The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-09

ssrAes's TACTICS.
We thiuk II may be safely asserted that,
since war Arst became known to mankind,
no General ever sacrificed his men 40 reck-
locally, % remomelessly. and to 60 little pur.
pose, - General Grant. He started from
his camp on the North side Of the Kappa
hancock, little more than month ago, with
$4,000 men. He hAs been reinforced, ac-
cording to tho statements Of lila friends, by
more than 80. 600 since that time, VIZ. Stan
ton Gays he sent him Is 600 veterans alter the
hattie Of the 10th Nay; Butler has sent him
30000, and prisoners cay 10 has received
5000 from Ohio and other sources. making
total Of 85,00A Yet his army, at this day,
In the opinion of those best guided to
Judge, does not greatly exceed lO0. 600
nen, and y. certainly, greatly inferior
in numbers to what Il WAS when he
started on his crusade He lost 5000 in
0potsylvania, and his losses In Hanover can.
not have fallen very far short Of % ,0OO-
Thus no hos sacrificed 100, 600 men, the flower
not only Of his own troops, but Of the
whole Uuited States army. In return he has
effected nothing, absolutely nothing. Lees
entire lose since the campaigH opened, does
not amount to II, 000, all told, killed. wound
I'd and missing. lie ha. never once been
forced from position, and has only fallen
back, when his enemy despairiDg Of victory,
has attempted to slide OIL to his left and get
10 rear without farther fighting. Grant in
the meantime has been brought up before
McClellan's old lines beyond the Chicka-
hominy, and is not able to take single step
10 advance. He has thrown away iOD,O0O
men TO obtain what he could have had for
nothing.
The Confederscy has great cause to con-
graduate itself upon the choice Lincola has
made Of q Lieutenant General. They de-
sire to see this war brought 10 an end, and
Grant il the very man to DO it. Had the
distance between Richmond and Spotsyl-
vania been one hundred miles greater, we
are disposed to think he would have reached
she end Of his journey with not ore than
one hundred men.
If Grant is whipped on land, however, he
is always victorious on PAPER We have
sometimes wondered why he takes the
trouble to fight at all He can dcmolish ar
mics with . stroke of his pen, and capture
cities by . fish of tbs telegraph. Why not
confine his exertions entirely to the compo.
sitiou Of telegraphie dispatches He sue
eeeds far better at that than he does at fight
ing. Lee whipped him in at least ten bat
ties, in spotsylvania aud Hanover; yet he
continually fogs Lee on the wires
He infilcts very little loss on Lee with his
army, but ha slaughters his men by the
thousand with the telegraph. Where, then,
is the use Of fighting with any other weapon
than the wiress II he can gain SO many
victories with that instrument. why cannot
he take Richmond with It? II q tele-
graphic victory satisfy Lincoln and the
rest of Yankeedom. we do not see why it
should not satisfy Grant, since the ap-
plause Of those interesting people is
all that he aspires to. Let Grant sit down
and telegraph big victory every day for
week, and then the capture OF Richmond
He will be greater demi- god with the Yan-
keea than he ever was. Great advantage
will he found 10 the fact that he will he
without competitor. Gen Lee can beat
Grant In the field, but he is no match for
him in telegraphing. Grant may lie as much
AZ he ploases Gen Lee will not c0htradi let
him. He will only Jty him the next time
he catches him. and set him to inveuting
more lies.