The New York herald., 1862-10-01


this desperate expedition were dissipated with
Lees expulsion from Maryland back into de-
spoiled and exhausted Virginia.
1t became abundantly manifest, at the
| same time, from the powerful concentra
ton Of our Union forces along the Ohio river
| and in Missouri, that the same game of the
rebel armies in the West, of establishing them
selves for the winter among the supplies of
| our loyal border slave States, must prove dis
astrous failure. Thus with General Lees ig-
nominious retreat from Maryland, the whole
winter programme of the rebellion, from the
Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi, was broken
up and destroyed. Thus the armies of JEFF.
Davis which have been scraped together by his
ruthless and sweeping conscriptions, are, in
the East, driven back to the impoverished
realm fthe rebellion, and in the West they soon
| will be- Reduced to rags and thrown back
into regions in which the masses Of the local
population are now on the verge of famine, it
! needs no prophet to telf the rebel leaders that
| an active winter campaign against them by
land and sea will subjugate or exterminate
their ragged, shoeless, blanketless and half
starved armies.
Hence the peace resolution of General Foote
and these melancholy confessions and opinions
of the leading Richmond journals But the
chiefs of the rebel government have another
solemn warning in President Lincolns emanci-
patton proclamation, which should instantly
command their most serious attention. Now is
their time to save the cotton States and their
vital domestic institution of slavery. Let the
| laI lar -
the Union, and they will be secure for the
future against all contingencies. They may
thus, by the lst of January, with the election of
Senators and Representatives to our Congress-
restore the legislative department of our go
vernment to the control of conservative ma
jority. Thus, with conservative President to
second their legislative measures in behalf of
| the compromises Of the constitution, our re-
volted States may speedily recover all the
blessings and safeguards Of the Union under
| which they were SO prosperous, fat and saucy
| two short years ago, negroes and all.
Then, with the two sections reunited and
reconciled, we shall, with our iron-clad fleets
and our immense armies, be prepared at once
| to dictate our own terms of reconciliation with
perfdious England in Canada and with the
| ambitious Louis Napoleon in Mexico. All
| these grand results-ths salvation Of the South,
| the restoration of the Union in its integrity
power of this contineut-may now be gained
by the submission Of our revolted States. On
the other hand, the Richmond Dispatch COM
prehends the only alternative. 1t is the subjusa-
tion or the destruction of the South, including
its local institutions rights Of property, State
organizations and boundaries. Now, then, is the
| time for the submission of our revolted States,
and this is their only way of salvation.
WHO IS THE ARIsroCRAT I'm his recent
speech, accepting the gubernatorial nomination
| of the radicals Of this State, General Wads-
| worth declared that this was war against the
Southern aristocracy, and put himself forward
as the representative of the democracy. 1t
strikes us, however, that General Wadswcrth is
as arrant an aristocrat as any Southern rebel.
The Southern stakeholder lives upon his plan
tation, which his ancestors begged, cheated or
stole from the Indians. General Wadsworth
| lives upon his immense Genesee farms, which
his ancestors obtained from the Indians in pre-
cisely the same way. The Southern STAKEHOLDER
has q number Of negroes who raise crops for
him, and whom he clothes, feeds and lodges.
General Wadsworth has number Of laborers
on his farms who support him by raising his
crops or paying him rent for his land. The
| Southern STAKEHOLDER, having an Independent
| fortune and nothing to do either joins the army
or runs for Office. General Wadsworth, in ex-
| actly the same circumstances, does exactly the
same thing. Wadsworth, therefore, is quite as
| much an aristocrat as the Southern STAKEHOLDER,
and cares quite as much for himself and quite
as little for the people. His claim to be the
| champion Of democracy is all fudge and fustian.
The EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND THE
| ENGLISH PREss.-The Tribune of yesterday de-
clared edtorially that the Presidents procla-
| nation of emancipation would secure to the
North the favor of the English press, while in
the very same issue were published extracts
| from the leading English papers condemning
such proclamation in advance. Such mis-
statements and selEcontradictions are charac-
teristic Of the Tribune, however, and do not re-
| quire comment. The New York Times, an
other and smarter radical organ gets bravely
| over the structures of the English press upon
tie proclamation by aseribing them to a settled
hatred Of this country. Now we consider the
opinions Of the European press little or no ac-
count as far as this country is concerned; but, at
the same time, they are instructive just at pre-
sent; for they show that the proclamation has
gained the North no friends abroad, and we al
ready know that it has gained us no friends at
home. 1t amounts to nothing, therefore, so far az
foreign and domestic opinion is concerned, and
it must be regarded simply as military measure
of doubtful expediency and uncertain issue,
and liable to be amended recalled or annulled