New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-04-10
ONE-AND-TWENTY.

tho 10th of April, lS4l, to-day enters upon tie
twenty. second year Of its existence. Twenty-ops
years are something more than the average life ola
Journal in this land Of mutations and those just con-
cludei have seen hardly less than one hundred
distinct and determined efforts to establish new
Daily in this City, whereof but ono has been sue
ces,ful and all but two were long since aban-
doned Meantime The Ncw-YOrk American, TIE
Epeaiag Mirror, The Courier and Enquirer,
The Morning Ezpress, The Plebeian, and per-
haps one or two more of those in being when THE
TRIBUNE fret appeared, have been discontinued; 90
that while the aggregate patronage ofths New'ioik
Dailies has probably been increased fve-fold' and
the cost OF issuing them at least ten-fold, the
number published I'VE speak only OF those printed
in the language of the country has been diminished
rather than increased since iSil. And, knowing
what we do Of the heavy losses incurred by
nearly all those who have made the experiment OF
starting a new Journal here within the last
thirty years, we doubt that the requisite money
can Do obtained for another such adventure
within the mex, decade.
Tx TRIDusE gratefully recognizes ito obligation
for all it is ard bas been able to achieve 10 the INTEL
lgent and thinking Middle Class Of our countrymen'
II has never fswned upon Wealth or Power and
owes nothing official patronage nor TO the favor OF
cliques 1t has been mainly supported BY those who
were neither too proud nor lazy to earn an honest
livelihood by their own useful industry. 1t was
never tho oracle Of grogshops gaming houses, or the
ike, because II never aspired 10 be. IL has ever
enjoyed and defed the venomous hatred Of the
classes who live by panderng to the deprayed apre'
ttes or compelling the unrecompensed services oil the
ignorant and simple. We will not boat OF our
friends, since we speaking 10 them but we nave
righ. to say that no journal ever had an array OF
enemies more creditable TO than has that which
now faces the reader.
During the past year, some former patrons have
left us, a. they had perfect right to do There
was class who, when the Republican party bad
achieved power, thought it had no further use for '
rrneiple, and wished 10 barter them for the peace.
fu enjoyment Of "the spois;" VIC could not consent
10 this, though the alternative was their sore dn'
pleasure. There was a much larger number who,
when Republican Administrator, had been in
augursted, held it the duty Of Republican journal
to praise s every act and omission, re-eeho ito every
uttersnce, to glorify government! BY arbitrary
arrests and extra; judicial Imprisonment, and yarniAh
over every scsndslous job, every corrupt appliance
every proaigate expenditure, that 1t sought to
and qvasi authorization. But we had not been
educated in that school, and could not even attemp,
TO satisfy it's requirements. We felt that We owed
70 the Administration tia, we lad done our utmost
to bring into power not only loyal support but faith.
ful admonition, and that We could nowise serve it
moro effectively than by warning it agains. i,s own
errors and exposing to shame and execration every
rascay subordinate who sought 20 enrich himself st
the public cost. We knew the President TO be an
honest aud esrnes, patriot, and we believed majority
of bis Cabinet to be animated by kindred spirit
and We did not feAr-nor much consder-thst
fidelity to truth and duty might subiec, to tieir
displeasure.
So with regard to Military matters. The easy and
popular way would have been to praise every thing
and every body that wore Union colors, call imbe.
city strategy and find wondrous ssgacity and pur-
pose in persistent Incidence and inaction; but TO do
20 was TO consult interest aud popularity at the
penss Of honesty and patriotism. Profoundly con-
WINGED that il was wi,er and cheaper to anticipate
the construction Of Rebel Notifications and mailed
gunboats than TO wait for their completion, we BE-
heved, and still believe, that had Military chief
heartily desired the crushing out OF the Rebellion, Il
might have been done last Summer 81 Autumn f,r
more easily aud inexpensivoly than uow-that hall
The Union soldiers who atched Manassas aud guard.
ed the line Of the Poiomac last Winter might have
taken Richmond and broken the back Of the Rebel
lion last June. That this was not done, is the fault
OF wretched, half-hearted Military leadership-nor
Of tho Government nor of the People. Half the
precious live. already expended in defending the
Republic againss its trai,orous foes would have
suieed 10 chase the Rebel chiefs ont OF tho country
or out OF existence last season and saved the glorious
Uuionists of East Tennessee and tho adjacent high
lands from a;ties and tortures which Sepoys could
scarcely have aggravated. II is the fault not of the
Government but of the Military Aristocracy Of our