The New York herald., 1862-05-29

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Our Late Disaster in the Valley OF
Virginia and its Causes and Conse.
qucnces.
Where lies the responsibility for the late
disastrous repulse of the remnant Of the army
Of General Banks from the great valley of yir-
ginia! The newspapers Of the indignant North,
to considerable extent, are pouring out their
vials of wrath upon the head of Secretary STAN
ton. One of this class of journals, for instance
denounces his management of the War De-
partment " as an intolerable nuisance which
ought to be abated;" while another describes
the unfortunate Secretary as " an official who
possesses patriotism without discretion and
enthusiasm without judgment, and who is as
ready to exaggerate the terrors of his work to-
day as he was to rush upon them yesterday"
But Mr.. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,
adroitly saddles the whole responsibility in the
pIOHiscb upO0 tuC iCcIuCut, WIZ uuo OuIy w
give his orders, and secretaries and generals
are bound to obey. But let us 60 little
deeper into the merits of this matter, and we
will doubtless soon reach the true solution of
the mystery of this repulse of General Banks
from the Shenandoah valley.
The Secretary of War, we all know, is a law
yer and not soldier; but granting that he
possesses patriotism without discretion and
enthusiasm without Judgment" he is still but
subordinate of the President. Thus far Mr.
Senator Wilson is right, and the responsibility
falls back upon the President; but Mr. Wilson
has, unfortunately, neglected to confess that
from the President this responsibility may be
traced to the radical disorganizing abolition
negro brigade of Congress, to which alone the
public Indignation may be justly directed.
In legal and technical view, the President,
as tho head of the government, the army and
navy, is responsible to the country for the de-
feats and disasters Of our troops where sue
cesses could and should have been secured.
But we know, on the other hand, that Congress
is the supreme law making power; that the
President is dependent upon Congress for tie
men, the ways and means with which to carry
on the war, and that the shaping Of every act
of Congress, in reference to the war, is in the
hands Of certain committees of the two houses
which are controlled by the chiefs OF our abo-
ltion negro brigade. Thus, for example, Mr..
Wilson, as the head of the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs in the Senate, occupies an official
position in the legislative branch Of the govern
ment which the President is bound to respect,
and hence the views and suggestions OF Mr..
Wilson in regard to the management and con-
duct of the war must command, in liberal
degree, the confidence of the President, what
ever may be the peculiar differences Of opinion
between these two public agents.
In the next place, it would be simply impos-
tifarious details connected with the manage
ment and movements Of tie army. This busi-
ness belongs especially to the Secretary Of
War; and we speak not at random but state
what we believe to be very important fact,
when we say that the Secretary Of War has
been victimized by the chiefs of these ruling
committees Of Congress Of the abolition negro
brigade into all this budget Of military blum
ders, eliminating in this unfortunate repulse
of General Banks from the valley Of Virginia.
We are also convinced that had General
Mcclellan made himself, even so late as three
months ago, an abolition army politician Of the
school of General Fremont the disaster which
has fallen upon General Banks would have
been abundantly guarded against by the abo-
lition politicians of Congress.
Our readers will remember that when the
rebel army, in March last, evacuated Manassas.
a regular onslaught of the abolition radicals OF
Congress was made upon General Mcclellan.
"outcamped the rebels;' that he had been
frightened all winter by lot Of "quakcr guns"
that he had permitted the enemy to slip through
his fingers, because he was too much of pro-
slavery apologist to believe the Intelligent
contrabands" who in season informed him how
Johnston was evacuating his Potomac line; that
McClelan's army, five times in numbers the
dismantled army Of Johnston, was too much for
Mcclellan; and, lastly, that he would not adj
vance '.ior fear of hurting somebody What
followed? McCellan's army was divided into
three armies, and with half his previous force
he was shipped off to Yorktown. As he adj
vances he finds the enemy in front in much SUI
perior numbers to his own. He calls for rein
forcements. They are supplied from General
Mcdowell; but thus depleted, Mcdowell be.
comes apprehensive of danger and calls for
other troops They are supplied from the army
of General Banks, who has thus been pounced
upon, cut up, despoiled and driven out by
those watchful rebel guerillas, Generals John
son and Ewell.
But why was not General Bank % reinforced
from some other quarter? We answer, that it
was because Mr.. Senator Wilson, the head Of
the Military Committee Of the Senate, and his
Conversational abolition cliaua after the rehel