New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-21
TruE NEW HEAD OF THE WAR
IMPAIRMENT.

tOn--tuo HuiHpcr Lb'IiB pccH COusuCiaoiy ia eel
than it will be few days hence. The inter-
view was cordial and inspiring. for there is
very general conviction that tho appointment of
the new Secretary means business, and that it
is not likely to be popular at Beauregard or
Johnston's headquarters. We believe the gen.
eral impression is for once in the right
No man ever entered upon the discharge OF
the most momentous public duties under more
favorable auspices, so far as public confidence
and support can create such auspices. In al
the loyal States, there has not been one dissent
from the general acclamaticn which hailed MIR.
Stan.On's appointment as eminently wisc ana
happy. The attempts ct first made to repre-
sent it as a triumph of Border.State twaddliDS
on the Slavery question have been abandoned
and even dissyowed in some quarters. The
simple truth is that Mr.. Stanton was not ap'
pointed to and does not accept the War Depart
ment in support Of any programme or pohcy
Whatever, but tho unqualified and uncompro-
missing yindcation of the authority and integrity
of the Union. Whatever views no may enter
tain respecting Slavery will not DO allowed 10
swerye him one hair from the line OF para
mount and siugle-bearted devotion to the Ma
tional cause. If Slavery or Anti Slavery shaIl
at any time be found obstructing or impeding
the Nation in its efforts to crush out tins mon
strons rebellion be Will walk straight on In the
path of duty, though that path should lead him
over or through the impeachment aud insure its
annihilation.
The public expects of Mr.. Stanton an nd
minstration Of remarkable energy and vigor;
and thi, expectation will not be disappointed.
This yigor will not be displayed in dietatlon to
the general-in-chief of our armies, nor in the
prompting of hasty and adyised offensive
in every or any quarter. We feel assured that
our military commanders will find in Mr. STAN
ton q capable and Jealous co0perator rather
than harsh critic or q lordly superior. But
there arc broad fields Of public duty peculiarly
his own in which we are confident Mr.. Stan
ton will eyince an energy and decision terrible
to eyll-doers. Aud first in Importance among
these il that Of the treason which wears the
garb of Unionism, or at least pretendS to
uDttdiu IIOil uNts VI
With the undisguised treason in arms, it is
the business of our military and naval COM
manders to deal: not 30 with that which shulks
and plots within our own Lines. And this has
been at all times our most formidable peril.
The Army 10 by no means entirely purged OF
it; even the War Department itself has not
been free from the faint, or at least tie sus-
pcion of il. But Washington and Baltimore
the Federal Metropolis and the great seaport
which commands and controls it-haye been
from the outset nests of treason so rampant
and intense tina. it has never condesceDded TO
Disguise its aniuHs, and scarcely its active
completely with the ayowed and militant rebels.
In many If not most OF the houses Of patriciae
traitors in Baltimore, q lady relative who is
loyal to the Union is promptly given to under
stand that her visits are for that reason unde-
sirable; il her husband should accompany her
in Ter call, wearing Union uniform, bis en-.
trance is signalized by the precpate with
drawal Of every male member Of the family
In Washington City, clergyman who is far
enough from being an Abolitiohist is deserted
by thc greater part Of his congregation because
| he is opposed to Secession. Bishop Wrothing
ham of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of
MARYLAND is an object of execration By large
pxtion-perbaps majority-of bis charge, be-
cause lie continues TO pray, and require his
priests and deacons also to pray, for the Presi-
dent of the United States, though the canons
of his church expressly epjoin such prayer.
The Rev. A. G. Coke Of Baltimore is likely to
lose his cure because DO has written private
letter to a friend in Great Britain condemnDg
the rebellion In short, the rebellion is no.
where more malignant and venomous than in
tho narrow district between the Chesapeake
and the Occoquan whose loyalty is at present
assured by the presence OF 10000 armed
Unonists.
But the nation can afford 10 bear with the
social md ecclesiastical demonstrations of dis
loyalty on the part OF these would-be rebels,
as with the splitting, facc-making and other
feline demonstrations Of rage and spite with
which their iadies salute the Union officers
stationed among Them but it cannot longer
afford the bodcr exhibitions of treason, through
candestne communications with the enemy,
for which Washington, Baltimore, and the
lower Potomac districts of Maryland have at
tanned a shameful notorieiy. No movement on
our eide has ever remained twenty-iour hours
unknown at the headquarters Of the rebels;
rarely has plan of any among commanders
been dvulgcd 10 80 MANY as three DersOus with