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The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
of all other craft on the new tack. From its eleventh-hour convictions we extract the following: In a word, the battles of the last year — the conflicts in front of Richmond, the retreat of our army first from their fortifications to the James river and then from the James river and the Peninsula to the Rappahannock — the repulse of our troops in their march toward Richmond, the battles by which they covered their retreat to the Potomac, and the general conduct and upshot of the year's caJames river and the Peninsula to the Rappahannock — the repulse of our troops in their march toward Richmond, the battles by which they covered their retreat to the Potomac, and the general conduct and upshot of the year's campaign, have been disastrous in the highest degree to the Union cause. And this is known and felt to be the fact by every man of intelligence, from one end of the country to the other. We might possibly flatter the vanity of individuals responsibly connected with the army or the Government, if we were to shut our eyes to this palpable and unmistakable fact. We known very well the penalty of telling unpleasant truths.--But we know also that, in such a country as this, with such a people a<
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], An English view of Northern despotism. (search)
An English view of Northern despotism. --The Manchester (Eng) Guardian says that the course pursued by the Administration of the United States is that of desperate men persuaded that, for them at least there is no retreat from the path which leads, however clearly and inevitably, to ruin. It adds: Their inability not only to make way, but to hold what they have gained in any quarter, only stimulates them to resort to fresh violence in order to obtain troops which, when they have got them, they do not know how to employ. We seem to have heard the last of bombastic appeals to the patriotic spirit of the Northern States, of lavish inducements of consulting the popular will as to the prosecution of the war. All administrative energies are now concentrated on the attempt to procure fresh food for powder and fever by the rudest arts of Oriental despotism. The consulates of the principal cities swarm with persons craving exemption on the plea of foreign birth and others, distrusting
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], An English view of Northern despotism. (search)
f Petersburg, offered a preamble and resolution to the effect that the legislation of the present session be confined to the subject of salt. After a protracted debate, the resolution was indefinitely postponed — ayes 49, noes 35. Mr. Staples offered a resolution tendering the thanks of the Legislature to Generals Lee, Johnston, and Jackson, and to the officers and soldiers under their command, for their distinguished services in the defence of their country. Mr. Robertson, of Richmond city, submitted similar resolutions, of a more general character, embracing all the officers and soldiers from every section who contributed to the downfall of the enemy in the recent battles, and tendering the sympathy of the General Assembly to the bereaved friends of the gallant men who have fallen. Both series of resolutions were, on motion of Mr. Flood, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. On motion of Mr. Buford, the House adjourned over to Friday next, in order that the