New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-25

WANTED, A Policy

The n. Y. Times, commenting on our stric-
lures on the recent Executive "War Bulletin"
respecting the use of Rebel property and tie
employment of "persons of African descent
in the prosecution of the War Tor the Union,
says:
II Is somewhat Difficult. to guess what THE TRIBUNE
would have The paper which complains OF as too incon
elusive simply military order not declaration Of the
policy 4 Government an way connected with the
Conf cation ec and all directed the Of the
South il ia simply information TO the commanders OF the
Union original States Of the Confederation as to
,hel duties in regard property and certain persons Il
goes 10 the full exten. Of the power allowed with propey 10
such distant and detschei leaders," &c. &c.
Ambiguity and incapacity to make it.
self understood are faults which have very sell
dom been attributed to THE TRIBUNE. They
never, if we can help i, shall be justly as
cribed TO it. Assuming, therefore, that there
may be some other person beside the editor Of
Tie Times who does not clearly comprehend
us-fnds it "dIfiicult to guess what TIL
TRIBUNE would have" we proceed to set it
forth as distinctly and succinctly as possible.
/. Our country has for the last fifteen months
been struggling with a gigantic and iiendish
Rebellion 1t has called cut Lot one less than
Three Quarters Of a Million Citizen Soldiers to
suppress that Rebellion. Not less than One
Hundred thousand of these have been killed
permanently crippled or disabled by disease
contracted in the service while lke number
are row lBnguishiDg in hospitals, in private
dwellings, or in Rebel prisons. Not dollar
I. Al. e.,
been spent (includng claims for supplies, mu.
nitions, vessels, transportation, &c, &c, es
yet unadjusted, or if adjusted, unpaid) by our
Government in itS efforts to put down the Re-
bellicn
ii. These efforts, this tremendous outlay, have
accomplished but a small part Of the work in
hand. The Rebels confront cur armies on
every side with forces nearly if not fully equal
to our OVID. They have successfully resisted
our past efforts TO take their capital though
nearly approached by water and but hundred
miles or so from our own. They have more
men in the field this day than they ever had
before, while we have One Hundred thousand
less than when we opened the campaign last
April. Within the last mouth, they have decid-
EDDY gained ground. They have foiled US at
Vicksburg, damaged us in Tennessee, deyas.
tated good portion of Kentucky, and are Seri.
ously troubling Missouri. Meantime, our main
armies stand on the defensive, and are quies-
cent, or Off you please "safe"
III. The root, tbe heart, the impulse, the
vital force Of this Rebellion are oil summed up
in one wOrd-SLAvERY. But for that, no
American out OF lunatic asylum would have
conspired against the Federal authority, or
wished the Union divided. But for that no
regiment Of Americans could have been fren.
zied into firing on tue flag of their country, !
or cheered the spectacle of an actress tramp
ling it III the dust. But for that, this war
would never have attained the Dimensions even
of the Whisky Rebellion. And, were Slavery
annihiated to-day, the Rebellion would die out
as surely and speedily as a stean-engine would
stop working if deprived of further fuel.
". If to-day any competent business man--
say Cornelius Vanderbilt or George Law-had
q contract for putting down the Rebellion for
q stipulated price he would not lot day pass
over his head before profering Freedom TO
every slave of q Rebel who would henceforth
nd the cause Of the Union. No matter what
,e might think of Slavery, whether in its
,thical or its economical asPect-p9 matter