The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-26

II has been thu m9hl00 OK ma feoen 70
speak 10 tho moss depreoiatiBR terms, in
which they we're Joined, until very re.
Gently, BY their Northern aliis5 IL On. |
cago Democracy, psrhaps in the hope Oh
saving the militrry reputation q Gensnl
Mcclellan. He vas styled Grant the
Butche, r" and vivid pictures were paint |
cd BIZ hot braiDed editors ofthe heeatoneej
Of men which had been slain, oil, - they
,lles ed, in win. II 10 . very pertinent
inooirv nov that the clamor and deceit Of
the canvass 10 over, to inquire whesher
in deed. the actual loss Of life was vain
How does the campaign nov stand ?--l
Does any man pretend to say that No are
not infinitely further advanced than when
he started out on this campaiga from
WashingtonY Does not every day he
holds the grand army Of the G ,nfederates
ia the trenches at Petersburg aud Rich.
mond proclaim to the world and to the
rebels themselves, and that they are ct
odds? He can fight or not, at pleasure.
The rebels do not feel strong enough to
come out and attack him, else they would
have cone 30 long ago, nor can delay
help them. Every day that passes In
creases the dispropor,ion of force. Our
army has good base. plentiful supplies,
while those Of the enemy are precarious
and insufficient. The rebels may con-
struct defensive works, and so put Of the
final day, bat even to their own minds it
must appear only temporary postpone
meet.
The London Times he's in Richmond
correspondent who evidently sees the mil
i!ary situation in different light from
the Richmond editors. and unlike some
of our Democratic oracles, does not think
''the campaign is ended in failure" He
speaks in letter, dated October 18th, of
the con,rabands in this fashion, telling ev-
identity Of more than be intended:
"Lee says be is like. q skillfal one
armed prize-6ghter, who is lighting big
bully with two arms-stronger, taller,
more active and keener sighted than him.
self. The most tempting and prompting
opportunities offar themselves to him ev.
cry day. He csnuot afford to heard
even twenty lives in a tentative ope, alton
The fact Of his great numerical inferior.
ty to his enemy, and that he 10 tethered
down, and forced to keep large portion
of his army before Petersburg, are disad
vantages equivalent to the loss of an Arm
by prizsfghter.
Something of the judgment and mill
tary skill Displayed by Gen. Grant ma
be gathered from the following passage
1t Is almos, impossible for Lee TO kno,
1t Grants demonstrations. whether the
threaten Richmond On the extreme Feds
raj right. or the Southside Railroad o
the extreme Federal left, arc feints o
realities. On the ether hand, FROM tn
con6guration Of the ground. it is almos
impossible for Lee to cut Grants extend
ed lines in any vital place. The mos
tempting place to assaIl those lines woul
be somewhere not far from the spot wher
Grants mine was sprung. But the shap
OF the ground aud the position Of tn
forces Is such that she lines can only b
attacked at two or three confined spot.
and here, naturally, Grant has, defende
himself with triple tiers of ratification
and keeps always strong bodies of men i
position.
What has been accomplished is bette
told In the language of the correspondent
than could have been predicted from GU
own side. He says:
Fom the 4th 0 May up to the pre- sen
hour Lees army has been continuously, i
the trenches. either actually under ere, O
at any rate not knowing at what momep
1t might be attacked BY a savage and mu]
titudinous foe. The Confederates hav
been fighting or on the rack without 10
PERMISSION for more than FIVE months. o.
the other hand, the Federal General. VIII
knew from the beginning that Lee was
through the paucity Of his numbers, re
etricted to acting on the defensive. had i
IN bis power at any moment to give four
hfths of his army an entire rest. Their,
was nothing to prevent Grants saying o,
the first Of August, 4 shall want eres
efforts from you on the Goth of thi
month; rest and recruit yourselves unit
that day.. On the contrary, for 100 dsy
Lees troops have known no rest. ei.be
by night or day. We ell remember how
the work In the trenches told upon ON
officers and p,ivates in the Crimea. I
cannot be wondered that far more min
tcrrupted pressure for more than 6v,
months should have told fearfully mo,
the poor Confederates, exposed to one q
the hercest summers ever known 10 Vir
g'na, scantily fed upon meat-mos,l,
salt meat-aad bread, without veeets bic =
with only occasional coffee, with no othc,
sumulant. and threatened ceaselessly h,
overwhelming numbers, wbo have !, tbe;,
command all that lavish profusion q
expenditure aud the scientific exnerienc.
OF the whole civilized world can cop,r;
butte. | cannot be blind to the fact :. ,
meet officers and privaies from Genera
Lees army, that they are half worn ont
denersl Grants strategy need. no .pei
ogy' Tor 1t has he stamp Of success which
49, after all, final criterion. But il !.
forgotten by many of the critic. .ho 10.
grant Tor his untsinied loyalty. that III
great victories have been attended vsh
proportionste loss. Napoleon was prod;.
gal Of life when it was neoesssrv II ou.
needless to make comparison Of thu lo.s..
from death and disability in Tho 800. 49,
tive armies commanded by McCle,l.n : ]
Grant in their "Oa to Richmond" 49,
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