The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-22
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We re publish, from the Nashville Uaioss
the suhjoiasd cfpceition of Grsa,'s plan
for taking kichmoad. with atwo-fola OBJ
Jtet. We wish to expose the systematic con.
ceaaasent Of the truth prac,ised by Stanton
during this campaign IN the iirst place. and
10 tho second 10 show that Grant has igno-
miniously failed
As Gen Grants campaign has nov been fully
developed. the following aaecdotc CERTAINLY wall
vtckseasR. Ia conversation with oumbcf OF OH
ccss, s~N tssaat. with~ut expecting 10 be ever call
Cd t"t the paac', gave hts views t the proper plan
eocapsate Rechosand. IL said that, IN htf view,
tWo asastes xhouII move against the rebel capital -
Oae by way OF the kspIdsn. aud ,hs other by way
al friesshasx E,ilry of til, caam0s SHOULD be
stso1s enough - fight I.ec Oh, Of bis ehtreneh
msnss-a circumstance which world compel Ice
~ keep his arRy togethtT, a. division, viii the
Jaases siveT between the sectiens, must prove Ia
tai
ssrhe army On the South " n 70 cut eft commo nj
cattuas and threaten the stsuclion OF the rebel
capital from the South, aRd be able 70 take II, II
I.ec did not full back; IL ae did (ati back the ann
from the North couid press him, and besisge him
Ia the capital, and ny nstaas OF sunboais Psffecl
c0naeclAoW across James river could be Kept up $500
The ~ 0meat the army n the S0Ithside occupied
Manchester, Rtchm0md would become untenabie
ana undef any circumstances, with all couMuuica,
tons cut, the city could not stand long si-y@;
Ahd though portion VI The rebel a. my might
Cape, IL would 0aiy do 50 In denotatzed eou
dtuon month after The above conversation
Grant entered VicksbaSs, aud Ia seven months
saorc be took Command Of the Army of the P"io
mac. Success has viIdicated the adoption Vi Tue
pan conceived a year at more ago, !"
Success has vindicated the adoption" has
az If zo1.
fought Lee out of his entertainments? Has
Lee been compelled to keep the two sections
OF his army together? Has the separation
proved fatal? Has "the army from the
South" cut Off communications? Yves it able
to take Richmond before Lee fell back ? Did
"the army from the North" besiege Linn p
Did it ever get nearer to Richmond than
Cold Harbor? Did 1t not abandon Cold
HaEbor, even In the night, cross the Chick
ahominy ut Long Bridge, fifteen miles be-
low. take the road to Westover, cross over
20 the Southside, and leave the whole coun-
try as far As the Potomac open to Lee D.
Has "the army on the .Souihside" ever occu'
pied Manchester Has II made Richmond
uuteuahle? Has the city been taken9 Has
only portion Of the rebel army oscapet
Ac .Ording to the writer's Own showing, all
these things must have happened. ii success
vindicates the adoption" Of Grants plan.
50 far as our senses may be allow ed to judge,
not one of them has occurred. Lee remained
In Spotsylvania ten days after Butler had
landed at Bermuda Hundred He did not
fall back at last because of Butler, who was
beaten and confined to the Hundred by
Beauregard, without his assistance, or be-
cause be was beaten by Grant, whom he de-
feated with enormous slaughter whenever
he attacked him. He fell back to Geld Har-
Dor mot to Richmond) because after each
successive defeat Grant endeavored to steal
around him on his right, and get 10 between
him and Richmond. lie anticipated him
every time, and fOrccL him at last to Il nix
himself entirely over the river, thirty miles
below Richmond. 1t is evident, then, that
Grants campaign, as here get forth, is an alb.
solutc aud entire failure. lie has changed
his base, and begun an entirely new cain.
paign, aud Cne totally different from that
which he had conceived for the destruction
OF Richmond. How that will end is obvious
enough. Already, since the severe blow Of
Saturday, he is following up his old strategy
Of inclining to the lett, to fink our army
again, wesuppose. ii he can, for he has never
yet done it, often "a he has tried. But he
eannot slide into Richmond by his left
Petersburg lis in his way, aud he cannot get
hichnond without taking it.
No man, VIC presume, would have made
sueh an ass OF himself as to publish such an
article as that extracted from the Nashville
Union, had he known the true state OF at
fairs. But Stanton, doubtless. deceived him
as he did the whole Yankee nation. lie
made him believe that every defeat which
Grant met with wss victory. and that his
sidelong advance Was a pursuit Of Lee. He
never let it be known that, in every instance,
Grant left the field first, and was followed by
Lee. The deception was kept up to secure
the nomination Of Lincoln, but it can hardly
last much longer.