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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the Tallahassee. (search)
ultimo contain copious comment on the American war. The London Times cannot believe that Grant, whom it calls "a pertinacious General that no number of reverses seems sufficient to check," can intend a movement against Richmond up the north side of the river, but rather thinks that he will attempt, by such a movement, to reduce Drewry's Bluff. The same paper, on the Presidential election in the United States, says: If the Federals win — if Grant takes Richmond; Sherman, Atlanta; and Farragut, Mobile; --we may anticipate that the peace party will be discouraged, and their opponents enabled to prosecute the war. If, however, the Confederates win, and the Federals experience any signal disaster, the war party will be overpowered, while a similar result would probably follow even if neither party won, and things remained exactly as they are. This is the strong point in favor of the South. If they can only prevent the balance from being turned decisively against them, the advantage
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
orce that General Hood may be able to bring against it; or if Atlanta fall it will be but a small matter since the issue of the war is to be determined not there but here; and the capture of Richmond will, in the opinion at least of Lincoln, compensate for all losses everywhere else. At the same time we constantly hear of steamers passing up the Mississippi with troops, all bound, no doubt, to this part of the country, for there is no other place in which their services would be required. Farragut, too, seems to have abandoned his operations against Mobile for the present, thinking, no doubt, that after he shall have assisted in "crushing the rebellion" by the capture of Richmond he can return and take it at his leisure Grant lately demanded 100,000 fresh men to finish the job, which he commenced under rather inauspicious circumstances, of capturing Richmond. The demand is an ignominious confession of failure, but it proves that Richmond is still his object, and that he hopes still