Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-08-14
TAa I utlana glrrala.
THURSDAY, AUGUST IA.
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.

Let those who continue to grumble at
what they call the inetliciency of the Ad-
mnstration in the past conduct of the
war, read and reflect upon the following
statement made by Edward Everett, in a
speech recently delivered in Faneuil
Hail." On a recent visit to Washing
ton, ! was told by Minister of one ofth
great Military Monarchies of Europe,
the representative OF Sovereign whose
nod puts in motion 100000 veteran
troops, that the efforts of the United
States for the last year were such as no
other Government on earth could have
made in the same time In the pro-
dgious armies that have voluntarily
rushed to the field better paid, and as
we'll clothed and fed as those of any other
country; in the immense trains of artil-
lery and supplies of ordnance stores for
both arms of the service in theivast mar
thine force, not so much organized, as
created and thrown, like wall of fire,
around the coast of the revolted States for
fifteen hundred miles. or which, following
the course of our mighty rivers, have car
ried the glorious old flag of the Union
from its home on the mountain wave far
up into the very heart of the land-in
the generous provision for the wounded |
and sick by our sanitary commissions and
reliet associations Of every name, especi-
ally through the efforts of the noble wo-
men of the loyal States-in the magnani-
nous care even of the prisoners whom
the fortune of war has thrown into oui
power, eight hundred of whom l lately |
saw at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, as !
well fed and housed as the troops by whom
under the gallant Mulligan--they were
guarded say, fellow-citizens, in these
and all the other incidents of a
mighty contest, the United States have.
in the course of the twelvemonth, exhib'
tied a moral and political eour
age, a vigor and fertility of resource,
dragged, as they were, unexpectedly into
the war, never surpassed, if ever equaled,
by any of the great military powers of
Europe. Nor have we any reason to be
ashamed of the result. War, of all the
great concerns of life, is proverbially sub
iect to its vicissitudes 1t is, no doubt,
for wise ends in the plan of Providence,
that when he lets loose that .scourge
upon people, "the battle is not always
to the strong" In field of war geo.
graphically as extensive as that trod by
the legions of Cesar or the phaianx OF
Alexander, in less than fifteen months of
contest which took US wholly by sur
prise, forced upon us by an enemy that
had spent year in secret preparations,
and had treacherously stripped our
arsenas of their ordnance and munitions,
debauched half the officers of the army
and the navy, and surprised our unde-
Tended forts and armories, we have re
served from the fangs of secession Mary
land, Western Virginia, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Missouri and Kansas, halt of Ala
bama and Arkansas, and the whole of
Louisiana recaptured the navy yards OF
Norfolk and Pensacola, and the principal
forts in the rebellious States, occupied the
most important military positions, estab-
lished an efficient blockade along the en-
tire Southern coast, restored the great
line of communication east and west, by
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, swept
the banks of the Mississippi clear, with
the exception of one beleagured spot
from Cairo to its mouth, and planted the
Stars and Stripes at New Orleans IL
offset these all-important successes and
victories, we have to regret the drawr
battle and panic of Bull Run; the disaster
of Balls Bluff, the destruction of the
Cumberland and Congress, well redeem
ed by the heroic achievements of Lieut.
Worden in the little Monitor, the repulst
of premature movement on Charleston
and the recent check at Richmond. lie
any one compare this balance of successe:
and reyerses with those of the Crimeau
Mar-of the wars and reyerses of the