The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-14
SPIRIT OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.
Lending Editorials from the New York
Papers This Morning.
THE REBEL MOyEHENT-Irs CHAR.
ACCER.


The Rebels, In the course Of this war. have
made many movements aud fought many bat.
ties Of a desperate charicier This last move.
ment Of theirs is Of that nature. We have
pointed ont more than ence of late the immense
strength Of Grants portion on the Appoma,tox.
IL has appeared, we think, concushely. that
II our great army but remain firmly planted
where 1t now Is, and " our cavalry arm oper,t,
constantly and 'renchantlv upon the CON uuni-
cations OF q Rebel capital, it will b. quite i'm
possible for Lee and his army. or JeiT. Davis and
MS oovernmeut TO remain long Ia RichmOut.
"A tily invested Is ciy taken, for the lmp'e
ieA on that II The besiegvrs 800 bIt matutdu fueir
lnes, The garrison mus ultimately succumb III Jm
want. Richmond has never yet boen, aud Is not
ntwi invested, echn cdly speaking; hut the
nj ar axiom Just quoted IL perfe tly applc tpls
Iosiuuu in us rear, C n, bv his Cayary arm.
descrihc around Il >utii lent to cut OF from
II q e essential supp cs derived fro the grca
produ' * rel ions of the COntcderaCy.
Nov, in the Il ~ place, General fra1t has
shown, within the past fortnight, thtt this is per-
FEC y tcasibe ana practica auo; and in the mex.
plrcc, on the her hand, General Les psrfs tly
comp eteDds the impOs,lhiliy Of dist ID tiug
Giu from his present ground either by direc
as aul upon IL Or by IN iupuvrng round IL.
~ cretorc, a Lee 1Oes uut wtsh % leave Rich
mond with his my, J'G. D avis with his
Owe nmrnt, the Reb us are puJ in Il desler4ts
strait. hllitarily, they must le ave RchmIai,
AMI, polite lily, they re not leave IL rinllIy,
Of Courss, the political logic must give way re-
fore the ineXo,ablr milita'y yic. BIT they will
only utrent after all the eXpedieuts Of war have
failed them In their Elf irts to rem lin.
They may try movements Moth before neces-
sity tnauy forces them TO lvavr for tie SDIgh.
The, may try movement such as that nov in
p,f or to see & IL may not IN snma wLv Wp'k /
oiyer,ion m their favor; and in their llst ex-
emi hey may try ulp her in the stne dtrec-
ton hut TAR gre,ter aud al ogeJhyr despe-R in
it. chara Ter. The invaders OF Maryland have
undOuhttd sue eeCed in 60 lectiut large a. m
u les of torres, which tpvy will probably sue eed
in crIT,iuR TO some eligible point in the Sheuau-
co h Nslev.
General Lee knows that he can ho'd such
vo ks as rho.e a. Petersburg, and mash clsir
tho c at Richmr nj, with Il force one-fO lrrh the
nLmbprUt 5 70" nj HutS-SD hat It q ueul G. ant
COD 1nues 10 ret in the Army OF the PJtDmt: On
the AppomauOX, a, h HS-urcdy will d., T. Is .
witt out the lIm.t, o pO.sinIiiN "a II Lee, leayln,
Beaurypard with thirty Ur fOcty tuDIsupI mer q
iend RichuOnd, night him-elt actually strike
for thr Nur'h, wJu zoe nope pf a.hisstIy Sd ne
quick and em Ueut success. II hH Ia, ever h ui
thou ht Of anv such eyertuality, he could not in
one point uf view, make a shrew Ter preliminary
move than the pres Iuvl.iOI, while in du tn
poiut OF VIC he coyli no, make one more foolish.
Such movement Of tue Rebel army a. Is
here sugges ell 10 be possible, would not only
be desperate in / s character, but would in-
eyitsbly result in It's destruC ion, IL operations
on our side were conducted with any sort OF
skill or comprehensive sayaciy. The present
desperate movement ought assuredly t. have
like termination. |. Is di cred'a0le enough 60
u that we should have allowed ourselves rO BE-
surprised by il; thar we sho lid have allowed IL
To take pace; tina, we hOuld have permitted the
Rel els to cross thr PDtbmae and 70 I'm and
ravaRr in Maryland for ten d lys, men lcin th3
national cap Land cnttiny Oft all railroad com
mnbica ION bttw en- il and tue rest ofthe country;
hut to p rmit them t. &. away IN safety, AMI
march "A buHCT red miles with their booty and
priSt ners, would be shameful
The dniy of rhc country in the emergency and
In the future is implied IN some of these suggeS-
tinns The present straits of the Rebels around
their capital are leading them to attempt desp5-
rate deeds, which we ought to be prep ired 10
thwart. As o1g as General Grants arny is
planted where 1t uow is, and continues to carry
on the operations against Lees army, which
must ultimately prove fatal TO it, there sh uld
be sufficiently large force of wel-drlled militia
kept constantly under arms 10 prevent the ReOcls
ever again crossing The Potomac.