Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-10
nallp NationalQ Democrat.
,.Ny. Press on the late Engagement.

,..yY. Press on the late Engagement.
The New York press teens with discussion
ba late disaster at Bulls Run. The
yor,d attributes the defeat to precipitation,
=. which it holds the Tribune responsible,
and employs the following language in de-
nnnciation of that paper.
Tho Tribune could not think with patience
= graat war for the preservation of the
Jf,;on lasting an additional month it must
sands keen up an incessqnt and obstreperous
a;n about what it called 'the nations war;
o.r - Il poured forth its daily yoleys of abuse
snyd blackguardism against Gen. Scott and
now instead of Richmond being in fair
,rav to fall into our hands by the first of
Santember, as it might have done but for this
stnpid and impertinent interference, Wash
;noton itself is hardly out of danger, If the
enterprise of the rebel leaders should equal
heir good fortune. The infurated Tribune
vas elanorous to peril the safety OF our army
10 pervent the meeting at Richmond on the
Doth of the Southern Congress. as ii their
ovl-like deliberations were as portentous as
the ecncussion of the earth against comet
Tbat mattered it, we repeat, whether the
oue-horse legislative assembly held their
freaSOnHUl6 DdTluuCc hiShihOhu oH aiiR
9oth. that our army should be bounded into
lhe Jaws of destruction rather than these
prating demagogues should hold their sittings
there for month
The Tribune thus disposes of the subject !:
The defeat of the National Army at Bulls
Run, on Sunday evening, is sore lesson.
All can see that it ought rot TO have iaeurred.
Yet it amounts SO far as our troops are con-
cerned, simply to this--that forty thousand
patriots were worsted by sixty to seventy
thousand rebels, as was to be apprehended.
Il is easy to say now that we ought to
have had-might have had-a much larger
force there that General Patterson's column
should have followed up Gen. Johnston close
" from Martinsburg, and either routed him
or Joined Gen. Mcdowell as soon as Johnston
ioined Beapregard; that an unaccountable
panic broke out ,among the teamsters and
spectators in the rear of our army, which ex=
tended to our overmatehed and exhausted
soldiers in front that ibis. that, and the
other thing ought to have been just as it was
not. The sum and substance of it all is that
we we're outman9uvred and outnumbered, ,
and that forty thousand patriots in our ad-
vance proved too few to beet seventythousand
rebels who confronted them after Johnston
Joined Beauregard.
The Herald holds the administration re-
sponsibe for the defeat as will be seen by the
following extract from an editorial in that
paper of the the 23d ult
Let is is be remembered, also, that this is
defeat, not Of the people of the N North but of
the administration and ts military advisers
The people wished to send hupdred Of thou
sands of troops into Virginia, SO as 30 make
retreat an imposibility The soldess were
offered The administration and its advisers
decided that fifty thousand men were enough
for Virginia, and refused to accept the eager
volunteers, Let them read the result of their
refusal by the gun flashes ct Bulls Run. Let
them atone, if they can, for the msrderous
crime of sending an inefficient force against
an overwhelming and strongly intrenched
enemy, when thousands of brave soldiers
have been refused leave to fight.
Nor does the criminality of the affair end
here. What is truein the aggregate is true
in detail. The people demand competent and
experienced officers. Fhe military advisers
of the administration gave them imbecils
Ought General sohBston's army TO have been
allowed to reach Manassas TO reinforce Beau
regard? They demanded a strong cavalry
force. The Administration declined regiments
IitST 'ISkllHSHLs. w do ubb CuNhlI1 HGthtt ul
our side to oppose that of the South, which
harrassed and routed our troops? The peo
pie demanded careful preparation and am
pie security against defeat. The Adrnidistra-
ton listened to the Abolition howls of "Fcr
syarI to Richmond" and gave the people
the slaughter of Bloody Run"
These are stern facts, but they carry their
recipe with them. Let the Administration
and its advisers listen to the voice Of the
people. and disregard the fanatic shouts of
The fanatics, whom the thick smoke of the
late battle should have choked. Let every
Department of Government be purged of
imbecies and blunderheads forth with. Let
experienced officers lead our gallant men,
and our General Woods change places with
our Pattersons. Let the army o. five hun
dred thousand men, already authorized, be
put into the field Let more troops he called
out, if that number is not sufficient to give
us three hundred thousand men in Virginia.
Let this army be carsfully aud properly
equipped, and supplied with every detail of
cavalry. sharp shooters and artillery, to make
it effective.
Let it not move one foot forward until it is
ready, no matter who may cry onward"
This is what the people imperatively demand
That is the necessity of the crisis. Will the
Administration listen and obey2