The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-15
iohspAY MORNING. NOVEMBER !, 10.
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80 RAGS IN isrge or small quan,s,ic.


""oo'n has signalized his s,coo.. :,
'' o'''h"n more Of men to pnt a6,, -. N"''"s i'r
''E there never was n ,cb,ii; ''''''o''
"'""' OF 80 Pcrt,uacious in eoyn;nr 80, :" p~'
having been pat to cath Dn,,n. a., % "'''f
~ war which has lasted thrco 80, ~ '''' VI
'S, three million oEu hundred O., '''
'ee" called out by tho Yankees ana - 'ae''
'0'"' arms 10 assist in crush,nc ,hn -.
- 'he statement of the Nov, vi. -,
'e' oy Us the other day and il WA Ill.
nv" e'uod ont previously to the late ,.,e,a,,o-
''' n'e hundred thousand made in pursuance
"'' Oh congress The men who have actually
=, '''i arms, under engagement 20 serve for |
-, VI uutlng the war, exceed in number |
ekht hundred thousand. And yet the |
"'''ch we are continually told is on its last /
- o. We nave been told from tho first day of the
~'' u 80 far from being crushed that one million
mon are needed 10 crush it. in addition to the
I'VE hundred thousand called for just before the elec-
''oh' Was there ever such a rebellion! |
ms call for one million men, 30 soon after the |
Net'on gives the lac to Stewards prediction with re-
@''d 10 me conduct OF the "rebels' upon hearing
Of Old Abe's election or, rather it prove, TINT Sc
ward did not believe word of it himself; for he
lead- old Abe by the nose, and was no doubt -
the bottom Of this proclamation Had he really be-
loved that the reelection Of old Abe would have
the effect he described, he would hardly have or
q rcd the levy OF a million of men before no had
h'd tme 10 STE whatit would be. For part
u" expected some such demonstration, and only 4
wonder that hs did not call fer four FIVE times
''tny II would have been quite easy to call for l.
five, or ten or twenty millions as for one A. for
Hn army Of one million, marching under one COM
m'nder and operating in quarter, that is out Of
TIE question. Such nm army would be nothing mora I
than MOE, if once gotten together. Its vclv
weight would cause its destruction. 1t could be fed
hy ho possible continuance and would break to | tn
p'eteS Of itseif like ship stuck high and dry upon "
i 'ock After ALL IN modern times, a comparative ST.
HANDFUL always decide the war In 1869 tho tri
-N@s'''ais ana french together had seven or 10
eis.i hundred thousand men under atms. tut
TIE contest decided in Italy. whore tho 81
French had never more than thirty thousand =
In 1908, Austria had five hundred and fv Thousand n
men under arms. The army that was captured or i
dispersed at Ulm did not number more than eighty o.
yet that, in fact decided the contest At
gny, Quatro Bras and Waterloo less than three Ire
hundred thousand men decided a contest which | LIE
more than two millions were armed TO take n mart
IL Such enormous bodies cannot be brought into -
icnon entire. They merely as recruiting Dc |
pots Tor the army III front it becomes exhausted
win MI the enormous hosts Lincoln has called on !
heretofore, he has never been able to bring more
man three to one to bear upon us and he is not o'
likely TO increase that disparity With such pre- =
PORTION between us and him, we have generolIv
ea'en him heretofore, and shall be very ant 70 Il
10 it again. sol
We have heard some of the Weakened exolaim the
ng IN great terror upon this new Proclamation lac
These men are always seeking occasion for alarm u
hey ioVe to be frightened. and it would be cruel not
o Crafty them. Otherwise, We would ask Them the
'hat else they expected. Do they not know that w
lincoln means TO put forth the whole strength of his Bro
mpIe to crush u.s. Has he not done it heretofore
No can We expect that he will not do it now, Rut
e nave had enough of these men, They are ALWAYS Ma
ropheSying cvii-aways looking forward to every iere
ling the Yankees do decis We of our fate al snu
avs relieving every lie they set ahoat, and sue
'mohg to every bullying, beastly, braggadooio 4
7ast that comes from Yankee lips Ma