Year: 1865

pei It's surrender.


something Of this sort before and even more than once
H s one OF those magnificent combinations extending
over vast space which now form the well known cha
racterfstc OF fankee warfare Those superhuman CON-
binations satisfy and exalt the imaginaton but they
have the disadvantage Of always filling in some one
and dare say IN the general orders assigning 70 each
army and commander his special duty all TO be accom-
Pshed oy agven day this sort Of campaign undoubtedly
looks maesuc only when set agoing and brought into
collision with hard facts t somehow becomes dslo-
Gated. Thus the contemplation OF those many
COMPASS snd bound 70 '0% aeep " tms pen'i Ia, q lost hs
good deal Of It's iniimda.ng effect What is this
also Butler with my thousand men was TO advance upon
Richmond by the south, Grant with hundred and dfty
thousand from the north, Hunter with fifteen thousand
destroying the railroads both beyond and this side Of
that city Or course supplies TO be cut or and
o. cCI'S1 aSs Onmona hne was % surrender aud Butler
July last, at the iateAt what has become OF those
mighty armies9 Nine months have barely passed,
and the broken and wearied remnants OF them
are scarcely sufficient 10 provoke an occasional
skirmish at some point upon lines, which no
longer causes an alarm bell to ring in Richmond Grant
Ter, now "planting his cabbagss" at native Lowell
no Confederate names him without laugh Yet those
commanders and their hosts seemed formidable enough
TO us nine months ago; especially portrayed to US


In the eloquent and menacng OF Yankee war
psgn: military slang es %posns imposing e % persons IN
civil life Accordingly, In Nav and June last many
weak minded citizens we're preparing to quit Richmond
and MI hemm'nger, ever mindful Of the safety Of his
interesting Treasury employees packed them of to Co.
lumbia '.Now am in Arden quoth Touchstone
place. That indeed Of the great financial strokes
OF Mr. Memminger.


Now there is not At this moment SO much to alarm us
in reality as there last May It true we have
not 30 many troops; but neither has enemy by q
great deal On that OCCASION too General Butler could
and did land his forces at City Point without any effort
los6 but this year Sherman has TO fight his wav
through many swamp, and take or turn many bat
terry, and leave many blue-coaed corpse behind him
not without degree confidence that the President
will not this relieve General Beauregard In the very
crisis OF his campaign and appoint General Pemberton
Shermans rear and marchnway to Mobile. But bar
ring this, or some other equally enormous bunder
or crime It seems evident that Sherman has before him
much moro difficult and perilous part Of the grand
campaign than Butler had last year. And in the mean
time his devastating march through South Carolina
moro conquerng that State than his great raid through
Georgia has converted Georgians to tho "Union,n


Richmond is safe II all parties concerned do their duty;
that Is II tho new Secretary Of War is energetic, and II
mentary ideas about food especially IL Congress proceed
at once with such legislation for the purpose Of giving
General Lee control Of large numbers Of. negroes
and decision important in this matter; yet it is
understood that many members have hong speeches to
heard for days-goIns down the very first prin
cpes of human society and soaring 10 the sublime fu
ture which is reserved for the destiny of species
and the roads almost beginning already dry under the
winds Of March. Two days Why Sherman can march
forty miles In two days.


If this measure s to be adopted to increase our means
of national defence, it well IL done quickly
In order that there may be al least portion OF the
material ready for the work OF the coming struggle. In
Of Richmond that the city is in any greater danger this
spring than It the spring before. There Is the
strongest probability, too-a The Omens indicate-that
this viii be the last campaign against the capital Of vir
gniA