Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-17
rTF GREAr EEEERenNCY.
81. .lppeay % fhe 1'resiaens,

.s's ,1pVeG{ 90 tee PresiSeHt,
From the New York Post July 7th.l
The one duty of the country at this time IS tC
repair the disaster which stupendous military
| blundering has brought upon the countrys and
| to strengthen the army a3 rapidly as possible
Il is idle TO disguise tho fact that the wholecau
/ paign of the Peninsula-in spite Of the splendid
| fighting Of our troops and the admirable skill
of our Cficers-has been misconducted and
patriotic men Of the nation. without stopping to
| distribute the blame, are looking to the Presi-
| dent, with the insensest anxiety, for new msn-
| Hesitation Of energy and power.
The people have still confdencs in Mr.. Lin
| coin; they are persuaded Of bis entire honesty;
and they know that no means 70 do right IN re-
spec to the honor as well as the interests Of the
country But they think ne has trusted too
much to his subordinates he has rot been suf-
| ficiently peremptory with them, either with his
generals or his secretaries; and his whole ad-
ministration has been marked by certain tone
OF lsnguor aud want Of esrnestness which has not
correspondsd with the wishes of tie people. He
has taken the advice Of the politicians rather
than listen to the bestings of the great heart of
the people. As consequences, his sdministra-
ton has from the beginning Jagged from behind
the popular impulse. It has not to this moment
realized the depth, the intensity and mal5gnity
of the rebellion and its efscIts to put sts-ar0s.
have been for that reason comparative failure.
The rebas themselves are teartully in earnest,
they are despotically united, they make war as
war should be made, as q military art, and not
as a political scheme and under thousand dis
advantages manage to get the best OF us in the
great critical moments Of the struggle.
The single, transparent, undeniable source Of
ell our disasters has been the want of earnest
ness on the part of the civil authorities and the
painful sOwness and laxity of our military
chiefs Il is now fourteen months since Mr..
SswsTd-so little perception had be ofthe nature
Of this war-pTedicted that It would be ended
in sixty days The Administration appears, by
It's acts, to have put full faith in his halcyon
words. We have had for year, on the PotO-
mac, the finest army that could be raised in the
civilized world-an army no less than $780,
600 strong-well equipped, well fed, well sup
piled with every material Of the art Of warfare;
but it has been allowed to be frittered sway by
idleness, by disease, by battle under adverse cir
cumstances, and by military incompetency in
thousand shapes
Mr. Lincoln, then, we repeat, must open his
eyes without moments delay TO the exigency
Three things are more imperative than eli others.
First, he must dismiss every leading sgen! who
is imbCc.le or slothfu on the spot second, he
must infuse unity Of design and energy Of pur-
pose into his entire cabinet and not allow the
members of il to devise inconsistent policies
aad. thirdly, he must recruit his armies from all
classes and ranks as fast as they can be filed
up, without fear OF the mean and miserable pref
udices of vulgar brawlers.
Of the comparative capacities of his generals
he Is q better Judge, doubtless, than any man in
the country, for ne has the means Of testing
their qualities him place the most energetic,
rapid and large-minded of all at the head of the
principal force, Just as he put Pope over the
army of the Shenandoah. Again: let him pro-
claim to the South IS well az to the North that
this war is to be prosecuted as q war, that every
lawful means will be employed in IT, that trsi-
tors have no constitutional rights, and that an
army is not an organization of bloodhOunds, or
tipstaves; whose chief business is to protect
hideUus institution which has been the cause Of
the war. Finally let him say to all loyal men,
black as we'll as white that their services will be
accepted in the holy cause of the Union; that
tho former will be employed regimentaly in the
severe labors of the trenches and the camp
while the latter are periecting their known and
demonstrated valor by al the arts of the mill
tary manual
The whole North is burning to prefer its ser
vices to the President; and yet the North holds
somewhat back. Why Because it sees no
definite energetic policy at Washington; be-
cause it sees our existing armies sacrificed to a
shameful want of enterprise; because it desires
to fight the enemy, who is the most reckless,
desperate and savage that has ever been encOun-
tered, with all the weapons that God and nature
has put into our hands The North is weary OF
shilly-shayi it is weary of the Difference that
is paid to the rights of men who would cut our
throsts, and to tho prejudices Of those who sym
pathize with them it IS weary of playing at
war, and it Wsnts to see the blow struck, not at
the big toes or tho little fingers of the revolt,
but ST its heart 1t is in the power of Mr.. Lin
coin, if ne will rouse himself, to strike the blow
Everybody who knows him loves him and re-
spects him the bitterest Of his former political
opponents now defer to his judgment; and if he
would drop the politicians on all sides, and lay
his own great heart on the still greater heart Of
the people, and take his inspirations thence, he
might arouse the nation once more to an
earnestness and an enthusiasm which would
surpass the outbursts of the days of April We
are sick of cold unmeaning, formal phrases
we are painting for electric words and when
Mr.. Lincoln shall blow no moro uncertain
blasts, but put the trumpet of liberty to his lips,
the air viii disclose, the earth will yield, the
very waters will spawn US armed men, as in the
days Of the earliest uprising.