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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Particulars of the fight near Charleston. (search)
lax, from dependence upon the flattering tale it told, and the consequences were nearly fatal. We hardly need repeat the fable of the countryman who called upon Hercules to draw his wagon out of the mud. The sort of hope that we indulged in last year was analogous to that of the countryman. We stood with folded arms and called on Hercules, and Hercules would not come. That kind of hope which is placed in our own exertions is the hope we ought to encourage. It is that which swells the fury of the soldier when he goes into battle and makes him irresistible. It is hope of assistance from distant quarter, some remote contingency. It is based upon Hercules would not come. That kind of hope which is placed in our own exertions is the hope we ought to encourage. It is that which swells the fury of the soldier when he goes into battle and makes him irresistible. It is hope of assistance from distant quarter, some remote contingency. It is based upon heart and his own strength, and he knows they will go. Self-reliance is the true upon which to found all hopes of success.-- two men of equal strength engage in a fisticuffs. The one hopes they will be parted by the bystanders and therefore does not fight with half his natural energy. The other pitches in as thought there was