New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-09
THE WAR FOR the UNION.
FRoM WASHINGTON.
The Presiden,'. Message.


ball well directed, and with proectHe power Ue,
hind up to the highest requisiton OF the oode'' ""u
most determined. There are severh capital poln's,
well made, and forcibly presented Inc oellianu
for men and money seems to have q colncluen'o
effgares not exactly LIKE oalance-shee' '"oue"
both are large. II the men are to be used wnen
obtained aod the money is to be expehuou w
immediate aud judicously conducted war; "io,9
v;p he no lack Of either. If the same hop'N
which has produced such message shouiu a,'o
- ,,r,ttan on one of its succeeding days, tho
..,,rxa of I;cbnond il will stand out in blazing
characters in the lunar record. Inc t"O houS0'
will respond to the Recommendations WIN
ready zeal The evidences OF commentator
were sufficiently manifest in both branches, our
ms the reading to insure full cooperation. Inc
uenersl yish is for O short session, with lo-
era response to the Presidents recommends
siGs leaving details of financial policy to be set
Ted hereafter, and holding the Administrator
responsble for the use of the means gwen INTO
their custody without conditions. SO universal Is
this feeling in the Senate, that know OF ous
one member who talks of long sitting and a
stinpy dole of the material of war, aud no repre-
sents State whose thrOb of pulse for thorough
fighting is to the count Of deirium. VIII
mot speak of the influence Of the press in bring
ina out an estimation of the demands aud needs
OF the campaign, but when tell you that, as
believe. the financial budget was raised from
$500. COO 900 to $400.0OO,00O, it viii be ap-
parsst that the voice of the people made itseli
feh through lis aud other mediums of interpret
alton. While now the whole Congress is SO per-
Saded with this spirit of enst.reriae' Some cor
responding evidence of energy in the "o'einep'
would be most fortunate adjunct to an saIu.
s;ou of new spirit The voice Of the President
IN the two balls of Congress and the answering
yoice Of cannon at Manassas, would be the ai'o
and bass of most grand harmony. But pa
tsence the army is to move; when-belongs to
the undiscovered future which sometimes fulflls
iu promise but often cheats in delay or disap.
pOintment.
There ia much of reform which will ask, if it
does not receive the attention of the representa-
tiyes of the people. There will be waste in prop
erty and extravaganza in expenditure, Money
cannot always be expended with frugalty in pri-
yate enterprises, aud by the Government In war,
lavish outlay cannot be avoided. Military ideas
and those of finance are in antagOnism. The
graduate of West Point understands geometry
and sunnery and he also knows that his fathers
draft on his banker pays of the balances of or
dinary and extraordinary expenditures which the
Government allowance does not cover. He un-
derstands nothing Of the worth of money, and
knowing nothing, cares nothing. All values and
representatives of value are out of his thought
and not worthy Of his reflection. He comes 10
Washington and is placed in one of the Bureaus
Of the Department. Nothing in his experience
here teaches him that he is deficient in the wis
dom of the uses of money. A full treasury with
adequate appropriations makes response to all
requistions upon it, and deficiency bill clears
out any and every short cash account.
Without any corruption or dishonesty of
purpose, everything done costs enormously.
ECONOMY is no virtue in the adorning jewels of
the martial front. An appropriation of $l25,OOO
for military road, with $75,O 900 deducted for
the reconnaissance, is not an unhesrd of divisien
0f cost in the secret transactions of the War
Office. But the austerities of camp life on the
frontier must be sOfteDed by some mitigatiOns Of
metropolitan Injuries. Why should these branches
of this Department which are strictly business
and apply equally to building church, a cul-
vert or a citadel, be placed under the full direc.
tiOn of men who have cultivated science and are
without the shrewdness which has been sharpen
ed by the trainings of trading and trafief So
far, in this whole preparation, there has been
wanted nothing but ordinary capacity for the
everyday transactions of trading intercourse.
War on q sunshiDy day, with it's silk and plumes
lOoksyery much like glory marching to music,
but when you come TO the analysis, II is as
fnuch a matter Of fact as wood-chopping or sheep
thearing.
The mighty strategy, which has been gestating
very slowly for the last three months for pain.
ful parturition, has been buying knapsscks and
eanteens, building wagons and purchasing very
cheap beef. The brilliant coup de main which,
unless we look through smoked glass, will strike
as blind, like Elymus the sorcerer, with its
Sash, will prove to be q flank and front march
ON Richmond, the manner of which is as obvious
30 any civilian who has studied campaigns as to
Marshal Suwarroff or Gen. Scott.
Any militia cOlosel, who has astonished rustic
hcmespun with the mastery evOlutiODs Of the
muster-feld, aud has won hOtly contested battle
fclds in sham fights in an amphitheater sur
rounded by cder-booths and gingerbread stands,
can march our troops to the chosen capital of
Treason. Gen. Patterson has not been able TO
keep his column from advance, nor has Gen.
Butler succeeded in demoralizng entirely his
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