Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-02-09
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w dues" II does not by any means fol
Low. however, that by means Of Yankee quarrSls
thu Confsisracy will recover al that Is OWING to
her. No conceivable capital Of money or Of fortune
could repay 10 the South all that she has lost by
Yankee brutality, malignty and vindietiveneSs, CT
COMPENSATE for the suffering she mas been forced 70
endure. or satisfy her demands for Justice Our
dnes are not TO be got in any such way. But from
the disputes OF liars truth very often derives much
benefit. Witness the very pretty quarrel between
g,tIsr and Grant When Yankees praise each
,,tbar. nobody believes word they say but when
ebey abuse each other there Is no abstract reassn
20 believe rlem, except that which is involved in
their natural tendency 10 mcndaeity But, on the
,ereral principle that anything bad is at least
applicable 10 thems what would, as to other
,so,ls be- Islander, y TO the Yankees
If not true. certainly ought 10 be true Nothing
that is vile nothing chat is dishoHors0ie, nothing
that is vicious nothing that is mendacious, nothing
that IS cruel nothing that is brutal can excel what
the Yankees have displayed Of these qualities
Cther people have been false; others have been
cruel; others have been brutal. but 1t was reserved
FOR the Yankees Co exhibit the full and perfect COM
binstion or "a those qualities in national chsrae-
Ter which seems to.have bCeB created only 10 de-
serve the execrsUou OF mankind. But for this
fact. which seems to- be now universally Scknowl-
edgci IL would have been hard to credit the
statements which Butler made in recent speech
At lowell Batter has 9uarreled with
Grant: or rather Grant had come 20 the eonclu-
sion thet Butler was rather on incurnbrauce in his
army than an acquisition, and hence availed hmseli
Of the very dr.t opportunity to get rid OF him.
Rutle-. however. is determined that the Lieutenant
General shall not continue 20 enjoy The reputation
which no one knows better than be TO have beer
founded on the most morstrous system ofcharla
tanrv and humbug that even Yankee ingenuity AM
iuapuieuce have ever devised. Hence, while mag
uifylnE nils own s'pros.ttioas exrlaits during the
campaign OF last sUmmer, aud claiming to have Won
the only successes achieved by the Yankee armies
in the operations against Richmond he declares the
whole campaign, On Grants part, to have been
stupendoGs failure, characterized by series ofdis
astroas defeats, i'm which tens Of thousands
Union soldiers were uselessly slaughtered FOR the
accom.lisdmeut Of an uPattainable purpose We
ere now for the drsJ time informed Of this fact OF
Yankee authority although, during the whoic pc
riol Grant aud S;sutou han been claiming daily
yic,or.es which ought, according 10 all reasonable
theories to have conducted the FEDERAL armies right
into the Capitol Square before tic coming OF the
summer solstice. We are nov likewise told for the
Asst time what was Grants true plan, and We are
shown how thoroughly he was defeated, outgenegal
ieI aud eircumvc1ted Butler reveals the fact that
was Grants design 10 strike James river above Rich
ond and there eject junction with the army of the
james operating from Bermuda Hundreds. A con
summation Of this movement would have completely
isolatci Richmond aud cut Il oil from its necessary
Butler tells US how Grant was
bafei in these calculations by General Lee but he
does not tell how Ec himself was beaten and driven
back by Genera, Benuregsrd He does, however
claim tina. his assistance saved the battle Of Colo
Harbor'-a battle in which Grant attacked the
Confederate lines with mis- whole force, and wGs
driven back with the loss of nearly 10 900 men, the
ConieGerates Losing not move than 5OO--afer which
he abandoned bis eutire system Of operations on the
North side. This Is what Butler calls saving
battle"
Bt, what would DC, we're it not for Our knowl
edge Of the Yankee character, one OF the most re-
voltin- disclosures OF brutality aud dupljcity OF
record IS the shameless confession in regard TO thy
exchange Of prisoners. Butler takes care to cast
the odlum Of this transaction Gen. Grant. II
appears that Grant gave orders TO stop the ex-
change after Butler had made arrnage ments 10 per 4
feet e; thar Butler then wrote argument, not for
the purpose Of supporting position deemed - be
Just nitselG but % make a case by which the VIC
lation OF the cartel might be justified TO the world
In other words, as the New York World says, the
reasons given we're not the true reasons, but were
sham reasons, and thus the scores ct thousands OF
unfortunate captiyes on both sides were made TO
suffer. not 20 maintain principle, but in ordsT to
prevent the Confederacy getting the services OF
any more men, and thus 10 enable Grant to conceal
in sore measure, his extraordinary blunders and
stupeodQus lossel.
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