The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-23
The london Times on Grant.

A leading editorial in the London
Times, thus discusses the situation in
Virginia, and the probabilities of a
Union defeat
Il is not on the fate of Shermans,
but on that Of Grants enterprise, that
the fortune Of the war now appears to
be suspended There is no limit, In
deed, to the elasticity of Northern SELF
reliance, and there are persons who
would not cease to proclaim the ap.
preaching extinction of the rebellion,
though the Army Of the Potomac were
annihilated and Washington taken.
We speak of no impossible contingent
cies. If Beauregard were to dispose of
Butler and gain Lees camp before
Grants reinforcements could reach
him, nothing, we imagine, could save
the latter from ar overwhelming defeat
Such defeat is ruin to an army that.
has stalxed everything on victory, and
has no defences to fall back upon I'm
less Grant can maintain a superiority
in the field, it becomes a question whe-
ther he will be able to recross the Poto-
mac with more than remnant of his
force.
We know too little of the resources
at the command of the Confederates,
and have had too many examples of
their comparative weakness for az
gressive purposes to venture on any
prediction at this iuncture. All that
we desire to point out is the importance
of the political issues depending on it.
Supposing Grants prodigious sacrifice
Of men TO be fruitless, and his military
reputation TO be wrecked what will be
the probable effect on public opinion in
the North2 The war party will doubt
less be more furious shan ever, but will
the war party be dominant any longer
Win the policy forced on President
Lincoln by a section Of the Republicans
survive the financial and moral col
lapse that must follow such a eatastro
phe2 Or will the pacific sentiments of
the great masses, who have mo interest
in wrong" make themselves heard for
once above the din of bOisterous pas
sions, demanding either a change of
policy or a change of President We
cannot tell, but We may at least hope,
for the sake of humanity, that the wild
and ruthless cry ron to Richmodd, J
has now been raised for the last time.
In che light of subsequent events, it |
is altogether unnecessary to point out
the absurdities of the rebel prediction |
that Grant VIII be SO badly beaten as
to be unable tc-get back to Washing
ton and we only copy the extract to |
show the reliance that Journal places
in the action Of Nofthern copperheads.
Il hopes to see them become sufficiently
powerful 10 secure the Independence I
of the rebels; and it certainly knows
the staff on which il leans. That party
would glaily see the rebels successful
but the Times Is sadly mistaken when
it supposes that there is any probability
that it viii ever obtain power. II great
ly nunderrates the abiding patriotism,
and the intelligence Of the American
people, as it win see by Novembernext
We hope the shout Of ION to Rich
mond" has been raised for the last time,
and we believe il has, because we are
sure that it viii soon fall, and win re-
main in possession of the Union forces
forever. Should it moi be talxen-but
we have no fears on that score-the cry
Of con to Richmond" viii be continued
till the doomed city is in our possession.