Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-07-30
The Scorpion Nest..Greeley and mis-
Abolition ~ mpathIzeFs.

HoRAcE GREELEY is the representative man
Of the New York TTibune-a paper in which
thousands of Republicans conHde as trustiDgly
as Mohammedsns do in the Koran-s.paper that
under the mask Of loyalty seeks the overthrow
of the Constitution and the Union.
To accomplish its overt and reasonable
scheme in which the whole horde Of ultra Abo-
litionists sympathize, the Tribune labors to dis.
courage enlistments and to shake the confidence
of the people in the President. Look at the
following discouraging view which the Tribune
presents in its issue of July 25, Of the progress
of the war against rebellion hitherto and the
present posture of affairs:
l. Our country has for the last fifteen months
been struggling with gigantic and fendish re.
belion. Il has called out not one less than three
quarters of million citizen soldiers to suppress
that rebellion Not less than one hundred thou
sand OF these have been killed, permanently
crippled or disabled by disease contracted in the
service; while q like number are nov anguish
ing in HOSPITALS, in private dwelngs, or In rebel
prisons. Not dollar less than six hundred mil
lions have already been spent (including claims
etc, etc, as yet unadjusted, or il adjusted, un-
paid) by our GOvernmentin its efforts to put
down the rebellion.
ii. These efforts, this tremendous outlay,
have accomplished but small part Of the work
in hand. The rebels confront our armies on
every side with forces nearly If not fully equal
TO our own. They have successfully resisted
our past efforts to take their capital, though
nearly approached by water and but a hundred
miles or 90 from our own. They have more
men in the field this day than they ever had he
fore, while we have one hundred thousand less
than when we opened the campaign last April.
Within the last month, they have decidedly
gained ground. They have foiled us at Vlcks-
burg, damaged NJ In Tennessee, devastated q
good portion of Kentucky, and are seriously
troubling Missouri. Meantime, our main armies
stand on the defensive, and are quiescent, or (if
you please) ''safe."
Are not such representations calculated to
dishearten any man who has the least confidence
in the paper that makes them 7 Are they not
in effect saying to the loyal men of this country
"You have tried to put down this rebellion and
been foiIed Isis useless to expend more treas.
ure and waste more blood"
But the Tribune has an object in presenting
this dark and despairing view Of the state Of
the war. II is not only to discourage enlist
ments and encourage the rebels 10 persevere,
but to asaail the President. Its charges against
him are these;
To this hour, Gen. Halleck's "Order No. g."
forbidding slaves 70 come within the lines of
our forces in his vast department, and expell-
ing those already there, stands unmodifed. A
kindred order, promulgated more than year
since by Gen. Mcdowell for the government of
the war in Virginis, also stapds unaltered -
The orders of Gems Fremont and Hunter,
profeFing freedom to the slaves of rebels, have
been officially annulled by the President. Dot
one word uttered from the White House, wheth-
eF before or since the passage Of the confsca-
tion act-not one Military Order or proclsma-
tion but those the President has annulled-.,
profHers freedom to q single slAve, no matter
how heroic his daring how priceless his servi-
ces, In behalf Of The Union. Were the rebels
to lay down their arms tomorrow, they might
for all that the President has said or dome
call on him TO set his Marshals on the track OF
all the blacks who have escaped from rebel
masters 70 serge the Union cause as guides,
scouts, pilots, or otherwise, and he would have
10 hunt them up and hand them over.
This is the Abolition indictmept against
President LINCOLN. He has yielded to theae
radical DIsunionists; but he has not yielded
enough. Because he does not proclaim univer-
sal emancipation and through slavery accom-.
pllsh she anal division or separation Of the