The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-12

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salesof mess at ST ST. 12h and Of prime at 80 a
80 25 Sugars were steady, but not active with sales
OF about 400 hhds and 1872 boxes Coaes quiet and
sales limited small lot OF st. Domingo brought Ishc
Freights were rather better. Wheat taken to
Liverpool at Sd SID. in bulk and in bags, and corn
do. at 7ld. Sd. They were also firm to London but
without change OF moment in rates.
The Present Position OF the Rebellion
The Expectations or the Country and
the Duty of the Government.
The stupendous Southern revolutionary en-
terprise of JEFF Davis and his confederates, des-
perate from the beginning, and depending from
its very inception upon the shadowy contin-
gencies of European Intervention, has at length
become utterly hopeless and impossible. The
country now entertains the belief that crown
pg victory awaits our Union volunteers at
= Richmond, and, with the men and the means at
yits command, it is the duty of the government
to see to it that in this reasonable expectation
our patriotic people are not disappointed.
We now hold the entire line of the Mississippi
river, and the command of its tributaries be-
tween Cairo and the Gulf Of Mexico; and, hav
ing broken up, demoralized and dispersed the
great rebel armies of the West, we have regained
the late disputed States of Missouri and Ken
lucky, and substantially the late rebellious
States of Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana. Florida is also again in our pos
session. and with our occupation of Mobile-an
event of which we may be officially informed at
any moment-Alabama will be virtually restor-
ed to the Union. The naval establishment of JEFF
Davis has been utterly destroyed with our oc-
cupation of the sounds of North Carolina, Nor
folk, the inlets ofSouth Carolina and Georgia,
Pensacola, New Orleans and Memphis. Moth
ing, in short, remains now of this great rebel
lion but its Army Of the East, driven back upon
Richmond, and there beleaguered by our Army
of the Potomac under General Mcclellan.
Our occupation Of Richmond is simply
question of time; but as we have the men and
the means, and as our loyal States and people
expect this rebellion soon to be ended in q
crushing blow, and that, too, by the cheap and
humane process of an overwhelming force the
fault is with the government if that force is
not now upon the ground. If the bulk of the
one hundred thousand men embraced in the
columns of Generals Mcdowell, Banks, Ere
mont and others, from the Rappahannock to
the Shenandoah valley, cannot now be safely
moved down to Richmond without filling their
places with other regiments, let fifty thousand
fresh troops be called for to protect the rear
and the right flank Of Washington, while those
thoroughly trained soldiers now there are sent
forward to General Mcclellan.
We have the men in readiness, and they are
anxious to assist in the finishing work of this
war. Within ten days, by the course indi-
Gated, General Mcclellan may be strengthen
ed by the addition of fifty thousand experienced
troops, which would enable him to bag the rebel
army and its materials Of war, and the principal
chiefs of the rebel government in Richmond
an achievement which would unquestionably
be followed at once by general disarming Of
the subordinate rebel forces throughout the
South. Our loyal people, in the matter Of q
vigorous prosecution Of this war, are still ahead
Of the government, as they have been FROM the
beginning. Confident in their good cause, their
strength and their resources they have drawn
the government after them, and have sustained
the Treasury and its credit with q degree Of
liberality, cheerfuness and faith unexampled
in the history Of any other people. The admi-
nistration, therefore, may dismiss all misgiv-
ings as to the expediency Of calling out body
Of fifty thousand fresh troops, three and six
months men, at this stage of the war, for the
purpose Of decisive settlement at Richmond
with Davis and his confederates.
The regular annual elections Of our Southern
States are approaching. Let us finish their
Southern confederacy, so that those States may
be enabled to have their representatives again
in Congress by December next. The London
Times, and other English secession organs,
driven to the admission that the armed forces
Of the rebellion will be put down, still contend
that the Southern people will remain alienated
and hostile to the Union. But this idea be-
trays shallow and ignorant conception of the
case. Let Maryland answer. A little over
year ago our troops, destined for the protection
of Washington, had literally to fight their way
through that State, suddenly seized and con-
trolled as it was by its secession elements To-