Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-07-21
JLY a1, 1854. New series-.vol. 4, No. ao.

the capital, or force an attack on himself, Of
| force an evacuation OF Richmond.
Not that he has bis choice Of these three
things, but can force that choice upon US.
10 Grant's moving upon the South OF
kichmoad and threatening james river
near the city, Gen. Lee has choice OF two
evils. IL he keep. ahead of Gfrpt and holds
the Petersburg line invielste, that fanker
necessarily gets between him and Richmond
aud walks into the city Mt lis leisure. Ii
Lee keeps between Richmond and Grant.
the latter of course gets between him and
the Southern States communication, aud
cuts of the only source Of supply now loft,
~ the valley If Virginia is 10 the hsnds Of
the enemy. If Lee wants 10 cave Peters
burg and Richmond both, be viii have to
attsck Grant in one Of his crsw-fsh move
ments, and will have to attack the positions
and intrenchments which the grand spade
and pick army never exists an hour without.
In our judgment the plan Of the esin.
paign is Il last developed. Western Vir-
gjnia, the Valley and its resources, is, by
the movement on Stanton and Lexington,
| to be rendered unavailable for provisions.
Grant Is TO throw his army intoforti6cations
and so cut of our army supplies. Thus the
/ blhAtuttVu VI y btckE WtA w - SugStaaAty
secured as ii an army could be fonpd large
enough to surround the leg.ons Of Lee. az
! Grant did Gen. Pemberton; provided, of
course, that the DanviIle road ehares the
fate that the Weldon road probably will
If Gen. Lee chooses to stop the game By
q fight, he has 10 put his finger oBthe slip
perry Grant and stop his fea like fsnkings
and having found him and stopped him for
q fight, will have to charge the hills Grant
will occupy and the trenches Grant will dig
IL President Davis concludes to swap capi-
| tails, and giving Grant Richmond, starts off
ahead OF him for Washington, we will have
the army to subsist in the desert waste be-
tween the two capitals; have to make time
on foot that will beat the transports on the
Potomac and the Chesapeake; have the
Notifications of Washington to storm; and
siege to stand there should we get inside.
We lose Richmond If we hold the Wei.
don and Dauville railroads; we lose the
railroads if We save Richmond. or we at
tack Grant nightly 10 his trenches II We try
to save both. 1t is true that Gen. Beaure-
gard could still keep South of Grant, and
prevent raids into Carolina; but could not
keep him from stopping the roads South,
unless be has enough men to attack Grant
in reverse, and place him between two 6rea
We hope Grant thinks he has. This is a
game with NO possible bindrancs, perfectly
plain to even such unmilitaIy cemprehen-
sion as our own, and we respectfully submit
that there is no fun in it.
The writer is aware from personal obser.
vation, that there is q personal popularity
and enthusiastic devotion to Grant among
his soldiers; not eaualed by any thing ever
seen in that army before-nor surpassed in
the af an1 r,nah Et III a
love of the Old Guard for Napoleon. There
fore he can flank and fight for some days
} yet, before they get tired of it.
These are facts. and plain as they are. il
is not in good sense to talk of the trap tina
: Sherman occupies, or of the bull-headet
: Grant. butting his brains out against tn,
ramparts Of Richmond
: When the supplies of Sherman are Gu
OH, as we trust they will be, and the .grea
raider of Mississippi broken in battle ol
starved out, begins DISASTROUS retreat evei
the country himself has devastated; wher
johnson thunders on his flying rear and
Forrest stops his fight; when the fords oi
the Tennessee are in peril. and Chattanooga
agsin besieged when Western Tennessee
looks up 10 hoi e. and Johnson. the traitor
trembes in the fortifcations of Nashville
then let US all flsp our wings and crow, and
: not till then. ,.-- y....-
When Grant changes base in the McClel
Ian style. and Malvern Hill is again an altal
of sacrifice, and our horses drink at the Po
tomac and pasture in Maryland, then let U.
! laugh at Bull Headed Grant" and ex
anime the embrasures around Richmond iol
! the brains he left about loose.
But when we get to enjoying SO greatly
the joke of which the Yankees retain tAt
point, and grow happy on paper over half |
State lost, and Capital not yet saved, le
US look through the windows Of the blockade
D and see with European eyes-hoio do 70
8 lookS We do not mean to form our hope
upon what the paid journals OF England
Q and France write for pecuniary reconpense
: but to look at the scene as impartial eye
' must see it.
Secretary Stanton recommends to the
: Federal Congress that the law which per
9 mts the drafted man to pay three hundred
{ dollars and stay out of the army, be repeal
q ed That shows that Lincoln is afraid h'
! has not men enough to take Confederacy
a just now. 1t also shows that he. intends t
try and get them; Ergo, failure now doe
4 not stop the war! ...,.
. Let us, then, earnestly beseech our peo
pie to faithfully aud steadily work and hop
9 for results, but let us not initiate the enem.
f in vain and premature boasts. go.
Let US not make ourselves a. Laughing
stock Of Europe, by winning victories o
!. paper not yet won on the field: Let us nc
quicken the popular pulse at home, whic
dreams and prophecies of glorious victory
+ for no expected evil harms halt so much, q
the blood that lexps forth in, the scstacy {
8 triumph. ebbing back in sick convulsien VI
= on the disappointed hsart. L.- ,.,..' Y
Humility is as worthy virtue in PEI
. pie as in. person and quiet faith, as Fl
remosed frem boastful arrogance as frol
oowardly despair, is the apirit to carry
y through. =. .,-...-.,...' .'.-r,.,-, .y-..,
d Abase.nent precedes promotion, in th
70 Divine decrees; and it is not alone tn
q Mason who teaches, whose humbieth mn
70 self shall be exalted" IL
= o. President Davis Is never 80 near the stant
30 ard of. greatness, as when he frankly owt
y our evil state; and feeling that there IS muc
he cause to doubt our, own strength, he toi
y. Congress and the world that We are in PER-
in and calls tho supplicating Sovereignties
e. the nation, to join him upon set days
er prayer. ' '~ :,
th The last time we saw him bis words WEI
ng LET us do right and We will whip the