The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-07-06

GRIFFIN. "a.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, J'LY g. ls0h
MORNING EDITION:
Gen. Grant and his Ca polgn.

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Gen. Grant and his Ca poign.
On tho 9th day Of May Gen, thuO commenced
tbat series of conflicts which have Jeeu continued
up to this time, aud which he hope and believed
and his government hoped aud b,licscd would nee.
rssarily result in the capture OF Richmond. The
hero Of Donolson and Vicksbug. t' only two inn
porant suucndcr5 Of the war, hi. hpw bound with
thowIcoth of victory, and bringing with him tho
prestige Of success, was called to th, chiclcommd
Of the national armies, invested W. plcnary pow
ers ar directed to crush out the rocllion.
Anor what he believed to boa sufficient prcpau
tion after the concentration of all no troops who
could possibly be spared from other points, and
with supplies ample for campaign ho commenced
the eighth grand con to Richmond His efforts
TO get to Richmond would have made the
ground over which he has travelled, famous, if 10
had not already been made classic by the mingled
torrents Of blood ormaryrod patriots and their foes
Two months Of sangunary conflict and in eilcc
ual and unceasing struggle, have passed away, and
not one stop has Lccn made towards the accom-
plishmcnt of the end so arlcntly desired, and the
realization Of the anxious hopes ofthe Yankee gov
ornmeut Gmnthas fought from the Rapdan TO
tho Jamos, and has finally, in very desperation,
crossed his army to the South side, with tho view
Of making final effort upon q route heretofore uu-
attempted and never before considered practicable
by any military nulhnrilu-
Over tho achievement Of crossing tho army to
the South side the yankee nation is as jubilant as
if a victory had been achieved Final triumph
they think is now assured and certain. Grant has
at last discovered the true road to the rebel Capitol
and its downfall is but the work Of timc Thoy
seem to forget that Grant could have put his army
where itisnow, without the loss of a single man, if
he had desired to do it, at the commencement Of
the campaign All he had to do was to ship it up
the James River and land IL. If he had done So,
he would have had with him the hundred thousand
men he has lost, in attempting to force his way TO
Richmond by tho Spotyslyata route, and that
vast army Of men who are now roltng ON tho sod
where they fell, or groaning with wounds in hos
pitfalls, could have aided him materially in the exc.
cution Of his present plans
The common sense of every man must tell him
that Grant never contemplated AN approach to
Richmond, by the southsdo route for it is plain
that he would have gone directly to the field OF
operations by water and never have rskcd tho bat
ties tho Spottysyania route has cost him. II any
evidence were wanting, VIC should have it in his
celebrated dispatch from the Wilderness to thcSoc-
rotary of War; 81 intend to ightit out ON this lmc
if it takes me all the summer In the plcntiludc
of his PRIDE and the supposed superiority Of his
numbers, and forgetting the experience of the ar
mics which had preceded his, no boastod in the
presence of the whole world, not oaly of his abii-
tybutof his determination, too, to yht 1T out where
he was, in SpottsyNana.
And it is but justice to Gen. Or to admit that
no man ever fought harder, or s''ridcod his men
more ruthlcssly TO accomplish his uposo than he
did. He pressed his columns wi utter hearlloss-
ness upon our brcastworks Gld onots, and saw
them swept away by day and b. light for weeks
before the crust of his obstinate re lution bro
ken and he was forced to admit 1 impossiby
of executing his original plan Of mpagn.
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eyes, and he saw that the stra rg OF General lee
ard the valor of his men coul I't be overcome
even by tremendous force he u lnder his com
uand. he resorted to all the -dicnts his mgc
nuitv could devise to accomplish s,rotcgem what
he eould not do by force Blu q coplcss eye was
upon him, and wherever he wcI II brave and un
conauerable army was always il his front And
after marching from the Bapida to the James
and strewing the whole earth with his dead an'
wounded, one hundred thousand aving fallen II
those terrible conflicts he found msclf no ncarel
the attainment Of the object of the campaign than
when tho first blow was struck Overwhelmed
with the fearful disasters which had oyertaken hl
army, and filed with fears for its olety in despair
of being able b njuro US or to protect himsclL be
FASTENED across the James to M tc his shotlcrc'
and dsmoraizcd army with tc my OF Genera
Butler, and as u dernior resort to attempt an ad
vanc, upon Richmond by route lever before trS'
or considered practicable.
The ubilations Of the Northern press over Grant
success in reaching his present osition, are tn
most contemplate and disgusting exhibitions o
hypocrisy. They know that if he could have ho
reasonable prospect of success at any other point
he would not be whore he is. They are whstlin
to keen their courage up and to sustain the sinkin
hopes Of their own people. But it will not do' Ih
fasehood is too patent; the truth is too plain Th
plans of the young Napoleon have been rcgurIarI
frustrated as soon as devised, and his stragcty hd
been bafled at every point Hopeless of success
and appalled, at the magnitude of his failures h
now sncaks under thcprotocting care ofthe Beast
and vents his spleen by throwing bomb shells anon
the women and children of Petersburg, and il
sending out raiding parties to pllagc and dc'oIat
the country.
Though twenty or thirty miles distant from Rich
moud, and without any ability to get nearer b
pompously proclaims that the siege Of the city ha
commenced. But he dCcicycs no one. Inul rp,,u
full and inexorabc barometer Of national faith, 10
gold market, shows beyond all question, that th
truth is fully known. Gold, which at the commence
meut of the present campaign, was quoted at z
is now held at $50 in New York-an advance of Z
cents in two months, Notwithstanding the army
south Of tho James, and the siege Of Bichmondh a
commenced.
The present position Of Gen. Grant is an opc
confession of his inability to capture Richmond by
force. His only hope now is that through th
agency of raidiug parties he may keep tho railroad
interrupted and thus compel the execution Of Rich
mond for the want of supplies. lie cannot whi
the brave army of Virginia with his mcrconaric
and ho knows il; and he feels that Gen. Ice is hi
master. lie therefore pauscs in his con to Rich
mOnd" Instead Of the conquoring hero who was
capture the Capitol the Eth Of July, and ride int
the Presidency upon wave of popular gratiud,
he sinks into chief of raiders and robbers. IL