The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-25

to Me Union army, and actually In the field,
fue hundred and t,ceue thousand soldiers. What !
a responsibility this throws upon the admins
tration, and especially upon President Lincoln, |
it is almost useless to declare. With so gigan-
tic force, so loyal, and ardent in its desire |
to accomplish speedily the ends for which the
war was commenced, wonders ought to be done,
and that speedily. The utmost decision aud |
promptiude should be used, in pruning super |
animated and inefficient generals and officers
from the army, and young, efficient, scientific
leaders should be put in their places. The sue
cesses on the Potomac and at Santa Rosa should
be the beginning Of a rapid series Of successes
under Sherman in Kentucky, Mcclellan on the
Potomac and Sherman and Dupont on the sea-
coast, and, ere the lapse Of many months, re-
bellion should have ceased to display its proud
crest and be swept away from the Union, which
it will have been the pride of our patriotic
Chief Magistrate to have restored to its pris-
tine integrity.
TIE REMOVAL or FREMoNr-HIs PROBABLE
SuccEssoR.--According to despatch from Wash
ington, which we published yesterday, the actual
removal of General Fremont is still deferred.
That the removal itself is q foregone conclusion
there can be very little doubt. The only ques-
ton is one Of time. It was at first decided
that the removal should take place immedi-
ately, but upon suggestion that it might be
attended with some danger to remove general
in the face Of an enemy, and on the eve of q
battle, this difficulty caused pause, and the
Cabinet finally left it to the decision of the
President, who will probably be guided by
circumstances. If battle is really pending,
and it can be fought advaniageously by
Fremont, then it might be improper to remove
him at this moment. But il there is no such
contingency, the President will act accord
ingly, and probably appoint in Fremont's
stead General Halleck, who left California for
this port on the l4th inst, and will be here
just about the time that the President will have
made up his mind. General Halleck is one
Of the four Major Generals Of the United States
Army, and is regarded by good judges as
next to Mcclellan in military science. He
has written one of the best military works in
the English language. He is first class law
yer, which no man can be who has not an in
tellect Of high order. He is very wealthy
man, and does not enter into active service, any
more than Mcclellan, to advance his private
interests. His integrity stands unimpeached.
He is just the man for tho West, as Mcclellan
is the man for the East With two such gene
rails cooperating together, the rebels ought to
be whipped in very brief time.
One effect of the removal of Fremont
will BIO to stir up oil the black bile of
the anti-slavery journals and demagogues
in the land. Though it will not be on
will be removed, but for his incompetency
as general, the abolitionists will put it on the
former ground, and organize an opposition to
the President But they had bettor beware of
what they do. If this war continues very soon
the conservative masses will not permit any OPP
position to the government which carries it on.
The conservatives number ten for one Of the
abolitionists The voters Of the North are
100000; the abolitionists are 100000. If
the abolition journalists are, therefore, rash
enough to persist in their crusade against the
President, because he is conducting the war so
as not to overthrow any existing institution,
but to restore the Union as it was before
the rebellion began, they win find them
selves very soon in company with the
Northern seoessionists in Fort Lafayette,
or some other place equally strong. They are
equally deserving ofpunishment with those now
in confinement, and not only public justice but
the public safety, demands that the abolition OPP
ponents Of the government be served up with
the same sauce as the sympathizers with the in
surrection. Nor ought this rigorous course to
be confined merely to the press, but extended to
the pesti!ent pulpit and rostrum, so as to take
in Wendell Phillips, Beecber, Chcever and
others Of the same malignant type, who are left
too long at large Their case requires little
wholesome restraint without delay.
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY AGENTs-We have
taken up the case Of Sir James FERGUSON, NJ. p,
and Mr. Bourke, for national reasons. There is
something significant in the fact of one member
and another eX-membcr of. the British Parlia-
ment, both Of the tory party, and opposed to
the Palmerston administration, coming over to
this country at the present time and spending
only two days at the national capital and three
weeks at the rebel capital 1t looks very much
as if they had some political rather than per-
sonal motive to serve, and the statement of one
and the most prominent Of these gentlemen
that he was the bearer Of letters of introduction
to the rebel leaders, assists us materially to
this conclusion. 1t is so usual for English
gentlemen of wealth and position when they
come over here to as much Of one thing
as another, aud as much of everything as pos
sble, that the course Of Sir James Ferguson
and Mr.. Bourke was reasonably open to sus-
picion. Our opinion is that they came TO Ame-
RIGA solely for political purposes, and to make
themselves as well acquainted as possible with
the position of the confederacy under jeff Davis,
with view to its recognition by Great Britain;
and we shall be very much surprised if, on the
next meeting of Parliament, one of them does
not move for this, and, by joining with the
Manchester interest either compel the present