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A French View Of Grants Campaign
NJ. Delprat writes in the Rer1ss Natto''ale,
of July 10Th, as follows:
General Grant, in Virginia, is pursuing his
laborious career. The vigorous blows which
he struck in the beginning to weaken ms en-
envy while thrusting him back, he has fol-
lowed BY series Of skillful maneuyers, the
result of which it is already easy to perceive.
II suffices for this to read attentively the cor
respondence of the Moniterr. At first It
showed the Northern General in danger Of
losing his communications with too distant
base. The next day the dispatches announced
to us that Grant, as far-sighted as these Off.
cial strategist, had transported his base Of
operations on the rivers, at first to Fort
| ROYAL, now to the James river, through which
he receives in abundance provisions, NUM-
| tions and reinforcements, Another time,
formidable lines Of defense were enumerated,
prepared BY Lee in advance, and It was pre-
| dicted that the cruel obstinacy Of his enemy
would sacrifice in vain their thousands OF
human lives. Shortly after, however, it was
necessary to acknowledge that Lee, banked,
had been forced to evacuate successfully, and
almost without fighting, the positions rem
dered useless. 1t was then announced 70 us
that Grant, crowded in the swamps OF the
Chickahominy, found himself in the critical
| situation from which Mcclellan had SO much
difficulty in extricating his army. This was
very inaccurate; but, which cuts short all
| reasoning, Grant did not stop in these
swamps, but, pursuing his vast movement
with a success equal to his boldness, he trans
ported his army from the right Of the James
river to the south of Richmond. There, IN
an impregnable position, resting on river,
under the protection of his artillery, his rear
free, his supplies secured, combined with
Butler and Averill, extending hand from q
distance to Hunter, occupying the railroads
| that supplied the enemy, he threatens TO iso-
| late Richmond itself and Lees army from
the other States OF the Confederacy; that is
to say, to reduce them by famine, Like Vlcks-
burg. In this situation, Intellectual assaults,
like those which he made for two days on the
| lines Of Petersburg, or partial checks, like
that announced by the last dispatches, may
retard the final success without rendering it
less probable.
The Baltimore platform, which, on deciding
to support the reelection of Lincoln, In.
scribed on its programme the declaration OF
| the freedom Of the negroes, the last vote OF
| the House of Representatives in which the
proposition of the final abolition of slavery,
passed BY the Senate, well nigh gained two
thirds of the votes (exacted for every modif-
cation of the Constitution) render dearer
than ever to the friends Of liberty this ex-
pected triumph of the American Union, ga
contamination devoutly to be wished"
May not a happy augurY be drawn from
the victory of the Kearsarge over the Ala
bamai We said, this Winter, that the first
combat would decide whether these ships,
equipped by adventures from all countries
to pillage, under the Confederate flag, Amer
| lean commerce, deserved or not to be treated
| as ships of war. The combat took place be-
fore Cherbourg, and it is known that the
demonstration was not long. The Alabama
was sunk, and it remains for us 70 wish from
the bottom of our hearts the same for the
Florida and the Georgia. 1t is time to see
the end OF the scandal these ships without
nationality, which impudently elude the
clauses of the treaty Of Paris, replace letters
of marQue by commissions sent from ports
where they have never touched, burn on the
high seas prizes which they can no longer
carry into neutral ports, put inoffensive crews
| in irons and empty the purses of the passen-
gers, and continue in broad daylight, under
our ewes, with our tolerance, that brigandnge
called cruising, which we believed abolished.
They will end by thus oyerthrowing all no
tons of neutrality!
1t is edifying to see writers, often hostile to
England, suddenly moved by the ingenious
exploits Of foreign ship, armed with foreign
guns, manned by bandits picked up in all
Rarbors, and the captain alone Of which be-
longs to the non-recognized country under
whose flag they sail. Has the piracy which
these men make their trade the rare virtue,
then, Of dissipating all the prejudices Of our
Anglophobists Let those who like interest
themselves in these sailors, who make tro-
phies Of the chronometers stolen from their
victims. When we see men among us so
curious concerning their neighbors' watches,
we applaud the gerdarme who arrests them,
and we always refuse our sympathies to such
| heroes