New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-27

How AnoUr THE Esd on the WAR'-Poor
Greeley u.ed 20 prophecy ,hs' lie would be owe IA ilhp
Herald
Our readeri kaow how fase the above IL,
AID how carefully we have abstained from
prophecy throughout the progress of this tre-
mendous struggle. We certainly did believe
that the Rebellion nigh. have been crushed IN
It's earlier stages by proper display of energy
and yIgOr in opposing il. We believed that An
army Of One HuAdred Thousand Union Nolun.
teers might have moved southwark from Wash
ipgton 20 early as the middle of June, loGl-
that it might have taken Richmond before the
4th of July. and had military possession OF
Virginia North Carolina, and East Tennessee
by the let Of August, aad that this would have
broken the back Of the Rebellion, securing the
strongest Military positions, extensive food
growing regions, and at least One Hundred
Thousand volunteers to the Union cause, from
regions which have since yielded twice that
number 10 the Rebel consumption. The reyela.
tions of Lieut. Maury, Mr. Hurlbert, aud otLers,
have since shown that We were entirely right
that the Rebel forces we're then very small
aud practically unarmed, being destitute (to
speak Of nothing slsc) Of percussion caps aud
Of the means Of making ANY. IL was fatal
mistake, as History viii prove, to give this
Rebellion time to cry stallze and gain consistency
III Virginia, and TO overpower the gallant 10y
atty Of East Tennessee aud the adjacent Noun
tain region Of North Carolina, before hurting
upon it the armed strength Of the Republic.
So it was wrong again to permit Washington
to DO besieged, the navigation OF tho Potomac
TO be obstructed, aud the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to be interrupted, by force Of OILY
Fifty or Sixty thousand Men, from October ~
april last. while We held twice u thrice their
number inactive in their front, eager for per.
mission to clear them out any morning before
breakfast. This was a fatal miscalculaton;
and, if the same strategy is 10 bear sway, We
do not believe thirty, nor sixty nor ninety
days, will suffice to crush out the Rebellion, I
10 matter under what policy.
But, though wo have been chary of predic-
lions hitherto, the broad light thrown upon i;
BY the immediate pat enables US to read with
considerable certainty page Of the future.
We are enabled. therefore, to make with Goa
fdencs the following prognostcations:
/. We predict that the LIST Of January, 1863,
viii prove u most important and nusplcious era
in the history Of our country.
2. We predict that JEFF Davis Will think
twice before he gives effect to bis well EDogn
purpose OF denudiuG the Cotton States Of their
able-bodied Whites, up 10 the age even Of -
,ears, in order to hurl taem Oh tho Union
armies along his frontier.
3. We predict that it will be- found much
easier to induce the slaves OH the great plan
tstions to stop work next Christmas for their
annual saturnalia, than to 90 back To their
unpaid tasks on the morning after New Years. !
A. We predict that the sympathizers in tho
Free States with the Shareholders Rebellion
will have hard work to keep up The courage of
their Southern brethren through the next three
months, and that earnest efforts will be made
by these compatriots to bring about an accom-
modaticn before the day Of Emancipation.
3. We predict that the Editor of Tho Heroli
will be in Fort lafayette within thirty days, /
if he does not disguise HIS tratorous venom
more artfully than he did yesterday.
Now see if these are not true prophecies
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