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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The currency question. (search)
on even take place, the war would go on as briskly as ever. The fact is, we cannot stop if we would — we cannot turn back if we desire it. Like Macbeth, we have waded so far in blood that it would be as tedious to return as to keep on. Many people are discouraged by the large proportion of Confederate territory which has fallen into possession of the enemy. Let such persons reflect, that occupation does not by any means imply conquest, as all history testifies. Read the campaigns of Hannibal with the map of Europe before your eyes. You will find that General, after having overthrown the allies of Rome in Spain, marching through the South of France upon Italy. He crosses the Alps in the face of difficulties almost superhuman, and by a mere cavalry battle becomes master of Piedmont and Lombardy, with all its warlike inhabitants, burning with hatred to Rome, and eager to join him in overthrowing her power. A bloody battle on the Trebia gives him possession of all Tuscany. Anot
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], 1,000 dollars reward. (search)
he human species. America was young; in many respects, "very young," and the Atlantic was too immense for her to go across to school. The consequence has been that intolerable self-conceit which arises from extreme juvenility and the absence of a proper opportunity of comparing herself with the rest of the world. Hence, she was always talking of herself and her doings in the superlatives and exaggerations common to untutored boyhood. Her orators were far ahead of Cicero, her warriors of Hannibal, her statesmen the first in the world, her people the most intelligent and virtuous of man kind. Europe was a mere collection of be benighted and down trodden masses, outside barbarians, whom it was the mission of America to reclaim to civilization and religion. Such immeasurable egotism and vanity would never have arisen in a nation having the advantages of contact with the chief centres of knowledge and power. The Atlantic Ocean has a great deal to answer for. It was reserved for
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President of the Confederate States of America. (search)
rn merchants and foreign bankers — could be lifted. It would be found that hundreds and thousands of shoddy and other sharpers who have amassed fortunes out of the war have made and are now making special deposits in safe places beyond the Atlantic which must come upon the Yankee nation. If Mr. Chase were to-morrow to let out his $30,000,000 of gold in Wall street, in order to reduce the premium on gold and temporarily to bolster up the credit of the Yankee Government, the greater part of it, if not the whole, would find its way to Europe in thirty days. He will find that this expedient of his is but the labor of Sisyphus, and is undone as soon as completed; but unlike Sisyphus his means of repeating his performance are not enduring: they will be soon exhausted, and the bulls of Wall street will uninterrupted play their pranks with gold, and occasion as great consternation and uncontrollable disorder in the Northern finances as did the bulls let loose by Hannibal in the Roman army.
The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
degree shaking the firm and confident faith of those who inhabit it in the ultimate and triumphant success of their cause. Nor have these enormous hosts been superior in numbers only. In all the resources of modern warfare, their superiority has been still more remarkable than in numbers. They have had an abundant supply of arms of the most approved pattern, while we are indebted to our victories over them for a large proportion of those which our soldiers wield for their destruction, as Hannibal, after the slaughter of Thrasymene, armed his own troops with the weapons of his dead enemies. They have a navy of six hundred vessels, while we have not half a dozen ships afloat. They have the command of nearly all our rivers below the head of tide water, and they have hermetically sealed all our ports but one. They have inexhaustible supplies of men in Ireland and Germany, and are recruiting our negroes on a grand scale. The very earth trembles beneath the tread of the hosts which th
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Struck by lightning. (search)
d all Greece. Alexander the Great gained a military reputation at the age of eighteen. At twenty-five he had conquered the world! Julius Cæsar distinguished himself before the age of twenty-two. He completed his first war in Spain before the age of forty. He conquered all Gaul and twice passed over to Britain before the age of forty-five. At fifty-two he had won the field of Pharsalla, and died at fifty-six, "the victor of five hundred battles, and the conqueror of a thousand cites. " Hannibal commenced his military career at twenty-two, and was made Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian army at twenty-six. He was victorious in Spain and France, and won the battle of Cannæ before the age of thirty-one. Scipio Africanus (the elder) distinguished himself in battle at the age of sixteen. At twenty-nine he won the great battle of Zama. Scipio Africanus (the younger) had conquered the Carthaginian armies and completed the destination Gen of Carthage at thirty-six. Gorgonian succ
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The American campaign in London and Paris. (search)
's mythical call for four hundred thousand more troops, have occasioned considerable talk, and not a little chagrin and mortification to those believing them. As to the canard of President Lincoln's last call for troops, the same steamer that brought the announcement brought also its contradiction. The anxiety of everybody is still on the strain, and we are all looking to see the culmination of these military efforts, the most persistently sustained of anything that has occurred since Hannibal fought the battles of Canta'œ and Thrasymene. Bets offered that Richmond will fall within an many weeks find no takers. One military officer, of high standing and large experience in the British army, in answer to some remarks about the "useless slaughter" of Grant's men, declared that since the art of war was practiced better generalship, higher skill, or more persistent military perseverance, under such circumstances, was never known. Said he, "there is very little room for what is
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ung. He is eight years older than Clive was when he commenced his career in India; seven years older than Bonaparte was when he took command of the Army of Italy; and of the same age with Wolfe when he fell on the plains of Abraham. It is not age, but military experience, that is needful in a general. This possessed, the younger the man is, the better. Nearly all the greatest generals of the world have been young men when they made their first campaigns. Alexander the Great was twenty; Hannibal, twenty-seven; the Great Conde, twenty-two; Charles XII, eighteen, at the opening of their several careers. There have been others, however, equally distinguished, who commenced later. Julius Cæsar was forty-two when he began to command in Gaul; Wellington was thirty-nine when he took command in Spain; Washington was forty-three when he took the American army in hand; Marlborough was fifty-three when he took command in Flanders; and General Lee was somewhere near the same age when he took
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Yankee Confiscations and Pillage. When Hannibal lay in sight of Rome the ground on which his army was encamped was sold at public auction and brought a fair price. The purchaser and the people had no fear that he would ever take the city. The city of Alexandria has been held by the Yankees for three years. They have sold of late a vast deal of confiscated rebel real estate. In no instance did it bring one- tenth part of its actual value. The conclusion is irresistible. The Yankees entertain no hope of holding Alexandria. As a particular case, we would mention the sale of Freestone Point, the residence of Colonel Fairfax--a magnificent estate — the very fishery upon which rented before the war for the interest upon $100,000 in gold. Of course it was worth greatly more than that sum, for the rente would expect to make out of the fishery at least as much (clear gain) as he gave in the shape of rent. Well, the whole estate, land, houses, and fishery, sold the other day for th
The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
elieve that while he is with them they cannot be beaten. They are proud of his high renown. They know that the laurels which encircle his brow were placed there by their hands; and they will shed the last drop of blood rather than suffer the impure hands of a mercenary leader of banditti — such as Grant, the tool of a tyrant as remorseless and as careless of human life as himself — to tear them from him. Now, this is the feeling which renders soldiers invincible — which made the troops of Hannibal believe that victory was chained to his standard and could not be divorced from it — which enabled Cæsar to say, on a critical occasion, when his army murmured and refused to go forward in a certain expedition, "If you will not go, I will take the Tenth Legion and go with them alone"--which induced Wellington to estimate Bonaparte's presence on a field of battle as equal to fifty thousand men. No index of a great commander is so little liable to mistake as this capacity of inspiring men w
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The art and science of War. (search)
with the differential and integral calculus, or to read before learning the alphabet. The nation that ignores professional information, and undertakes to back its generals in war, must, if this suicidal policy is continued, be languished. Four years of experience in military matters has well taught us that no man can be fit to be a general who has not received a military education, or has not well studied the different branches of the science as a profession. Another consideration enters into the scale in calculating victories. Our country has been divided as to whether the war should be conducted offensively or defensively. For three years the latter policy was adopted, and with success. So marked were its advantages to our cause that its opposers lessened and was confined to a few, with, perhaps, more ambition and bravery that prudence.--Those who are in favor of carrying the war into the enemy's territory should remember that Hannibal of Italy lost Carthage. Bohemian.
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