The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-01
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Rebel View IF Giant Gfannftssh Advance. soh
Zee in Better Position Than
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From the Richmond Examiner May 2ith.l
Tne,intelG sencs alread y pnbhshea is con
f.mad in the most complete manner. The
chief army af the. enamy AaA abandoned it'
hasc on the ERphIdan sia HhpeF Rihpkhan
n1.t, and e5tabIi she'd \ new source OF sup
Il, on the lower waters of the last named
river. at Port Royal and Rappshannpck.-
lis troops are massod in the country bo-
tween the MattapoDy and the lower Rap
rah,naoc Ills front els ct Milford and the
Bowling. THIS change of position has rem
derfd uecG5s ary 4 aacefrespjnding ekanseSi
tbr position Of Gen Lee. After ascertain
in5 that no. haamv WIS left to H. iglii IN Spot
s,lyania, he has come down the line he has
held with success from the first, and placed
himself between Grant and Richmond, near
Han0var Junction.
Tha Northern journals manages to keep
40 their game wonderfully. well, though
th,y make n, quota'ian Of gold They
rer<j,t "a the last in the noisy lie, the Ia
Grant inpost ure lthe pslpabhi septism, the
Tnlg.r beast tdshahdA bysthehl master at
Washington, with unabated vigor and per
snsaity, though they d. not quote the
price Gi HDtlt SA'h stS oS"5.ps spsI ''Ao'o
mont by Esal leo they wiz Sofscouise,
raise the yell of triumph lauder than ever
Tue retreat OF Lae-the flight of the Con.
fcderates! Have they not abandoned
Spo,tsylyaua Court House 2 Is not tue
Junction twenty miles nearer Richmond ?
What an amount Of gaseous nonsense and
trucuenr bEckguardism will be expended
on these themes 1t is sirritating to think
of the turn they will give to the fscts but
SIC esnuot helpit, and can afford todespise
u,hst can do No earthly harm. We sup
nosed that people have sense in New \ ork
and London as elsewhere, and it will be dit
fi,ult TO make them believe that the Con
f.dsr.te array hgiag -wAeH-it-mo<es from
a position which its adversary has abandon
ed to place itself full befo him across
the new road on which he has determined
to trafel, .sEt9a Z .:sVHT|
When Gen. Lee moves his army after a
l)>t battle, for the purpose of getting away
from lis antagonist, because he finds, HIM
self unsblss te n, sinsainsa struggle Of brute
lnrce, Within IN, heswiH have retfeated-
But if either party has done that, it is Ger
rainIy Grant-Lae followed him from the
wilderness he is now the last to move
ani j. pursuer, not pursued from SpottSyi
mia. It j, tsue that BY both move nents
,tpge armies isnSe been@ Brought heaferito
P.chp7ond bnt for Lee it was rendered
aecsssaIr by the conf suration bf the soil
a,d tna lines OF those rivers which he had
a,olvad to defend. ,They haye-theis s2ur F
e,s yr;nott fr3ni the Acitys app-oach~t IN
rheii c5use, and empty theis waters 10 the
nei irhboring York, But tor Grant 7was
,i.rira He is where he now ia because he
.auia not pass over the road Of his tirst and
second choice. lie might have come to
s;pottsrlgauia by travelling along the
.frajrht road from Washington to Freder
i,k,burg through Stafford, without firing
lot or losing man He might have ar
:,yed at Milford and Bowling Green from
Port ROYAL or Rappahannock without the'I
slaughter Of Bis troops in the Wilderness or
At the Court Honsc. He might have come
sill nearer. H. might have come to the
,ruing Tree, within eleven miles OF hcn-
,un7d without an engagement with -den
&c lie might have come up the. peniA
.,I, ,,rhans t.. Far Oaks, and joined
;,s,js with Batter on the south side, as
soma still expect him 10 do, and thIs ne
ILL doubtless proclaim in the end, to nave
hcen the object OF ali his clrcuitou' route;
Nv each of these ways Of advance he would
nave brought Gen. Leo from the ,itapidan
nearer to Richmond. Ho did not take
them. bacause there wsse dangers and de'
tscts. He prslerred the Grst arl the sec
ont before the thiri, and this before tne
fourth. Tuat he abandoned after tnal
fhe two first is due to two clear defeats
N battle. Es.lt..F
So far i,om losing ground bee has ga'ne'
manifest advantages by each change OF the
lines. lt is easier to defend that p3rtion oi
L,s line winch is near to Richmond than
,bat which was f,r Iem0yed from It. lie
!, sar better situated now than at Spottsyi
.sn;a Court House, aud that was better
than tae Wilderness. In either place Ills
,uanlies. storcs and reinforcements had to
c,'ae lin from Richmond The country has
b,p, lon, since. scared and Ibeaten into
d,sart hs the drums ana tranptfngs oi
rLr.a ;ovae;ons. From the railroads to his
camn weary miles Of red mud wara. always
intcrnosed hy every shower. lii' cayairy
i, nntor;ousIy " defective md has Always
.r,vno inefficient to protect hls commuqnlss
,tious at those n,onients when they were
m,,t naaded While operating on Inc
liver rivers all of these troubles, -aIsoyer.
4 few hours sFs him 1his sapphes 1.-THE
roads can no longer be severed with impu'
nity. The difiie uliies under which he has
labored ara transferred to the score OF the
enemy. Perhaps ronvic1ion,that Itwould
oe so vas the reason which mads, Grant
oreSsr To encounter Lee in, the Wilderness,
instead OF coming straight to Milford:
Considering the whole facts wetbIns the
time basceme 'gbep, Cpnf federateimay ex-
change Congratulations Noref!cting man
can donbt that the general situation Is very
much improved since the day when Grant
eros ,ed the Rapidan aud Butler landed -at
pAa.-rI,irad That Inas indee1 q EfiC