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The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
n one series of eventualities unbroken save by the drawn battles of Sharpsburg and Gettysburg, from the first- drawn blood at Manassas, in July, 1861, to the last explosion of Beauregard's mine on Saturday last — yet they are always amusing themselves and the Yankee public with some new device that is to ensure victory at the next trial. Unless it be the Chinese, no population ever existed so entirely childlike in its credulity where its own success is involved. So perfectly have their Fourth of July orations convinced them that they are the mightiest nation on the earth, that they will believe anything which flatters their national vanity. The slightest glimmer of success, in the smallest enterprise is sufficient to console them and to re-kindle the war spirit in the midst of the most overwhelming and most dispiriting disasters. The capture of the Alabama caused them to forget Grant's 150,000 men slaughtered to capture Richmond, and the capture of a few ships at Mobile will entire