The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-06-05
All VIII Come Right.

last few days would excite general amaze
ment The dash Of the rebels on Gen.
Banks, compelling the flight of his great
ly outnumbeced force down the Shepan-
doah Valley, excited apprehensions at
Washington. which, however disavowed
and derided now, were very real, and to
our view very reasonable. 1t was suppo-
sed that the great body of the rebels in
Virginia, while amusing Gen. Mcclellan
with promise of desperate resistance
in front of Richmond, had slipped away,
leaving that place to fall finally with but
a shadow of resistance, while they made
a rush upon the line of the Potomac, ho-
ping to clutch the vast amounts Of NUM-
tions and provisions collected in and
around Washington and Baltimore, and
perhaps to inaugurate their long threat
eued offensive by demonstration upon
Philadelphia or the rich region around
Lancaster and Harrisburg. 1t now seems
that they were far less enterprising and
audacious than was inferred by many a
few days since, but that does not make
the inference unwise or improbable.
The Government called on the North
| for Militia to meet the new exigeucy and
the call was promptly and nobly responded
to. Had that call been simply persisted
in, or left unmodifed, force of fully One
Hundred Thousand Men, the flower Of
the North, uniformed and tolerably drilled
! by companies and regiments, would have
poured into Washington and Baltimore
at the rate of five thousand per day for
the next twenty days, ready for three
months good service, and little prefer
ring that it should include some fighting
than that it should be restricted to digging
trenches and standing guard. And this
| Hundred Thousand would have nowise
impeded the recruiting Of another like
number to serve for the War.
All our Generals commanding III the
| field ask for more men. Gen. Nj Clellan'
| delay in front of Richmond is only expli-
cable on the assumption that he wants
more men. Gen. MDowell has stopped
month at Fredericksburg for the same
reason. NJ 'DowelPs brigades have been
drawn away in answer to the urgent rep
resentation of Mcclellan, and Banks weak
ened to fill the consequent gaps in VI Dow
ellis lines, until ''Stonewall jackson" has
| been enabled easily to chase Banks out OF
the Valley, with d loss Of most of his sick
and wounded, a good part Of his munitions,
and third of his force. Gen. Burnside
could soon restore North Carolina to the
| Union if he had ten thousand more men
Gen. Hunter is cooped up in the Sea
| Islands of South Carolina, when with
three more brigades he could take
| Charleston and stop the last and worst of
the Rebel runaways through which they
receive arms and munitions Gen Hal
III - IL ! l.
desiring more men. Gen. Curtis is
obliged to arrest his easy conquest of
Arkansas and 90 to the support of Gen.
Halleck's demonstration on Corinth. And
worst OF all, East Tennessee-patriotic,
heroic, bleeding ,dying-must remain un-
der the heel of Ter cruel oppressors for
the want of few thousand men. TO all
human apprehension, the One Hundred
! Thousand Militia which the Government
is now offered and refuses, would suffice 1
to turn the scale at every doubtful point
and crush out the armies of the rebel
lion.
But Gods way is best, and He seems
to have decided that it is not so important
that the Rebellion shall be suppressed
soon as that it shall be thoroughly and
radically exterminated. The hearts of
rulers and of generals are in His hands,
and the issues Of campaigns are subordi-
nate to the consummatlon OF His purposes.
| But for this, the traitors would have been
defeated at Bull Run. as with tolerable
management on our side they must have
! been, when Pro-Slavery counter-revolu-
ton at the South would have restored the
| Union as it was, and saved its animating
soul for further mischief II ad our ar
mics been handled half as well as our
fleets have been, the war would long since
| have been over, and the Cotton States
once more debating and bullying in Con-
gcess. 1t is not thus, because 1t is not
best that it should be.
Let US trustfully work and wait. The
National sins which have brought this
fearful calamity Of civil war upon us are
in the blood and cannot be expelled in a
dav 1t takes time to educate Nation
out of contempt and hatred for Four
Millions OF People which have been in
grained for several generations. When
the core of the disease is removed, its
issues will dry up and disappear. This
may yet be soon enough to save the Nation
| from ACKNOWLEDGMENT if not, it will be
soon enough to reuniie it. The Slave
holding Aristocracy has fully determined
never more to cast in its lot with mud
sils' SO vulgar and lost to self-respect as
to consent to be governed by rail splitters
and such like lcw-bred creatures. 1t
cannot as caste be conciliated to be
conquered, it must be overthrown If
apothnr vear of Sufferinp and davo stotio,