Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-07-14
Grant and the Yankees

A Yankee ig,ter-Wrlter has given the Information
tha; G. ant sbou. 70 startls the country with another
brilliant performance" The Brilliant things with which
be has ALREADY startled the country" this writer does
No. re- earss Il vas assumsd, IN the outset o. his
campaign against Richmond, that Re was achieving
prodg.ss; bu, as these achievements did not brig
about he rssuit-v:E: the capture Of RchmOnd-fOr
s5ca slOre they could bsve any value, Il might have
been supposed the applause bestowed upon them vtu
be eO-s deEed having been premature and uUneritsd
Bat hat is lot toe Yankee way. They must always
have hero, sham and failure be may be, and gen
orally is bu. sill necessity, asd something tina! suite
u IL pu he'd IRON his pedestal By claimant Of
YArkes alteration.
From cur poigt Of view il has been plain enough ell
along hA; Gran. doing nothing, and could 60 moth
ng. We5sE that hia attempts in Sp}sylvana to
Wa,ln Gen. Lee by the weight Of numbers, and then
pas unresis:ed to Richmond we're fsilurSs We cav
HsEs that bis attempt 70 gs; in Gen. L9ts rSar inter
Ospt his supplies, Con5el ZEN 10 move of Westsard,
and leave The way ep 10 ebm5nd, were fAilures -
We that his scheme o. wearing out Gen. Lees
army BY frequent eOmaat, attritoa' they called it, IN
.Waiea be hoped to aet much IjarJ be vet
hil own losses 70 be repaired by rSinforesmsu Viii
Lees, As he believed, could not be- we're failures. We
failure. And lastly ha. he plan Of cutting all
the lines Of communication, ard IGVaging all the
oocnlry on which the city was dependent Tor supplies
was failure. To Us Grant has been, from the begin
ming % be eDd-and the end far his city is con-
csrned has been reSobed-he pnner and the executor
Of futures and nothing else.
But, the Yankee nation we're obliged to have hero,
ard Tor the TINA being it must be Grant. They dtld
dad themselves with lhe fancy thai he vas working
wonders and they do nos intsni TO thrOE OF tie delu
sOa until some cher false cd is SIT up for them to
worship. Then they WI whistle bm down the wind, faI
and fast enough Ba. idoWosship Is indispensable TO
their e1is,suca, ana they give Up Image I'll
another IS supplied. Hence th5 a.suIaBce amusing 20
u but eOmCrsDg % Ysnkeed tm that Grant is G6Ou,
70 slAys the Oouatry with GAOtSr brilliant fest J0hu
Bull net 20 bound admire Yankee paper heroes, ard
worship Yankee mud-dViniies his cousin jonathan,
and sbrsWdsr much il military Gcumen than he, was
able 10 perceive, frcR the condition Of things pre-
sen I'd month sgO, that is VI over uith Grant
The Judgment OF that experienced and sagaoious mill
tary critic upol thu state Of thirgs then exciting
thas Granls original plan had failed" and that be
chad e1psadtd one hundred thousand men with absO-
lately no rsut;" that What be was ten engaged about
vas "a nsw eampaigo," e-eumbeEed by all the dssd-
VAnlagss Of an. aruy diminished BY enormous losses
and dspirited By obvious failures
Since the time 70 which LheSe opinions refer, have
various hopeful enterprises Of Grant oiled ard
severe puaahment inflicted on those engaged them
Hunter driven beyond the mountains aud fleeing to the
Ohio, when depot Of suppl had been ordered to b
hep. for him az the White House. where it iueI d,d
he should land, after having laid waste al PedmOn
Virginia Sheridan beaten aud hurled back jus. ne
had reached the point a. which he could begin TO
mischief; Wilson and KauE fallen upon in the midst G.
heir brigsnGags and beaten inc jelly Grants assaru
wherever made repused with heavy loss; whole resi
msnts taken prisoners forced to reduce bis lines and
gst farther away from the city Of Petersburg, that
month ego vas believed to be 10 his hands; and last
but chef Of all General Lee, Who, according to Yam
lee accounts, IN sEtsAis, suddenly showing him.
Sf to be much at his as according to the same
aeoOUns to be able 70 detAeh large portion of bis ar
ny for an invaIOn OF The enemy's county. When IL
these th g. bSoOme known 10 European observers OF
events this Continent We readily believe that
their interest in tie military Prosl viii yi,Ia 70 the
more curious study OF the neptsl PHENOMENON present
ID In the Esli-stutfeStiOn which makes the Yankee
believe that Grant has been performing Brilliant
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