The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-03

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Richmond and Corinth-Gencral H1cClels
Ian and General Halleck.
The general results Of the fighting in front
Of Richmond, on Saturday and Sunday last,
amount to nothing less than q great Union
triumph and disastrous and demoralizing
rebel defeat. 4
Their sortie Of Saturday, followed up by the
more extended engagement Of Sunday, satisfies
us that their fate is sealed. General Mcclellan
had drawn his lines so close around the "Con-
federate capital" that . desperate effort to
break through those lines or hasty evacuation
had become an imperative necessity to the OPP
posing army. The alternative adopted was
that Of Buckner, Floyd and Pillow at Fort
Donelson, and of Sidney Johnston and Beau
regard at Shiloh, and Of Jo Johnston and his
associate generals at Yorktown and Williams
burg desperate sortie or battle, at all
hazards, as their only chance. We pre-
sumo, too, that the same result will very
soon follow these last battles from Richmond
q that of Fort Donelson, or that Of Shiloh
capitulation or an evacuation. Then, with their
Confederate capital" gone, their spurious
government adrift, their swindling rulers, as
fugitives from justice, pursued by the strong
arm Of the government Of the United States,
and with that paper rubbish known a. Con-
federate money made redeemable only by the
man in the moon, what further purpose, or
hope, or possible encouragement or means of
defence, or Of subsistence, will there be left to
the demoralized fragments Of the rebel army
of the East and West. A few days more and
all these questions will be in course Of prac-
teal and satisfactory solution.
That seditious abolition disunion organ, the
New York Tribune, has promptly availed itself
Of the temporary check Of General Cssey's divi
sion of our troops, on Saturday last, for an in
sidious and malignant fling or two at General
Mcclellan. But the simple truth il that the
abolition radicals of that journal and its tribe
do not desire the success of this officer. He has
refused to bow down and worship the abolition
negro brigade at Washington; and General
Halleck, being in the same category, is subject
to the same abolition assaults and misrepre-
sensations. Thus the Evening Post the other
day, could find nothing very gratifying in
Beauregard's evacuation Of Corinth. He should
have been attacked in his works, according to
the amiable poets of the Post, and the bloodier
the consequences the better, whatever the
final issue Of the engagement
And this is the relentless and ferocious spirit
Of our disorganizing abolition faction They
nation against the rebel armies and the State
lines and State institutions Of the South But
President Lincoln adheres to different policy,
and such Of his generals in the field as
Mcclellan, Halleck, Burnside, Butler and
Banks understand it thoroughly. II IL
not the policy Of destruction, but of salvation.
az far a. possible, to the South in saving the
Union. We contend, too, that General Hal
leck has won greater victory at Corinth, in
driving off Beauregard and in breaking up and
.demoralizing his army without bloody and
doubtful assault upon his works, than he would
have achieved in marching into Corinth ovef
the dead bodies Of thousands Of loyal and rebel
soldiers Once in battle, the destruction of
life is the word but with the men and the
means at hand to make our advances upon the
rebels at every point absolutely overwhelm-
ing, even If little more time be required, this
course is surely to be preferred over that Of
hap hazard and revengeful determination.
General Halleck is satisfactorily closing up
his work of suppressing the rebellion in the
Valley Of the Mississippi; then Mcclellan is
satisfactorily progressing with bis important task
of the expulsion Of the rebel army and govern
ment from Richmond. Both these able and
trusty officers, strong in the confidence of the
country, are equally strong in the confidence
of the administration. They are working out
the Union-saving policy Of President Lincoln,
and his and their reward approaches in the
gratitude Of the American people over great
rebellion extinguished, and "tho integrity Of
the Union" restored,