The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-16
We find the following passage in an editorial art
lie Of "Wednesday eyening's Vic.

Gle OF wednesday
.tNo fact has bes,f, clearer sinac the commence
meat OF this war tFf1u that the Yankees, above all
other people earth, know best how to magnify
the slightest advantage into complete victory, and
10 vanish over a ioat so as TO make it appear an
insignificant repuisc This particularly the
case in The account OF Mctlelian's rcpulse on the
peninsula, Bufn~,des complete defeat at Frclcr-
j,ksburs. and lockers Uut at Charlottesville, to
cay nothing of the tremendous whirpinys las the
Naakes papers Ssy) which avoritc Ulysses id
fainisegea 10 Gcnera Lee ia tie battles and skir-
pushes from the Rappahannock to tho front Of
Petersburg"
II tue writer Of this article had added that not
withdrawing all the experience have had Of
Yankee mendaoity, they still able, by the most
transparent lies, whenever gain victory, to
ntsse people believe that it was We, not they,
who were defeated, he would have told the truth
NJ, three weeks ago the whole Yankee nation was
in an agony Of despair on account Of the tfeheh-
doas losses which they had sustained during inc
Campaign of the spring and summer A small ad-
vantage gained by them at a single point elevated
them at onc, TO the seventh heaven of exultaton.
Tie most enormous lies, the most extravagant
batstiua and the most extraordinary efforts to
create . public opinion. III favor Of continuing the
VA, we're immediately resorted to. They had the
elect winch foresaw they would have They
created perfect fttrore III the North, and cowed
aud in.imdatei us To a degree which We were
amazed to witness. ACCUSTOMED We have been, for
many years, to mark the fluctuations Of public
opinion.
And vet upon reflection, the cause Of this sudden
dependency is easily understood The mind is
never 80 deeply detected at the period which i'm
Ine,..ately follows an unusual elevation OF the
spirits The people had been niulging the hope
k.oI,.x
il 10y those who should have known better; and be-
lieve it they did. That l-omcned Congress Of self
constituted dplomatists at the Falls of Niagara first
produced the impression, and, as it was an asreea-
bic impression, it impossible to eradicate it, We
suppose II meeting Of those three celebrated, but
somewhat mythical personases. the man IN the
moon, the gentleman in the claretcolored coat and
tie individual who struck the inueh-abused William
Patterson, ESD, would have had quite as much in
fl Hence upon the issues of war and peace the
mesting OF Messrs. Holeombe, Sanders and GIee
Is, neither one Of whom, SO far as We can learn,
had any more concern in the matter than the three
noted characters introduced in the first part Of this
sentence We endeavored 10 convince the public
that it was so; but the delusion was pleasant,
and they could not bear to resign it, Even Lin
coins notice " to whom il may concern" could not
undeoeiye them, and it was quite useless to remind
them that the two Presidents, by and with the ad
vice and consent Of the two Selates, alone con-
Guide q peace. While the public mind was in this
state the at Atlanta took place, all Yankee
dom was in a blaze of excitement all ideas of peace
were at once abandoned by our amiablc foes, and
nothing but blood and rapine could any longer sat-
isfy their appettes. Instantly the hopes Of our
people fell from the zenith to nadir; and their
expectations We're altogether without foundation,
- their detection became utterly irrational.
The inconsiderata hopes which have been so
largely INDUCED III this instance have had Il very
mis.hieyous effect In directing the minds Of men
from the only subject which, at present, ought to
cupy them, namely: the prosecution of this war
with the greatest possible degree Of vigor Nothing
is so enervating us the disappointment of highly
wrought expectations. Let US hope that these cries
OF peace, peace, at a season when there is no ap-
pearance Of peace, will be discontinued for the flu
ture. The Yankees must be defeated in their OBJ
ject often to learn that it is wholly unattain-
able, and that they are wasting their blood and
their money in vain They will come to this know
ledge slowly and much against their inclination.-
Bat come to it at last they both will and must
Esen now Lincoln tells them that but for the. two
hundred thousand negroes whom he has stolen and
converted into soldiers he should long since have
been compelled 10 give up the War hopeless un-
dertaking The negro soldiers, then, are all that
stand between US and the attainment of our inde-
pendence. So tar these recruits have given US a
taste of their quality, they do not appear to oppose
any formidable barrier; and when shail~have re-
moved it, such as it is, the war will be at end.