The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-01-03

begin speedily. 10 dslay now will he a.
lotcl AZ, snd Il possible ar more shame.
iul tlau def Il on the battlefield. EveYl
the World, no lnre,r fearful Of being
chprgcdwith provohuga Bull Run n az
.tcb insists that nothing now remains but
succtss on the bsttle-fcld. From lead.
ltng article IN that paper Of Satutday.
captioncd BY tho quotation from Patrick
Hrnry's most celebrated speech 81 re-
pctt i sir, we must fght'--we copy the
following paragraphs
A happy issue out Of our complications
Foreign ~ wcllas domestic. IL to be- Io,ind
N ory one way tho path OF safety.
henOr, and confidence lies threugh bloofv
belds, envcloYed in the thunder. clouds OF
battle.
we viii 60 into no qu. siions Of militia
4 y strategy such questions belong to
Qhr Commlndt in-clfcf W. do not prc-
sumo TO say what particular blows should
be struck nor where they should fall frst
atd heaviest hut TINT the clnsb Of arms
Should imm,di9t 'ly lc h ard. thst tho
rchc,s should forthwith be met, not IN
ldefulory skrmislUF, but in desperately
iorg'il general ongag mcnts, is truth
thai challenges our recognition on which |
ever side we turn our eyes. In this hour,
which IL too solrmn for lr-demsion i'm
this crisis, which is too pravc for sn,o,,b- /
torpucd ccmplaifnnce towards persons i'm |
or tut of authority, the truth must bc
boldly spoken. For The .frsf lime sine, |
ace Jcoame a nation The hitter cupof ra-
hoHni humiliation is Trcscnfcdt tg oHr H1S. /
and tre arc compcfcd 10 deiiLcyafe A. 10
iohcmcr we MdH faStc H. We cxpt rirnce. /
tor The fint time, IN intcrmissiun Of that
proud conscilusnCss of national strength
which has heretofore made ~ superior to
The dictates rf an iubccilc prudence and /
rec 10 regulate cur bearing toward for
cpn ppw,rs without reference to any
other consideration than cur sense orim- /
muttblc iusticc aud national hotor, Wcl
are thus crippled and lumbied bccausc
rebel host, numbered 10y the hundred
thousand, stand in arms against ~ and
bid us defiance. and we have not vet sue. |
cecdcd ia subduing them. Foreign pow
crs have temporarily cous d 10 respect
our strength. The only way W. can re-
coytr our former consideration abroad is
by rc-eslablishiug our disputed authority
at homo.
In urging the necessity of immediate,
vigorous, and overwhelming assaults ON
tie rebellion, we speak in no spirit Of in
culpation of the military administration,
but rather In sympathy with its designs,
and cooperation with movements that
arc now 30 nearly ripe that they cannot
be many wccks-pcrhaps not many days
dplrFrrb ltn th.a. .,.s.I
necessity not on Gen. Nc
ClellaD, from whose consciousness il is
never absent in his waking hours, and
who only awaits suilicicncy of improved
arms to begin the advance Tor which he
is In other respects ready; not on the ad.
minislration, which is 50 impressed with ,
the value of immediate victories that il 1
postroncs tho negotiation of new loans
In order to take advantage of the OBJECT
OF such victories on the money market
bpt we-urgc il in dcprecation of the fool
ish aud ill-.illcd popular pressure and
Congressional gasConadc that is brought
TO bear upon th administration and Com |
harding General, with q view TO diver, /
tlcir attention to some other method of
conducting the war than curly, viporuus.
ohNhA Feiu' fi'HAlNhs lllN - UO llint Tor J
an obstcporous hnlabuloo about the few
scores Of fugitive slaves that have or may
cscapc to our cnmp'.
Whether IN y are kept or reformed is |
just now, matter os littl5 conscqu nee.
This is no time for Congress or the press
TO be engaged in an attempt to trumph |
over and hrmliatc the President, by |
thrusting on him policy ofgencral rnan-
ciration, Of which he is known to disap-
proyc, aud drawing him oil'into quxo,ic
att mpt to uchitvc milit;ry success by
other thun military means. Neither n ii
this a time to urge on the administration
an attitude toward England--hUwevcr ar
rpgnnt mpy be her d,mands-whch
would crcute necessity on the part of
'hc administration for giving its chief at
tcntion to questions Of foreign policy
whom the crushing Of the southern rcbcl-i
lion ought TO cngross all its enorgics.--l
When u succession OF rapid blows,-for
which we are now nearly preparcd-wc
have destroyed this ntrocious conspiracy
and restored thc Union, we shall DC pre-
pared for the largo questions Of foreign
and domestic policy which we have at
present neither the leisurt nor the ability
TO settlc on u satisfactory basis. To in
sist that the administration shall surrcn 4
der itself TO such questions now is a crinl-
inul in,pcrtiEencc. In the pr, scnt COT
iuncture, the first, the second, and the
third requisite OF success Is fighting
- G,ybIf0gg rtsuffNs, II