The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-19
COwnrdly JOurnaltsm-,rhe Tribune and
Times i'm Another Bull Run Panic.

| Cownrdly JOurnaltsm-'The Tribune and
| Times I'm Another Bull Run Panic.
The chief difficulty of Mr. Lincoln's admins
tration has been from the beginning with those
who contributed to his election, particularly
the republican newspapers Before the Union
army was prepared for action they urged day
| after day an immediate advance upon Rich
mond, contrary to the judgment of the military
men at Washington, and the result was the dis
aster of Bull run, after which they made the
most abjcct apology to an indignant people,
! with promise Of future amendment. Further,
these journalists, because the President was not
| fast enough for them, and seemed disinclined to
| follow their lead, proposed to supersede him,
first, by the substitution. of George Law. and
| more recently by the elevation of Fremont to
| the position of dictator.
What do they propose now? To give up the
ship, in the event of future disasters, for which
they are preparing the public mind. BY their
dastardly doubts and misgivings they are con-
tributing in no small degree to produce the de-
feats and failures which they fear. Yesterday
two Of these Journalistic Tribune and Times
came out in the same tone Of dependency, and
gave expression to an identity of sentiment
which appears to be something more than
mere coincidence.
The Times reminds it's readers " how much
accident has to do with battles and campaigns"
and calls on the people to " be prepared for
further disasters" AS for the naval expedition,
we are warned that, Notwithstanding all its
grand preparations" it is % most perilous and
uncertain affair."" for "a single southeasterly
blow may scatter or wreck half of the feet,
the ships may miss the rendezvous, may
have mistaken the depths Of channels, may
stumble on unexpected batteries, and on
much greater masses of opposing forces than
were anticipated; the landing may fail, or the
South may concentrate forces SO rapidly on the
point attacked that we cannot hold it long, and
the whole prove a barren triumph" There
fore, concludes the Times, g a maritime expe-
dition for landing soldiers is always very dam
gerous and its fortunes uncertain" and "we
must meet with many reverses yet" The
" little villain" says he makes these sugges-
tons merely to prepare the public mind for
disasters, and to prevent our being too san
guine."
In the same cowardly strain writes the 7r;
bune, anticipating {" the failure of the republic
in its life and death struggle, through the infe
riority Of lis statesmen and generals" and, in
The event Of that inferiority being demonstrated
announcing beforehand that it (the 'I'ibune)
= shall readily acqtiesce IN an Immediate peace
on the best attoiaable terms," and acknowledge
aa,d make terms aciM the cotton co'.federacy"
1T is true" adds the Tribune, that such
peace will blot the American republic from
among the great nations Of the earth reducing
it to the rank Of Spain and Prussia; but ",ohat
cannot be cured mast be endured" Nor is this
all. The organ of abolition labors to reconcile
the public mind of the North to separation as a
thing not to be greatly deprecated or lamented,
and points to the example Of England thus
"Great Britain was BUNDLED not ruined, by
the loss Of her principal American colonies; on
the contrary, she has been stronger since than be-
fore; the steam engine and the spinning jenny
repaired for her the disasters of Saratoga and
Yorktown and so this country, should it be its
lot by treason to fall, may by genius and in
dustry rise again. Its greatest danger to-day
is that of a shameful compromise, not an in
glorious peace"
The malignant, vile suggestion here is that
the North will be stronger without the South,
unless slavery is abolished, and that peace
agreeing to a separation would be far better
for the country than compromise by which
the Union would be restored, with negro slavery
retained, on the basis of the constitution.
a.. SO
leading republican journals Of this city. That
the man who ran for many miles at Solferino
from fright, at the appearance Of two or three
Austrian hussars, and afterwards was the first
TO show his heels at Bull run, should give ex-
preston to such sentiments, does not excite
our establishment; but thai Greeley and all the
philosophers of the Tribune should thus exhibit
the white feather is more than we can
account for, unless we are to accept it as
evidence of deliberate design to embarrass
the government, discourage the army and navy,
render the war unpopular throughout'the coun-
try, and bring it to a speedy end, because it is
not conducted in their own way and made
war of emancipation. The crime of these
journals is worse than that Of any traitor in
Fort Lafayette, and they gave more aid and
comfort to the enemy and did more injury to
the cause of the Union in their issues of yester-
day than has been done by all the secessionists
and rebels hitherto cast into prison.
There is no ground whatever for such base
fear The South has exhausted all its strength
in its first effort. The North has not put forth
onethird Of its strength and is in fact, only be-
ginning to move. 1t has greater population
and greater resources, and is better organized
than the French republic after the Revolution Of
1892, when it had to contend with its own rebel
| royalists: with England, who sought to avenge
herself for the part France had taken in the
American war; with Sweden, Russia, Prussia,
| Austria, Spain, Sardinia, Switzerland, the Ne
thcrlands, and, in fact, with all Europe combined
| Under two different generals at Valcnciennes
and Lille the raw armies Of the republic ran
away in more shameful and causeless roul
than that of Bull run. Yet did these very