The Placer herald., 1864-07-23
The Richmond Dispatch Endorses Lincoln.


Mr.. Lincoln has a firm supporter in the
Richmond Dispatch Is our President loyal?
How is it that he receives such hearty in
dorsement at the hands of the DiSpatch We
call the particular attention of our readers
to the following:
The Redmond Dispatch Of the 18th, in
its leader says: THE great object of all the
Yankee RAIDS at this particular crisis is three
fold: First, they hope to starve eight million
of people into submission, AS intimated toy
Seward in his letter of instruction to his
Minister at Copenhagen. Secondly, they
hope to starve the population Of Richmond
into the humor for hailing them as deliver
ers. Lastly, and principally, they hope to
starve Lees army, aud theIehy force him to
abandon his position. These are hopeful
projects, it must be confessed, and well
worthy of the brain that conceived them.
The only fault with them is that they are al
together imperative. 4 X AS to their
effect upon Lees OPERATIONS, they will have
none whatever. They will not give Grant an
inch of ground or single advantage. Lee
has him by the throat. and he will not re-
lease him. let him plunge and kick as he
may. In the meantime the truth begins to
leak out. The N. Y. Times, for whatever
purpose is not material so far as we are con
cerned. has told the truth, in modified
form, at least. 1t has revealed the fact, so
carefully concealed by Stanton, that Grant
was badly beaten on the morning of the 3rd
of June, and although the n. Y. Herald
came instantly to the rescue, it was too late.
Grant was not nominated at Baltimore, and
Lincoln was Gold went up to 1914 l-2, and
Grant stock came down to zero with run.
For our own part we are glad to hear that
Lincoln has received the nomination. When
some enterprislng partisan officer OF the
Revolution proposed to carry Oft Sir William
Howe from the midst of the army, WASH
ington put his veto on it at once. He had
no doubt that it was feasible; bat Howe had
conducted the war stupidity as it was pos
slble for any man to conduct it, and any
change whatever could be but for the British
interest. Let him stay, for fear of a sue.
cessor who might not be quite such an i'm
beetle So we say of old Abe. It. would be
impossible to find another such ass in the
United States, and therefore we sly let him
stay.
I'VE, at least of the Confederacy, ought
to be satisfied with him, for he has conduct
ed the war exactly As we ought TO WISH IL 10
be conducted. He has confirmed those that
were waverino, heated red hot those who
were lukewarm. made those Jealous who
were careless, converted cold Indifference
into furious passion and calculating neutral
itv into burning patriotism. AS for the mil
itarv operations conceived and executed I'M
der his auspices, surely we have no right to
complain. No service ever had many
Numbering officers, and no campaigns were
ever conducted with more stupidity. For
these reasons we are decidedly in favor OF
Old Abe, aud if we could command million
of votes in Iankeedom he should have them
ALL He has made the South the most united
people tina, ever went forth to battle with an
invader; and for that he deserves the lively
gratitude of every Southern man. II any
thing could add to the obligations under
which we lie to the Baltimore Convention 1t
won d be found in The nomination of Andrew
Johnson-the man of all others most de-
tested in the South and the most likely to
keep together the parties already united in
one solid mass for the prosecution OF the war.
Convinced, AS we are, that nobody not in
favor of continuing the war could be elected,
and that no other would conduct it 50 fool
ishIv, we 90 for this ticket"