The New York herald., 1862-09-06
The Radical Plan OF Putting Down the
Rebeliion-Peace Within WeAk or


more.
Our leading radical abolition organs-h,e
ami -SIcre'y Standard, the Independent, the New
York Tribune, the Erening Post and their echoes
throughout the countryside upon every
disaster to our arms for concerted howl
against our principal generals in the field and
against the administration.
Thus these bowling dervishes Of abolitionism
are now employed in canvassing our late mill
tary operations, blunders and reverses in Virgil
mia. They den0unce the President and his poll
cy as temporizing, trucking and imbeoile; they
have no faith in General Halleck; they will
give ''no quarter" to General Mcclellan; while,
according to the Tribune, it is now abundantly
proved that General Pope is incompetent to
command great army, and General Mcdowell
is little better than traitor. We select few
passages from the 7,ibune's Washington cor
respondence. AT Bull run "the army was not
defeated: its commander was outgeneralled.
He neither knew where his enemy was, nor
would suffer himself to be informed" Pope
trusted to Mcdowell. Mcdowell fought the
battle" at was blunder from the begin
ming" s'It is useless, said an officer, to fight
under Mcdowell" 81 do not know whether
have heard treachery or imbecility most fire.
quently imputed to Mcdowell. Perhaps
oftenest he is given the benefit Of the alterna-
tive" "If the War Department be allowed to
do what its head wishes to do, there will be a
court of inquiry into the causes of our recent
disasters" &c, DC.
The reverend military editor of the Lade-
pendent is equally violent against the morbid
caution "of General Mcclellan, and the
weakness of the President in retaining him
as peace offering to the democratic party"
And, if we may believe the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, the only general capable of
leading our armies to certain victory is General
Fremont. The Tribune, Post and other journals
of the same school are equally partial to Ere
mont; but for reasons best known to them
selves, they have ceased to be very active in
may perhaps entertain the idea that the fifty
thousand men whom our New York War Com
mittee propose to raise for Fremont, with or
without the consent Of the general government,
will enable him to repair all our army blunders
and disasters Of the last six months, and drive
the rebel army of Virginia down into the Gulf
Of Mexico Let us be patient "Rome was
not built in day
But all the blunders of all our generals, in the
estimation Of our abolition critics on the war,
are declared chargeable to that greatest Of all
military blunders, the refusal Of the President
to issue an edict of emancipation in behalf of
the negro slaves of our rebellious States. That
is the point where the shoe pinches. Such a
proclamation, we are told, is the one thing need
full without which we can do nothing against
this rebellion, but with which we can do every
thing, as by some miraculous power. Congress
has passed u law upon this subject, says Greeley;
why does not the President enforce the laws
Greeley harps upon this string from day to day,
and all his abolition croakers and skriekers
join in the chorus. Issue a proclamation of
emancipation, aud the rebellion. they cry. is at
once put down.
Against such besotted fanaticism argu-
ment is wasted, and common sense is
thrown away. We might let this aboli-
ton faction, therefore, pass, ii there were
ness, and something of treachery to the
Union cause. But, to silence this opposition
clamor, would it not be well for President Lin
coin to issue proclamation of emancipation
d universal proclamation, declaring forever
free. not only the slaves of our rcbellious
world, aud in al, the islands Of The sea. Why
mott Would not such proclamation be a.
much regarded 10 Cuba, Brazil or in the heart
Of Africa as beyond the lines Of our armies in
our rebellious States.
Let the President. then. issue a universal
proclamation Of freedom to all the slaves OF
every nation. province and tribe on the face Of
the globe, including especially the slaves Of
the African King of Dahomey. That black ras-
cal is. in truth, q most atrocious Shareholder
He not ouly takes the lives Of his prisoners and
his subjects at hs discretion, but on grand occa-
sions he roasts them, stews them and eats them
and without salt. The arrival Of several slavers
on his seacoast with good supply OF rum i the
signal for q slave hnnt among the adjoining
tribes, resulting sometimes in the slaughter of
thousands to capture . few hnndreds and
when his black barbarian Majesty dies the
heads Of thousands of his loving subjects are
chopped off by bis SUCCESSOR in Office, TO give
due solemnity to the funeral. Hence We think
that. as proclamation Of emancipation from
President Lincoln will be az effective a. this
time in Africa az in South Carolina, il should.
ifissned, be made 70 reach the King Of Daho.
mey.
The subject has lately been discussed in Ca
blnet council; but il appears that the influence
Of Mr.. Secretary Seward prevailed against
proclamation. The question, however, may
soon come up again, and then, 10 silence our
elamorous abolition faction, and to make a
complete thing Of II, We submit that, If procla-