Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-13
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The New York Independent, edited by Henry
Ward Beeeher, bombards the President with all
the heavy epitbet he can muster, and then adds;
Does anybody doubt the result of such a
| course? 1t is go certain that it is not worth
while to waste another man or another dollar.
Either the administration policy should instantly
change, or the war cease:
Another abolition paper, the New York Post,
says;
It is not lack of patriotism which keeps hack
/ enlistments, but want Of confidence in those who
have so long headed our greatest armies and
achieved so little with such vast means"
The Albany New York; argus and Aaas
makes the following comments upon these OBJ
seryations
Twelve months since it was deemed to be
such convincing evidence Of disloyalty to utter q
word against the conduct of the administration
that summary arrest, without process Of law,
was regarded as fitting treatment for any person
who ventured to ~cTiticise the policy of a Cabinet
minister. Then the different factions OF RepUb-
icanism, struggling and scrambling for the pat
ronage of an administration that had Just taken
Office, We'd with each other in indiscriminate
laudatiOn of every act OF the government, and
none were found willing to raise = voice of warn
ing against unconstitutional and arbitrary acts,
| or TO expose and dencunce corruption, except
those Democrats who trembled to soc the bar
J Tiers of the Constitution one after another torn
down and ~trampled under foot, and who beheld,
with grief and Indignation, an army of robbers
let loose upon the country to prey upon her Ia
her hour Of peril.
But now the partition of the spoils hes been
made, the greater share of the i'll gotten plum
! der has been distributed, and the disappointed
Republicans hold themselves at liberty to grum-
bic at the administration IS loudly as they
please, taking care, however, in the same breath
to dencunce the old system of summary arrests.
1t Is conceded that the country is in greater peril
now than at any former period in the history of
The rebellion. Our grand army is all but
hemmed in by a Superior force, and its skeleton
ranks could scarcely stand the shock Of an at
tack. Recruits are more than ever needed; but
the radicals, dissatisfied with the President, and
determined to force upon him their Abolition
policy, are doing al in their power to hold back
men from the field. The Post, which claims to
be a supporter of the administration, but which
is one of the most dangerous enemies Of the gov
eminent, daily herps upon the blundsrs and in
competency of "thOse who shape the conduct Of
the war" affecting to deplore the lack Of conf
dence that perYades the country and keeps
back enlistments." And to prove its anxiety to
restore confidence and encourage e~ulistments, it
draws the following picture of the generals
who have been met with favoT from the admins
tratiou:
Maior Anderson, who lost Fort Sumter, was
made a brigadier-general and ct one time hon
cred with the command Of a m~ajor-genersl.
General Mcdowell, whose carelsssness and
~laziness contributed much to the loss Of Bull
Run, has been promoted and continued in a
very important command.
General Butler, who lost the fight at Big
Bethel, was given the important command Of
the Gulf, where bis merits in civil duties have
redeemed his military inaction.
Colonel MulligaD, who allowed himself to be
surrounded at Lexington, has been made q
brigadier- general.
General Sturgis, who failed to relieve Multi
gan, has received repeated hOnors.
General Mcclellan, who has nearly used up
the finest army ever organized, is retained in
IN over old and merltOTlOus officers.
General Halleck, who permitted the complete
evacuation of CoTinth by the rebels uninjured,
is made commandeT-in-chief
General Burnside, whose counsel would have
Bull Run, and whose services in North
Carolina have been q continued and brilliant
success, is put, with his troops, under a do-noth-
ing general.
Not a single old army officer of high rank,
who remained loyal, is in prominent command
except Buell., whose name is a synonym for
sloth, and who is notorious for lenient dealings
with rebels.
On the previous day the Post denounced Gen.
as " %slotbful,' and wanting in ENTER
prise, dash and boldness,' and declared that he
had . disappointed and disguised the whole ma
The brave soldiers who are lighting the battles
Of the Union, will not be injured by such mslig-
nsnt attacks but is it not time to put = stop to
these attempts to discourage the reinforcement
Of our weakened regiments, who call to Us from
the field for help, and whose safety Is imperiled
more and more every hour that aid is della Jed