The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-06-12
washington not out OF Danger.

The correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune appears not to feel altogether safe in
the federal capital and insists that more
men ought to be forwarded to the en-
dangered point. We copy some of his
croakings:
But let me enter upon theme on which
l have paused too long. There are now
within three days march and concentration
upon this, your capital, at least sixty thous-
aud rebels, the rose and flower of their
army, with the chief rebel himself, the sole
director of the columns. Possessing mill
tary genius, which it would be folly to dep
recate he has added advantage, great in
all war, of having the single train to direct.
Without division of authority or response
bility, his command is absolute. The cap
ture of the Capital is to them what the Oc-
cupation of Richmond is to us-the pivot
of the war. 1t is more than that. Rebel
lion sitting enthrOned here, by conquest,
being lifted to Revolution. Mr.. jefferson
! Davis is made the usurping William sub
DUNG and spelling the possessions of the
legitimate Harold, and driving out the Sax
/ on yeoman to pass his goods and estate to
the freebooting Norman baronage. To US,
in our relations to our own people, it is
much-in our attitude to Europe it is i'm
meuse. A fugitive President and a flying
Cabinet, taking refuge where they may
carry with them in their flight the life and
the fortunes of the land.
To oppose this array, you have within
your control 35, 600 troops than whom, in
rawness and experience as they are, the
world never saw finer in soul and sinew.-
You have in camps, at places not distant,
$4,000 more. But how are they and how
are your Virginia on your front is in
armed rebellion and in armcr. Maryland
| in your rear is held to a dubious allegiance
| by the overawing of your soldiery. Balti-
more, crashing her teeth in a rage which
hardly wears plausible disguise, waits for
your first reverse to rise again in riot and
open resistance; nay, more, to hover, in her
bands of subterranean barbarians, and to
plumber and burn, while the regular soldier
Smites and SlaughteTs. Telegraph TO your
reserves in Pennsylvania Ohio to hasten
to the rescue-the wires upon which rides
your message are cut by the traitors, or if
marching to their destination the line moves
to burning bridges, rails uptorn and which
stay their progress. There is one point on
the Potomac where six heavy guns in bat
terry can hold the channel against your
whole navy until treason has done its worst
Warriors OF experience and epaulettes I
wear neither strap on my shoulder nor star
on my breast, carry no spurs on my heels,
nor diploma from West Point and, like
all civilians, am " talking of what l know
nothing"
Providence often averts what prudence
might have avoided. The Conqueror of Eu-
rope, with Lannes, vainly threateningat As
perm, and Massena hurting shetland steel upon
impenetrable ranks at Essling, with boat
and pOntOon surging on the swollen current
of the Danube in a destruction which left
the heroic columns to slaughter, tempted
fate which still had lingering smile for
forehead upon which the shadows of a
coming doom were even then darkening
did not the less an act which would have
demanded in a General of Brigade drum
head court martial and a file of soldiers,
because the glory of Wagram redeemed his
military reputation from the blunder of his
temerity.
Perhaps when urge you TO hurry troops
here at once, aad hold in force what you
may retain in weaker numbers, l shall in
cur the suspicion of unreasonable alarm
Let it be SO. Should the catastrophe come
which l would guard against, we shall see
who treads on the heels of the retreating
citizen to the refuge of distant security, |
and who stands by to the end, bitter though /
it be.
Nor do 1 stop in the discussion of the |
subject in this one letter-in another I /
shall follow out what now crowds into my /
mind, with the space of my paper. You
can have one hundred thousand men here /
to the call of your need; you interpose |
the breasts of an army which shall make |
attack hopeless, and keep in peaceable pos
session by the very intimidation Of the odds.
Manassas junction may be your advance
post in ten days, and Richmond the posses
sion of a triumphant march.