The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-09

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M pslse.l q Observe slAatA certain de
xres Of dapeHdsncy, whether derived from
tha tone q Ceokrees o. tho Jsrtniads Of the
prcas. , steall1e over our people. especially
Asrs Il 8icAmoad, and that the Yankees arc
baildlns IN largest expectations upon IT,
Whnt = fhe6e ID The present aspect Of Affairs,
nose yhaa Asrs hss boon from tho -Opening
u To VA, y rnaks ~ dcsponds What arc
" ss1eeiae new which We ought not 10
hare lntEslp1ted. and which, Indeed, NJ did
moi aaflcipate. We are Engaged 10 long,
tedlons, desperate war. Did wc not know
from ~ 1fst, u least did not everybody
tafeeeA except : few gcntlcMcn claiming 10
bswisef Than IN the rest Of tho world, that
.tAs uxr aosld 30 long, desperate. and To-
di0UDY We have had losses, and they
uAtAes tzali nor few 10 number But NO.
sboAJ Who ever heard OF q war before snp-
passd ~ vdeto 90 through this war With,
'ost susselnisg any loss whatever. Nobody
belieyed IhAt we were to DO always suecess.
fnl O. hat Che struggle was to be ended By
oes,p II n,sia, like the Siege of Q fortress.
We arc somewha& straitencd for prorlsiOns.
Who, among Us sali, ever expected that II
would - Otherwise inthe course Of the wats
When ~ entered upon II. We took NIL It's
cAsscsl. Defeat, massacre, pessilence.
famine everythirg that smacks Of disaste,'
except sabmlssion- knew TO be within
ths1s1ssof Feasibility, and the consideration
did not deter a. moment from the coursc
! We ha4 Determined 10 pursue We embraced
them I'll without hesitation, as the only OIL
ternativc left, unless We chose to submit to
the Yankees without struggle. Should
they I'll dcscend upon us In their turn, or al
ones, We were prepared 70 stand the brun.
of their combined assault, for We knew that
81 koldipS out to the eud we must triumph,
and that not 70 triumph was to be ruined,
root and branch, body aud soul Well, we
haxe held ont for three yeaTs against tho
any one natl since the world was made.
TIE enterprise Of Darius against Greece was
moro lncursion Of Choctaws or Potawata-
miles compared to 1t, for that enterprise was
asfestsd BY the repulse at Marathon, In
which only II 900 Athenians were engaged.
The invasion OF Xerxes was nothing com
pared 70 it, for bis whole force Of i've mil
Hons was discounted, ruined, almost extcr-
minated by two batties--onc ut sea and the
other on land The inyasions of Prussia, dur.
Ing the time Of the great Frederick, were
nothing to Il; for, although the invading
naEi0us together counted one hundred mil
lions u souls, they never had more than two
hundred thousand men engaged ct any ono
time 70 tho invasion. The invasion oil
France By the allies was nothing TO 1t, for i
they did not carry half . million Of men to
Paris whom that capital was treacherously
delivered mp to them.
Bat these States Of the Confederacy, num-
Sering osiy - many white Inhabitants rs
Prussia numbered under Frederick, have re,
sisted, end rcsl5ted successfully, Tor nearly
three ysass, the. utmost efforts Of armies
that at one time counted eleven hundred
thousand mon In their ranks, and have never,
for two :years at least, counted 1t any one
tins less than half that number. These
nsn. Il must be remembered, were not eff
seminate Asiatics, or rude barbarians, like
- horaes Of. xerxes, but civilized men,
tra1ned In tia Rasopeaa. faslieax cHEnished
viii the bsst weapons, provided with every
fhan0 "a make the soldiorss life comfortable