New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-25
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

1epsrture for some improving remarks. snai
not step to Gen. SCOTS quarters to ask HIM IL
this is part Of the purpose of his plan, to take
Gear weeks TO compel the evacuation, and then
As ii 90 back without any defense. l know IL
was not, without the question. Not standing out
with the significance of Richmond it has IN actual
suvortance in the war no lower rank. We
al, then, why it was allowed to 60 back You
iced not reply, but will. Because your Cen
eral was utterly incompetent to BIS place. |
Shall we never have an end to this wretched |
Wandering Yeu are not responsible for one
set OF insufficieBcy if yOu take any measures
70 punish; but you are II you relax The
discipline of your army and permit
your officers to escape without rebuke.
You had butchery at Great Bethel, but no
Court of Inquiry has gwen to the country the
facts which will scquit the innocent, and place
the guilt of omission or commission where 1t
instly belongs. If cadet at West Point had
run a command into railroad cut to be rddled
BY cannon shot, which could not fail of their
errand Of death, if they wished you would have
sent him to the Guard-House and broken his
sverd. 1t was the merest accident that 1t was
not a general massacre instead of ssirmsd
with moderate loss. Ia there to be no puohc
nrprimand, nor any other demonstration to let
Sthers and mothers know that their children are
net TO be led into slsughter-hOuses without some
atonement for the temerity or recklessness OF
che officer! And now mountsingorge, tray-
orsed by great thorOughfare, holding the COM
munication between the coast and the Western
hasin-a Fortress of Bard in the descending Alps
passes out of our hands into the power of the
enemy. VIII that General be ordered to head
quarters to answer for his treachery or what Is
n bad in effect, his imbeciity Perhaps he
viii, and perhaps not.
Shall tell you, frankly and honestly what
hear around me and abroad 1t is, that there
10 no intention to press this suppression of re-
Aelhon-that the patience of the people is to be
worn out by deay-that the soldier is to have
his spirit wasted in the tOrpOr and inaction of
camp; and when at kngth, the nation are dis
xustsd and outraged to proper point, then we
are 10 run after the old harlOt of a compromise.
Mr.. Crlttenden, or some other senile legacy OF
o past generation, who have had sufficient re.
spect for public opinion to die at the proper
time, is to stupefy the pride Of the North with
the anethesia which desdens 10 shame and drives
10 ignobls concession. / express no opinion
ss to the truth of such suspicious, but j
may say to those who in power, and
IRE our appointed leaders, that it were better
fhst the VOWS Of Office had never passed their
Hps before they venture on such an experiment.
You could not stand one hour before the sweep
ing wrath Of the soldier and citizen. The lines
which divide treason FROM fidelity are slight and
almost iulperceptible, but when once dscerned,
the Indignation which brings armed States here,
4. put down q rebellion Of the South, will stay
here TO purge the tbreshing if there is flag
Ring, or failure, or recreancy to the great duties
of the trial. Weakness may be even worse than
crime. Delay Of action becomes guilt Temper
King when there should be quick execution Is as
bad as the treason which waits to go over to the
enemy Thus is plain talk, but you had better
hear it from me than from q file Of mailed men
m the hot blood of anger. You had better heed
the warning of the people in the small voice
than to hear the summoning blast of the rams
horn.
Doubtless you are incredulOus. Let me tell
you there is not one, but thousands, who would
come here ard drive you out if they believed
that you did not intend to carry this war to a
triumph. We are fill OF ardor. Nowhere else
In our whole boundary is there slowness and
hesitation but here at the capital. Elsewhere
the able-bOdied and the invalid wait with i'm
patience for the call to the field. Age cannot
chill, nor custom stale the vitality Of spirit
which is az certain an inheritance of battle fer
yM, when aroused as the fair skin and blue
eyes of the Anglo-N Oman lineage. All we need
now is the wand of the magician to touch the
sprirg, and the shield and buckler OF the Roman
eonqueror shall again be upon the shoulders and
breasts of the children Of the Island barbarian
they subdued. You cannot emasculate the power
Of such race. England, feared and respected
and pensionary Of France, under the royal
sybarite, Charles III. But how burst out her
reacting health under the succeeding Orange,
robust and regal in the gifts which God cOnfers
vpon his chosen instruments, with or without
the hngy robe.
You hold now The whole destiny OF our era
1t may be made grand if you so will it, or it
viii be a ruin upon which to rebuild. From the
Presidents House and from your Departments
goes out the inspiration which lures to victory
or the irresolution which hastens to defeat.
Again look at the written page. The Premier
snip Of WapOle AID those he created brought
rottenness into the bones of English strength.
Disgrace brOOded over her navies and disaster