The New York herald., 1862-09-13

The Present Aspects or tho Wharf.-The
Crisis OF Lifc or Death 60 Dur COun-
try.
To every honest supporter of our govern
ment; 10 every friend Of our liberal institu-
tons, law, order and civiAized society; to every
man VINO realizes in the destruction OF this
Union the reign Of Mexican anarchy through
out the length and breadth of cur land, tie
present aspects OF this war, East and West are
painful, humliating and alarming
After ghteen months of war by land and
water, involving the wasting of an Immense
army and the expenditure of thousand
millions Of money what is our position'
Disgraoefully defensive As the opposing
armies of this war stand this day we
cannot, without sense of shame and
deep humiliation, contemplate the contrast be-
tween the immense forces and resources of war
at the service of our government and the pitt
full weakness of our rcbellious States We have
a loyal population Of twenty-three millions,
against eight millions serving this rebellion,
and Of these eight millions nearly three millions
are African slaves. The white population Of New
York and Pennsylvania is greater than that of
our rebel.ious States Our manufacturing es-
tablishments Of all descriptions render us .
selfsustaining people for all the requirements
of peace or war; and with these advantages we
retain all those Of an unrestricted COM
merce with foreign nations. Our rebell,ous
States on the other hand, with ouly
few insignificant manufactures Of arms
and materials Of war. textile fabrics, leather,
&C., have been cut off by an encircling block
ade for fifteen months from all those supplies
upon which they had depended from the North
and from Europe, in the way OF arms. munitions
Of war, clothing medicines, and many Of the
essentials of subsistence
The rebellion is ithout the vestige Of navy,
except struggling ship or two, while ours in
this war is equal to land force of three or
four hundred thousand men. Our revolted
States are nearly exhausted of the comlnonest
articles Of food while we Of the loyal States
have a superabuudance of all the essentials and
luxuries Of life. Our troops, en- nlasse, are bet
ter armed, equipped and subsisted than those of
any other nation, while those Of the rebellion
are armed with all sorts Of weapons, good, bad
and Indifferent, clothed in rags, fed upon half
rations; and yet, advancing upon our borders,
they threaten the invasion Of Ohio and Penn
sylvania. and the occupation of our national
capital
Upon this schedule Of undeniable facts how
are we to account for this reaction of the tide
Of war against US! Are the men Of our revolt
ed States superior in strength and courage to
the men Of our loyal Statesi No. They are
oil Of the same general stock. Are our generals
inferior In pluck, zeal, strategy and tactics to
those Of the enemys No. The generals Of the
rebel army have committed quite as many
blunders ~ our own. How, then, are we TO OK
plain our army failures and disasters since the
rebel evacuation Of Corinth? We charge them
ell upon our intermsddling Jacobin abolition
politicians In Congress. They have interfered
with and broken up the we'll considered plans
of our ablest generals, and they suspended the
work Of recruiting our depleted armies at the
very time when reinforcemsnts were most
needed to meet the sweeping eonscriptlon en-
tered upon by the rebel governments. Hence,
from the evacuation Of Corinth down to This
day, our armies In almost every encounter
have been pushed back by the overwhelming
forces Of the enemy and 90 now, while Wash
inston Is msnaosd By q great rebel army on
both sidss Of tho Potomac, the clothing stores
aud pork houses OF Cincinnati are threatened
with visit from tho hungry aad ragged battal-
ions Of rebel army column al the way from
Tennessee.
We have no more time to waste in trifing.
We are in the very crisis Of life or death to the
country. Grant that the desperate necessities
Of the rebels have driven them to the invasion
Of eur loyal border slave States aud to the
gates Of Washington; that virginia and the
cotton States have been eaten out Of provisions
to the verge Of famine, and exhausted of their
materials for clothing to the verge Of naked
ncss-is our danger any the lessi Weknow that
desperate men will attempt the most desperate
enterprises, and that with oil the odds appa-
rently against them they are often successful.
We are grasiaed to believe that the administrs-
tion Is at length acting upon this idea--thst
this idea has restored General Mcclellan to the
head Of our most important army In the field,
and that in this single act tha safety Of wash-
ington is again secured against all possible con.
tingenciss. But this il uos enough.
Every day we stand npon the defensive oon-
tributes much to Strengthen the rebels In the
articles sf subsistence. aud clothing, which
they ere gathering up from the farms, mills and
stores Of Northern Maryland. They should at
once be driven ont. If General Mcclellan is
NOT yet strong enough 10 do this without dan
ger to Washington from the rebel column On
the Virginia side, hundred thousand strong,
what is there TO prevent New York, New Jer-
sey aud Pennsylvania sending down 10 bis sup.
port body Of fifty Thousand militia within the
next ten days.
Governor Curtin, OF Pennsylvania, 10 fully
alivc 10 che demands Of the crisis, and IL acting
accordingly. But what d Governor Morgan