The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGMT 15.

The Federal preparations for another campaign,
from the magnitude of the scale on which they
are conceived, necessarily occupy • considerable
amount of time. It is felt throughout the Northern
States that in the effort to crush the rebellion
they are now about to make economy would be
waste, hesitation treason, and half-measures the
certain means of ensuring total loss The spirit of
Government and people repudiates all temporising
counsels and expedients. Experience has taught
many lessons during the last twelve months, but
none more important than this—that in great
affairs the truth is manifold, not single, and that
however superior one system or class of expedients
may be, it can never be so much better than all
the rest as to render it safe or wise to rely upon
it alone. The military organization which had its
origin in the spontaneous enthusiasm of the nation
furnished the executive in an incredibly brief
apace with the material of an army vast in num-
bers, and, by the admission of the unfriendly critics,
unsurpassed in the qualities that redeem masses of
men under discipline from being mere machines.
In the course of a few months the multitude of
volunteers had become in most respects thoroughly
drilled and capable of performing any evolutions
that might be required of them in the field. Their
bravery and endurance never were ;doubted, and
both have been abundantly put to the proof. One
essential characteristic, however, was overlooked,
wherein the armies of the Potomac and the Missis-
sippi differed from the armies of the Old World.
They were still volunteers—men who had quitted
home and work, not for love of war or for sake of
pay or bounty, but from • sense of patriotic duty,
with the earnest hope that their days of soldiering
might be few and effective, and with the determi-
nation that as soon as the honour and integrity of
the Union were vindicated they would resume
their peaceful avocations. They had not ceased to
be citizens when they became soldiers ; on the con-
trary, their excellence as soldiers was in no small
degree ascribable to their excellence as citizens, but
every good has its drawbacks, and in the Federal
army there has arisen within the last few weeks
a serious cause of disorganization, and even
of danger, springing directly, and, as it
were, of necessity, from the very nature of that
army. Furloughs were asked for and granted to
an extent altogether unprecedented, and practi-
cally incompatible with the preservation of either
contentment or confidence in the camp. Many
regiments became so much weakened thereby as
to require being combined temporarily with others;
and when this could not be effected they were de-
prived of an insurmountable portion of their
strategic usefulness The actual gross muster-roll
of the Federal force, moreover, has been very
seriously reduced, and the army has profited ma-
terially by the opportunity. The subject has at
length fixed the attention of the Government,
and by the time the harvest has been gathered in
the Northern and Western States, orders of a
peremptory kind will no doubt be issued reminding
those now on leave of the want of their speedy
return to the camp. We have no doubt
that this appeal will be cheerfully re-
sponded to ; and that once again the
Volunteer Corps will exhibit their original
strength. But the War Department at Washing-
ton, once rendered sensible of the peculiar weakness
of the system in which too exclusive a reliance has
hitherto been placed, is resolved no longer to rest
the sole defence of Federal authority upon Volun-
teers. The alternative of drafting contingents
from the Local Militia into the general Army en-
gaged in active service has been decided on ; and
it is officially announced that it will be proceeded
with, if necessary, to the extent of three hundred
thousand men.

Meanwhile other lessons of experience have not
been thrown away. Mr. Srauccros has been con-
vinced that the civil administration of the depart-
ment over which he presides is enough to tax to
the full all his powers of mental and bodily labour.
The general direction of military movements he has
freely and wisely delegated to a professional head
of the armies of the Republic, whose superintend-
ence and control is to extend over all, and
whose functions will in many respects resemble
those performed in time of war by our Com-
mander-in-Chief. General Hstssca has been
summoned from the Western army to fill this new
post in permanent war council at Washington.
With great good sense and proper soldierlike feeling
one of his first acts has been to visit the camp on
the James River, and to confer unreservedly with
General M'CLELLaw on the future course of opera-
tions which it may be best for the army of the
Potomac to pursue. In this way all the practical
wants of the army, and all the practical hindrances
to its success, will have been photographed un-
erringly for the use of the Supreme Government :
it were perhaps more correct to say that, by the
instrumentality now adopted, the Cabinet of
Washington will possess for military intelligence a
departmental camera obscura, under the auspices of
one who will know the value to attach to each moving
forte, and the importance of each novel attitude.
As another campaign seems now to be regarded as
inevitable, it is not improbable that the strategic
plans of that recently concluded may give place to