The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-24
"a. ca..e Of Grants faiisre.

s,ysed, huatet, kicked and cufied McC'e'-
Ian, " Auld have taken Richmond two years
AGO: and tina, but for the same interference
now Grant would have taken II two wct Ms
.yn, In both instanc Is. according TO tue
Herald. he was prompted hy jealousy OF LIS
own Generals and the wish 10 secure ms
own re nomination and reelection. iue
following paragraph Is rich beyond express
sion. In morfiic alton and chagfin
.ssv ,,a, act, aud Iatef on.s Of the same nature,
Il. crushed commander who had the abi'itS !" put
she rebellion down Thea VIC FAD feat e"".'ha.o
srs who hid aoi that ability, saa i' "'"''' "e NO"
no .ar taaet those a. nmaud''s ma"''s go. :"
surl, n .,.pcyate suait mat Congress was com
ueiied 10 aoi and GATED Gian: u me eo"n'aa1 o.
our armies td that choice tue TfcsSacht c""'i
onlv aeouirsce. But he has already b. gun to- M
ioy again 1 This G. metal the very tactics by which
he p,rysated the success NJ our cause Under "eh
,,e,',.,,au AMI 9th what FL CT the present posi-
tiao of the enatest shows. u I'd Gen Grant been
len alone with his Simple bnl admiraoe plan for
he action of Lees army, hc would have put
The James Tiv.r aud the Vslies columns under
.l,uaeh military mea aud not under II stu ent pol
ticiaas. With the Valley column uad.r Hnnief,
and the lanes river column under Badly Saith
the work lid out tor Va ,se columns would have
been sfsi.iehtiy done, aud The ampiign would
have been siaIiausiy eaded twenty days ago IN The
rogt of Lees army But tne President forced W on
HIM Tor tb. commanders of ttOse columns men of
kHowa and proven iacOmpeir.cy; men who, tired
many times, have failed always; m.n without
knowledge OF common sense, without genius or
Judgment, without anything whatever but political
influence. As an inevitable consequence, neither
coluMa even approached > object; we ,od the re-
snit at The desperate fightihg On the RApidan by
failure, AID our cause Is still ia The biIance
"Oniy the President Is n sponshie for this tie,
by aiocIou sly subardinatng the Cause Of the coun
ny to ms personal advantage, has again deiehtd
oar Success aud II hc is 10 60 oa We see no pfoai
Use IN the future. Military genius IL useless TIE
dreadful carnage Of Il meath OF battles Is useless
II a politician Ia Washington may Bn'iiiy all thI!
Is done simply 10 furthsT party seheh,e. AND
there il hops at all for success unless IN some
way the people rise in ihrir "hsil, and demand
that Gen Grant be lief. alone with the sole aud sn
pasm, direction of our armies -
Now we certainly are not partial to Lin
coin or Butler. Far from it we believe that
two more deprayed scoundrels do not exist,
aud that If they be allowed to escape from
this life without the assistance OF the gal
lows to hasten their journey, great fraud
will have been perpetrated upon Justice
Yet we believe they are both treated very
unjustly in the above extract. Butler could
not have done more than he did, nor could
Badly Smith in his place. As for Lincoln,
we cannot conceive in what be Was wanting
upon the occasion. He sent Grant %, Coz
veterans to repair his losses in Spotsylvania;
at lesst go said Stanton, whose kilograms the
Herald takes as a sort of gospel. He sent
him, three weeks ago, ~. $50 hundred day
men, so Yankee prisoners say, and every
body knows that Yankees, whether prison
ers or free, always speak the truth. He sent
him twenty thousand OF Buffers army, as
soon as Buffers campaign became decided
failure. 60 the Yankee papers say, and they,
too, are well known Oracles of truth. He
stripped every Yankee city Of defenders TO
send them here to Grant. The reinforce
ments forward by his direction according
to the estimate above, amounted to So 900
men, and if the veraciOus Yankees are to be
trusted, he is still sending them on. What
more could he have done, unless he had
donned the Scotch cap and cloak and come
on to help Grant himself? There certainly
has been no want OF men, if men were every
thing In war. This State has been invaded
by not less than so, COO, according to the
estimate OF contemporary, which We take
to be not very wide Of the truth. OF these
Grant has had, from time to time, 2l5, 600 in
The army which he commands in person. II
he could not take this one city with all that
force, assuredly Lincoln ought not to bear
the blame.
Neither is Grant to blame. The Yankee
nation, and their newspapers, and their Con
gress, are to blame far more than lincoln,
UT Grant. or Butler. One year ago Graut'
with IS 600 men, shut up Pemberton, who
had already Lost 1900 men in battle against
overwhelming odds, with remnant of Is .0O0
in the town of Vicksburg. After having at
tempted to carry the works by storm. and hav.
ing been repulsed with immense slaughter ON
the a5th of May. he was afraid to try it again.
He drew lines Of enormous strength around
tha city, the horns terminating on the river,
where lay one OF the most powerful fleets OF
modern tunes. There he lay, receiving re-
Inducements every day, for six weeks, until
the garrison, numbering about tne-iinh of
his command, aud seeing no hope OF relief,
surrendered. This Was, really, q very small
feat; but the Yankee nation magniiied II
Into very crest one. 1t was necessary to
impose ON foreign nations, and ON the Yam.
KEGS themselves, for the Yankees must al
ways have an idol to worship, and care little
what idol it may be. Fanny Elsler, jenny
Lind, the woolly horse, Tom Thumb, Tom.
NV. or the Prince Of Wales--none Of them
c ,me amiss, and an equal degree of adora-
ton is bestowed upon each. Ii Grant was
placed in this category, it was tis misfor-
tune as much 40 his fault. His mcndacious
dispatches had induced the Yankees to be-
Hove that he had achieved successes, the
ike Of which had never been read Of ia the
history Of the world. lie cannot blame the
Yankee nation for fixing upon him as the
proper instrument to CRAFTY their ruling
passion, BY capturing and destroying the
s'dooped city" He is, in point Of fact, q
very small man. They put him to execute
service In which Napoleon or Wellington
would have failed. 1t 10 to the difficulty Of
this task, not to the want of means, that the
failure IL to be attributed. When in the b is.
tory Of the civilized world did any Genera,
below the degree Of sovereign Prince, ever
before command 300,000 men 2
The next obstacles to Grants success were
the CANINE Of Lee and the iuyincible cour-
Ags Of his soldiers. His men were butchersd d,
slanghtsred, inundated, after fashion never
known before since the invention OF gun
powder, end In return they inflicted upon
their adysrsariss the smallest amount Of loss
Of which there u any account. The bone .
Of ten thouoAnd slaughtered YankAea vat n.