The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-17
the GREAT EMERGGNCY--AN
APPEAL no THE PREsIDENT.

APPEA Al TO The ERES1DENV'
The following article is from the New
York Post of July 9Th;
The one duty of the country at this time
is 10 repair the disaster which stupendous
military blandering has brought upon the
country, and to strengthen the army as rap
idly as possible. 1t is idle to disguise the
fact that the whole campaign of the peuin-
sula-in spite of the splendid fighting of
our troops and the admirable skill of our
oficers-has been misconducted, and patri-
otto men Of the nation, without stopping to
distribute the blame looking to the
President, with the most intense anxiety,
for new manifestation of energy and
power
The people have still confidence in Mr.
Lincoln; they are persuaded of his entire
honesty, and they know that he means to do
right in respect to the honor as well as the
interests OF the country. But they think
. be has trusted too much to his suoordi-
mates that he has not been sufficiently Pc
rempt0ry with them, either with his Gen.
/ erals or Secretaries, and his whole admin
istrHtiOn has been marred by certain tone
of lauguor and want OF earnestness which
has not correspUnded with the wishes of the
people. As a consequence, his administra-
ton has from the beginning Jagged far be-
hind the popular impulse. 1t has not to this
moment realized the depth, the Intensity
and malignity of the rebellion, and its eff
forts to put it down have been for that rea-
son a comparative failure The rebels
themselves are fearfully in earnest, they are
despotically united, they make war as war
should be made, as a military art and uOt
as political scheme, and under thousand
disadvantages manage to get the best of US
in the great critical moments of the strug-
gle.
The single, transparent, undeniable source
of all our disasters has been the want of
earnestness on the part of the civil authori-
ties and the painful slowness and laxity of
our military chiefs. 1t is now fourteen
months since Mr.. Seward-so little pereep-
ton had he of the nature of this war-pre-
dicted that it would be ended in sixty days.
The Administration appears, by its acts, to
have put full faith in his halcvon words.
We have had for year on the Potomac,
the finest army that could be raised in tie
civilized world-an army not less than
! 200 DOL strong-well equipped, we'll fed,
well supplied with every material of the art
of warfare; but it has been allowed to be
frittered away by idleness, by disease, by
battle under adverse circumstances and by
military incompetency in thousand shapes.
Mr.. Lincoln, then, we repeat, must open
| his eyes without moments delay to the
exgency. Three things are more impe-
rative than all others. First, he must dis
miss every leading agent who is imbeeile
or slOthful, on the spot; second, he must
/ iufuse unity of design ard energy of pur-
pose into his entire Cabinet, and not allow
/ the members OF it to devise inconsistent
! policies: and, thirdly, be must recruit his
armies from all classes and ranks as fast as
/ they can be filled up, without fear of the
mean and miserable prejudices OF vulgar
| Draw leFs.
OF the comparative capacities of his gen.
erals he is a better judge, doubtless, than
any in the country for he has the
means of testing their qualities. Let him
place the most energetic, rapid and large.
minded of all at the head of the principal
force, just as he put Pope over the army of
| the Shenandoah. Again: let him proclaim
TO the South as we'll as to the North, that
this war is to be prosecuted as a war, that
eyeru vufr,I rneens will he emnlored in II
SinsSS u 70 protect a hfdeous institution
which has been the cause of the war Fl
| nally, let him say to all loyal men. black
as wen as white, that their services will he
| accepted In the holy cause of the Union
snat the former will be employed regimen
'aiiy IN the severe labors of the trenches
ana the camp, while the latter are perfect.
ing their known and demonstrated valor nv
all the arts of the military manual.
Inc whole North is burning to proffer ito
services 10 the President; and vet the North
noiuS somewhat back. Why? Because it
sees no ut mite energetic policy at Wash
.Hs'on because IL sees our existing armies
S Sactlnceo 70 shameful want of enterprise:
because II desires to fight the enemy, who
Is the most reckless desperate and sova
.hat has ever been encountered. with ali ,6o
weapons that God and nature has NM into
our hands. P"' 'n'o
Inc North is weary of shilly-sballv ;s
weary of the difference that is Maid ~ ,bo
SulS oI men who would cut our throats |
anu 70 the preJudices Of those who symDa-
lu'AS "ltn them; 1t is weary of playing at
war, and 1t wants to see the blow strnck
iot a1 me Dig toes or the little fingers Of
ne revolt, but at its heart. IL is i'm the
power OF Mr.. Lincoln, if be will rouse him
eli, to strike the blow.
livery oody who knows him loves him and
espects MIN ; the bltterest of bis former M.
S opponents now defer to his Judgment; {
uu he would drop the politicians on ali ,
ues' ana lay bis own great heart on the {
~ steater neart OF the people, and take bis $
SP'I"'ioH thehce, he might arouse the ma
On once more to an earnestGess and an On
luslasm which would surpass the ont {
lrsls OF lhe days OF April We are sick of
ia' unmeaning, formal phrases we are e.
lntlng Tor electric words; and when Ar :,
neon snail blow no more uncertain n
ass, Out put the trumpet OF liberty to bis o,
- the air Will disclose, the earth will "
7iu' tue very waters will spawn M n
neu men, as In the days of the earliest n
risings. ~