
and once moro the great Ulysses tried
his favorito plan of moving by tho left
progressing in that way down the
east bank of the Chicahominy toLong
Bridges. Here or hercrbouts he ef-
fcctod his much coveted passage of
the river, and striking directly for
the James, about Shirley, managed to
throw a portion of his force across that
stream to tho south side, connecting
the several corps by pontoon bridges.
On reaching the other side, that
portion thrown, over Immediately be-
gan to operate against The Petersburg
Railroad and the Cockado city itself,
and in this position, severed by the
river, the Yankee army now lies.
What measure of success may at
tend operations on this line it is not
easy to say, for it is useless to concoa!
the fact the apprehensons excited here
by this last move of the enemy are of
the most serious character Should such
q calamity befall as the destruction of
the railroad indicated or the capture
of our sister city, tho consequence
would be, beyond doubt, most dcplo-
rablc. Staunton being already in the
hands ofthc enemy, the Valley at their
mercy, the Central road useless, and
the country in the immediate vicinity
of this city being almost useless for
productive purposes, it but remains
for the Petersburg road to be closed,
and the Danvillc tapped TO render us
virtually a city besiogcd. If bcsieged
in such a manner as to cut us off entire
ly from, extraneous supplies, the i'm
agination rccoils at the suffering troops
and people here would be called upon
to endure, for the stern determination
is to hold this city to the last.
Tho speculation above will rcvealin
part what was before alluded to as u
fuller disclosure of the Yankee plan of
tht campaign, Having failed hitherto
in every effort made by the assistance
of all the enginery of war alone it is
painfully evident that it is Grants de-
liberate purpose TO summon to tho aid
of his baflcd legions the terrific agency
Such it will be remembered
was the conrse pursued bv him at