, 1862-07-09

tory Plan Wofks-Qua17eling Of Tie Faction :.
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette1
WASHINGTON, July 8, 1862.
=. TEE DISASTERS BEFORE RICHMOND.
AT LIST 1t is out. a week ago to-day he
gan, before Richmond, a series Of i've daVs, rs
oa.ues, me result Of which, mystify it as Won
may,Io so1ten the disappointmen is decided
There are glorifeations Of the st brilliant
sstra1egy sh1t o. changing the base Corporations,
Inat only raise the wonder why, if the James
Rlyer base Tere so vastly superior, it was not
dlEcoyered tour weeks ago, before the time
| had been wasted and the army had been
seourged by the malaria Of the C6:ckabominy
dpsrate nsFf ghts a5e @ soRulsa is1a aeeoun ons a
doubt whether We won or lost. or
| whether so losing were not more
honorable than the most brilliant victory
t9e1e tS are Strange stories of fearful slaughter,
" ong 1s OBSTRUCTION SIT q army stores, Of the loss
absence oi official bulletins, which The mis-
taken policy of the government still with
ho!ds, there is this at least, out Of the thick
en1ng reports Of re7erses that come crowdine
T,o TIo4 p; US; IN Mh1ch We are compelled to accept.
Inc f1eslcent admitted yesterday, to an officer
Who, OF night, demanded that the silence Of
the government should be broken. that
Mcclellan had been seriously defeated, and
that ne called for fifty thousand more men.
Delall5 WILL be coming in for weeks; but that
Is the key note to the whole heart sicLenin1
6tery.
We complaeent1y waited before Richmond.
all the while b0as1ing how our delays W1re
going to Eaye Life, aud make the result as GER
tam as 3 mathematical demonstration. till
M bea9aregafa alg came from Mississippi, and Jack
son 1ron tne valley, and oyer1hei1ned Us with
the sheer force Of their combined numbers. II
Is The Old, old story again.
HOW EVERLASTING WAITING TO GET READY
TURNS OCT.
ferhaps, too, people who believe in the
glories Of waiting the enemy to staTTe
out, Of for the enemy to tle1noraliza. nr far
strategic purposes to save life by scient;ie nj iH
adTances-#nI find food for profitable re1ec-
tion in our disaster.
When Mcclellan advanced to Manassas, it
IS IS now knoWn-it ought to have been known
aInly-that he could have over rwheined anT
opposltlon IN his way and swept resist1ess on
back. '>>f e1A1'o
When Mcclellan arri7cd at Yorktown, yie-
ofo15 n I attackWoutd have taken the works, swept
oH IKE chat the mere handful of rebels that
at frst we're there to resist him, and have car
rleo h1m upon defcnseless capital with but
tt1e OF the loss he has since experienced
But he was going to save life by siege works:
army.
Even after that, when he arrived within
striking distance Of Richmond, and stiT
largely outnumbercd the rebels, aud a yieor-
Gus movement would still hare made him
master OF the Situation. But he waited.
ard waited, and waited, in spite Of H.,
ygorous protests Of the President and o:
lHe Secretary, and Of everybody Who
rag 2 right to address him on the
subject; III spite OF the complaints Of bis best
genera's :5I Z and aprrehensions Of the Whole peo-
pie, TIL Beauregard had full time to transfcr
6?s forces, and jackson to effect his brilliant
diversion n the valley and return: and Til
LneEe combined forces, that had been accumu-
iatlng tor weeks under his eyes, ut last ont
numbered his Owl, and were ready to give
him battle ~ st'e
Two weeks ago it was declared in this cor.
fcspondenee that it would never do for an iu-
VadlnS army TO stand on the defensive; that it
Must be offensive or nothing. But McClelI IN
positively stood for weeks Oh the defensive h.
tore an enemy that lie outnumbered; at LIST
{heY came to outpumber him, and defeated
him, And such is the triumph to which our
perslst.nt, continuous delays have led Us.
PLEASING THE FACTIONS.
1t is unfortunate for the country that the
management Of the war has beeu involved aud
controlled b The tyranny Of factions, The
appointment OF one general las been demand
4 by one faction, and the president must.
ALTER the fashion OF tic times, s'couciliatc
the faction By appointing the general.
4 general proves himself unequal to Lis posi-
ton, but the President cannot supesede him,
because It would offend the generals party.
The Whole question Of appointing and placing
generals, whether West Pointers or ciyiIiaus'
has become question Of personal or poll!ical
pariizanshlp; md our honest president in
trying in the goodness OF his heart, to please
them I'LL is pleasing nobody.