The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-11

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-. 80 wAr1xp.-aAe hashea naSkse r1ee
"a - - & IUN NBgCE fs a5l - q OksAn
c0tlO1 AND nnm aAes, =
TIA painful 10 observe that certain De
ares Of despondency, whistler derived from
a. tnne of Congress or tho Jaremlads Of the
psess, y stealing over eur people. espeeaa''y
hess Il Richmond, and that The Yankees are
hssldinx The largest expectations upon IT.
what 8 there In the present aspect Of sna.'s
mneo fhAn there has becn from inc opening
q ne war, 70 make rs desponds what arc
- ssGIsiag SOW which we ought not 20
hsss anticipated, and which, Indeed, We o'a
nos aaticipate. We arc engaged N : 'onf'
te6loes, desperate war. Did We NOT know
ffom The flyst, q least did not everybody
soresSe, except few gentlemen claiming 20
be wiser than all the rest OF the world, tna'
tie var would DO long, desperate, ana ie
diouss- We hare had losses, and tney
ssttAer small NOR few In number. Bus no
body Who sser heard Of war before sup
posed We werc 70 90 through this war with
ont sustaining any loss whatever. Nobody
belisvSd that We were TO be alwsys success
eal, OF shat the straggle was to be ended BY
8 esssp Il nsaia, like the siege oil q fortress.
We ars somewhat straitencd for provisions
Who, among rs al, ever expected that IL
would be otherwise inthe course Of the war;
WAen 10 entered upon It, We took all its
chances. Defeat, massacre, pesUlene<,
aulne- that snacks Of disaster
eYespt submission-we knew TO be within
theange Of possibility, and the considerable
ala not deter ~ moment from the courfc
We had determined TO pursue. We embraced
them al without hesitation, a. the only al.
teEnatisc lei, unless We chose to submit to
tAs Yanlsees without struggle Should
thsy oil descend upon us In their turn, or 81
ones, We wesr prepared 70 stand the brunt
q their combined assAnlt, for we knew that
By holding out to the end We must triumph,
end that not to triumph WAS to be ruintd,
root and branch, body and sonl. Well, We
have held out for three years against the
most tremendous power ever exerted against
any ono natien since the world was made.
Tho enterprise Of Darius against Greece was
mere Inclusion Of Choctaws or Potawata-
mics compared to 1t, for that enterprise was
defeated by the rcpulse at Marathon, in
which only II 900 Athenians were engaged
The Invasion Of Xerxes was nothing com
pared to II, for hi, whole force of five mil
lions was discounted, ruined, almost exter-
minated by two battles-one at sea and the
other on land. The invasions of Prussia, dur.
Ing the time Of the great Frederick, were
nothing to IT. for, although the invading
nations together counted one hundred mil
lions Of souls, they never had more than two
hundred thousand men engaged at any one
TINA In the invasion. The invasion o!
France by the allies was nothing to it, for
they did not carry half million Of men to
Paris when that capital was treacheronsly
delivered up to them.
But these States of the Confederacy, mum.
herring only as many white inhabitants as
Prussia numbered under Frederick, have re-
sisted, and resisted successfully, for nearly
three years, the utmost efforts of armies
that 1t one time counted eleven hundred
thousand men in their ranks, and have never,
for two years at least, counted at any one
time less than half that number. These
men, Il must be remembered, were not If.
Terminate Asiatics, or rude barbariane, like
the hordes Of Xerxes, but civilized men,
trimmed In the European fashion, furnished
with the beat wsePeas, Pre-iaost Win every
thing to make the soldiers life comfortable,
having Ill the world for their armory and
their storehouses. For three years shut out
~ ia
resources bat such as we have ourselves
created, badly armed, badly clothed, badly
ignored by the whole world, ontnum-
bered by three to ono, We have resisted
resisted successfully. And shall We be told
now-now that our strength IL still I'M
broken, and the hearts Of our soldiers are
still - high as ever, when those brave men
stin stand betwssn N and the snbjugation
that certainly awaits us II wc falter, shall We
now be told that the time has come when We
are to fold our arms In despairy Who are
they that uss such language at such an hours
Not the soldiers Of Lea, or Of Johnston, or
Lonestreet, or Of Deauregard. Not those
brave men, who have become % accustomed
70 danger that they barely think Of it when 1t
y present. Who are tho croakers of the
Asdi Not the farmers, or the people gen.
orally II tho country, for they are, in gen-
err, with . few shameful exceptions, hopeful
ard resolute Who are theys Not the
womsn, for their spirits are too masculine
70 givs way when the storm rises highest
They afe the denlxsns of the iowns, the
money maksn-the men who fear that fur
ther resistance may be the means Of cutting
o3 III their profits. They It u who hope
that II the Yankees come they VIII not treat
than 30 badly as some seem TO anticipate
That they win not use them quite 20 harshly
~ they have used the people OF New Orleans
and Norfolk. That they will not plumber
them entirely Of the money they have m ade
ont of The misssies Of the country. Thsse
aFs tho sroakes. You can tell them at .
hundred yards dhtAnce whom you meet them
ID tho street.
For our own part We do not believe that
our asse has syse bean In such promisins
eoadition sincs the commencement Of The
VA. Ne have. temporarily, Lost mucA ter
ritogI34b tire that VA to have been q.
pseto - nomsat Il wss determined
- tAfoM Ne ftuis Of our lIst great
] viet0y q 11onaaGas, md TO- rsly Tor our pre !
segye1ion seee1y 1pon 1 AoGsusiye MAJ. II
- = have beep expected - pspeet, thai
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