The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-08-06

from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and
from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. aud
in every quarter of the globe, and of oil
nationalities, tribes, creeds and parties, that
our government has at length entered upon a
system Of war measures which will inevitably
and speedily put an end to this desperate and
defiant Southern rebellion.
The general order of the 4th instant from the
War Office for an immediate draft upon the
militia of our loyal States to the extent of
three hundred thousand men, to serve for nine
months, and providing, further, that IF any
State shall not by the 18th Of August furnish
its quota of the additional three hundred thou
cheney in said quota ''will also be made up by
special draft from the militia" has, in a single
day, ended all doubts of long, exhausting and
indecisive war, or of a wasting contest only de-
cisive of dissolution and anarchy. With an army,
by these reinforcements Of six hundred thou
sand men, increased to the grand aggregate of a
million, and with navy, coastwise and inland,
equal to another army of half million, the
subjugatiop Of the unholy alliance of our re-
VOTED States is absolutely certain, and against
all possible emergencies or contingencies
There is no longer any misgiving upon this
point. Doubt and dependency have at length
given way to general feeling of satisfaction
and confidence of success.
Experience is the great teacher of wisdom.
We have suffered severely from our contempt
for her Instructions; but the late terrible seven
days fighting in front of Richmond, and the
present menacing attitude of the great rebel
army of Virginia, have opened the eyes of our
government and our people to our past follies
and blunders and to our present difficulties and
dangers This wisdom has been dearly bought,
and only accepted at the eleventh hour; but
still we may rejoice that it comes in season to
Had Mr.. Buchanan possessed the moral courage
and patriotism equal to the occasion, he, in De-
cember, 1860, with two or three thousand men
In the forts of Charleston harbor, might have
nipped this rebellion in the bud. Again, had
not our abolition disorganizers with their dis
turbing clamor of "On to Richmond" caused
the premature and bungling advance Of General
Mcdowell upon Bull run, General Scott, in all
probability, would have broken up this rebel
lion year ago; and had our abolition Marplots
kept quiet, or had Mr.. Secretary Stanton, in his
late capacity of Generalin- Chief provided pro-
perly for the capture of Stonewall Jackson in
the Shenandoah valley, or for the movement Of
even half our forces behind him in season to
head him of on the Chickahominy, we might
have included in our celebrations of the last
Fourth of July General McClellan's occupation
of Richmond.
Mainly to the wicked designs and mischievous
military counsels and influences of our aboli-
ton agitators, welded over the Cabinet and the
army, through their power in Congress, are we
indebted for our costly disappointments and
disasters in Virginia, from Bull run to the
Chickahominy. But now we enter upon new
programme. Congress, having provided the
ways and means, has left the prosecution of the
war in the Presidents hands. The abolition
faction Of Congress, finding they could do no
more, having also left to the President choice
between conservative course on the negro
question and a radical abolition policy, it is a
matter for great rejoicing that he firmly ad-
heres to the sound policy Of making this negro
secondary to the paramount question of "the
integrity of the Union.'
Here we stand upon nrm ground. Presi-
dent Lincoln has ordered the employment
of blacks as laborers in the army. and
as laborers they may be employed to
the saving of hundred thousand
soldiers who would otherwise be drawn from
the active business of the musket, the sabre
and the field battery. But, at the same time, our
honest President, carefully avoiding the serious
troubles and confusion that would follow the
employment of blacks as soldiers. has fatty re-
fused to accept them in this capacity In this
nice and wise distinction the country will sus-
tain him; and he will gain by it over hundred
thousand first class free white soldiers from our
border slave States alone, including Maryland,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas
and Tennessee. In a word, the President, APP
precating the danger in these States of an indis.
criminate mixing of whites and blacks in the
army, has very properly rejected it. A draft
upon our white population will supply any
number OF soldiers that may be desired, and
there will be plenty of useful work in or for
the army or navy, as laborers. for all black
"contrabands" or volunteers within our reach
to the end of the war.
In still another thing or two are we now
assured of a vigorous, harmonious and success
full prosecution of this war. The late indie
pendent and discordant army columns of
Mcdowell, Banks and Fremont have been fused
into single homogeneous and powerful army,
under that skilful and dashing officer, Gene
raj Pope, while the supreme direction of the
Of our armies has been transferred
from the able lawyer at the head of the War
Office to the able soldier. General Halleck
We are thus confident that, though widely
separated, the army of General Mcclellan and
The army of General Pope will work efficiently