, 1861-06-25

From tho Mem York Evening postl
Our armies have twice, within the courbe Of
few weeks, suffered severely from the am
buacades which the enemy has prepared for
entered. But a more tremendous trap than
thnt at Great Bethel or ut Vienna has been
devised for Us, aud Is even now being silently
equipped and manned. We refer to those
schemes Of compromise With the secession.
the special session in July.
IN. Critteuden, who has jnat been elected
in Kentucky. announces his determination to>
make somo motion for bringing the war to an
end. BE will be sustained ey other Southern ss
Northe1n States. Already convention Of
editors is called in this State, to agree upon
plan, It Is said, for bringing popular opinion
IN to The deaigns Of the leaders, md not
few hints are given ont IN private converse
ton, to the effect that the war has gone far
enough. 4 pa1t Of the scheme embraces the
capitalists Of the cltiesj who are to be persua-
ded not to lend their. money. to the Govern
ment for the prosecution OF hosaht1es, Or 70
lend 1t only At such rates of Interest Is Will
discourage the Government IN lte attempts 10
maintain the Federal ascendancy.
This scheme Is noth1sg more than masked
battery Of Jefferson Davis. He has been
/, thoroughly disappointed in his projects. Sup
posing that large party at the North would
side With him il his Infamous deaigns, he
really persuaded uluseA t411 ~ "uAu oV eA
easy thing to march On to Washing gton,. seize
| thepnblic offices and archives, aud lnaug gurate
| . new administration. But the noble and
unanimous uprising Of the free States put m
end to his vain and ridiculous hopes. he
| found that the wicked Wnr he had begun was
| to be q Ear In earnest, He eaw that the peo-
| pie Of the North we're not only united in their
resolves to preserve the Union, but that they
brought to the contest vast superiority Of
wealth. numbers, determination aud endu-
rance. Instead Of being in the possession Of
the capital, be can scarcely hold the securest
military positions by his hnlfled, il1-clad
and discontented forces. His ports are block.
States do not follow bis lead, and quarter Of
million Of men threaten all his posts.
In short, Davis is in D hopeless pledieament.
| 4 grand success In battle might impart some
degree Of Vitality to his cause for abort time,
but the end Is Is certain as the setting Of the
scattered like chatf before the wind, II not
this summer, then In the autumn. He per.
ceiyes his, dilemma, and adrolt1y contsives q
way to eacape. It is to divide the North By a
Wel1.planneG Btratagem. Knowing the love
Of peace which pervades the hearts Of North
~ern men, be hopes, BY throwing into Congress
some scheme Of compromise, TO divert atten
war, and in the end to raise party Of peace
eTen In the midst Of our camps.
We do not believe that the project will
succeed. Our people, who haye deliberately
gone into the contest, will not relinquish It
until the ends for which it was undertaken
hare been fully attained. We did not as
eume the dread alternative Of battle as child's
play. It Was not to us mere move in = great
game Of politics and intrigue, We hsve not
sent two hundred thousand men from their
homes to perish Of exposure and disease On a
fos1s errnnd; we have not raised millions Of
money, and sacrificed many millions more In
trade for nothing. We have been in earnest
In our purpose to yindicate great principles,
and those principles will be Yindicated, come
what may. Nj. Crittenden and his small
knot Of adherents may suggest what compro-
mf6es they please, but until the supremacy OF
the Federal Government is recognized from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, until the
Stars and Stripes float again from every fort
Ieas within our boundaries, until the armies
Of rebellion have Laid down their last musket
and the leaders Of rebellion have psid the
last penalty for fomenttng the most wantou
j ard malignant crime that our country eve,
witnessed, the demand and wishes Of the peo
pie Of the North will not be satisfied. They
have had enough Of treason in this single ex
perience OF 1t, and they mean that It ehal
never again show any one of its heads. They
mean to make m end Of the hydra once anG
| forever. Now is the time to do It; We have
lost nearly all that We can lose in the expert
iment; the heart Of the .uatiou Is alive; tht
spirit Of patriotism is fully aroused; our sol
die1s are already IN the field; and there mus
be no ta1teripg till the glorious banner Of tht
Union waves triumphantly in all the laad!