The national Republican., 1861-08-21
MORE VIGOR.

The Northern newspapers are just now com
planning in chorus, that the Administration does
not prosecute the war with sufficient energy.
Mr.. Weed, Of the Albany Journal, and Mr..
Cummings, Of the World join In this chorus,
the latter gentleman demanding, specifically,
"mors vigor aas- in the field" Even the staid
New York Commercial Advertiser Is affected by
ths excitement and actually begins to zee that
II b little wonderful that contest is SO long
protracted, where the strength of one party
prsponderates in the enormous proportion of
thres or four to one. % ...
The press has great power, but these editors
will never satisfy the country, that If there Is,
fault anywhere, which we neither affirm or
deny, the blame Of It lies at any door but their
own. It Is they who insisted, down to the bat
u Of July 81, and nobody more loudly than
Af. Weed and Mr.. Cummings, that the military
direction Of affairs should be left with General
Scott, that nobody should interfere with him,
and that nobody should even criticise him.
1t was they who created the public sentiment
which compelled the Administration to leave
almost every thing to General Scott. As we
nd before, We neither affirm, or deny that
there has been any fault anywhere In the cam
paign on the Potomac terminating in the battle
Of Bull Run. It IL no time to discuss that
question. But we do say that General Scott
directed the whole of 1t, and we do say further
more, that under the manifestations Of public
opinion, the Administration would not have
been justified in taking this direction out Of
his banda And we insist that 1t does not lie
In the mouths of editors who have had their
own way about the campaign on the Potomac,
who In fact dictated who should command it.
who sustained It, step by step, as It proceeded,
and who denounced everybody who presumed
to oriticise II, nov to turn round md complain
ingly demand more uigor. in the field"
II was Gen. Scott who declined 10 advance
into Virginia, when our troops crossed the
Potomac ON the 24th Of May. It was General
Scott who, down to the 10th Of July, forbade
General Patterson to take the offensive. It
wss Gen Scott who refused Gen. Mcclellan
permission to advance into the Valley of vir-
giniA
We do not say that Gen. Scott erred in bis
policy. He may not have overrated the danger
Of putting raw troops into action. His theory
Of going into camps Of instruction until fall,
may have been the wise one. On that point, I'VE
now affirm nothing, and deny nothing. But
that his policy was such as We have described,
and that all these New York editors, Tray,
Blanch, and Sweetheart, did nothing for three
months but denounce everybody who ques-
toned the infalibilihy Of Gen. Scott, is q fact
patent to all men.
Not few of the very men who now demand
Of the Administration "more uigor IN the field, u
are the identical men, who, on the heel of the
battle Of July 2l, were denouncing the Presi
dent and the Cabinet, for precipitating that i'll
timed and disastrous action.
The theme is an exhaustless and very tempt
ing one, but we shall not follow 1t up, furthe,
than to say, that the editors who were the eulo
gists of Gen. Scott down to the 2lst of July
are not the men whose censures of any body's
slowness will count very much with an iutelli.
gent public.
We hope and trust, and believe, that Gen
Mcclellan will take bis own time, and without
the least regard to military critics, who change
their system with every change of the moon,
and sometimes more rapidly than that. Their
present humor is for cavalry charges, a Ia
Murat, but only yesterday, they were thumbing
over all their school books, for pithy things
said by, to, or Of, the Roman General Fabius.
What their key note may be tomorrow, il
passes the understanding of man to foresee.
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