New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-09
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TIE New York Tribune, tired Of firing al such
small game as Rasler, schenck, Pierce and the
other ccrnstaik Generals Of the Abolition army,
has elevated its editorial gun, and now seeks TO
bring down Old Scott himself. late issue ct that
paper pitches into the Lieutenant General with
extraordinary vim, because Sect does not order
| All Immediate advance upon Richmond, whereby
| the rebellion may be crushed, the leaders of it
hung, and The supremacy Of the stars and stripes
everywhere acknowledged.
1t is, indeed. amusing to read the fierce and
blood thirsty givngs out Of such paper-warrors as
Greeley, Raymond and Bennett. They are the
brasest men in their editorial sanctnms, when far
Of from all personal danger, that ever fourished
from The days Of the Pnnic wars down TO the pre-
sent time. Considering that these editorial fire.
eaters have been kicked and cufed about, over and
over again, in Washington and New York, with
out offering any show of resistance, their great
bravery at the present time, in the secure re-
treats Of their private offices, may appear some
what curious, but IS not altogether inexplicable.
1t is the nature of the coward to elbow when
he is out Of thc reaohSof danger, and to impeach
the Eayery Of others in the exact proportion Of his
security against all danger himself.
and only mention this attack upon him by Greeley
TO show the folly and the desperation Of the Abo.
ihon leaders. They abused Pierce for notrunning
soon enough at the battle of Bethel, where he had
four men to our one, and yet they abuse Scott for
not giving battle with force no larger than
own. They denounce Pierce for trying to advance
upon Richmond, and they denounce Scott for not
| trying the same thing. The truth is, these Abo-
h
| quest Of the South is an impossible thing. They
are attempting to conceal the conviction of certain
defeat, by laying the blame upon their military
leaders, who in fact, are in no respect responsible
| for the reYerses they have everywhere met.
Undoubtedly, Gen. Scott has more military
knowledge, more tact, more fnesse, than all Of the
others put together. If there is any man in the
Abolition army who knows better than all the rest
that an advance upon Richmond could never be
successfully made it is Winfield Scott. We have
thought for some time that his only object was to
defend Washington City against supposed attempt
to advance upon by army, and that this is oil
that he has ever meant by his stationing his troops
on the Virginia shore Of the Potomac.
| They denonnce Scott for not doing an impossible
| thing a thing which Scott himself knows to be
impossible, and which they themselves would know
reflection were not drowned in a sea of passion.
For two months they have been talking about
taking Richmond, and yet today the Federal forces
at Alexandra, Old Point and on the upper Poto-
maeare more restricted in their field Of operations
than ever. Their pickets and scouts have been
driven back until they now scarcely dare to show
themselves outside of Alexandria. AT Fortress
Monroe, Pieayune Butler keeps within easy hail of
his impregnable fertilization and is afraid to ad-
vance. Gadwallader refuses battle when ii is Of
fered by Johnston, and retreats to a secure posi-
ton. In short, the prospect of taking Richmond,
blue as it has always been, is bluer now than ever
before, and VIII soon be altogether invisible.
The denuncation that is heaped upon Scott and
the other Abolition generals IS therefore, simply
ridiculous. Not being naturaliborn fools, they
know that they advance, their forces will be cut
to pieces and scattered like chaff before the wind
Under these circumstances, it is amusing to see
the disgust and Indignation at their conduct ex-
pressed by the carpet-Warrors who edit the Abo-
lition organs men who never set squadron in
the field, nor the division Of battle know more
than spinstcr, and yet undertake to lecture and
to condemn their own leaders for not rushing
headlong into the jaws Of destruction. Fortunate
would it be for our side if the Abolition generals
had little more holiness. Lucky for us will it be
if they are goaded by the Abolition press, Or i'm
PEELED by any other motive, to give us fair fight
upon an open field. 80 much the quicker would
the contest be ended as it oughtto be ended by
decisive and bloody defeats of the enemy in
pitched battles. II may well be enqured how 4
ever, what show there is Of overrunning and sub
jugatng the whole South, from the Potomac to the
Gulf, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rio
Grande, when a two months campaign has not
advanced the enemy ten miles into Virginia at any
point except through the infected Abolition dis
tFict Of the Panhandle. II may be all very well
for Greeley and Raymond, notorious non-combat-
ants by nature aud education, to lecture Old Scott
and keep mp 4 FIRE in his rear from the editoraI
tripods 81 New York city but the sooner they come
to the conclusion which Doubt Old Scott himself
has already reached, that they have undertaken
q job which cen never be executed as long as a
Southern man remains on Southern soil the better
1T Will be for all parties. The idea Of Horace
Greeley railing at Gen. Scott for not fighting is take
1t altogether, about the best thing now out.