The New York herald., 1862-10-07

lan's Army-The Impending and Final
Campaign.
President Lincoln's late visit to the army OF
General Mcclellan ia an incident the import
ance of which, we are entirely confident, will
soon be made manifest in the grandest military
movements and Union victories. 1t was neither
holiday recreation nor idle curiosity that took
the President on this excursion, but the all
absorbing business Of this war. His mission
was to see for himself the condition and
strength of McClellan's army, and its efficiency
for the immediate resumption of active opera
tions. Having satisfied himself upon these
points, and having freely instructed General
Mcclellan in regard to the new campaign about
to be inaugurated, and the part therein which
he is expected to perform. the President has
returned to the White House, and General
Mcclellan will promptly proceed to execute
the important task assigned him.
With his army reinvigorated by this late in
terval of pleasant weather and much needed
rest, and immensely strengthened by reinforce
ments, and amply supplied with subsistence
and munitions Of war; General Mcclellan may
be expected at any moment to advance upon
the enemy. We may safely promise, toe, that
if, with his hastily collected, severely taxed,
rapidly marched and much inferior forces in
point of numbers, he was still able to beat, to
put to flight and drive out of Maryland the
vast and insolent rebel army Of General Lee,
the remains of that army will soon be driven
from the Shenandoah valley, from the country
east of the Blue Ridge from Richmond and out
of Virginia into the woods of North Carolina.
We have absolute confidence in these results;
for while the army of Lee, defeated, cut up,
demoralized in rags and upon half rations is
much weaker now in every respect than it
was when it entered Maryland, the army
of General Mcclellan, in every way, is
stronger than it was at Antietam.
From Manassas across to Winchester the rebel
recruiting sergeants have been securing the
country aad running down their conscripts like
rabbits and foxes; but these reinforcements will
not save the army Of Lee. 1t will surely be
beaten, captured, dispersed or driven out Of
Virginia.
At the same time the army of General Buell.,
in Kentucky, is encompassing that of the re-
doubtable Bragg; and, looking simply at the
question of numbers, there can be no question
of the result. The rebels will be expelled
from Kentucky and they must consider well
their line of retreat, or in their fight they will
be intercepted by the victorious army of Gene
raj Grant. Nor have we any doubt that Hind
man, Rains and Company, who are threatening
to march upon st. Louis with rebel column of
forty thousand men, will be driven out of Mis-
souri, and Arkansas before Christmas In word,
SO complete and so overwhelming are the
Union armies which are now moving against
the rebels, from the Potomac to the west side
of the Mississippi that we may expect this
rebellion to be crushed and the war virtu-
ally ended before the expiration of the present
year.
Such are doubtless the hopes and calculations
of President Lincoln. He has every reason to
expect that within sixty days the armed forces
of the rebellion will be- swept from Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee, and that then the
cotton States, with our victorious armies enter
ing their northern counties, and with our iron
clad gunboats invading them from the seaboard,
will make virtue of necessity, and surrender
to the Union to escape the perils of q sweeping
emancipation of their slaves. This is the end de-
sired and contemplated by President Lincoln's
late proclamation-the salvation of our revolt
ed States, and not their destruction-the resto-
ration Of the Union, and not the bloody over
throw of Southern slavery
Our vindictivs and remorseless abolition dis
organizers have their fears, too, that this war
may be pushed so far that the cotton States, to
save their local institutions, may submit and be
restored to the Union, and that thus the eman-
cipation proclamation, having served its Pur-
pose as a military act, may become a dead
letter before the time appointed for its
Under these apprehensions
our abolition leaders, managers and organs
have been lately doing their utmost to displace
our principal generals and to create dissensions
between them. But they have failed not only
in regard to General Buell.. but in all their de-
vices against General Mcclellan and General
Halleck. Each of these officers stands to-day
higher in the confidence of the President than
ever heretofore, and all are working in perfect
accord with eacn 0tner.
Best Of all, having discovered from experience
that the discordant Presidential elements and
cliques identified with his present Cabinet are
not to be trusted, President Lincoln himself is
now the administration. He judges for himself,
acts upon his own counsels, and is conducting
the war in every department as unit, and with
the great end in view of saving our rebellious
States by speedily convincing them of the ruin
Gus consequences of further resistance. Thus,
sustaining the steadfast patriotism, consistency
and sound discretion of President Lincoln, we
predict that the lst Of January, SO far from in
augurating an abolition crusade, will proclaim
the suspension Of that military measure of last
resort, in view Of the substantial suppression of
the rebellion.