Washington telegraph., 1862-02-05
p@g- The foll.wing appears il Tie Gin

Al A"S 'pi'Nih- appears ~ '-'N 49,
cinnati Conmercial Reason dawns:
sHALL WE SUgRRNpER?-The days Of
the Republic are uppn a., and At % time
mpre than the presen; ha. the lover uf the
Union had 20 much cause 10 despair.
Treas ~ yet exnliS in the S1n-hcrn Stltes
unchecked. With unlimited N "A rs at is
contrnl, and is calls, for men more than
fully responded to, the Wir Department
has suffered the summer, the fall and
half the winter to pass away without
single decisive movement.
The people have been asked to be pa
tient, and patience has been exercised
until the longing heart grows faint, and
hope is fast expiring. The rebels still
rob and murder 10 Missouri; there is no
advance in Kentucky, where over enc
hundrcd thousand troops are concentrated,
and General Mcclellan, with his army Of
over three hundred thousand men, re
mains calmly at Washington, watching
Y the Potomac. The great nava. ez pcdition
% whose brilliant exp!.its we were led to
\ hope 80 much, have il a measure proved
4 failures.
! Charleston and Savannah were within
nnr grasp when Sherman landed his troops
at Port Royal He could have marched
upon both cities al taken them with each
But following the recognized policy Of the
Administration, h. rename quiet at Port
Royal until the rebels had fully prepared
10 resist his advance Now lie cannot stir
a step toward the interior. Aud, now It
seems the only dlshing, American-hke,
and brilliant act Of the war, Il about 70 be
rppudated by the administration. 1t is
said that trembling before the awful
.rowls of John Bull, the Administration
will surrender Mason aud SIideli, and blot
our history with another page of infany.
God help the nation if these things are
no continue. We must confess We are
losing our patience. The Congressional
reports show that the Wa Department. at
least is in the hands of thieves The
mastery inactivity Of the Administration
is broken only when it comes to the p lun-
drriDg If the treasury. The repOr. Of the
Congressional Investigating Committee
thrills every honest man with horror Ii
is the saddest exposition Of our national
history
IL exhibits degree of corruption in the
War aud Navy Departments not expected
IN this critical hour. The pubic treasury
Is iu the hands of thieves, whose only So
licituie il piunder. If Congress was ho-
nest, as it ought To be, Simon Cameron
would have been hurled from hi Oifice 10
disgrace bcfure this, aud Fort Lafayette
crowded with tile Weeds, the CummiDgseS,
the Morgans, aud the host IF pluuderers
proved guilty by that investigation. BIT
even this terrible exhibition does not seem
10 have created q sensation ia Congress.
Does the plunder conspiracy extend even
there
Iii the Administration, with its misera-
ole aud almost intolerable army misman-
aremeut. surreuders Mason and lldell, il
will be the last hair on the canePs back.
The truth must come, aud the sooner /. Is
spoken the better The people cannot
aud will not support AN Administration
that deties their confidence. All that Il
dear 10 them-hnlne, country, freedom,
peace--is now at stake. Ii there is not a
change ia the Cabinet for the better, and
that soon, they will demand a change in
servants, aud enforce their demand Once
rouse the whiIlwiud, aud It viii not stop
until il sweeps the whole Administration
into the Potomac.
The cIasm seems to be now opening
which. without immediate aud thorough
reform, will engulf the plunderers OF the
Government in this hour Of trouble and
peril. We know what we say, and we
proclaim it to the feasting Belshazzars
- nm a U alI
If our army of 600, 200 i TO lay idle 10
: the border States if our naval expedi-
tioos are to prove almost fruitless; II the
/, Gallant sons. husbands aud fathers, who
: nave nobly marched to the defence Of the
cnuutry. are TO be starved and worried TO
death il camps to crafty official thieves |;
If our rulers are too cowardly to order an
advance. If the rebels are to be allowed
"a hanr and murder Union men all
through tue South; if the friends of the
Union in the rebel States are tO receive
40 assistance or protection If we are to
y. bulied into disgrace by foreign nations;
# all national honor aud manhood are to
H. sacrificed upon the altar Of public plun-
dor why continue the war; Would II not
be better 10 surrender at unce, and acknow-
ledre ourselves a nation Vt towards and
,h,evesy Let us have war worthy vi
our once proud Republic, or at once sub.
side iuto ruin aud eternal disgrace.
G TuE DEPARTMENT or MISSOURI Our
Richmond correspondent, always cautious
! and discriminating in his assertions, states
that Gen. Earl Van Dorm has been ap-
pointed to take command as Maj. General
of the Department of Missouri aud Ar
kansas. The Richmond Examiner Of the
18th INST. makes the same statement,
which seems to be confirmed by the allie
cation Of the Knoxville Register 10 the