The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-17

49, ID ffeHH Il1kM esd COTTON
1afSA q loere q esnna QeenlttteA
va1nay uIlnjuuIs -. q. .....-JuA1 u ~
xsshee assess.
psauess y gssasly aaspyed q the snall
] less q or essceA h shs bastac " r.iisy, he
3Dog Jnsc. lie ccAtsasia the loss Aforesaid
wfsA M saosmoss daughter Of The Yan-
keee, md eosAes 10 The coaclusicn, natu-
ral.eaosgA for Yankee sewsraper editor,
tAat The RieAmcsd joussals lied sbout their
iosseA He thinks Il woo1erfal thai the
cAivAlsyof the South, who boast Of oe'se
aseeenAsd Of The best blood Of EsglAnd,
sAossA isdslgs propensity 20 purely Yan-
kes - tlas u lying. ''For Instance" be
aays. ssths Rlchnond journals announce
.esayeN Inst g tho battle Of last fflday less
than ave husdrsd rebels were Killed.
Strange - Il may seen, M Bennett. Il u ~
true. nsvesths,sss. Your Yankees were
drivea up to the attack 4 the point Of the
baysaet, much against their will, IN columns
zen or Gfteen deep; they we're ncas)y all Of
then drank, arsd 4 random, could not re-
Mad, and In SONS isstaDces put down. the
cartridge with ths bullet frst. Our men lay
beaind their breastwoIks, took deliberate
aim, and slaughtered tho dfusken thieves As
sho1gh they had beea sheep. led up on pur
poss 70 - slaughtered, and this game was
kept up Cor ten hours. IL IL not wonderful
that such . murderous .ffair should Affect
the senslbflities Of the Yaakecs bat the
occasTsnce y not uncommOn ia war. Has
Bennett ueyer heard az man named Andrew
Jacks0n, and II battle he fought onee called
The battle OF New Orlesust II he has, has
hs forgotten that four thousand Southern
ard Western troops, behind bresstw0iks,
popajarly, but sgroneOusly, believed to have
been cotton balss, In one hour killed and
wounded two thousand British regulars.
With the loss Of only Afteen men ? Did he
never hear Of one George Croghan. who, at
Fort Sardusky, In battle Of . few hour,
slaughtered several hundred British and In
dians, without losisg man? Tue fact IL, that
when troops attack breastworks. without
being able TO carry them, there ls always an
enormous 1isproportlon Of loss In favor Of
the defenders.
Bennett goes on TO say, "And yet some
half dog a rebel Generals were killed or
wounded, mot 10 mention vast number Of |
Colonnls snd other superior officers, leaving |
ID to conjecture either that the Richmond |
jouruals lied about the number Of killed, or |
that the morals OF the Southern troops was
20 much depressed that the Generals were
4 nAx Ia thDv
Mp to the scratch" Nothing Of the kind,
0Awasy. Demoraiiz ed troops do not hold
= position tor ten hours ON stretch against |
vastly superior numbers, and beat them at |
last. Il such were the fact Grant ought to
demoralixe his army ~ fast - he cau-that |
Il, 20 much Of It ~ Il not demoralizsd al
ready. The facts may puzzle Bennett, but
nevertheless they are facts. Oar loss In OIL. |
Gers was heavy. our loss in men was triaing'
and yet the men were not demorAlized. Ben
meat cannot account for many thiLgs not SO |
strange - this. Why, therefore, should he |
waste his ingenuity In attempting to unrayei
. mystery 30 far beyond his comprehension.
. sThere are moro shings In Heaven aud earth,
H0gatl0, /
Thar afs dream, Of 10 ny philosophy"
Having acc used the rebels OF lying, Ben.
nstt axies his own hand at It. He says: ave
have before called attention to the extraor-
linary fact, - stated by the rebel papers, that
Lee and Johnston were gaining great victo-
ries-the one having reiterated iiliy milts' |
the other eighty, just that they might get
Grant and Sherman where they wanted |
them." OF Johnston's operations, from
want Of . proper degree Of knowledge, we
arc not prepared to speak. But 1t Is uttetly
false that Lee retrcatcd one foot In the lite |
operations. Whom an army retreats, its an |
tsgonlst Joliosos. In tho operations indicated |
Grant always went before, and Lee followed.
He was trying to cut Lse of from his base.
and he failed in every instance.
The Yankee press may lie and prevaricate
~ they win, the truth will come out at hast.
There Is no campaign on record In which the |
party onthe defensive suffered SO little lose,
and inflicted 80 much, A. the present, and the
Yankee nation viii learn that before It grows
masy weeks older. The truth u hid HON
them now By precisely such sophistry Is that
contained In the above extracts. But il soill
come ont at last
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