The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-23


The rebels are out of patience With
Gen. 0raat. Hewiil DO nothing as they
want him or ten him TO. On the cor
trary he wickedly insists upon falsify-
( ing their prediction and upsetting their
calculations. Instead Of following out
the programme they mark out for him,
he does the very reverse; and instead
of vindicating In his plan Of operations
their military prescience, he proves
them 70 be bad prophets and worse
strategists
But the worst Of al remains to be
I told. He refuses TO acknowledge him
self whipped. After being mauled
within an inch Of his life, instead Of
I turning upon his heels like g reasonable
man, and running away from his chas-
Users, he runs towards them Instead
of owning up frankly and honestly thst
he has been "cut to pieces, annihila-
ted" &c, DC, and turning his feet to
wards Washington, he turns it toward
Richmond This, they say, is in viola
ton of all precedent and rule 1t Is,
moreover, a gross breach Of military
etiquette. There is nothing, they add,
1 so shabby, and nothing so Inbred, in
history, as that Of a General who has
been soundly whipped turning aggres-
ser and driving the victorious cohorts
of his enemy from the field.
In short, Grant is puzzle and mys-
terry. His ways are quite past finding
out He does nothing in the common
way, and seems to take a sort Of ma
lignant delight in mystifying the limo
Z III Ds1l,,-,-,1 Co, al
/ thus reherses its grieYance-and the
+ grievances of the sham Confederacy in
/ the bargain-against this most unreas-
enable of chieftans
Operations at the front have fire.
auently confounded calculations, and
turned speculations hither and thither
with short turns and little ceremony
Now Grant has been retreating to
Fredericksburg and anon he is at
! Spottsylvania Court House. Now again
! he meets with a disaster that would
/ have sent q reasonable man back 10
! Lincoln, but quickly he is flank march
I ing for Richmond. Now he crosses the
/ North Anna and confronts Lee, appar-
emily for battle; but night comes and
he steals away, and starts for the PENN
slla. Now he crosses at HanovertoWn
in his supposed fight for his new base;
but last and latest we learn that his
face is again turned towards Richmond
and that he confronts Lee on the Tolo-
patomy Creek, with prospect of imnne-
date fight.
In view of all which the Sentinel con
cludes that at is time to cease specu-
lations as to Grants movements, and
attend to the facts. This is sensible.
There is no telling what new tricks
this most unfathomable Of Generals
may play upon them Indeed, he has
already made one of his characteristic
eally '.irregular" movements, IN chang
ing his base to the James River. What
he will next do mercy. only knows; but
we venture to predict that it will be
something equally unreasonable with
his previous acts
Can the rebels be blamed, therefore,
for having very bad opinion of Gen
Grant2 Can they be blamed for stig-
matizing him as the most in-mannered
of Chieftaius, and the most unreason-
able of men? 1t only needs one thing
more to complete the measure of their
disgust for him: that he should take
Richmond. This would be an outrage
upon their feelings which they would
never forgive.-Aibaay Journal