Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-10-28
OUR MILITARY BUDGET,
LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

OUR MILITARY BUDGET.
LATEST FROM THE FRONT.
Aseouting party, dispatched by Gen. SigeL
returned last evening from Occoquan Greek by
wsy- Of Wolf River run fshoal} and Davis
ford to Manassas Junction. They report
reSsl patrol Of fifteen men of the Prince Viii.
liam cavalry at Brents Vile on Monday last
Numbers of rebel conscripts are making their
way 70 the command Of Gen. Stahl from the
nrighborhood of Salem. They report a rebel
force At Upperrille under Gen Walker Our
scouts set it down AZ 9, 90 strong.
Fifty rebel cavalry were met yesterday near
hldic. coming from the direction n Lees
burg.
A drserter who has reached General S,ahrs
command reports 5000 rebel troops at Rich.
n!ond. Loo at Fredericksburg and two regi-
1aents of infantry at Culpeper. He does not
know the force at Warrenton, but he confirms
the account of division being at Cpperville
under General Walker, which he says is 1000
strong. At Richmond he heard it said that
General Lre would fall back soon into winter
quarters, and that Walkers division is not to
r~inain much longer in its present position
Information, from I4ee-burg renders ii GER
ta!n that there has been no enemy there to speak
% since Friday last. Their nearest position to
I.~e,burg is at Waterford, six miles distant.
THE PARTY OF DELAY"
Ii has become quite fashionable OF late with
the radical press, TO denominate those who op-
pose rash and ill -matured military movements,
s. ':the party of delay" .the inaction party,''
&c. very brief recurrence TO the history of
the war so far, will serve to snow how entirely
the failure to finish the contest long since is Al
tributable almost solely to the ill-timed policy
OF the very parties making this charge.
Thus, all remember, they were the parties
who delayed settlement OF the difficulties
when, by aequiesence in the Crittenden propo-
siIlon for an adjustment, Virginia and Tonnes
Sc would surely have been kept out of the
Conspiracy, and the rebellion could rs a con-
sequence, have been crushed almost without
r. sort TO armed force. Though such q settle
nent would have cost the government and the
public interest literally no sacrifice whatever.
HI the blindness of political partizanship it was
prrsistenly secuted. The thousand millions of
treasure, the life's blood Of the hundred tbou
sand citizens sacrificed in the war, and the
temporary utter destruction of all the industrial
interests of the country not concerned in pro-
Niding Tor the prosecution of the contest tell
hnmlStakably who were ''the party of DELAY
she party of inactiOn"-at that time
AGAIN: when tie plans of our military
ahthoritles, based on mature professional ex.
perience and thorough knowledge of The Sit
Ia'ion, were about being put into successful
operation, the same parties, by a concerted
howl and misrepresentation of facts. forced
the Government virtually TO set those pl,ns
aside, and really 10 trust the campaign IN
"iuck-" We here refer to the original int.r
Terence with McClellan's plans, which. in do.
priving him Of the large force that he designed
advancing upon Richmond on the north side
OF James river, turned its contemplated prompt
reduction, into protracted and disastrous siege
IN again, when having we'll nigh overcome
me difhculties and embarrassments caused by
that original radical Interference in the plans
81 me campaign. Gen. Mcclellan asked but q
reinforcement of twenty or thirty thousand
men To enable him TO take the rebel capital
from the new base he had secured upon James
river radical interference with his plans su.
perinduced'the order for his evacuation of the
Peninsula; thus producing further DELAYS and
loss almost beyond calculation.
20, 100, did radical interference with tho
plans OF campaign inangurate the short satur
haiia OF 'no lines OF retreat" &c. which cleo
FuS ing the country for an instant with its
rochrt-iike brlliiancy, eliminated in the next
instant in the terrible disasters of Pope,s brief
campaign. How fruitful OF DELAY and popuI.r
di>appointment hct interference of radicaIisn
proved is told by the present position of affairs
on The upper Potomac.
>@' TOO, did the same parties produce DELAY
upon delay by enaeting in Congress the poli,.,,
OF ceasing to obtain more men for the prosa,u
lion OF the war; with what results the coun,rv
wen Know. Not content with thus prolonyiu.-
'ie contest tine and again, they are now r.,
hewlng their dangerous efforts to take its di-
r'cton out of the hands of military mon ON
their cid plea that the latter are too slow for
exlSencies OF the occasion. They have organ
lied anew ramified and desperate conspiracy
10 compass the removal of Gen. Nc.,Ia,,an
from the command OF the Army of the Poto
Tuac. ba>ing their renewed demand for tb., .x
cfu'l'e act upon his alleged failure or ,IecIen-
sun 10 risk a decisive action while from, nm
10 seSenty-fye thousand of his troops wore
necessary TO b. kept only as Il guard for lin.
riNer ; lords and While near four-fifths of his
cavalry and nearly half his artillery were newt
10 useless from want of horses in proner condi
ton They also undertake TO decide bo,c anil
where ne shall engage the rebels: and thai IN.
rhal MOI be- permitted 10 force, them to fl rht him
Where iie Elects, but where Lee prefers: basiup
seeh interference in his plans of campaign
upon their Old cry against the delay: for which.
ai'"r All, they are mainly responsible,
On fhr other hand, We know none IA IN.
a1ny-abeoiuteiy none-who favor Il moments
delay longer man may bc absolutely necessary
TO prevent the eyii~ resulting from this radical
rfa-s.f To, III
campaign, from eliminating IN 1hr eventual
entire defeat OF the arms or tn, MON. Thirty
Gays should bring into the field pu,DU more
Inion soldiers, and in our biys and rivers the
most powerful feet of mailed ships OF war ever
constr acted. He must be- blind indeed yrb,