East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-11-09

tween the North end South.
From tho Richmond Sentinel, Nov. 3.
The military balance sheet for 1864
viii DO greatly in favor of the Con-
federate States. If results had only
shown an equipoise as between the
two belligerents, the advantage would
have been nevertheless largely with
us, because with the enemy, mere
failure is disaster and defeat, while, to
us, TO hold our ground is a victory
They have set out to accomplish a
great positive result. 1t is not to be
attained by defensive lines and eau
tious policies and negative advantages.
These are all on the side of their adj
versaries. When they make no adj
vance, they are retrograding. Delay
does not merely disappoint and dis
piritthem, itundermines theirstrcngth.
Each day they become weaker, SO
severely have they strained their re-
sources and so vast and rapidly in
creasing in the debt they have incur
red.
But we have done more than main
tain ourselves. We have inflicted
positive as well as negative blows
In Virginia we have lost nothing,
while wo havs destroyed host of our
enemies. Grant might have probably
gained his present position as start
ing point for his campaign. lie has
been driven there by necessity; but
his army has melted away in the
Wilderness, and at the close of the
campaign, with nothing accomplished,
he is begging for men to fill the places
of the multitude he has lost. In the
trans-Mississippi States we have gain
cd astonishingly, and the invaders
have been almost entirely destroyed
or driven off. In Georgia the cam
paign is still afoot, and the result un
decided but we have hopes of closing
the year without damage, as compared
with its commencement.
While such are the military results
of the year now closing, as to its lead
ing operations, our enemies have, in
deed, constantly claimed Victories
Secretary Stanton's war bulletins if
the fourth Of what they declared were
true, have announced successes suffi-
cient in magnitude and number to
have ended a half dozen wars; but
the striking commentary upon them
all is, that his armies have made no
advance or have been driven, and he
is further from conquest now, when
the sky is again leaden and wintry,
than when the spring Of 1861 first
gave us its smiles. The receptions
which he has practised in the particu-
! Tar instances are now made manifest
and calpable by the aggregate result.
As no array Of victories could add up
a defeat. so the pnfavorable position
in which President Lincoln finds his
fortunes, at the close Of the campaign,
exposes the frauds by which the peo-
Pile have been constantly assured OF
their prosperous progress.
All have not been deceived. There
are some who, convinced of the folly
of his undertaking and the impossi-
bility of subjugating a people so nu-
mc.ous, in territory so vast, have
scrutinized ..he stories Of victory and
triumph, and col..Iarca them with the
developments that followed. They
have seen great drafts follow Oh the
heels of great victories. They have
seen tho demoralized and despairing
rebels, after having been scattered to
the winds a half dozen times, swiftly
falling upon their foes and inAictine
defeat. They have i sssp n have never e,
seen it captured. More men -
" five hundred thousand more men "
is the word they get from Grant after
a series of battles, in every one OF
which he had inflicted enormous losses
and crushing defeat on the rebels,
and which had driven them to the last
ditch, and to a robbery of the cradle
and the grave. They wait to hear
him announce tho fall of Richmond !;
but instead Of this there comes the
demand for vast reinforcements and
renewed supplies.
HannibaPs enterprise against Rome
was very strongly opposed by Hanno,
prominent senator of Carthage
The wonderful success which at first
attended the Carthagenian arms pro-
duced no change in his sentiments.
After great victory at Canine, Han
nibal sent to Carthage a bushel of
gold rings taken from the fingers of
the Roman nobility that fell in the
battle. He accompanied his glowing
accounts Of his triumphs by request
Tor reinforcements. Carthage was
thrown into an ecstacy of joy by the
glad news, and Hanno was reproached
by Senator of the opposite party,
who asked him if he still opposed
Hannibal and the war. Hanno an
swered "that tho victories they vaun-
ted OF, supposing them real, could give
him JOY only in proportion as they
should DO made subservient to an adj
vantageous peace; but he was neces-
sarily of opinion that the mighty OK
ploits of which they boosted so much
were chiinerical and imaginary
Il have cut to pieces the Roman arm
les; send me some more troops
What more could Hannibal say, had
he been conquered? Il have twice
seized the enemy's camp, full of pro-
visions Of all kinds; send mo provis-
ions and money Could he have talk
cd otherwise had he he lost his camp?
lie tells us the Romans have made no |
proposals Of Peace, from which per-
ceive that we are no further advanced
than whea Hannibal first landed in
Italy" Thus spoke Hanno, and his
was that Hannibal should
not be reinforced, and that tie war
should be abandoned.
FROM THE SOUTH.