New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-10

most of them leave families and beloved friends
at home; a very large proportion Of them have
farms aud other property, and have left ample
comforts, and even luxuries, to encounter pri.
walton, peril and suffering, in behalf Of their
country. Half Million more are ready to
follow them, if required; they will oil cheer.
fully give their lives il needed, to serve and
save the Republic: they only ask reasonable
assurance that those lives shall be wisely en-
ployed and effectively spent, not idly risked
and uselessly squandered. Show them where
and how they may devote those lives to the re-
establishment OF their country in that palmy
state of honor and power. peace and security,
from which the Shareholders Rebellion has
precipitated it, and not less than One Hundred
Thousand of them would tomorrow JoyiuDy
seal their patriotism with their blood. And,
badly differed and imperiectly disciplined, in
part, as they are, tho Half Million now
enlisted under the flag of the Union are not
infe -ior in general capacity to any other army
on the globe. That they would walk right
over the whole force Of the rebels, If they
could only be brought face to face in the open
field, we can no more doubt than that, IN an
even scale, n fye-pouDd weight will cause one
of three pounds to kick the beam.
The devotion, the efforts, the sacrlhccs oil
the People, call for corresponding display OF
energy and vigor on the part OF the Govern
mcnt. Hitherto to the best Of our recollec-
tion. the enthusiasm Of the masses has been
aroused or stimulated BY no animating appeal,
by no electric word, on the part of their
rulers. To dispassionate observer 1t might
seem that the People had pushed forward the
Government at every stage Of the great strug-
Gle in which they are embarked together. In
no document or manifesto emanatDg from the
Head OF the Nation has the causecssncss, the
peridy. the baseness, of this internal rebellion
been ret forth in terms glowing with just
and fiery Indignation. In no such document,
has the great truth that this war il waged by
an aristocratic conspiracy to upturn the ioun-
dations of democratic liberty beer lucidly and
effectively set forth. Even the Emperor OF
Russia's Kind and admirable letter of sympathy
and solciiude, so plainly inviting response in
which the case of the Nation against the Rebels
should be authorlatiyely stated il not argued
at the bar of Chrstendom was answered with
cold politeness and deicrental evasion. Our
representatives in Europe are formally IN
strucicd not to expose the baselessness OF the
preiexts on which this rebellion ia Justified
not even to state, what everybody knows, that
this IL an uprising of Slavery against Freedom.
We think this policy is not wiss nor well, and
We beg our rulers 10 reconsider the grounds
on which they have hitherto adhered to It.
As to Military matters, We desire only to
suggest that no war was ever yet prosecuted
to n successful issue under officers whose hearts
were no. in the cause they pro'escd to uphold.
We hear with unwonted satisfaction that GER
tain regulars who have been volunteering the
opinion that the rebellion cannot be pu' down,
have recently been stricken from tue Army
list. This, though tardy, is very right; but 1t
is not enough. Ii seems clear 10 us that every
Army officer who sees tit To say, If the
" Government does" this or that 81 shall
." resign" should be dismissed at once. Officers
who oan talk thus are either traitors at heart
or fools, and the service can do TAR better
without than with them. Better fight without
military science or skill than under officers
whose hearts are with the enemy.
We trust tia. the season Of preparation and
seeming inaction draws rapidly to close, and
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character nre about TO be inaugurated. OF
course we cherish no childish expectation of
an unbroken series of easy aud brilliant tri.
unphs; on the contrary, We presrme that the
successes Of the Union arms Will be married
by blunders and chequered By reyerses. Had
half dozen officers been court-marlialtd and
shot for the imbecillties, ibiidelities aud posi-
tive treacheries which marked the opening OF
this struggle, we believe their deaths would
have saved the lives Of at least Ten thousand
true uud loyal men. But let by-gones be BY
cones, 20 that the future be irradiated and
rendered secure by the energy aud yigor OF
the present. If the name of a single officer oi
doubtful loyalty be still borne on the rolls OF
our armies, let 1t be erased iorihwIth If any
officer seek 10 dictate the policy Of the Gov
erDmcnt or to threaten for any cause 4 rcsig-
nation, let him he cent adrlt at once. The
Nation is ia deadly peril from treason, but one
traitor 10 our own armies IA more prstienl
than half dozen in the ranks Of our open
enemies Only let tho Government and the
People see eye to eye-let the enthgsasm Of
the masses find expression through the lips OF
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