The New York herald., 1862-03-15

Our Abolition DIsunionists and Their
Masked Batteries Against tho Admtn-
fstratiOn.
The evacuation of Manassas by the rebels
has been seized upon by our Northern dis
unionists of the abolition school for q regular
hue and cry against General Mcclellan. The
Tribune, the leading organ of this disorgan-
izing abolition faction, leads off, and the
Evening Post the World, and others Of the
smaller fry join in the chorus. Among them
he is denounced substantially as q miserable
military impostor, base and INSCRIPTIONS
spokesman, and it is broadly insinuated that
he is very little better than deliberate
traitor. They say that, with his splendid and
enormously expensive Army of the Potomac.
he might have bagged the rebel army at
Manassas in September last, in October, in
November, in December, in January, and in
February, and even in March; but that,
through all these weary months, with his i'm
patient soldiers exposed in their summer tents
to all the inclemencies of this dreadful winter,
while he was enjoying his comfortable quar-
ters in Washington, he deliberately waited and
waited till it served the convenience of the
enemy to evacuate their undisturbed winter
| quarters and their unmolested blockading bat
teres on the Lower Potomac.
| Against this budget of atrocious accusations,
the facts and the developments of this war,
since the appointment of Mcclellan as General
in-Chief of the army, will afford sufficient an
! swer. He was called to Washington at the
| instance of General Scotland who can doubt
his military sagacity? Since the retirement of
| General Scott, the place which he filed in the
| confidence of the President has been fully
| accorded to- and is still retained by, General
| Mcclellan. East, West and South, he has been
the principal military adviser of the President
| in the organization, distribution and move
ments of our land and naval forces. We believe,
too, that it will soon be made apparent to every
sceptic that while the detention of the main
| rebel army at Manassas all this time has mate
rally contributed to our late great victories in
the South and West, the escape of the rebels from
Manassas without battle will not retard, but
facilitate, the final overthrow Of the rebellion.
| We contend that the rebel Johnston at Centre
vile was too near our Potomac army to be
kept in ignorance of its movements, and too far
i
| His detention and his retreat, we doubt not,
have been timed by Mcclellan, and for de-
| finite purpose, which will shortly be revealed.
| The President fully comprehends and approves
it, or Mcclellan would not be retained in his
command of the Army of the Potomac
| But General McClellan's management of the
| Army of the Potomac, good or bad, is not the
cause of this abolition outcry against him. His
objectionable sin, which obscures all his vir-
tues, in the eyes of our abolition disunionists,
has been, and is, his infexible support of the
conservative war policy of the administration.
Had he issued at any time an emancipation pro-
clamation like that of Fremont, or had he
shown in any way disposition to join in an
abolition crusade against Southern slavery as
the proper object of the war, his mill
tary record, just as it stands, would
have been applauded to the echo by
our abolition fanatics. He has refused,
however, to court the appreciation of these fana-
tics; he has treated them, in fact with something
like contempt; and the worst Of it is, that in all
this business he has had the confidence and ap-
probation of President Lincoln.
Il
man. of Pennsylvania, in Congress, on the Pre-
sident's constitutional emancipation policy, we
can see that all these abolition assaults upon
Mcclellan, Halleck, Buell., Sherman, Dix and
other army officers guilty Of conservative views
on the slavery question, are really levelled at
the administration. Hickman, bolder than his
associates, has been carrying the war into the
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sitorial committee concerning the Presidents
family, and he has followed it up with malig-
nant attack upon the President himself, as
man lacking the moral courage to be honest
and explicit in defining his views upon slavery.
But the New York Tribune and its con-
federate abolition organs cannot afford the
luxury of a direct war upon the administration.
They fight behind their masked batteries; but
their purpose is the same-the surrender Of
President Lincoln to their demands.
And what are their demands? A war for the
extirpation ofslavery and the final dissolution
of the Union. Our abolition disorganizers do
not desire the restoration intact of our rebel
lious slave States to the Union, for those States
will, if thus restored, destroy the ascendancy
in Congress which this abolition faction now, to
some extent, commands. emancipation or
separation" is, therefore, the war cry Of this
disunion anti-slavery faction. They would lay
waste the South by fire and sword, reduce our
revolted States to Territories, or set them Off to
themselves in separate confederacy, in order
to retain hold upon the power, the spoils
and plunder of our federal government. Presi-
dent Lincoln has shown q remarkable degree
of forbearancs towards these desperate and un-
scrupulous abolition conspirators. He would
be fully justified by the country in making a
wholesome example of some Of them, for they
are now the only enemies which his admins
tration and the armies of the Union have to