Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-11-13
From tho New York Herald
The Insurrcct;on and the War.'What CT
fbp Niuht

From tho New York Herald
The lnsurrcct;on and the War.'What cf
the Night!
Willie Tie Washington corrcspon tents
OF northern papers are, some OF them,
spcculating ON the campaign in Missouri
and discussing the question whether Ere.
mont ought not to be removed, and
whether he ought ever to have been APP
pointcd-So,nc throwing = g loom over tie
prospects in kentucky and Western
Virginia, ana others indu'ging in lamcnta,
tons about the late disasi er to our naval
squadron near the mouths of the MsSls.
sippi, the capture OF the Fanny at Chlca.
lnaccmico, the escape Of the bermuda
into ssavannaIl the escape of the Nashville
out of Charleston, aud lastly the obstruc-
ton Of the navigation of the Lower Toto
mac by such formidable batteries as to
suggest the question whether the blockade
OF that river by the cannon of the rebels
is not more efficient than the blockade
ofthc Southern coast by the United States
navy-while Washington letter writers
descant on these topics, the Journals for
which they write add to the depressing
effect of their lugubrioas jeremiads by
still more gloomy comments. Ihe ms
chievous peace papers are squelched bit
the more mischievous abolition journals
remain. By their continual cowardiy
whiting in their base fear of war with
Eng!lnd-ust us if that would annih:latc
ll.c country--by the doubts they are
throwing out rs la the fortunes ofour army
and navy in their next collisions with The
enemy, and by their positive assertions
that in this war the causs OF the Union
cannot be crowned with ultimate success
unless the Constitution is destroyed and
the whole negro population Of the South
are emancipated by the federal army,
under 4 proclamation of the President,
these white feather Journals are pr"du-
Gin. spirit OF dependency at the North
except III the case of men whose motto
is, No surrender" who lave faith in the
wisdom oflhs political fathers who framed
the Constitution, with negro slavery
among its provisions, and who have the
pluck to battle to the last for the pre-
>rrva,ion of that Constitution rs 1t is,
and Tor the Union of which it is the sacred
loud. These journals and the abolition
dcrlagugucs Oh the stump and i'll the
pulpit, here and there throughout the
Northern States, are dcnoralizing the
enemy and discouraging its leaders by
preaching up the idea that the war will
never cnd unless it is made q war OF uni,
vcrSal emancipation.
Now we do not know the future, and
cannot tell what the action of the Govern
meut or Of the Generals of the army lnay
be: but sure We are that, if General
Mcclellan could fight again the battle OF
Bail Run-light it over the graves o
those who fell on the 2lSt of July-and
il tho Union General conquer the foe on
the Very scene of the former defeat OF
our arms. rs conquer he will wherever
an, Whenever he meets him; and if. at
the same tille with this victory, the gov
ernmcnt should seize all the Journalist;
and dclnagogres at the North who arc
throwing dainpers on the war, because il
is MOI. carried on in such 4 way rs to :;niI
their l,.la:ira ideas, the clouds of deiec
ton whiclllow hang over SO many mind:
would be speedily dispersed, and srcl
reioicings would take place all over
the North as were never witnessed be
fore.
These are the two heroic remedie;
which will eitectually work the cure O.
dependency. No homeopathic pills will
suit the case. All depends on the Presi
dent whether the right medicine shall be
alministrated. The Constitutionhas placed
the responsibility on his shoulders. He
is, in virture of that instrument, COM
lnandrr.in- Chief Of the army aud navy
No ether man shares the responsibility
70 him alone, therefore, will the people
look, and not to his Cabinet or Generals
Mr.. Lincoln has nobly risen to the height
OF the emergency from which his pre-
dcccssor shrank lie has appealed to the
country to sustain him, and it has res
ponded warmly to his call. 1t has placed
1nen and money without stint at his dis
posal. In obedience to the impulse O
patriotism, he rebuked General Fremont
when he dared to transcend the legitimate
objects of the war as limited and defined
by Congress. For that course he has
been grossly assailed by tanatica1 press
which prefers its abolition theories to. the
practical restoration of the Union. Mr.
Lincoln h.s done well; but he has mucl
yet to do. Since the days of George
Washington never did G greater respon
sibility rest upon any President, and W;
have every confidence in him that he viii
not fail in the discharge of the high ant
holy duties which now devole upon him.
Col. Leesburg Baker has PRESENT.