East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-08-01
The Defeat nj BuII,s Run.

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The Defeat mt Bulls Run.
That noble army of the North, prcpar
cd with so much cost, marshalled at
Washington under the eye Of the Presi-
dent and of the Lieutenant General, upon
whom the country has lavshed its care,
for whose support and preservation Con-
gress has poured forth its treasures in
hundreds of millions, and on whom the
hopes of the people were concentrated,
has been driven back, broken, bleeding
and panc.stricken, to Washington Raj.
lying there in entertainments, tits announ-
ed that it is strong enough to defend the
Capital, and as the telegram is under the
supervision of the Government, this may
be supposed to be the conviction of per-
sons high in Office. If, however, Gov.
LETcHER has called out levy. en-masc of
Virginia, and disaffected Maryland rises
in the rear, the Capital and Congress and
the Cabinet may be for while isolated,
and in position of personal peril. To de-
fend the Capital, however, the signal has
but to be heard to call out, not the sol
diers merely, but the people of the loyal
States.
Our brave troops marched on, from
battery to battery driving the enemy
back, but at fearful loss of life, till meet
ing an enemy apparently undiminished in
numbers, and a series of masked forti6ca-
tons disclosing themselves on all sides,
the accumulation Of horrors and of suffer
ing proved too much Cor them and they
yielded to a disorderly panic. The enemy
rallied, recruited it is said by JoHNsoN's
command, which had joined them and
pushed forward, when the retreat Of our
troops became total route.
We had hoped, and we so expressed
ourselved yesterday that our troops would
withdraw and wait for the reinforcement
of McCLELLAN's and PATTERsoN's com
mands before pushing on. There is no
equality between an invading army of co.
90 and an army of like number entrench-
ed behind batteries. 1t was task too
great to throw fresh troops, like ours, up
on an unknown path, amid ambuscades
and surprises, on all sides to storm en-
trenchments armed with the terrible en-.
ginery with which Science has endowed
/
modern warfare.
Whose is the fault A? Why is it that
this Anaconda that was to crush the enc.
my in its folds, has been compelled to
drag its wounded length back to Wash
ington, staining its track with blood, and
palpitating in agony? 1t is said that
ScoTr was overruled by the President,
who ordered the forward movement him
self. Whether this is true, or whether
the old General yielded to the clamor Of
an enraged and insensate press, whose
monomania has been, from the beginning.
to-be little the dangers of the country
and underestimate the enemy. Whosoev-
er's the guilt is, fearful will BIO the respon-
sibility
But we do not intend to waste words
in regrets or in accusations. What has
been done, or left undone, cannot be re.
called. When two sections of country
hate each other with such intensity that
the passion blazes into war, they must
necessarily despise and deprecate each
other, and they are only to be recalled
from this delusion by the rude shock Of
defeat.
The people have offered to the Admin.
istration the unstinted treasures of their
blood and their means. This calamity
will not close their hearts, but will open
them still wider. The Government should
have drawn more largely from the re-
sources offered to it. Let it not spare
them now In the hour of national ca
lamity all men should be patriots. This
war, resting where it now is, would not
only be the assertion of the independence
Of the Confederacy, with the Potomac for
its boundary, but the Northern Republic
would commence an existence dishonored
by the stain of warlike incompetency from
lbs very birth. Lot us avert this double
calamity.
The Administration which has refused
to consider the subject Of peace must show
itself competent for war. 1t must rise to
the magnitude Of the crisis. 1t must dis.
- by. IL must reclaim public con-
Inhibition of purity of pur
he Constitution.
led unlimited