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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
ant positions will fall into our bands of themselves. No General is justified in squandering precious lives in premature attempts to pluck fruit which, if let alone till it ripens, will fall into our lap by the law of gravity. While the fate of Richmond hangs vibrating in the scales, Charleston will be resolutely defended. As long as the rebellion has a single leg to stand on, it will run great hazards to retain at least one important seaport. New Orleans is lost, and next to New Orleans Charleston is the most important exporting city in rebeldom. If, by some turn in the wheel of fortune, foreign powers should raise the blockade, the Confederates feel that they cannot afford to be in a position to derive no advantage from its withdrawal. The commercial importance of Charleston, its railroad communications with the interior, and the great strength of its fortifications, are reasons why it, above all the seaboard cities of the South, will be vigorously defended to the last. In