The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-19

MONDAY MORNING ..sEprEhnER 10, 1854.
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The New York Herald. in that strain Of exAegcsa-
lion Ia which II takes snoh peculiar delight. says
hat 0rans's campaign in Virginia surpasses any
thing that Napoleon ever didin the very height Of
his geniu. and reputation There Ia some difference,
notwithstanding. Napoleon, fer instance, always
hAA as object, and he never failed to obtain it.
Grant haa object, II Is true, hut he did not OBJ
tain IL Napoleon al~sys crushed his enemies.
Grants enemies very nearly crushed him before no
TOT TO James river Napoleon, in every instance,
had to contend against superior numbers; Grant
oontended against nnmbers which were to his own
about in the proportion Of one to three Napoleon
generally coatrived to defeat and sperse the enemy
that stood between him and the capital he was aim
ing 1t, at the opening Of a campaign. 0nnt not
only has not defeated and dispersed tho enemies
that stood between him and Richmond, but they
stand between him and Richmond still. Napoleon
always inflicted far greater loss on his enemies tnan
he sustained himself Grants enemies have killed
aixays fought IL out on this line"-that is, he
always marched strait to the capital brushing aside
III impedments a. though they had been cobwebs.
Grant found the cobvebs greatly too strong for him
and was compelled by them to give the capital the
cold shoulder and cross over twenty-five miles below
II, where he now lies Napoleon never lost $50. 900
men In attempting to take any capital; Grant did.
Napoleon never lost a battle ON his advance to
capital Grant lost every one he fought between
the Rapid Ann and the James,
The Eve great campaigns of Napoleon, after he
had obtained supreme power were those of Marengo.
{is0o,) Austerltx, lisos,l Jena. tiso6, Friedand,
(ls07,) and wagram, fis0s.) We speak Of the cam
peign of Marengo as having been made after he had
obtained supreme power, because, though at the
time he was nominally but the First Consul of the
French Republic, in reality, he was as absolute as
his contemporaries, Francis and Alexander, and as
he himself was, after he had become emperor.
Moreover, We speak Of these five campaigns because
they all fortunate; ard it is to the fortunate
campaigns, Of course, that the Herald likens this
campaign of Grant. In the campaign Of Marengo,
then, Napoleon crossed the Alps by the great st.
Bernard, passed down the Dora Baltea, emerged
upon the plains Of Piedmont in the neighborhood of
Turin; captured that city; made himself master Of
all Piedmont north Of the Pc; sexed Milan, the cap
tai Of Austrian Italy; became master Of all Iom-
hardy, except Mantua and all this in the space of
little more than week; for the Austrian army was
On the other side Of the Pc besieging Mantua, and
he had come upon its rear while he was expected in
another quarter. He then crossed the Pc and
fought the battle of Marengo, which was followed
BY the capitnlation Of the Austrian army and the
surrender Of all Austrian Italy this side of the
Brenta. Thus we the force of mighty empire
struck down at a single blow Has Grant struck
down an empire at blow since he has been in Vlr-
ginia!
In the campaign of 1905, the Austrian General
Mack pushed his force of eighty thousand men far
in advance Of Vienna, into the very heart of Ba-
vafia placing them thus much nearer to the French
than they were to the Russians, who were coming
on to join them. Napoleon crossed the Rhine in
I've columns, got in the rear of these troops, de-
feated them in detachments, shut up what were left
in Tim, compelled the whole to surrender, marched
upon Vienna, entered it without resistance crossed
the Danube, defeated the combined Russian and
Austrian forces at Austerlitz, and made peace at
Presburg, after campaign of something less than
three months. He "fought it out on this line" and
did not turn from it. To have been equal to Ma
poleon. Grant should have got in the roar Of Lee,
captured his whole force, marched upon Richmond,
and entered it without resistance. This was what
the He'h said he was going to do, and it was ex-
actly what he did not do. If Mack had met Napo-
leon on the plains of Bavaria fought him series
Of battles, repulsed him in all of them turned him
OF from Vienna when within nine miles of it, forced
him to cross the Danube and take station twenty
i've miles above the city, held him at bay there for
three months, and forced him to call for one hundred
thousand fresh men,. he would then have done to
hum exactly what Lee has done to Grant.
In 1906, Napoleon threw. his army between the
Prassisns and their capital, routed them at jena,
passed the whole length of Prussia without oppose
zion, picked up one hundred thousand prisoners
entered Berlin without opposition, and totally de-
sfioyed the whole Prussian army, only two regi-
ments escaping in fortnight. If he had been met.
beaten repeatedly, and turned off from Berlin, to
take station twenty five miles beyond it. there to
be taken by the throat and not suffered to advance
BY the Prussian army, he would have made CAM
paign such as Grants is.
We pass over the campaign Of 1907 because it pre-
sents no analogy to Grants. In 1909, Napoleon,
with inferior forces, defeated the Archduke Charles
in Bavaria In four great battles in four days. drove
him to the north of the Danube, out Of HIS way to
Vienna, entered that city after slight lombard
ment crossed the Danubein pursuit Charles fought
the drawn bate of Essng Aspern reiterated to the
Isle of Lodnn crossed the river in about six weeks
fought the battle Of Wagram, gained great VIC
tory, and made the peace Of Vienna. II Grant had
defeated Lee, driven him across the James, seized
upon Richmond, crossed the river and annihlated
Lees army. he would have done something very
Like what Napoleon did in this campaign II Charles,
in these four battles had defeated Napoleon turned
him Oh from Vienna, and landed him on the other
side of the Danube, he would have done what Lee
has done to Grant.
The Herald ought to wait to ses what object Grant
Is going to accomplish. In every instance Napoleon
destroyed an army and took capital. Thus far,
Grant has destroyed no army he has got possess
sion Of the Weldon railroad. Let US remark, in
closing, that Grantlost more men from the Rapid Ann
TO Reamss station than Napoleon lost in all these
I've great campaigns Grant is hardly equal to Ma
peleon. The Herald once said Mcclellan was but
It has found out its mistake It is mistaken about
Grant, and ii viii find that out too
POSTERITY.
Tbs President Of the United States in his period-
fcai harangues TO returning regiments, is very
much addicted to dwelling upon the inestimable
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