The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-28
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hss lied accordingly.
All THIS Is cf3cial, and might bare beel
expected. Bnt, as is nanh in other csstf
private enterprise Ia In mir way to get th'
| a !rantage CT Government patronage. LIN
co'n made mistake in not putting BIS !yira
on. to the highest bidder, instead Of having
IL d me by Government employee. The
desperate energy with which certain liars
| On their own hook, prose cute the trade, 10
spite of tho monopoly he Is attempting to
establish, abundanily proves what we eay to
| be true. Most conspicuous among the adj
Yeniurera of this class IL the correspondent
Of the New York Tires, who writes from
the amy before Petersburg. OF this man IL
may DC truly oa,a, as Phillips, with eigh'
degree OF adjudication, said OF Napoleon I;
Tie Ia a man "w.thon, model and without
shadow" His sagaci;y exceeds all human
bounds sni ali rational calculation. OF
conrse, he il strategist and = tactician.-
10 man can associate with the 'lisiie vii
lain" without cal ching the soiiefino fever.
This nan has discovered that Een. Grant,
from the moment he entered upon this cam,
paSu, had determined to make the South
side The scene of his future operations, and,
OF course, that when he said BE waa deter
mined ito fight it out on this line if it took
him all GUNNER" he var perpetrat!ng one
of those grave jcIes Of which We have had
SO many examples in his dispatches TO Star
ton. Apparently anticipating the very nat
ural inquiry why, if such we're the fact, he
did not ct once proceed to that quarter by
water, eeeinS that he could have done so
without losing q man, he IL ready with an
answer. 90, Grant wanted to try all plans
be tried the straight road and found that
would not do, and 20 he took q circumbeh-
dihus, and came over here, where he mean.
tn come at first. In this little experiment,
which cost him a trifc OF 100000 men, he
had that object constantly in view. While
in the battle of the Sd June, in which 5000
men are shot down like dogs, instead Of
being in the field, at their head, he is holding
high consultation with his most trusted Of
ticers, and when the news arrives ofthc dis
astrous result of the days WORK, he has but
to turn on his heel and say. 1t has turned
out as IeEpected-l was sure it would be
so-the works are too StroDg-We must go
to the 0outbside.
Gates. it is said, could never set saratoga
onl Of his head, ard when he went to the
South, expected to se!Ve CORVALLIS precise
~ rs he Iat! served Burgoyne. 20 Grant Can
never forget VicSshnrg, any more than poor
old Scott can forget Lund,'s Lane, although
everybody except himeeIi mas ceaeed to
ihins about 1t, for more than .orty years.
VickeLurg is to be repested at Richmond,
upon large scale. There are, It is true,
slight shades OF difference, in the relative
condition 81 he two places, ana of the ar
mics entrusted with their defence. Vick6-
burg is little town Of five or six Thousand
Inhabitants, surrounded By very strong
country, with river eight hundred feet
deep, and three quarters OF mile wido
nSwing in front Of il. On the occasion al.
luded to, powerful feet lay in the river, an
army OF $500 invested it on the land side,
while it was defended by but 1900 men,
which had lately been beaten in half dozen
battles, and Was dispirited and distrustful of
its officers. Richmond, on the contrary, -
q city of $4,000 inhabitants, is surrounded
By WORKS reaching out SO FIR that it would
take half million OF men to lay it under
Siege, Will always be open through two
thirds of its circumference, as unapproachs-
bic by naval force, and his an army now
nearly EQUAL in strength To Grants, which
moreover it has beaten until it has become
an shieet OF sheer compassion. I'VE
venture to suggest to the nstute tao
tician of the 2Tn'ss, that i. is impu-
dence to talk 0: besieging o city lhns
aituated. IN army must firs: beat another
army IN the FIELD before i: eau besiege it :;
but the strategist Of tie Tines would have
the beaten army improve its position by be.
sicging the victorious army. 4 notable de.
vice, trnlS; almost as wise in the concep-
ton as that recorded Of Marie Auto.nette,
who, when told that her people lacked
bread, recommended Queen cake as sub
stitute There is some little difference, too
between the situation of Richmond now
and that Of Paris in 1sl4, though this mill.
tAry correspondent does not. appear to re.
cognize it. When Paris surrendered to the
allies, they were already on the heighta OF
Montmartre, with 100000 men and 200
pieces Of cannon. Nevertheless, the sur
render was owiag to treaehery on the part
of Marmont, who had never forgiven Sapo-
leon for depriying him Of the command of
the army OF Spain, after he had been disas'
trons!y defeated in the battle of Salamanca.
Had he kept Ais Faith, Paris would have been
the grave OF the Allied army; for he had
40 coo men, Who, with the assistance Of the
citizens, had repulsed them in repeated at
lacks, aud Napoleon was approaching upon
their rear with 10000 more. Such was the
o, inion, ut leaet, OF Sir Robert Wileon, who
was in the Allied army, and was, during the
whole tiVae Of Napoleon's ascendaney, the
most persistent OF all his enemies. Here,
again, We venture TO suggest, Is some differ
euce, though too slight, possibly, to derange
the theories OF a paper strategist. There
are 40 traitors in command here, nor are
there likely to be any. Besides, Paris was
not fortified, and Richmond is.
All this braggadocio Is but whistling to
keep up the spirits ON The part OF the Yan-
KEGS. They see that Grant, after unheard OF
losses, is in situation from which he cannot
retreat without absolute min to the vile
cause he was sent here to sustain, and that
il is impossible for him to advance as long
az Gen. Lees army IL in his front. Their
dependence now is upon destroying the