Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-01-28

TE~IE Ns~ i..... l--..,,, discusses. ot suoe length
and 81, -f. manner peculiar 10 that lourual. 'De
,,roD,IIs .er-.lutnces 81! thc tai of fiGJ f5her.-
The fan o.. tort Fisher involves the fail oil iof'
. sni,b and ClswsII OF Fort Anderson aud Whining
ton. Of Weldon and Greensboro oil RICHMOND anu
tbs fspfissc 1t is the blow which is 70 stun the
rebellion, gad lay 1t out quite cold ls the silent
shade OF history, from which c0matose CONDITION II
Is never 10 recover. Ehe capture OF TINS f"r'' IN
He'd seem, To- be regarded as the GROWING triumph
OF those brilE5ut combinations which have been So
long eHc.vcsciug in the brain Of the Lieutenant
General commanding all the armies Ia the United
Stafes. Though who would have supposed thai
,,bsU that able officer crossed the RsIaddn ON the
eth Of MAY last. procLiMiug his intention % march
5ur directly upon Richmond. and little while al
wards 'of aaatuc 10 ont. on that line n 1t took ali
SIMMER ahg wotld have supposed that The Lieuten-
ant General was even then looking toward. the white
rampant, OF Fort Fisher that, taking Richmond IL
a few weeks, meant capturing that fortress q nine
months. and tina. fighting II on on that line, all sum
ynsr. meant q grand naval and military assault on
Jytlmirgt1u ia the dead 81 winter But the Herald
saas i, ALL and even more. The Herald sees not only
tbs p~ofo,Ed and startling, the iudicious and mag
ni6,ert combinations of the Lieutenant General
,ybiob il must be confessed have a Kaleidoscope
rerulsritS combined with Kaleidoscope lriliiancy
not only IN lis own movements Is they are developed
hut I'm evervtLn. that happens, from the Potomac
10 the Rio Graude So that in the view Of this Keen
sighted f9ufusl. the folly which lost u Savannah
and the stupidity which lost For, Fisher. beth
came Within the logical scope. OF General Grant S
original combinations and within that extended
area q provision which is the object and tie test 81
military as Of an other SCIENCE.
IL wa, said by q wise men that i IS properto learn
from Al, .nemf. Vow if Grant has really prohted
in tbi- ,-y from US; If he has turned TO account
reasolar. anticipation Of Prec'uecirrct i'iiieS ID
one place and Of predemoustrated stupidity in aao
Their. it would well become us 20 take warning ry
his sxar.plcg II would have been better to avoid
the tN ard the 5eppidity IN the first place; bu, 1t
Is Absolutely necessary 20 prevent their recurrence
Nopsorie ia the world could stand urirtermitteut
attack q .hc jIeal,rs wlich-coS rs Scraunah and
Fort Fisher and which very nearly cost Is the mag
1ffceat s--ay-vL.cb Hooded away from the bloody
BnLses tlc lEa,,aEooclie 10 the disastrous banks
OF the C,a.Cellaud. We may say. and we believe
vesay -..u truth. tLaJ the capture oi Fort Fisher
yiIl NOT materially iunrc the Confederate CAUSE
IL does not neecsssri, Involve the isll cf Whining
Ton emu-T less Of Richmond. But il a severe blow
and it's all the screrer because SO unexpected
Not that people had not begun 70 doubt from the
momen; that the genius Of ii-luck was sent TO pre-
side over tie destiny Of ths threatened fortress
but tie comparatively easy repulse Of the first as
sault f. Z I'm some measure revived hope, and the
certainty than we were much better prepared the
second Cue thau the first had confirmed IT. But If
Grant ka,s, nothing else he knew his mon and in
this cqse % know his man was every thing. As
notbia. Jlst General Bragg ever attempted to de-
feud had escaped capture, it was snrelyo miracle
Of ld-iuck 20 tie Federal side, That Font
Fisher stood ont against Butler anI Porter
Tine thing was SO astonishing that, M Grant
opinion, il must have been mistake. Hence tho
spceds resumption Of the attempt, and the re-
Jsmption of General Braggs guardian spirit from
the imputatiou Of Inconsistency, which might other
wise nave teen east upon her IL is true that such
tIfiug never occurred before in the history Of
as the capture of powerful work, defended by
force within and without quite equal the assail-
iut column: but how en- this case could 1t happen
otherwise No enc, Of course, cua tell. livery
BODY feels than important position ought not
10 have been lost, everybody j. convinced that
strong a work might have been preserved; every
body knows uat properly directed efforts would
have SAVED IT, bur qss roalss-yous2 Did Gen. Bragg
ever save anything Is he incompetent The
President saws DOT; and the President ought 10
SNOW Is he unluciy Not the President himself
win ieuy that. Why, then, should We be forever
cursed with ms I-luck Must it cost not Only
Tor, Fisher, bat Wilmington likewise, and Weldon
aud Richmond and the eause' THAI remains to be
seen.