The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-07-06
A WEAR OF WAR.

General Scott. il is understood, has \,
reserve in declaring that this var will en-,
within year from the day when Maultri
commenced i,. His confidence 10 this regar,
will control the public mind. The crane
characteristic Of his military genius is hi
; ability to master details, and precisely
, forecast results. This has been SO oftel
manifested in his long career that this gen
! Grafton Of Americans have almost come Il
regard his premeditasion in affairs of VA
as absolute preseienee. Other commander,
have equaled him in conception, but it would
De dlftcait TO name one who has matched
him in sureness Of execution. knowing
the ground on which be has to work. be
works with infailible mastery. Unlike mos.
other Generals. he never trusts to good
fortune. He puts no faith in lucky days OF
lucky stars. He makes no alloxance 70,
, aceidents, for be never exposes vital poin
10 accidents. Contingencies vi any kind
enter very little into his Iiuai scoucir s;ens
Ii they favor him it is all well, an he NAV
use them to expedite; but ohs,rue. O,
thwart him they cannot-his plans and
operations are aiwass so shaped az TO be
preef against them. His principle. as well
as ms apiiisv,sis 70 play sure game: and
thus ~ IS ina. be never lost pattle, OF
made a retreat. I. is a grand thing for the
feennsry. indeed a Providenti al Ordering. a
| We resgiousiy believe--as much so as th G
existence OF . Washington in our rernlu-
uonary trials-that veteran of Winfield
seott's peculiar qualities should be at the
bead OF our armies in this second great crisis.
Hrs s!ow and sure policy is the only poliev
suited to the supreme interests at stake, and
yet Is so uncongenial to the dashing Amsri.
can disposition that no commander could
carry it out who did not have an extrapr.
dinary hold upon the popular coufdene@-
a hold which could be gained only by lie
long successful service. The struggle thus
far against treason has nowhere exhibited
ans partlcuar boldness of movement. BEL
ligerent operations have seemed to go on
rather slowly. The outraged LOYALTY of the
country has burned to precipitata itself
upon the rebel horde. and would have inevi.
tably done so ut all hazards, had any other
ohcer than General Scott been at the head
oil military movements. Such officer eoult.
not have carried out the great noliev, even
had ne the ability to p'anit The absence
OF all brilliant exploits, of everything like
vehement inroad and onslaught. would have
been qnfckiy taken as proof Of uuftness for
times like these. an! clamor would have
been raised which would have compelled a
change. But the Lieutenat General has a
moral authority which none dare challenge.
lie is master of his position. and conducts
the contest not as the popular impa,ience,
but as his own unerrng science dictates.
And, under him, the people have alreadv
learned to restrain their impatience. have
schooled themselves to STEADY fortitudp and
are now exhibiting a moral discipline quite
as ehectuai outside of the field of action as
anr military disIpline can be within.
There have been, as we have said, no
great demonstrations, but yet momentaus
results have been effected. MARYLAND has
been saved to the loyal cause, and been
made as completely secure for federal tro OPS
as II Baltimore had been laid in ashes. Not
a hostile shot has been fred at Washington.
and yes, IN spite of all the terrible threats
OF the rebels, it is this day rs well assured
to the government As Boston ITSELF Harper's
Ferry, the lmpregnable stronghold as il was
styled, held by fifteen thousand men, is this
day as completely in our hands as if all the
blood and treasure of Sebastopol had been
spent IN Its reduction. lt is expected that
all Virginia will be made ours before the
summer heats are over. II may be foo much
to hope that it will be effected without one
or two great conflicts. but there will be far
less actual Fighting than has been anticipated.
The main work will be done bv strategy.
The Old Dominion will be gradual allv crump-
led up Ike sheet of brown paper. The
rebels, notwithstanding all their prepara-
tons, VIII IN due time make as clean a fight
from Manassas junction as they have from
lilarper's Ferry, They will do it from the
same fear OF beng hemmed in and starved
out. Once compelled to abandon this point.
they Will lind no place where to make n stand
this slde of Richmond. What nart Western
Virginia is to bear in the final operations
upon the state capital remains to be deyel-
oped; but 1t may be set down as very GER
! tain that the provisional government which
| is ~ be provided for hy the convention now
/ !, session at Wheeling will take power with
the a., -antage of al! the prestige which IN
/ linaururat,o,. o. Shockoe Hill can give it.
| When Virginia is once fairly brought again
under the authority Of the FEDERAL CoBsti-
tuition. the two states, North Carolina and
| Tennessee. which seeded simEfv secause
she set the example, will of themselves re-
turn. They will not part company with her.
| Neither Of them has any real sympathy with
80 cotton power. and they VIII not consent
: 10 its mere ec,-.i5 ec,-:a5 appenaa ges, as mu
! be the case .,gsoon =. as they are without the
support of Virginia. i..g1m the day when
Ricamond fails, the JEFF, Davis regime VII.
virtually be reduced TO the original cotton
Iconfcderacv. and the bringing of that to
terms by Il descent down the Mississippi to,
/ New Orleans, by naval operations, on the
cities Of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. apd
| by the seizure OF important points in the in
terror, ,if nerd be, by divisions of the immense
army which the government will have as its
disposal, will be no very difficult winters
I work. s-.y-. ....
The year of the putting down Of the re-
bellisn will prove the most profitable twelve
month Of the countfy's history. 1t will have
gwen perpatua. quietas to the assumptions
and encroachmepts Of slavery: 1t will have
laid The monsirous heresies OF null fcation
/ and secession in the dust IL wills have com.
pacted the unity of the republic and have
transformed ITS nationality from al idea in.
to a living fact il will have terminated
the spirit of patriotism and public devotion
which the lust Of private gam was fas. con-
suming: it will have brought home to every
man, in a way never felt before, the great
lesson that eternal vigilance is the price o!
liberty i, will have revealed. in measure
meter imagined before by ourselves, far les:
lbv the world at large, the tremendous
strength OF a republican gov srnment found
ed on the ples OF justice and the intel.
, fiysnt popalar will. The year will, in fact
! regenerate the republic and from It's i'm.
: partial history will date new add NOR
glorious stage IN our national career. Til,
change brings its suffering, like all grea
changes ia the physical economy Of the in
.. disiaual; but il will be repaid ihousans
fold TO our future good
! eTThs Charleston Mercury says thu
E ssS nth Carolina stands upon pniat 0
' hanor." wethousht her hsnor had bcel
shiss.ed down TO . point. fyeatsce.