New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-23
LACK OF COMPREHENSIVE

ship has been the cause of nearly all our past
Military failures, and that Emancipation has
become indispensable to National salvation.
This genius might possibly be made to under.
stand that conaagralion, which at one mo-
ment might have been arrested by bucket OF
water, might at a later period laugh TO scorn
the best efforts of q whole Fire Department
and be quenched only BY opening the windows
of Heaven. The puOlc, however, labors under
no such chronic disability.
Had the Volunteers whom the loyal States
crowded upon the Government In May and June,
I-6l. until member Of the Cabinet complained
of n surCelt. been concentrated i'll one army at
WASHINGTON, brieaied, drilled, exercised in army
movements, and, so cor'y as the lat of .Iuly
at furthest, pushed iorw ard upon Richmond in
one compact mass, Eighty to One Hundred
Thousand strong, We are sure the traitor Cow
eminent would have been routed ont of that
city before tie close OF that month a"d the
Union flag reboisted there amid the arclama-
tons of her people. From that hour, Virginia
Carolna-wlich was eager to undo the ms
chef she in moment Of frenzy bad wrought,
the peril she had fooshly incuTrcd-would
have promptly returned to her old love. Wien
the history of Ibis war shall be truly written,
it will appear that the Rebels had neither the
men nor the munitions requisite to resist suca
nm army as might have been precip,tated on
them from Washington in June, l-6l and that
the Union might ten have been restored by the
resolute, vigorous policy which tois Journal
seasonabiy and earnestly comm'rdei. IN"
wealthy Shareholders, the solid capiiallsts, the
soyeut merchants Of the South, had not then
committed themselves generally to the Rebel
lion. They had no faith il its stability nor IN
its success. They knew its fOmenters to be IN
place bankrupt or kuayish traders seeking any
loophole of escape from legal annoyance by
their Northern creditors, slave-traders intent
on biting of their own noses, and gamblers
rendered desperate BY the scarcity OF money aid
anxious to see something new turn up. Had
the Union Volunteers been massed in one army
and pushed straight on Richmord, they could
not have failed to brush aside any Rebel force
that might have been placed in their front aud
enter tie Rebel capital in triumph within n
month. And that would have been the signal Tor
a cGun;er-rev olution in favor Of the " tnion as
it was by the solid men and tie humble men
b, ull who lad much TO lose or little 10 gam
by Rebellion--in nearly every Slave State.
The nbccili.cs, the trcacbcrios, the staliih-
cn,ions. which iouhd their natural and fitting
Il max at Bril- Run, charged all this. Tho
flight to Washington crushed
.lnveholaing Jnionism out Of the South IN
East Tennessee. There stiil ~ere and still are
| mon men, especially IN the Mountain regions
and among III. German residents of Texas and
tue great citie.; hut the liul Run di-astcr de-
moNstei or a. least dumblcalded. the Union
party OF Rcbrldom. Ihus, while We believe
Gen. McCltlan--or at least ANY other General
Than cCleian-mighi easily, by 4 promp, and
energetic offensive ia.; Spring have routed the
Rebel army co,crng Richmond and taken that
have euded the Rebellion. The disease had
then taken too deep hold to be cured By so
simple al operation.
To-day Slaycy-uot, "a fifteen months
ago. certain shareholders, with far greater
number of their payatltcs aud pandcr.-ls At
dad, war with the American Union. The
ostrich policy of shutting our eyes to the
tact assils nothing. No matter whether
N the North or in the South-whetber boldly
proclalm.ng fenliy to JEFF. Davis or PROCESSING
10 be- for 1.-the Union as 1t was aud the Con-
siitution as it is the man who opposes ia"
Emancipation Of the Slaves of Rebel. iayorO
tue triumph OF the traitors. Nin.een-twen-
tieths OF all who do 30 mean just this--cII Get
aud desire the success of the Rebels IA forcing
the Federal Government Ia acknowledge their
il Independence. calculating that Til, vi. cause
an upfeaval at tho North which will bring
the Pro-Slavery party into power, when they
expect by unhcarl.of abasements and surreu-
deIs to patch up new Union which will bind
the Free States hand ard foot TO the ear OF
despotic, triumphant Slavery. That is just
shat " the Union as il was " means in the
mouths Of those who really mean any thing
by it. Tue mgddled, bcioggcd, distracted hand
fIl who repeat their catchwords without any
definite meaning at all, fancy that they are
strerg thening the Union cause by rr.ecboing
the parrot cries of those who are for Slavery
and the Union if possible but for Slavery
any how There never was more grievous
mistake. You can never win back the slave.
holders as Shareholders to the Union as it
was" Either Slavery will be abolished or the