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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The failure of the French harvest. (search)
Exaggeration. --A New Haven, Conn., journal rebukes its contemporaries of the Northern press for the systematic exaggeration of the number of their forces in the field, which we always hear of before a battle. It refers to Bennett's constant averment that the Grand Army of the Potomac reaches two hundred thousand men, whilst the New Haven journal thinks it does not reach half that number. Various New York papers speak of an enormous expedition, numbering sixty thousand men, which is to be landed upon some point or other of the Southern coast. Others more modestly content themselves with twenty-five thousand, which is likely to be double the real number. They have men enough to require the utmost vigilance and energy of our authorities, but not near as many as they pretend, and their constant boastings and menaces have only had the effect of awakening the Southern Gulf States from their sense of security, and enabling them to put their coast at all points in a state of defenc