The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-04-06

Generais-Grant and Sherman-must
be shelved, as their way of conducting
a siege will be pronounced not wide
and grand enough for the Yankee ma
ton their combinations were not ex-
tensive enough their several ap-
proaches did not converge Sufficiently
from different points. Next year the
siege of Richmond must be commenced
by opening branches at Key West, in
Florida, and at Corpus Christi, and
digging through the continent so as TO
cooperate with another branch on the
Arkansas river.
THE SITUATION BEFORE PETERSBURG.
The Sentinel says: Affairs yesterday
and to-day before Petersburg were
very quiet. Large bodies of cavalry
have been moving on our right. A
large Eody Of cavalry passed down the
plank road two days since. Sheridan
will soon be heard from on our right.
Reliable intelligence from City Point
represents the presence of fifteen mon
itors and forty iron clad vessels in
James river, besides an innumerable
feet of smaller and less formidable
boats. Since the attempt of the Con-
federates to pass by the Yankee OBJ
structions, the enemy has doubled his
vigilance and increased his naval force
Admiral Porter is in command of the
James River fleet. His flag ship occu,
Ipies prominent position among the
vessels. Gen. Grants headquarters
arc at DR.. Eaves' house at City Point,
FLATTERINGyPoRTRAIT OF TIE YANKEES.
The Dispatch has the following ed
itorial
Never were people more woefully
deceived. The Yankees will have no
mercy on them. He is only forbear-
ing when he finds his proposed victim
is in a condition to resist. Let him
but once more be at his mercy, com
pletely in his power, incapable Of fur
ther resistance, and he might as we'll
hope for mercy from tiger, or compass
sion from wolf or forbearance from
any o ther cruel & cowardly wild beasts
of the forest. The Yankee will not
only strip his victim of everything he
has in the world, down to the very
clothes upon his back, but he will take
every other means to make him feel
his situation. Is it not better to con-
tinue to resist even unto death than to
accept such o peace as this. The OBJ
iect Of the Yankees In waging the kind
of war they are now engaged in car
rying on against us could not be mis-
taken. II is no longer restoration
of the Union that they seek-that
was from the first mere pretense,
used to cover designs which once might
not have been quite so prudent to ex-
pose, as they believe it to be now
The universal belief among them is
that they arc on the point Of our sub
ljugaton, and that it is therefore re-
quirod of prudence to make mere
story of the fate they design for us.
That fate is simply the utmost degra.
dation which their ingenuity prompted
by their malice, can devise. They
will not be content with merely beat
ing us into surrender. We must feel
all the horrors of conquest heretofore
put in practice against Il defeated foe,
with the addition Of new ones, devised
for the especial qualification Of their
hatred. That hatred is a passion uni
versal among the whole Yankee na-
ton. There are so few bosoms not
agitated by it, that they scarcely serve
for an exception to the general rule.
1t began long before this war, and any
one who attributes the unheard of
enormities which have marked its pro-
gress to the disposition on the part Of
all armies to commit excesses, will be
very much mistaken. 1t arises from
the long, deop-rootcd hatred to which
we have alluded, and which is now
presented with an opportunity of graf
flying itself. Our cities are wantonly
burnt, and our population insulted
and murdered upon principle. 1t is
the result of cold -blooded calculation,
not of military passions stimulated by
resistance.
JOHN NJ DANIEL DEAD
All tho Richmond papers contain
lengthy obituary notices of John NJ.
Daniel, editor of the Examiner, and
for eight years U. S. Minister to Sar-
dinia, who died on Thursday, of ty-
phoid pneumonia. The Examiner
calls him "the great Virginian, and
the papers generally unite in calling
him the foremost editor fthe Confed-
cracy.
LEES POSITION CRITICAL.
The Sentinel, in an article on the
military situation, says:
There is extreme need for every
exertion wo can possibly putforth. We
are alluding moro particularly to
North Carolina and Virginia, for upon
them the war now throws nearly its
whole weight, and they have atpresent
to enddre its peril and its shock. The
States beyond, wo trust, will do their
duty to us in this crisis. We trust
that they will be Jealous and prompt
in sustaining the common cause with
all their men, money and means; but
to strengthen Gcn. Lee against the
dark columns which at this moment
advance against him from every point
of the hoIizon-to supply him with
provisions during the interruption Of
railroad communication-the people
of Virginia and North Carolina mus
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