The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-03-10

,Arsash ssven, lsas ysAss Of blood ard tuiIsr.
- tSSy aospy pvsvssl.d
How s )ands the case vita US? Tho enemy
haa oanHs>as ~ host after host and has not
~ taken Richmond, Charleston, wilnsiuS.
yoo. Mobile; noue of our eeasosrt cities eS-
oept Norfolk, New O'lesns, ebd Galveston,
and the latter he was glad enough TO leave.
rnstead Of being whipped by an iuvadi::.,>
army In three fourtbs Of the battle. fought,
a were our ancestors, We hav1 whipped az
invading army ia.iour tittss 0, cur engage
ments. ~
There 10 rule in military science that re
quires an iryediOg arwy to deposit certain
proportica Of Its strength Ia the line a
march TO protect Its rear. Now, consider
the net that they have never penetrated
Afty miles into the interior OF our territory
beyond the point where their gunboate could
mass troops and protect their rear. Let
them try TO get from Chattanooga to At
lantA By the time they reach there they
will have dropped enough OF their strength
along the line Of march to protect their base
Of supplies, and being then IN no unreasona'
hle deproport!on to Gen. Johnstons Amy,
he win fall upon them ana thfesn them hke
pretend to cope with them on the water, for
wo have not yet got q navy; but N,torsc-
rately happens that the most Of this couutry
b composed Of good Cry ground. We have
never been much acquainted with water Of
fairs. Indeed, believe mcSt Of cur people
prefer whiskey. [Laughter.l
The frame Mississippi has been separated
lucky, for the supply Of bad Generals las
been cut of, snd they flourish little better
on this account than we do. After three
years Of war, and At an expense OF fouT
thousand million dollars, the enemy hes
overrun the greater part of Tennessee, por
ton Of Mississippi and Of Alabama, blu. be
has stu 100000 square miles to OverraD Oh
this side Of the Mississippi, when, Ii We ar
only - determined ae other people have bocn
Kup. Why, gentlemen, Ia the little country
81 Holland, not much bigger than this coun
~, dug % 1t were out OF the bottom Of the
sea, and inhabited by q heavy, plo.ldiog pop
ulatsop, Philip the Second CT Spain, who
vas styled, In the lo'diy language ri
the age, the "dominator of three worlds
assisted by the finest army Europe ever saw,
the age, undertook TO impose the luQuisition,
aud, 70 his great a.touish meat, it resisted him
Their cities wers burned to ashes, the fields
laid waste, tbs dikss Cat aud .hs sea let il up
on their country, and women sui Children
drowned in their houses; starvation stared
them full 10 the face, aud, in some INSTANCES,
they boiled and Ate grass cut frcm between the
bisd~how long do az suppose Three
years, - We havei seven years, rs orr sr.
osstors did They fought Philip the Ssoord
and bis grand armies aad those of his sueoss-
sors for eighty years. snd taeis miserable lit
tic country, winch HISTORIANS dsncmins'ed oG,
cast BY men and gods, iaally t:ian2had, prs
served its liberties and seeursa permanent
pence, despite the eforte Of u tyraut Who held
millions of men in subjeotion Shall we ever
allow ourselves 70 ts put tn shame by :hs Va.
or of those who are sometimes termed. in po
very elegant language, chs id Dutch,
when We are possessed Of resources Of which
they never 6rexDed1
There was Sc ytland, which resisted the a.
tenn Ut Of the Engiisb to sut j1gate her fer four
hundred years, and finally Ovsrcs,ns her enc
mics, and forced THIN to a.o'pt her King,
james the VI, xs James the | Of Eagiapd
There was the little duchy Of Prussia. hardly
big enough for Frederick tho Great TO try one
Of his long rsDgsd guns Ia without shooting
over into some nsighbo,iog territory. Well,
this lit.ls country fought tue e)mbinsd armies
of Eve Of the greatest poweIs in Europe. rep
ressnting . population Of one hundred mil.
Hons, whilst Ptu sia 81 . population OF only
five millions, for tho Gpsce OF seven years, aud
Aaally came ut with her nationality and l.hsr
ties upimpsired, and richer .han when sta
went into the war, though during the bloody
strife her Capital lad been ssken and retsken
nou Qsz9n uW0B, 8uV INC County was cIteu
The sosne Of the widest desoia:iob.
Shall we not pareist in our struggle for inde
psndencs, and add another bright pags to tho
history If the triumphs Of free people
"eaiASt Dsspot,sm7
~s~1s uxRx yUulor the iaduIgenss with which
you have attended my rambling remarks; and
10 rsdnng allow me to express tAs hops and
trust that ere many months you may rest un-
der the shade Of our tree of national ildepan-
-
blood and tears, while within its leafy
branches the white winged dove of psaes
shall tune her soft note to the memory of yor r
loved and lost, who rejoicsd 70 lay down iht is
lives for their siters and their fisssides.
May God bless you all.