The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
The Military Deadlock.

The National Mteligence,:, at different
stages in the progress of the war, has taken
a retrospective glance at the military stu
alton, superinduced by the GIBBS and flows
of the campaign within particular districts
These articles, it is needless to say, are able
and exhaustive, and unanswerable In it's
issue of the 18th, under the head, "The
Military Deadlock" there is a general
summing up of our military movements
since the campaign of Gen. BANKS in the
Shenandoah, to the present, including the
repulse of BURNSIDE. The great blunders
of removing the Army of the Potomac
from the Peninsula, and the subsequent re-
moval Of MCCLELLAN, are shown up in the
most convincing light. 1t is courteous in
tone, but, coming from that journal, terri
bly, severe on Gen. HA11EcK, and made so
simply by recital of facts which are sub
stantiated by official authority. We have
only room to quote the conclusion of the
article:
Is it anything else, for the present, tina
a military deadlock" The line of ap-
proach to Richmond by way of the PENN
sula being abandoned by the present mill
tary administration, whose pride of opinion
naturally resists return to it, and the line
of approach by way of Fredericksburg be-
ing blocked up by an impossible barrier,
the combinations of the General-in- Chief
have been brought to sudden stand-still
at a time most unpropitious to the cause
of the Union. We have no heart to antici-
pate fresh disasters, but we shall feel re-
lieved if this balk in the campaign does not
tend to fulfil the as yet unfulflled portion
of Gen. McClellan's letter to Gen. Halleck,
where in depreciation of the evacuation of
Harrison's Landing, the former pointed to
the "strong probability that it would in
duce foreign powers to recognize our
adversaries. ~
Hoe fOnte de7ir0tu cladeS. History, in
recording the successive disasters which
have followed the removal of the Army OF
the Potomac from the Peninsula, will re
cord with not the least surprise that it all
turned on the QUESTION of affording to its
Commander paltry contingent of fifteen
thousand men, and this in war which has
brought its forces into the field by levies
of five hundred thousand, three hundred
thousand, and three hundred thousand
again. 1t will be hard to convince poster
ity that so much of hazard, and, as it now
appears, so much of assured misfortune,
need to have been entailed on the Repub-
lie if wise counsels had presided over our
military destinies.
SEWARD the dreamer-Seward the optimist
the prophet-the Statesman of pleasant
phrases in the future tense, has given place to
Summertime radical refOrmer-the COnstitu-
tional revOlutionist-the man of to-day-the
scorner of compromises with the foes of Free
dom.-Press.
The news of last night disposes of the
pleasant anticipations of the Abolition
press; and saves the country the degra
ton and ruin which would follow the ele-
walton of man like SUMNER to the head
of the Cabinet. "SEwARD the dreamer
SEWARD the optimist-the prophet us
still Premier, and the cause of the Union,
therefore, is not utterly beyond hope.
- DEATH OF Hon, VIM. Fl. PoLK.-The
Nashville Union announces the death OF
VIM. H. Polk, which occurred at the st.
Cloud hotel, in that city, on Monday night
last. His death was sudden and unex-
pected. He was the youngest full brother
of the late President Polk, and lawyer
of good ability, and politician of consid-
cradle note in Tennessee.
The New York fund for the relief OF
tho English 0naratiyaS now amounts TO