New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-27

d0-nothngism in our army operations exactly
suit him. Before the struggle opened, he de-
clared, in hs Tweddle Hall speech, Jan. 81,
1861, that the Rebels could not be conquered;
and he now exults over the confidently antici.
pated fulillment of his prediction. He does not
want the Rebels beaten into submission to the
laws, but bought off from their treason by new
concessions to Slavery. He expects to be their
ally and confederate in future Presidential con-
tests and in amicable distributions Of d" the
spoils" Delay, iRdecisiOp, procrastination.
disaster to the National cause, loss of enthusiasm
and Of hope on the part of its upholders, oil
play his game and improve his prospects. In
short, if our prominent Commanding Generals
had been acting in all things with single eye
to making him Governor, they would have
acted no otherwise than rs they have done.
And yet The Sunday Merenry-a professedly
independent journal-one which has denounced
the do-nothing policy and mercilessly ridiculed
its authors-which knows perfectly well who
those authors are--which has protested to sus-
tain that Emancipation policy which Wads-
worth emphatically approves and Seymour ve-
hemently condemns-comes out on the eve Of
our election with a leader intended to help
Seymour, Fernando Wood, Ben. Wood & Co.
by such mOnstrous logic as the following:
The coming election In NewYori Ike the late elections
In Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana aud Iowa. will not turn solely
upon local issues The grand Issue Of the has absorbed
aud viii coEtinuo 10 absorb ell minor In ts paramount
the people ask for both here and el,ewhere They are ss,
ned thai result hopeless under existing circumstances
They demand change therefore They have wish to
mpugn the President They have no desire to accuse h
They do doubt his sincerity But they d. d'rus
his policy and they have confidence in the energy
ability OF his constitutional sdyseTs' They insist on that
account upon political change in the local government Of
every oysl state fitting preliminary TO change OF policy
Washington They insist upon ejecting from state au
thorty the party and psans that have sustained the Fed
ers 10 the rosewaer system Of warfare it
has carried hitherto sgant the daring rebeoni-t. They
mist uuou Cleansing the Ausesn stable, Albany ond Wash
nson now rank h corruption They nsi.i upon nsueu
rstiug plain straightforward honest and thoroughly vigo
Gus era IA both places They insist upon and
mrnsres at home in the f pvicon that
improvement will follow at the Federal Capital They
power in Newton as well tho other states. who have
private interests to subserve in lenghcning out the con-
ct and who have rot been associated In Any respect with
Who have spun the deliberately and 90 fru
leHly"
All this is as grossly false and villainous in
the eyes of its author as of everybody else.
He knows that "the party and partisans that
have sustained the Federal Administration
in the rose. water system of warfare" are the
Democrats, opposed at every step BY the Re-
publicans, as the proceedings Of the last Con.
gress abundantly establish. Every single meas.
ure calculated to render the prosecution Of
the war more stern and effective was origin
ated and supported by the Republicans while
the Democrats mainly resisted it with invinci.
bic tenacity. SO the retention Of ineffective
Generals in command has been due solely to
Democratic and Border-State partisanship
while the Republicans have urged their re-
moval. And now we are called on TO elect
Fernando and Ben. Wood TO Congress in order
to secure the substitution for " rose-water -
of vigorous and decisive" war policy
Every intelligent politician Will be just as
certain as we that The Mercury has been bought
to turn its battery treacberousy Oh its friends in
the service Of its foes. It's course is base and
vlainous to the last degree. Thank Heaven
its readers are not purchased with il