Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-09-27
Second Edition
FOUR O'CLOCK. p. M.
THE SITUATION.

In the midst of operations producing great
national victories temporary reyerses will hap
pen. The telegraph to-day announces what
will Dppear to many who arc ignorant of all
tn, fasts, formidable invasion Of Missouri.
Also, an attack by forrest upon the communi.
cations Of Sherman by the capture Of Athens
and the destruction of the railroad bridge on
Elk river, at the State lIuc of Tennessee and
Alabama.
But these are mere pigmies. They are opc-
rutious set on foot by inferior commanders who
have been cut alrift from the main Confederate
forces and arc doing what damage they can as
guerrillas, while Gems. Grant and Sherman
and Sheridan and Candy and Banks and
Rosecrans and Steele and waslburuo aud
Curtis and Hatch are accomplishing, in a
permanent Sdy, the great work of crushing out
tho last breath Of life in the rebellion. Price
and his little band of guerrilas In Missouri,
will share the fate OF Early In the Shenandoah
Valley. Forrest, with his horde, will suffer a
lk3 fate.
1t Is not necessary for US to indicate exactly
how or when these results will occur, but that
they will occur is as certain as anything in tho
future. -s. .r
The report of the fall of Mobile, as We an
nounced yesterday, was premature. That city
will fall into our possession when the Govern.
ment lie ready to take ii. If the rebel military
authorities in Mobile have surrendered the city,
they have wisely initiated the policy Of the
coon TO Colonel David Crockett.
That Farragut eau destroy the city at any
moment from his fleet there is no doubt. That
FarrSgut desires to destroy the city We do not
believe.
Our readers must be patient, trusting In the
cool, clear Judgment OF the great director at
City Point, who, sitting at tho little electric
lnstru ment, directs, "a far as the telegraphic
wires can reach, all the general movements Of
the national armies.
The people who arc not booked up in mill
tary operations should remember that General
Grant is thoroughly posted, not only In the
operations of all his own armies, but In the
movements of the enemy. He takes advantage
of his actions in weakening the main rebel
armies to send ont rAlding parties, and strikes
blows that will result in permanent advantage
TO tho Union.
While our readers are sleeping quietly ut
night, dining at luxu riously supplied tables,
quaifng their rich wines, discussing politics,
or engaged in the rrlvolitles Of life; while cop.
pcrheads in the North, who arc living under
the protection of the national Government, ART
crowdlng the great places of amusement, dis
playing their dainty white kids, bcqucts, ant
IO.g''sisc at the operas, Gen. Grant, the gront
director OF our military operations, is working
is moving, is advancing on the works of The
enemy. ..
Our Victories, be II remembered, are no
those alone that are achieved By the thunder
of artillery, or the discharge of musketry, tn,
Gashipg of sabres, and the destruction of life
but by those quiet, skilful, strategic move
ments which in a single night, when uucoy
cred by the dawn of day, disclose TO the enem
an advantage that battle In open field coul
not acquire.
Let our readers remember tSat, while the
read OF rebel raids In the West, which are onl
temporary, national victories before Peter
burg and Richmond, and before Charlesto
and around Atlanta and other rebel strong
holds, are being sCcon n,plished ,Oitlout RrisJ
gun!
The military situatioB, like the political si
'ation, was never brighter for the Union. r,
crultlng TO the Union csuss, politically, and
the Union armies, is progressing With RAPID
ity never before equalled. The recruits to th
Union armies are from our first class mer
They arc not escorted to the field by mil
tary guard, as at one time. but 20 themselvC
voluntarily, like men who have enlisted in
true cause, with their hes rts In it, and Al
ready and willing TO offer up thoir lives,
necessary, as a sacrifice for their country. Sue
is the situation to-day, and we congratulat
our readers aud the country that 1t is so.