The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-11-27

AN ENGLIS II VIEW.
From the London Times.


Gen. Scott is Americas Wellington. He
is the only General of age and authority,
and he seems to have been endowed with
a certain degree Of military foresight. When
the revelation. which is now in progress.
was but looming in the distance, he alone
saw the magnitude and certainty of the
storm, His fist cry was 10 garrison in
force the arsenals and forts which COM
manded the rivers and strategic points Of
the southern States Neither President or
Minister would listen to him, and the OPP
portunity was lost. Then came the elec-
tolal victory of the republicans. and the
overthrow of the democrats. To the new
President and the new Prime Minister,
Gen. Scot; addressed himself with re.
newed urgency. 1t is now known all
over America that. while Messrs. Lincoln
aud Seward were in their civilian conceit
and ignorance, talking lightly of this Sc
cession as movement to be put down in
SIXTY DAYS and with seventy thousand
men, they had, locked away in their desks.
aud carefully concealed from the public
knowledge, report from the Comman Ter
in chief. telling them Ihal THREE YEARS
and TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
MILLION OF DOLLARS formed the
least price at which these seeded States
could be reconquered.
While Mr. Lincoln was talking in
sprightIy parallels, and while Mr.. Seward
was entertaining his hearers with the as
surance that, if it had been necessary for
the preservation ofthe Union. he would
have fixed slavery in Massachusetts, and
have made it grow there, they had before
them Gen. SCOTS warning that to hold
the South when conquered would require
generations of armies of occupation. cost
ing four times the tribute they could extort,
and destroying the constitution of the coun-
try which employed them. When the des-
.inies Of IA great nation are given up 20 the
guidance of Two loquac.ous attorneys we
have no right to expect large views Of
public exigencies, but i is only now We
learn that these men while they were ac--
ting according TO their f1l.y, had received
counsels which were just those that wonld
have ben given by the wlses. statesmen
OF the old world
With this (Scott' wise estimate Of the
crisis before them, Messrs. Lincoln and
Seward went to work with less ceremony
and less caution than London police wonld
show in dispensing an Irish mob. There
was nc parley, no offer Of peace, no sub
mission 10 arbiIration.-it WAS to be all
sudden brute force These civilians
thought they knew better than the old
General how light and easy was the task
before them. Let the Commander i'll
Chief talk of his hundreds of thousands
of men, and lis hundreds Of millions
of dollars. and his generation Of slaughter.
here were two attorneys wko We're conf
dent that the whole South could be tram
pied into subsection in three months with
10000 undisciplined volunteers. Since
then the North has lost before one city
more than the number of men which Mr..
Lincoln and Mr.. Seward thought sufficient
10 tread out the rebellion Since then the
Worth has spent more than four times the
$50 ,00O, 900 which General Scott estima-
ted as the bill Of the war. And yet there
is no end even in sight.
These are the cosequcpces Of cheap
and simple form Of government, having a
rural attorney for Sovereign and city attor-
ney for Prime Minister. We have already
said that if such terrible exposure of IN
capacity had happened in England We
should at the earliest moment possible
have sent the incapabes about their bust
ness, and put ourselves in the hands Of
better men. But the constitution of the
United States makes no provision for the
choice Of the people falling upon an in
competent President. There stands Mr..
Lincoln, and there stands Mr.. Seward.
Gen. SCOTS letter contrasted with their
acts demonstrates that both the Sovereign
and the Minister are fit for no higher work
thar little pettitogging in district court.
There is vast Federation dissolving in
fire and blood, yet there is no help for it.
Imprcssins LOyaiists--'Thc Tribune
i'm Trouble,
Under the head Of "lmpressing
Loyallsts." the New York Tribune: says
A dispatch from Nashville states that
Gen. Rosencrans has ordered the impress