Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-26
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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 26.
How Grant Is Attending to Rich
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From The Richmond Examiner.

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[From The Richmond Examiner, July 1871
The progress and present stage of the
mighty Federal campaign Of 1854 begins
to be ludicrous. Disinterested spectators
far off must be deriving amusement from
it, though probably thinking the farce has
been played long enough, and that a joke
is joke. We Contederates can scarcely
absurd as the matter is-find it in our hearts
to laugh; and our enemies are even very
much less in merry mood. Yet there is a
certain grim humor, a sort of horrible buff
foOnery in the affair. Think of it-nearly
three months ago, after the mightiest pre-
parations by land and sea, two immense
armies moved against Richmond in two di-
rections, while another great force careered
up the Valley of Virginia-all to unite in
and around Richmond, and there and then
to cut the throat of the 'Rebellion."
And now the irresistible, inevitable U. S.
Grant, who was to achieve that mighty
work, sends word to his masters in Wash
ington that if they can repulse the rebels
"a Confederate army which is said to be
threatening the Federal capitaD, he, Grant
"can attend to Richmond" Why, he has
been attending to Richmond for many
weeks, paying it the most devoted, though
respectful and distant, attentions; but what
Seward, as they "ride to the 'front.'" or at
least toward the front, listening to Confed
crate shells bursting in the suburbs of
Washington, while they have fast vessel
in the Potomac with steam up, in their
rear. Grant can attend to Richmond!
What kind ofsecurity is that to the bank
ers of Washington who have huddled their
safes and their books on board another ship
of the Potomac fleet? Grant may be pay
ing attentions to Richmond; who, indeed,
does not relish his attentions at all, but
keeps him at arms length; while Washing
ton, his peculiar trust and care, his own,
lawful wife as it were, whom he is bound to
defend and cherish by all the tenderest ties,
is exposed at home to the insolent overtures
of Confederate suitOr. Attending to Rich
mond! And who is there to attend to Lin
coin and Seward, to Annapolis and Balti-
morep ....-
This Federal war to conquer the Confed-
eracy has already furnished rich material
to satirists and caricaturists in amusing pic
torials of Europe, to The ChdriUdri and Mr.
Punch, and the German KladderdddtSch.- =
Not Louis XIV himself, prosecuting his
conquests in Flanders" was ever so Knocked
by an irreverent world as these successive
grand armies of the Yankee nation, who
are always going to make clean sweep OF
the South tais time, and their long series Of
ihvincible Generals, each of whom is, for q
moment the coming man, and the next mo-
ment the going one.
Pope, who had seen only the rebels back
losing the coat from his own back when the
"rebels' broke his camp and scattered his
army-which respectable uniform coat wa!
| dow in Rchmond-Banks, who came to de
stroy us, but turned out our best Commits
sary and Quartermaster General, and who
when last heard of, was fast running away
| out Of his glorious conquests in Louisiana
with the loss of his baggage and cham
pagne," to say nothing of his wagons anC
| cannons, gunboats and transports, nor o
| the carriages which contained his fair com
panions, with their wardrobes.
Then the "great raids" always destined
| to cut off Richmond, and chop up the Con
| federacy into two or four pieces, which
usually come to bad end, but which ar,
always found to have, whatever else the,
may lack, abundance of preserves AM
cheeses, jellies, Scotch ales, sardines ant
cognac, plenty of ladies' dresses, corsets
| petticoats, together with silver plate an,
richly bound books and gold and gems, al
grand raids has its own day of popular ia
|
papers of New York, each of them doe
really seem, with its superb equipments
sleek horses, and luxurious warriors, suffi
cient to conquer an empire. 1t is surely
well for our Confederate people that thel
do not often get sight of Frank Leslie o
| Harper's Weeklu the sight of themselves il
those broad wood engravings, so cut up an,
chased, so driven and routed by the in
Vulnerable hosts of handsome gentlemen
| on thoroughbred chargers, would almos
conquer us without blow struck.
| Also, the pictures of the beautiful an,
costly apparatus of every sort with whicl
that great nation goes to war; of Ger
Sickles' travelling carriage, with its desl
and lamps, and exquisite liquor case Q
rosewood inlaid with silver; of their elegan
suffers stores and reading rooms; of thei
balloons, travelling kitchens, portable stear
| engines; should certainly make us tax
| shame to ourselves that we, thus ragge,
and all forlorn, pretend to resist so illustri
| GUS, or at least so illustrated, an army an,
| nation. e... H.
| One day this whole history, rightly told
will make the universe hold its sides. Poo
| Louis Quinze was nothing to it; who "wa
| said, and even thought. to be prosecutin.
his conquest in Flanders, when he let him
| self like luggage, be carried thither. anC
no light luggage, covering miles of road
| For he has his unblushing Chateauroux
with her band-boxes and rOuge-pots, at hi
| side. He has not only his Maison de Bouch,
and Valletaille without end, but his very
troop of players, with their pasteboar(
coulises, thunder barrels, their Kettles, tid
dies, stage wardrobes, all mounted il
wagons, tumbrils, secondhand chaises-
sufficient not to conquer Flanders, but til,
patience of the world.'
The last campaign, especially destined
three months ago to conquer continent
and thought to be stupendous enough tC
subdue hemisphere, is likely to make in
history the most grotesque picture of ALL
True, we cannot yet fully enjoy the ludic'
rous aspect of it, because it is not yet quite
over, and prepostcrous as it is, has cost anG
will cost tears and precious blood which
cry aloud for vengeance. geni.g g
We cannot laugh; but all the rest of the
world, to whom the representation cost:
nothing, already enjoy the thing exceeding.
ly, and will 60 off into convulsions of mer.
fiment when they learn how Uncondition.
nj Surrender Grant writes to the Fedora
capital from the swamps of the Appomatox
that If Lincoln can only find forces enough
to keep the Confederate army out of Wash.
ington, he (Grant) can attend to Richmond
TEN thousand Swiss emigrants are now
at Havre and other European ports, await.
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