The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-03
AY MORNING. G..,,.....JANUAHY 5, 1865.

! rfbAY MORNING.. 5, 1868
I I'D the commencement Of the year
II 1 that year Which terminated with
AGturc Of CORVALLIS at York and
nation Of hos;ilitics s-the affairs of
sists had never worn so'gloomy
:. Not oniy Savannah, but
81 n, was in the hands of the
.,au,. Gates had suffered defeat,
ehiet caused the almost entire dispersion
o'ls army. What remained ofitscc,ncd
q sr nothing but prey to the enemy.
Tsa,raitor Arnold had come suddenly
n.l James river with strong force,
nan, and military, and on the 81 or Sd
ldJanuary he captured Richmond, where
there gas 10 force to oppose him. To
rowa the public distress, III the army
INN lately under the command Of
Washington the Pennsylvania line mutt
lied for want Of pay, and it was for time
Enppcsed that the whole force would dis
Aband This n,utiny had no sooner been
suppressed than the New Jersey line
followed the example. The public at
large ard even Washington himself,
Example had been
:. e greatest anxiety
had the affairs OF
.s ,rcrIsu SO near deStruc-
! tio. The weak-kneed shock in their
sh.ces~Eyen men Of firm courage and
constent temper began to despair
ButVashington Ieyer suffered his hopes
to ate, or his courage to shrink, or his
firreso7 re to be shaken for a moment.
Oths aaight tremble, but he knew not
howe fear. Placing firm reliance il
the jti Of his cause, and of the good
ness eoyidence, he never doubted for
an insnt that all would turn -out WE'LL
and th lis country would emerge from
the tfisgreater and more glorious than
1t woul haze done had it never been
-'1b,ted to them. The country caught
ne ontagion of his example as men
cat the plague. It's fears were allayed
sh it saw the commandcr-in-ch
calnnd confident. It proved to be the
lar hour just before day. The light
800 began to break. On the 18th of
's1ry, Morgan defeated Tarlcton at
bAowpens-a blow from which Corn
/ l..B never recovcrcd-and on the 10th
\ f. October, Cornwallis surrendered.
y Werecall these things to recollection,
this time, because it strikes us that
Iere is a similarity. in our present con-
I.ion to that of our fathers in the begin
log Of 1881. Hood, like Gates, has been
Heated andSayannah has been taken.
i 1t Charleston has not been captured,
4 4 Hoods defeat was far from being so
nal as that Of Gates. Richmond is
Il in our hands; whereas, at the open
sot the year 1851, Arnold was maste1
I ut. When Green joined the army q
South, iIl December, he found it re
d,else a mere handful, intimidated by
deat'ana altogether incapable of ma
siy any great exertion. The forces OF
beufegard. on the contrary, are hume
ros ard well disc iplined, and its officers.
afeablSand experienced soldiers. The
y'cbry which has just been achieved
. @oyer The f1nkcA armada at Wilmington
jnay bq fairly set og against the defeat o.
[ Ferguson at Kings mountain. Every.
thing considered, we arc ma far more
ho-sfI. condition now than we're on,
h-nsn Ylo l1sl.
Lei bur ccuntrymen consider iha
3aet q J deducc from il the ineyitabl,
encl hioA.l They hare no Gauss &c,
6fdenfy. II God, il bis swn time
af light o.is OF The darlssess {,
~, PSI, waat reason hays we i.
@ nc vii not bring 4 glorieusAa
III ls night Of January, lsCh On
every thing elss. ~ tho mi
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