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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Inside history of the battles around Richmond — the instructions of McDowell — his correspondence with McClellan . (search)
The news.
The Northern news published this morning contains some important statements.
The papers state their loss at Murfreesboro' to be 30,000 in killed and wounded, and acknowledge the less of their tremendous wagon train, Lincoln has, in accordance with his promise, issued his emancipation proclamation, which has caused much ridicule.
The Monitor, the "hope of the navy," as the Yankee papers called her, is reported to have gone down in a storm off Cape.
Hatteras with all on board.
Another account states that only thirty men were lost.
She was bound for Wilmington.
This report comes from Fortress Monroe, where it was received Sunday morning. It will be observed that the Federals claim a victory at Murfreesboro', and assert that Rosecrans is now in possession of the town.
The latter fact is probable, as an official dispatch from Gen. Bragg announces that he has fallen back thirty miles.
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Inside history of the battles around Richmond — the instructions of McDowell — his correspondence with McClellan . (search)
The peace rumors.
Whenever our armies win a battle, we forthwith hear a thousand rumors of approaching peace.
Such rumor sure particularly rife just at this moment, when they have just won a couple.
We wish we could see any just ground for believing peace near, but we confess we see none whatever.
Our victories around Richmond were followed, on the part of Lincoln, by a call for 300,000 additional men, and this call was succeeded, in a very short time, by another 300,000 more.
The whole Yankee force, on paper, since the beginning of the war is twelve hundred thousand men. Of these, we are told, about three hundred and fifty thousand have been slaughtered or put hors de combat, so that, on paper, there are now about 850,000 men. A contemporary disposed of nearly half of these as deserters, or sick, or otherwise absent from their colors; so that only about 450,000 are left to do the fighting.
Yet this is a tremendous army, and as, thus far, the Yankees feel perfectly safe at
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], President Davis in Petersburg . (search)
Lincoln's emancipation programme.
The South has given its answer to Lincoln's programme of emancipation at Fredericksburg and Murfreesboro'. If he wanted to know in advance what would be the effect of his prominent proclamation, he has probably by this time ally enlightened.
The South does not his manifesto with words. "She leans upon her bloodstained sword," indifferent alike whether he oils his speech with soft, conservative blarney, or whether he bowls forth the threats of the incendLincoln's programme of emancipation at Fredericksburg and Murfreesboro'. If he wanted to know in advance what would be the effect of his prominent proclamation, he has probably by this time ally enlightened.
The South does not his manifesto with words. "She leans upon her bloodstained sword," indifferent alike whether he oils his speech with soft, conservative blarney, or whether he bowls forth the threats of the incendiary and murderer.
When he comes near enough, she strikes, and sends his myrmidons reeling back, bloody and dying, to their master.
So far as his promising of a St. Domingo campaign is expected to intimidate our people, he may decide whether the late battles give any taken of such influence so far as it is designed to operate upon the servile population, he might as well proclaim emancipation to the serfs in Africa.
When he undertaken to give practical operation to his policy, by organizing