The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-09-17

we lose the railroads If we save Richmond or we
attack Grant in his mighty trenches II We try To
save both. 1t Is true that Gen. Beauregard could
still keep south Of Grant, and prevent raids into
South Carolina but could not keep him from
stonpipg the roads south, unless he has enough
men to attack Grant in reverse and place him be-
tween two free. We hope Grant thinks he has.
This is u game with no possible Endurance, per
fectly plain to even such unmilitary compre-
tensions as our own, and we respectfully submit
that there Is no fun In II.
The writer isaware, from personal observation,
that there is a personal popularity and enthusi-
astic devotion TO Grant among his soldiers not
equalled by anything ever seen IN the army be-
ore-nor surpassed in the army of Lee and very
much like the love OF the Old Guard for Napo-
leon. Therefore he can flank and fight for some
days vet, before they get tired of it. These are
facts, and plain as they are. 1t is not in good
sense 20 talk of the trap that Sherman occupies,
or Of the bull-headed Grant, bntring his brains
out against the ramparts of Richmond
When the supplies Of Sherman are cut of, as
we trust they will be, and the great raider of
Mississippi broken in battle or starved out, be-
gins a disastrous retreat over the county he him.
self has devastated when Johnston thunders on
his flying rear, and Forrest stops his flight; when
the lords of the Tennessee are in peril, and Chat
tanooga again besieged; when Western Tennessee
looks up in hope, and johnson, the traitor, trem-
bIes in the Notifications OF Nashville, then let US
flap our wings and crow, and not till then.
W hen tITlDL changes Dd5c III Tile -ICSltllku
style, and Malvern Hill is again On altar Of sac
rihce, and our horses drink AZ the Potomac and
pasture in Maryland, then let us laugh at "Bull-
headed Grant, and examine the embrasures
around Richmond for the brains he left about
loose. But when we get 10 enjoying so greatly
the joke of which the Yankees retain the point,
and grow happy over paper on half a State lost,
and a Capital not yet saved, let us look through
the windows of the blockade and see with Euro
pean eyes-how do we look? We do not mean
TO form our hopes upon what the paid journals
of England and France write for pecuniary re-
compenee, but 10 look at the scene as impartial
eyes must see it.
Secretary Stanton recommends 10 the Federal
Congress that the law which permits the drafted
man to pay $500 and stay out OF the army, be re-
pealed. That shows that Lincoln is afraid he has
not men enough to take the Confederacy just now.
Il also shows that he intends 10 try and get them.
Ergo, a failure now does not stop the war. Let
US, then, earnestly beseech our people to faith
fully and steadily work and hope for results, but
let us not Initiate the enemy In VAN and prema-
ture boasts. Let US not make ourselves a laugh
ing stock Of Europe, by winning victories on
paper not yet won on the field. Let us not
quicken the popular pulse at home, with dreams
and prophecies of glorious victory for no ex-
pected evil harms half 30 much as the blood that
leaps forth in the estacy of triumph. ebbing back
in sick CONFUSION upon the disappointed heart.
Humility is as worthy q virtue in a people as in
person and a quiet faith, as far removed from
arrogance as from cowardly despair, is
the spirit to carry US through. Abasement pre-
eedes promotion, in the Divine DEGREES and it is
not alone the Mason who teaches, {" whose nun
bleth himself shall be exalted" President Davis
is never SO near the standard of greatness as when
he frankly owns our evil state and feeling that
there is much cause tS4oubt our own strength,
he tells Congress and the world that we are in
peril, and calls the supplicating sovereignties of
the nation to join him upon set days in prayer.
The last time we saw him his words WERE Let
US do right and we will whip them yet"
God sees that the heel of the invader is upon
our hearthstones, and his pollution upon affairs
and graves and maiden virtue but let US hope
that to US are the words: Though We have lain
among the pots, yet shall We be az the wings of a
love covered with silver, and her feathers with
yellow gold"