The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-13
IMPORTANT SOUTHERN NEWS
THE COMING STORM.
Virginia to Suffer Severely
GRANTS CALL FOR 100000 MEN
ON the Richmond Examiner, Sep'emJer9.

From the Richmond EranIer, Scp'eulJer9.
The news is important. The enemy's campaign
in Georgia is finished for the present. That i'm
mense army which left Chattanooga four months
ago is shattered. Although successful, it can do
nothing more until heavily reinforced, rested
supplied with new clothing, arms, and ammuni-
ton. IL must remain at Atlanta till completely
reorganized and that is a work which cannot be
effected in day, nor in a month.
But the campaign In Virginia is not finished.
The fail Of Atlanta is the signal for a desperate
effort against Richmond. All the troops of the
Mississippi are in molten towards Virginia
General Grant announces that he wants one hum
dred thousand fresh men to capture Richmond;
but with those fresh troops he will certainly
coed.
That he will get the troops is quite probable.
1t is still more probable that he will eXpend the
force under his hand in an immediate desperate
effort to push his lines through the South side
road.
We hope that It is needless to call attention TO
these prospects. We hope it is still more need
less to dilatc on the importance of holding our
own in Virginia at this time. IL is easy to do it
easier than ever before, If no fatal blunder is
made by the Government.
Wanted, One Hundred Thousand Men.
From the Richmond Examiner, September ..
Wanted, hundred thousand men !-only one
hundred thousand Just the little matter of a
hundred thousand men is all that is required to
finish up completely and handsomely this job OF
subJugauon. What are hundred thousand
human cattle IL is mere trihC il is all that
General Grant demands.
What a SANDER to speak of that excellent man
as butcher What rebuke TO his Copper.
headed reviers is this little call of his for only
hundred thousand more II would take him
fullya fortnight to get them all slaughtered
only a fortnight; let him do his best; and he
promises that this trifling TequistOn shall be his
last-positiyey his very last.
Who will grudge the glorious Grant so tri1ng
hecatomb as this hundred thousand more mere
human beings, counting negroes and foreigners.
Give him lust this many more, and think of the
return. The glorious Union will be saved-all ut
the inconsiderate cost of this diminutiye addition
TO the slaughtered little million or two already
buried in this war
never has there been such a chance for saving a
kingdom at a small cost What was II horse to
king What are q hundred thousand men TO
Stanton and Grant 1t is only few thousand
more men than Wellington or Bonaparte had at
Waterloo. And what were those little Napoeonic
wars to the grand affair which engages the atten-
tion of the universal Yankee nation?
hundred thousand are only about as many
troops as Marlborough ever commanded; the
man who conducted some campaigns in Europe
which the vain glorious English are in the habit
OF eXalting into undue importance. This last
demand is only for double as many men, or such
matter as that rowing bandit Caesar was in the
habit of taking with him in his raids into Ger
many, Gaul, and Britain
Everybody knows that the Yankee nation is
mghter than any potentate of antiquity, and yet
II IS notorious that XerXes crossed into Greece
with at least ten times as many people as Grant
now demands to be sent over 10 Petersburg; and
is XerXes 70 outdo Lincoln
What II reasonable demand is this A hun
dred thousand men to complete the capture Of
Richmond, town of thirty thousand inhabi
tants, the capital Of Rebellion, now absolutely
and without any further doubt, on its very last
legs since A. Lincoln called out his first seventy
five thousand militia and benignantly advised
the Rebels to disperse, the prospect has never
been so good of crushing out the Rebellion.
This positively last and merely supplemental
requisiton for recruits is only twenty-five thou
sand greater than the original army prepared for
suppressing the insurrection in u campaign,
short sharp, and decisive" which was not 70
last, by any possibility, longer than "niney days"
The Yankees never were deceived by their Gov
ernment. Every one of its long chain of pro-
misses has been realized to the letter,
II Is, therefore, moral as well as nathemati-
cal certainty that the Rebellion is TO 60 under
with the forwarding of this last squad Of a hun
dred thousand reinOrcements TO Grant. Sher-
man has taken Atlanta, and thus half the Rebel
lion is eNtinguished Grant calls for little
more help to take Richmond and 20 extlnguish
the other half-only a hundred thousand men.
Wei, the North will supply this last call the
Administration at Washington will raise these
reiniorcements they cannot afford TO fail In so
important a matter; a thousand million of dollars
year In patronage for four years, are at stake
and what are q hundred thousand lives to four
thousand millions, or even a wentieth part Of the
sum The men will be furnished; but what
then Did the first army of seyentY-fye thou
sand men subdue the South
Did the two millions OF men subsequently
recruited accomplish the undertaking? Are we
then to fall under the onset Of hundred thou
sand recruits, inferior in every moral and ply
sical attribute TO the hosts that preceded them
Such contingency Is not possible. But we have
saved our cause heretofore by standing manfully
TO our duty. The same recipe-eyery man TO his
post-will save US again.