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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Eight Months' campaigning and the result. (search)
arting under repeated defeats, the laughing-stock of the world, and feeling in their hearts their utter inferiority to us in all the qualities of warriors. The worst spent four hundred millions that ever slipped out of a public treasury, have been the millions which the North has paid for eight months of campaigning, which has resulted in nothing but in teaching them that their volunteers are cowards, and cannot be trusted in the field. It reminds us of the vast pains and expense which Xerxes, Darius, and those Eastern commanders of myriads, were at, to learn experimentally the same sad truth of their armies. A nation may have wealth in its exchequer, arms in its arsenals, supplies in unbounded profusion, and it may have troops by the million, and yet, unless those men have the true pluck of warriors, and be capable of fighting bravely in the field, these grand appurtenances of military power are butas sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. They can effect no more in the field,
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Eight Months' campaigning and the result. (search)
arting under repeated defeats, the laughing-stock of the world, and feeling in their hearts their utter inferiority to us in all the qualities of warriors. The worst spent four hundred millions that ever slipped out of a public treasury, have been the millions which the North has paid for eight months of campaigning, which has resulted in nothing but in teaching them that their volunteers are cowards, and cannot be trusted in the field. It reminds us of the vast pains and expense which Xerxes, Darius, and those Eastern commanders of myriads, were at, to learn experimentally the same sad truth of their armies. A nation may have wealth in its exchequer, arms in its arsenals, supplies in unbounded profusion, and it may have troops by the million, and yet, unless those men have the true pluck of warriors, and be capable of fighting bravely in the field, these grand appurtenances of military power are butas sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. They can effect no more in the field,
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Eight Months' campaigning and the result. (search)
arting under repeated defeats, the laughing-stock of the world, and feeling in their hearts their utter inferiority to us in all the qualities of warriors. The worst spent four hundred millions that ever slipped out of a public treasury, have been the millions which the North has paid for eight months of campaigning, which has resulted in nothing but in teaching them that their volunteers are cowards, and cannot be trusted in the field. It reminds us of the vast pains and expense which Xerxes, Darius, and those Eastern commanders of myriads, were at, to learn experimentally the same sad truth of their armies. A nation may have wealth in its exchequer, arms in its arsenals, supplies in unbounded profusion, and it may have troops by the million, and yet, unless those men have the true pluck of warriors, and be capable of fighting bravely in the field, these grand appurtenances of military power are butas sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. They can effect no more in the field,
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Eight Months' campaigning and the result. (search)
arting under repeated defeats, the laughing-stock of the world, and feeling in their hearts their utter inferiority to us in all the qualities of warriors. The worst spent four hundred millions that ever slipped out of a public treasury, have been the millions which the North has paid for eight months of campaigning, which has resulted in nothing but in teaching them that their volunteers are cowards, and cannot be trusted in the field. It reminds us of the vast pains and expense which Xerxes, Darius, and those Eastern commanders of myriads, were at, to learn experimentally the same sad truth of their armies. A nation may have wealth in its exchequer, arms in its arsenals, supplies in unbounded profusion, and it may have troops by the million, and yet, unless those men have the true pluck of warriors, and be capable of fighting bravely in the field, these grand appurtenances of military power are butas sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. They can effect no more in the field,