Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-07-09
A.INrELLIssSr ENGLISH VIEW.
" hat the Correspondent CT the Lsndsn Spec
tator says Of the War.

What the Correspondent ef the Lsndsn Spec
tatsr says Of the War.
The American correspondent Of the London
Spectator. who has written a series of most valr
able ard Intelligent letters to that Journal In the
lssI few months, and who has travelled through
the loyal States, writes the following from
BOston, June 3D.:
"AsI w.s leaving the West the news reached
Il. OK Banks defeat. Travelling thence elst
waIds' was the talk Of TIE day az the towns
through which | passed.
McCIeii ans strategy bis original idea seems TO
% have been TO march the Army of the Potom sc
in three converging lines on Rlchm1pd
NcDowell's Division, according to this plan
would have been the centre Of the attack, bis own
corps d'drz1ss the left ard Bsnks, Division the
rgn. IL you connect Wasnington, Yorkttvn
and Richmond on map by three s.rsight lines
yOl w'li aad that you have formed very nearly a
rightangisd tri i<n9le; the righ, angle bling at
Yorktown, and The side between Richin ~ d being
ebouta third ofths length brtween tuat riesel eER
WasninZt"n. McClellan's own nav, tie. sso- q,
90 med the main tack and nom Its proximity n
ths enemy, occupied the pos. of d.nper By the
tine the FeNSrsl army wis ss.a olishsd on tpe
Pc IlnsGla OF Yoritowa, On the ~oy TO Richmond,
ncClt Ian believed, Or was led 10 beiieve th,i
tu- lemy h1a resolved to contract hi. Iins OF
d fen e, md instead Of resisting the dvsnce %
Tue tIT' sIInH srpelateiy, wos determined to
Concentrate the whole Of his forces In defe nee of
hleInoao againt the advance Of the main army.
N'CLzLLAN's PLANS
ia consequen's, Mcclellan changed his
strstegy, ana issued orders for Med WELLS
Division, which ws then marching towards
Richmsfd by Manassas, to come and reinforce
him Ou The Peninsula These orders We're, I.
understand, objected to by the War Offcs on the
following grOuHds:-If the enemy wss to be
crushed oY mere wetg at and force or nun, osfs
TIA army alre1dv at Nc CleIIang dian sal wa,
amply sufficient, IS he had alfeady some 60 OOO
m sDd some Atty pieces Of auiilS nv NOR, man
Hapoieon hSi usdef his command at the battle of
r.I0 rNln T..
though imp Obable, event OF a defeat on the
fenfnsu!a, the army nad available means OF
retreat aud any e1te sioa Of Its already uawefldy
Il would onty increase po ,sbilIty =. isa strous
IOu'. ln the third piIce, Warrington would be
Is "IposeS 20 an dv.ace Of the en-my IN csse
The Coasederat-s ,hnuld be abi- to detach force
Of v sizs from the army Of Richmond
pS"Oftkes- considerations which were laid he
Re tie President, the Iast was kso which
wele hid most with himi and, on his owa au-
% .%noti'. tsnls know be case) he interfrr.d
Wii1 the execution Of McClellan's orders A
c0mpromse, IS usual, was arranged between be
- n Once and ths General Gen FrapklIn,s
y yisisn 'rming part OF McDoweII,s army waa
a-Et to YoTkiown, auc Med WELLS himself wa.
Issin.d in front CO " ashingt ton aud was rein
forced by toops drawn from Banks army
kS n 81 G mPromises In war this arsang ement
proved olunder, and Pacn of It's authors cOnsid .
ers b. other s 20 bame 70. Its Sc bseq failure
HcCIeIlan's strategy was th hwartrd, McD0weu's
adv4ac- was stopped and Banks force was
Isolated and weaEened In fhe far away valley Of
tue Shen ntoah. As the President is reportet to
h.ve said 70 ~ endeI Phillips, "Gen. Nice eIlan,s
main i,ulii' hat hs thinks tomorrow 10 always
better III o d4v."
&c herhe wisely or not the design OF taking
Richmond by comp DC main was aban ont d; the
enemy became aware that rhFy b ID cause to
fear an imm-diate advance, and Jackson,s diyi,
ion was detached las il Is presumed) from the
main army & fail upon Banks force whic on.
sisted OF lite more than 900 men Happily
HcD0W-ll's division was too strong to be sur.
PTised, and 80 Washington was we'd from anv
dangrr OF capture However, when the news
reached WaShing'O on a very natural panic ensued
The weak point In General McCleIlan's plan Of
campaign i o, viously that, II toe Confedera
amy cnonse to abandon Richmond they could
reacn Warrington many days bef IRE any large
POI polnOn OF tne YORKTOWN army could overtake
Nnem IL 10 true thatsuoh q step would rgq uIre
s1lesmadsaip and q geneialship the South has
not vet given token Of and that Ia all probability
General Mcclellan has absolute reason to know
tna' This Ia a step which will not be taken Still
rs or rather was then, possib and an obvious
move On the military chess board; and the posi-
6ility OF 1t. being adopted caused a psnic at
"Wisnin a week hundred thousand volunteers
have been raised, and the services Of probably
hundred thousand more have been declined. To
Judge OF The Importance Of this fact you must
Te MEMBER who theEe new volunteers are. The
scum and raH OF the towns has ben long ayo
WORKED Cn In the army. Every man who has
no nsucuiar work 70 do, or ties to keep him at
hone, las bean already drafted Of. The hun.
drtd thousand who volunteered last week were
ali men, a. clsss, who had counted the cost Of
or duiies or ties had been too important hitherto
10 allow them TO join the war. Yet the moment
the cry wea raised thst the cause OF the North
vas IN danger, every other consideration WA
thrown as.ds.
PROSECUTION OF THE WAR ..
Altogether the episode II Banks defeat and
It's attendant panic Is not intrnIlcs lily creditabe
either 10 the generalship or the Statesmansh Of
the North But vet the whole Incident has con-
Tlncet me more fully OF the power and ultime ete
trump OF tae NOrthern cause taaa ANYTHING I
have yet seen fhs North has now beea so used
to ihe Idea Of victory, 30 wsdt.d d to the convic-
ton that the end Of the rebellion was close at
haGd. that the intelligence OF az U iion army be.
lag dis1strouslY defeated fell ike a thunderbolt
amongst th-m suil, frOm no party. or no paper,
or 10 person that me- with, have nea any,
Ting but the one expression OF opinion that the
yar must be pushed on with rrdoubled energy
DETERMINATION OF TaE PsoPLE
go II has been all along, and So IL will be till
the inEurrection 10 suppressed Tue bray and
5luster and rOdomontade Of a portion aud that
the noSiest portion, OF the American pre IS and
p1oic, are as anti pathetic, IN Italian phra e. TO
me Sho live amongst II, ds they can be TO any
.glishman; out s,ill cannot avoid seeihg, II /
/" 'dd, the deep, pass mate resolution which lies
beneatn II all IL Euglsamen w uld once make
up tnetr minds that the Anglo 8 sxon race was
m toe Sane on 90 sides Of me Atlantic and
tnat tue resolution Of th- North 10 suppress the
lnsufrectlon, at all costs ahd all hazards, and
N lsi add, a. tue price Of all severities is the
indla nutiny-tne conviction wnuld OF a valu
aole one FOR both E0glAnd aud America"