The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-11

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Sssutsa's Dispasc' Is.
We think It may be asserted without fear
Of contradiction, that Stanton Is the first
war minister on record to whom was assign
ed the duty Of lying Tor the benefit Of bis
naster. la what estimatien that master
must hold his services when ths dntiea
he puts him upon are disgrace to him,
or would he were he other than he IL, we
care not to inquire. Suffice 1t to cay thai he
ani.s The Office, aud the Office suits him. IL
he takes pleasure In inventing lies he does
Il with considerable ingenuity. lie is mas
ter OF ait kinds Of lying. lie can suppress
the truth with as much skill as he can invent
falsehood. The folio wing paragraph in one
of his dispatches Is q remarkable specimen
of the two sty!cs-the u.pressic acri aud the
smuosstio fulsi We DO net know hat VIC ever
s,w the two SO happily blended in single
paragraph:
Me3er General Dir
A Dispatch ivom Gen Grants headquarters, datod
half past eight O'Clock last night, has been receiv
ed. IL states that about seven n yesterday (sh-
brisade, OF Gibbons division. The battle lasted
win great fury for half an hour. The tack was
uawaverugiy rcpuised
Not one word Of the events of that bloody
Friday morning. Ii the Yankee nation ever
learns that At I've O'clock GU Friday, the "a
of jane, 1864, Grant made furious Assault
I'm ND off
fiict Of five hours duration was finally re-
pulsed, with \ loss of at least Ii, COO men !;
that he left his dead and wounded in Our
front for days, not daring to attempt TO &c
move them openly, and basely refusing to
send a flag Of truce lest it should be construed
j ito an acknowledgment Of defeat; and that
those wounded men lay there until many CT
them died, and those dead until the stencil
from their bodies became intolerably cffen-
sive, it will be through no fault of Secretary
Stanton or General Grant. If the truth can
be suppressed by these worthless, suppressed
1t will be-this attempt to do 1t proves that
for the ignoring Of q battle in which Is COO
men were slain or wounded, is the most as
founding feat of that sort On record. The
although not upon 30 large o scale. There
the lie direct IL conspicuous. Gen. Lee says
that the attack there alluded to was repulsed
with ease, and every body who was in the
fight says that the slaughter of the enemy
considering the extent Of the front, and the |
numbers engaged, was even more terrific
than it was in the morning. With regard to |
the attack upon Heth's division, the Ian |
guage Of Gen. Lee is quite as emphatic. II
was repulsed with the utmost ease, and the |
Yankees took no riie-pits.
1t is to be hoped that Stanton puts into |
Grants mouth such words As he thinks pro
per. We can hardly believe that Grant him |
self, who IL soldier, though o most butch |
erly and inhuman one, would descend quite |
90 far. But what o commentary do these |
kilograms form upon that Government
which requires them, aud upon the necessi- |
ties of that same Government, when it does
require them? tits obvious that the truth
cannot bear the light, and for this reason 1t
L. kept studiously concealed. What is such
q Government WORTH
Napoleon was accused by the English
The accusation We believe to have been false,
except in so far as he was wont, in common
with all other commanders, to exaggerate the
strength OF his battalions before battle, in
order to deceive the enemy. The rcsuit, in
every instance, ut least argued strongly iu
favor OF his having told the truth. When he
published that he had taken GO 600 prisoners
at Jim, lie had already destroyed the Aus
TRAN army. When he claimed to have cap
tured 5000 at Austerlitz, his foot was upOL
the neck Of Fiancis, and Alexander escaped
capture only by his peru issi0n. When he |
announced the capture of 40. 900 at Jena, he |
had just crushed the rrussian Monarchy to !
the earth. When he said that the battle OF
Wagram had deprived Austria Of CoOs0l
warriors, he was in pursuit OF her shattered |
columns, and few days after CONCLUDED a |
treaty which stripped her of immense ter
ritories and S 600 600 of subjects. If he lied,
he lied with strong circumstances to sup
port him. II he overestimatcd the loss of
his enemy on the field of battle, he did not
do It 80 Tar 90 to make 1t incommensurate
with tho results. The Yankee Generals
have besn said to copy after him but II
they do. they only copy what bis enemies
called his exaggerations. tia easy enough
to copy lie, and not very difficult to lie
without copy. Napoleon had results to
show In answer TO ell charges of lying
What has Grant to show, or Stanton for
himP Immsnse loas Of men, and no pro-
gress in obtaining the objects OF the cam.
paign. Richmond h as inaccessible to
Grant ct this moment as 1t was when he
was fifty miles OIL He has not carried
single position, and he has been repulsed
in all his attacks.
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