Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-15
From the Detroit Tribune.l
Il 1t a Comprehend Defeat AIsoe

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To read the Democratic journals one woult
think that Lieutenant General Grant had no
only achieved victory over Lees army, bu
over the Democracy also. They are gloomy
beyond all expression. They moan and sigh
and weep until the danger of absolute liqui'
faction is imminent. So much fghting-sc
many lives lost-so much money spent, and
nothing accomplished, they whimper out
Then they begin to state the Union losses,
! and set down the figures at about three times
what they really are. They also enter upon
an acute system Of figuring to show that Gen
Grant has not made any progress worth
speaking of in his " on to Richmond" One
thinks he will never get there by the over
land route, and propounds this proposition
"If it takes Grant ten days, and A, 900 men
(only double the actual loss) to get within
43 miles of Richmond, how long will it take
him to capture the rebel capital, and how
many men will he lose in doing it
Another declares that Lee is receiving the
most enormous reinforcements, making his
army larger than ours, and that he will pres
entity fall upon Grant, knock that venerable
pipe out of his mouth, and pulverlze the
Army of the Potomac. Another exhibits to
its admiring and astounded readers, Lee s
Notifications on the North Anna, and at
Hanover Court House, compared with which,
according to him, Gibraltar and Sebastopoi,
Duppel and the Terres Vedras are small
affairs. They assure us that our army Will
be dashed TO pieces against the impregnaole
ramparts of these works. Another still OF
the housing variety, discovers discrepancy
in some statement of Union advantage and
pounces upon it with eagerness, points 1t
out, Celebrates, magnifeS it, quotes 1t as con-
elusive that everything hitherto said is false,
and exclaims in triumph, told you SO.
This latter class would rather the Union
should be fractured into thousand fragment,
than that any of their predictions should
not be fulfilled. Now, why is it that Ger
tain class of papers within the Union lines
are filled with such statements, arguments,
exaggerations and declarations as we have
above noticed? 1t is a purely unnatural
view. man who is man, wants his side
to win. Do not the papers referred to con-
slider the Union side their side A man
with clear head, n patriotic heart and a
good digestion, looks at the matter very
differently. He sees that Lee and his army
have been whipped BY the Army Of the Poto-
mac every day for eight days in succession.
His friends state Lees losses at 80, 1000. he
has been driven from one field to another.
He has been surprised by Hancock rushing
upon him out OF dense morning fog; he
has been outgeneralled and compelled 70 re-
treat when so sure Of victory that he had or
dered cavalry to harraSs our flight across the
Rapidan; he has had his railroad connee-
tions BY the Virginia Central, BY the Fred
ericksburg and Richmond, by the Richmond
and Danville Railroads cut, and is in the
most difficult position, both as regards pro-
curing supplies and the ultimate possibility
of retreat; he looks from amid all these diff
culties, and sees Butler with large army,
day BY day, overcoming the resistance that
impedes his march to seize upon the capital
Lees army was intended to defend, and he,
not able to lend helping hand. Here, then,
we have rebel army consecutively defeated,
driven twenty miles, with supplies cut Oft and
no hope of adequate reinforcements. OPP
posed to it we have an army seven days VIC
torious, led by soldier Of genius and expert
ence, who laughs at obstacles and moves i'm
mediately upon the enemy's works-an army
of irrepressible enthusiasm, abundantly sup
piled with everything, its losses made good
by reinforcements, and bound to go into
Richmond, where presently Old Ben Butler
will have his headquarters as Military Gov
ernor of VirginiS-that is, if all signs don't
fail If all this makes the Copperhead jour
nails and politicians feel as though they had
suffered defeat, so much the worse for
them.