The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-10
the War. tho Army and Our Abolition
AgitatOrs.


Agitators.
Our disorganizing abolition agitators are be
ginning to manifest the symptoms Of another
hue and cry against the inactivity of our i'm
mense and expensive warlike establishment.
| The New York Tribune Of yesterday, for ex-
ample, in an article on East Tennessee and the
dangers surrounding the little local Union
army there, says:-"It seems a very, very sad
case that such gallant champions Of the Union
cause as these East Tennesseeans must be sacri-
feed for want Of support, and that, while Secre-
tary Cameron tells us we have six hundred and
sixty thousand men enlisted to fight for the
Union-a force which is costing at least two
millions of dollars per day-we are not yet
ready to advance upon the rebels somewhere,
in Missouri ever since Gen Fremont was super
seded." In another article in the same issue
the Tribune says that "tho HERALD, in its capa-
city Of friend Of secession and Of slavery, at
tempts to prevent the striking Of any blow at
slavery at all. II hopes that, by keeping the
war on its present course, the people will be-
come exhausted beneath mountain OF debt
and will be ready to adopt its favorite Mont
gomery constitution, and bow beneath the rod
Of JEFF. Davis"
Following upon tho same trail, another Of
our abolition organs has it that Mr.. Cameron
has overestimated our army, and that SO far is
Gen. Mcclellan from contemplating an early
advance upon the rebels, that he is preparing
where he stands to 60 into winter quarters. In
all these complaints and Misrepresentation,
however, we have the same stupid abolition
hotheadedness as that Of last summer concern
ing the inactivity Of the army. But as Greeley
and his noisy abolition clique, in pushing for
ward the army prcmaturely to Bull run, with
their incessant clamor Of Coward to Rich
mond," caused the loss of the time and labors
Of a campaign, and hundreds of millions of dol
lars il is not likely that the same instructions
will again be followed at venture
General Mcclellan singled out for the pur-
pose by the comprehensive military mind of
General Scott, has been appointed to the gene
raj control of our armies, and is charged with
special command of our grand army Of the Po-
tomac. In this important position he has won
the confidence of the country and the admins
tration. Taking up, first, the disorganized frag-
ments Of General McDowell's broken army, he
made of them the well trained nucleus of our
present truly formidable and highly disciplined
army of the Potomac. Why, then, we are sub
stantially asked by our abolition organs, does
not General Mcclellan advance upon Beaure-
gard, and, putting his army to fight, break at
once the backbone of this rebellion? Why de-
lay until the winter has rendered the Virginia
roads impossible for artillery and baggage
wagons? Is this war to lnger along the bor-
ders Of secession until the money of the loyal
States is exhausted? Are we still to be kept
nibbling at the crust of the cheese, when any
honest old rat would at once cut a hole into the
heart of it? is the administration deliberately
dabbling in rose water and firing shells at the
enemy filed with sawdusts Are we only play
ing at war, while the rebels are moving heaven
and earth, slavery and all, to compass our de-
struction? Why does not Mcclellan move?
Why does Sherman stand still? Why is Dupont
resting on his oars? Why is not East Tennessee
rescued! Why is IIalleck permitting the rebels
again to overrun Missouri? And why does not
General Buell. advance in Kentucky?
All these complaints, and many more, may
be gathered from our abolition journals; but
let us calmly endeayor to answer them. Begin
ming, therefore, with General Mcclellan, sup
pose he We're to-day to march upon Beauregard
and defeat him, what would we gain beyon
the advance of our lines to Manassas? Perhaps
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are prepared for retreat, and prepared
to cut off our pursuit by the destruc-
ton of bridges, roads, &c. Driven from Ma
nassas, their Potomac army of one hundred and
fifty thousand men would, in all probability, to
a Great extent, be hurried to the seaboard de-
fences of the cotton States, when, for all our
purposes, it is best that this rebel army in Vir-
ginia should remain yet while exactly
where it is. We have several new naval
expeditions under good Roadway and at
the same time the government is strength
ening the hands of Sherman and Dupont.
General Buell., too, is mastering power
full army, and General Halleck, though appa-
rently idle, is very busy in Missouri; and all
these movements in all these departments
South and West, as we suspect, are but parts of
grand combined system of operations which
cannot fail to bring down this rebellion into
the dust.
At all events. the efforts of our abolition
journals to instruct in their peculiar duties the
skilful officers charged with the control of our
armies may be set down as extremely impu-
dent and ridiculous. Greeley, for example, sit
ting at his desk in the Tribune office, may fancy
that Mcclellan is not equal to his opportuni-
ties; but with Greeley in McClellan's place. we
should inevitably have another Bull run affair."
before the end of the week. 1t must also be
remembered that we are not fighting the revolt
ed South as foreign Power, but as rebelious
part of our own country; that in all the revolt
ed States, always excepting South Carolina
there is loyal element among the people, en-
titled to our consideration; that it is the pur-
pose of the administration not to sacrifice, bu,
to gain the cooperation Of this loyal element Of
the Southern people as we advance among
them; that it is good policy to approach them
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