Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-10
GreeIey's Howl OF ssForward TO Rich
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ent war, Is the result of the rawlings of the
white-coated old fanatic who presides over
the ncendiary columns of the New York
Tribune. He started the cry of Forward
to Richmond" and denounced every oppon-
ent Of precipitancy, as traitor in disgnise-a
waiter for compromise He questioned the
loyalty Of the brave and Industrious Scorr, the
atchet of whose shoe he is unworthy to un-
loose, and bawled for blood, until he man.
aged to excite a fever which only a fight
could allay, The dose has been administered,
and the result is known. The patient has
been somewhat prostrated, but the bile is
discharged Greeley is no more His reign
is over. The whole country is ihcensed
against him and his school The war will
henceforth be prosecuted without regard to
the diabolical howls of the Tribune and its
mtators. The motto hereafter will be more
haste, less speed Horace will mourn in vain
that slavery is not to be obliterated, in a
month from the Continent. He will see that
it is rebellion and not slavery which is to be
subdued Let him go to his isms Graham
bread, cold water baths, and similar modern
arrangements are more familiar to him than
is the old fashioned trade of war. He may
be a perfect Dogenes or Socrates in "philos-
ophy, but he is of no more use in fight than
is a toothless old dog. We hope soon to
hear that Horace is experimenting some
model farm or delivering lectures on
Swe1enborgi Epaulets do not become
"white coat" nor can bran propel a bail
from the muzzle ola cannon. The following
from the Chicago Post is to the point, and
seems to be the burden of the song Of the
Eastern press
While the memory of great deeds and gall
liant hearts shall live, there will also live the
recollection of the murderous cry of "For-
ward to Richmond" The soil of Virginia to-
day is crimsoned with the best and bravcst
blood of the Union, spilled at the silly com
mand, Forward to Richmond" To-day The
mangled corses of brave men are feeding the
carrion crows from the hills of Virginia, be-
cause the crazy zeatots of Chicago and New
York demanding Forward TO Richmond"
We need not invite our readers TO the
bloody recital of the defeat at Manassas They
will have read it with horror and Indignation
long before they turn to this column, but we
know that they will all agree with us, that
the bloody defeat, the terrible rout, the
shameless fight and massacre, the rebel VIC
tory, rests upon the stupid arrogance of the
men who have coerced the army into the
premature Forward to Richmond"
The country will cali in vain for the gal
liant hosts whose bodies strew the road from
Manassas TO Arlington, and will hold to
fearful responsibility the authority that yield
ed to the insulting demand of Forward to
Richmond" The fearful lesson Of Sunday
night, July 2ist, viii open the eyes, touch
the hearts, and enlighter the Judgments of
the people to the fact that the Tribunes OF
New York and Chicago can be fools, and
that the Government that will allow itself te
be terrified by fools into the commission of
folly is not o safe repository of national
power. The responsibility of the march to
Manassas is a fearful one, and let the people
| deal with those who have incurred it
The "anacoDda' has, at the bidding of the
Tribune, unfolded its length, and tonight
| five thousand gallant, heroic men are stretch
ed in death along its path Forward to
Richmond" shouted the insane Tribune, and
FIVE thousand brave hearts perish in death
luC DtODlc owe III W lhtlnEtlN cS W leOuht
these oflicious mcddlers with the public in
terests There has been quite enough of thi.
arrogant dictation by these self-constiuted
censors. Their teachings are written in blood
their monuments are the heaps of mangled
dead, and their applause is the groans and
curses Of the wounded and dying These men
must be taught that they can no longer trifle
with the lives and desinies of the American
people, They have borne themselves like
demons Of iniquity, and not as patriotic men.
OF what avail was it that the hero of Lundy s
! Lane, the greatest captain of the age, forbid
the march, did not the Tribunes order "For-
ward to Richmon.Y OF what avail was it
that the Generals Chief asked for time to
mature his plans, did not the sapent Tribunes
call Forward to Richmond?'
1t will not do for these men to cay that if
their demand was evil and their commands
fatal, that the commander should not have
obeyed them. Let it be remembered that at
the camp fires each night there was plen-
tiful stock of Tribuneo, with columns of infec-
tious matter, making the camp itself a pest
house of discomfort. Let them remember that
each mess retired at night after having read
the most Infamous assaults upon the illusri-
Gus commander He was an ''imbecile;' he
was attempting to Compromise and was in
reality either afraid of the enemy or secretly
their friend. And to escape the tolls of this
old "traitorous imbecile," the Tribunes shout
ed Forward to Richmond" "The nations
war cry was Forward to Richmond" and
who dare refuse to obey it?
Take up your maps, people of Chicago and
mark the bloody march on the way to Rich
mond. of that Sixty-ninth regiment which
lett Arlington Hights 400 strong, how few
are now in life. Their dead bodies, stripped
to the buff, and strewed around the enemy's
batteries, and mark the furthest point of the
march to Richmond. And every step from
Fairfax 70 Manassas is marked by the ghastly
corses of the brave men who were ordered
upon that march to Richmond. What if
there were batteries at every point, and that
behind strong intrenchments were posted
10000 desperate men with the completest
artillery ever mounted in America; what if
to approach these with an unprepared army
OF sixty thousand men, was to approach GER
tain DEATH defeat and shame-hld not the
Tribune ordered Forward to Richmond?'-
We say again, that the people owe it to them
selves and to the future conduct of the war
to rehuke and in signal manner, the stupid
arrogance which has bounded en- this march
tc Rcir2cnd
We arraign the Chicago Tribune as being
an accessory tie the murder of the many brave
men whose bodies to-day are eorrupting un-
der the sun of Virginia. We arraign that
| paper before the country as an alder and
abettor of the rebel triumph Mt Manassas. -
We arraign it as a crnel and shameless mpos-
tor, thrusting its harlequin foolery into mat
ters filled with life and death to so many
thousands of the brave men of the army. We
arraign it as guilty in intent, if not in act, of