New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-01
THE WAR FOR The UNION.
SHALL TIE wAR BE LONG OBI
SNORT.
I From Our Own Correspondent.

million and a half of readers, to whom HE
Tp,RuSE comes as a minister of grace, respect
fully dedre TO know whether you are 10 MAKE
sShs long war or short oue-whether you are
10 give the South six months credit, or let them
yNsy. az usnal at late convenience. They expect
me, perhaps. to call and take your answer IN
person; but that is an undo taking more serious
!. fhan an advance on Richmond, or an assault on
'Harpers Ferry. l might, possibly, run the
picket guard at the White House, or bride q
sturdy Greek TO let me down the chimney fiue,
or borrow Lieut.. SnOb's bright new cavalry |
,Saber and cut my way through the conSregated
saaalor and concentrated patriotism waiting for ils
xuails aud mama in the ante-rooms and halls OF
Departments. IL faction, action, action" is
J&he quality and sum Of elcquence, cheek,
= cheek, cheek" is here the essential of all sue
cess; and in obedience to the laws OF political
economy, supply follows demand. If the SecTe-
fary of the Treasury should invite loan OF
impotence, the bids would average 100, instead
Of hanging heavily at Sc. And here let me soy to
my friends at a distance: If you are coming here,
cake linen coat or two, for the weather
b getting sultry; and if you intend 10
soar into fashionable ATTITUDES do not forget
your best dress black and your white choker,
but leave your modesty with your wife, to be
packed away with her Winter outfit Of furs and
woolens in camphor or Scotch snuff Summon
all the brass of your nature into your fgure-head,
Ind when you arrive here. advance by parallels
and open trenches. If the Administration do not
Surrender, they will beat parley send out
Tag of truce, and negotiate for the subsidy of a
contract, or anont you with the consecratlng OIL
Of Territorial Judgeship-provided you never
read law.
But do not desire to be hippant. or even
foolish which can less be pardoped. l only
ask, in the name of the anxious country, What is
to be the polcyl For myself, l am confdlDg
and hopeful. l see abundant evidence in the
Government, Of honesty, energy, and determine
ton. We have not had, in our century, at least,
President more thoroughly sincere, simple
hearted, and anxious to travel with firm and
manly step, the pathway of duty. en- not an
interested witness, for i do not know whether
his sherry wine is sound and of approved flavor;
have never asked, nor intend to ask his patron.
age; and it is only the wrestling Jacobs who be-
come the prevailing Israels, and send their names
q
List. But there is not that means of observation
away from here, and the position of the country
is so new, that no parallel in past history can
guide to its solution.
Replying, then, to the query, / say the war Will
be short and sharp. speak this decidedly. because
everything impels to such policy. The people
clamor for early motion, and offer themselves for
the active field. The capitalist calls for the
urompt execution which shall restore the dis
f,rbea equilibrium Of his values, and leave conf
dence and order to resume their propitous reign.
Trade, langaishing in weakness which threatens
utter Bankruptcy, begs for all exercise of power
which will give breath to its lungs and oxygen
% its blood. Manufacturing, torpid, and almost
letbargic implOres the return to condition
which will stimulate demand, and move with the
fabrication of consumption and sale its inter-
rupted production. The mother too whose sons
have exchanged pruning. hook and sickle for Mimic
rife or sword, signs for the brief, even if bloody
struggle, which is to return the child Of her af
lection living presence or dead victim.
Thirty years wars belong to the century past.
Steam has revolutionized the means Of commun-
cation and contact; inventive art has made the
engines Of war terribly destructive. What could
be done under the old system in year, can
now be accomplished in a month. Vigor in
this campaign will give bloodless victories Peace
shall brood over the country again with the oc-
cupaticn of Richmond aud the captulation of
Memphis. 1t viii not end the contest, for in the
recusant and rebelous cities Of the Southern
coast your power must be felt in the presence
of your armies. But you may make your ad-
vance to them in early Autumn a peaceful
march or bloody passage. You can strew the
highway of your columns with the melancholy
traces of an equal conflict, or by an overwhelm-
ing force scatter resistance like the chat Of the
threshiDg-foor. Seize modern warfare Us you
have taken modern improvement, and give it
the stamp of our fresh inventions and
our all-conquering energy. AS Napoleon
astonisbed the Wurmsers, and Beaueus, and
Zschs of Austrian tactics by the wonderful ac-
tivity and almost Onnipresenco Of his files, hang
ing on front, flank, and rear-fghting all day
and marching all night until from Monte Note to
Mantua there was not an imperial command that
was not in consterna.on or flight; so let our
fierce democracy loose upon resisting rebellion
and drive il to the ships or the surf of the ocean
IS How shall we feed and payl" OF course with
food and money. Agree to finish this war in
ak months land you can) so far as active field
operations are necessary, restore tranquility to
the country and you shall have in ten days the