The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-17
SATURDAY MORNING.. SEPTEMBER Il. 'scs


Tho concentration Of all his available forces in
Virginia. for the purpose OF striking iiaal blow
between this sud the sth day OF November, Is OBJ
y,oa,lv the roiicy OF Lincoln at this moment and is
il, su ,sact accordance with his pseconeeived ideas
az the n,rottance of Richmond 10 the continued
existence If the 'rebcllion," that every southern
and every Northern paper teens with essays upon
the subject. The former have always foreshadowca
,be operations Of each campaign before il opened
and by not taking the innumers.ble hints to be
shefed from their columns, we, on one occasion at
least, ran TIE risk Of fearful catastrophe We
lvfsk oil the expedition Of Butler agains. Peters
bars last sprina-wh had been proclaimed to the
unb.l,evsag authorities Of Richmond by the North
en psp,s for weeks before il was put in execution,
and which was SO naturally lalt Of a general plan
Tor taking Richmond that we are surprised II came
80 near Succeeding. We hope, on the present occa-
ssa the revclations Of the enemy will receive more
attention from our authorities, for they correspond
80 exactly with the actual situation of affairs that
is impossible to discredit the m.
19se object Of sherman in asking truce for ten
days ard in sending of all the inhabitants from
Atlantis can neither be overlooked mistaken.
lie designs to convert Atlanta into an inland Gil
bsal:sr, which few men may hold against multi
tade. and 10 employ the ten days granted him in
effeeting that purpose. He will then send off the
larger part of his army to Virginia, OF, which is
more probable he viii carry it OF himself The
few men he may leave behind will be sufficient to
hold Atlanta against any force that General Hood
may be able TO bring against it If Atlanta fall il
viii be bat small matter since the issue Of the
war i 10 b determined not there but here and the
capture Of Richmond will, in the opinion at least Of
Lincoln, compensate for all losses everywhere else
At the same tir,c we constantly hear of steamers
passing up the Mississippi with troops, all bound,
no doubt to this part Of the country for there is no
other place in which their services would be re-
quired. FarTsgut, too, seems to have abandoned
his operations against Mobile for the present, think
ing, doubt, that after he shall have assisted in
g crushing the rebellion by TIC capture of Rich
mond he can return and take it at his leisure
Grant latel- demanded 100000 fresh men to finish
the job, which he commenced under rather inauspi-
cous circumstances, of capturing Richmond. The
demand an ignominious confession of failure, but
il proves that Richmond still his object and that
lie hopes still to accomplish it. Could he do so,
matter at what cost, it would clear up his some
what clouded fame; and although accomplished
with enormously disproportionate forces, and at an
enormous sacrifice of life, would raise him to the
very pinnacle of greatness among the Yankees.
The reverson of Lncolns slippers that is to say,
il Lincoln does not choose to exchange them for
pair of military boots-would certainly be his. In
the distracted state of Yankeedom lie might even
look higher than that A crown and sceptre might
he the reward of such exploit, and Ulysses l.
might sign himself Emperor of all the Yankees
Il tn az he nj II Rtphmau1 ia VT
to a second term, the great object of Lincoln's
btion, and that it would his reelection be-
yond the reach of peradventure Put all these
things together.he fertilization of Atlanta, the ten
days truce, the continual movement of troops up
the river, the ambition of Grant, and the mania Of
Lincoln upon this subjeet,-and if any man be not
convinced that tremendous onslaught is impend
ing over Richmond he must be harder of belief
than Thomas, who was surnamed Didymus.
To ms, at least, it is perfectly plain that Lincoln
and Grant imagine the rebellion to be in such con-
diton that it can be destroyed at single blow, and
that that blow must fall upon Richmond. For our
part do not believe that the capture of Rich
mond would put an end to the " rebellion" Yet
We free to confess that il is by far the most i'm
portant point in the Confederacy, morally as well
as strategically. Its capture would go farther to
dishearten our people than ali other causes put to-
gether. In the meantime, if we withstand this
desperate effort there is every to believe that
IT will be the last And yet that very account
II will be the more desperate. Our authorities, be-
yond all doubt, the matter do, for, indeed
there is no other light in which to view it. The cap
ture of Richmond would transfer the whole State of
Virginia into the Yankee lines, and within those
lines they would then include all the country that
lies between this and the Mississippi river. 1t
would be time enough then to continue operation
upon the Gulf States if, indeed, those States con-
tnusd their opposition Such being the state of the
ease, We are confident that every effort will be made
to prevent the Yankees from getting possession OF
il do We believe that they will succeed in doing
We have powerful resources for defence within
our reach, and, doubtless, they will be employed to
the best advantage.