The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-20
I. s..,is,e Csacsasisn,


A sensibls CsscsasisA'
r.. New York 2g.,es has at last found ou'
A.. ava. Il Richmond we're taken, u wonie
~. ana the war. This amazing discovery y
,he rssu.t Of three years study and observe
.i,a The rebellion Is no longer 10 os
...n.csi,v crushed" ut IL only this year.
oao,h the Tim S, '.that very eons'dcrao'e
roytion Of the public has thoronsn'S
xakened up to the fact that, owing 70 ~.
.normous extent OF tho territory VIC seer
70 conouer. tho occupation Of pisces Is y
comparatively little value. OF course sone
places. such a. the Capital OF the Con'e"c'1-
&c have moro value than others The ieSs %
Richmond would be heavy o'o~ 80. :.
great discou sagement to the enemy oas A.
would be simply moral blow. IL wo"io W
. mor.is >ation. but unless it WAS an ihcica
,,on Of weakness, i, would be nothing more.
The 3;,,s then comedies that our people
h,vs suffered too much to be appalled, py
umor.l bloxs.n aud that ii Richmond were
taken. snd Lees army allowed 10 reure
Southwark without much damage, "thefe
,sno question whatever We should not have
made much progress. He would hold out IN
North Carolina, or Georgia, conscript aud
impress. supplies, and fight on as before, AMI
we should have to follow him for hundreds
Of miles, slowly. continuously. and with du-
fculties of all kinds steadily increasing ibc
further we penetrated into the interior al"
away from our base"
This ia sage conclusion, though whether
il is announced iu consequence OF an appre-
hsnsiou that Richmond cannot be taken,
and that something must be said to Console
the Northern fox for the loss Of the grapes,
We cannot pretend to guess. But whatever
the motive Of the announcement. II Is none
the less true. Surprising Grant 10 take
Richmond, and not to take Lees army, how
long would it take to conquer the South p
After Graut had taken Pemberton, he was
unable to follow Jobnston's little force more
than forty miles. After he had overwhelmed
Bragg's inferior forces, he WAS driven back
in Ills very first attempt to follow up his sue
cess. Gen Lee would fall back and fight, and
come round and fight, whilst guerillas would
swarm in muititudes upon Grants whole
line OF supplies. 1t is, therefore, Of the last
Importance 10 Grant that he should capture
Lees army, and We may calculate with con-
fdence that nothing less than this has been
and is his design, and that no effort or STRAIT.
agem will be left untried for that purpose.
We have no fears for Richmond, not the
slightest, nor any reverence for Grant as q
great General His object being the cap
ture OF Richmond and Gen. Lees army,
what evidence Of generalship was there in
permitting Lee to strip him Of seventy five
thousand men on his way to Richmond by
the Rspidau, when by adopting at once
McClellan's movement on the Peninsula he
could have saved that immense force and
thrown it between Lee and the South
Would not the seventy five thousand men
he has lost by coming On that famous line
which he vowed he would stick to il it took
ell summer be very convenient now to move
upon the rear of Petersburg, a movement
which he may intend stili to make, and
which, if he were o great General, he would
have provided for by placing there that i'm
mense host which he has made food for Con-
fedeeate rifles. The Times may make itself
easy. Wedo not think that either Richmond
Or Gen. Lees army is ever destined to be-
come the prey Of Yankees.