The New York herald., 1862-10-23

Gratis; for these radical editors have lost tlis
State to Wadswortb by their articles, and viii
now largely increase Seymour's majority by
their speeches. If there il any one thing moro
dangerous to party than having Greeley God
win aud Raymond write for IL, certainly 1t is
having Greeley, Goodwin and Raymond speak
for it. If there is any one thing more disa-
greeable than reading these editors articles 1t
must be hearing their orations.
A Forward Movement or the Army-Ne
Time to bc Lost.
The next two or three weeks may decide the
question whether our magnificent Army Of the
Potomac will be still lingering, with the return
of spring, on the banks of that Lethean river,
or pushing after the last armed forces Of the
rebellion in the dismal swsmps Of South Caro-
lima.
Let General Mcclellan be detained two or
three weeks longer, waiting for shoes and
costs, and provisions and munitions of war,
and the rains, frosts and thaws and impossible
madhOles Of the Virginia roads Of winter may
detain him till the winds Of March and tho sun
shine Of April have sufficiently dried the ground
for the movement Of artillery and provision
trains. But let him be promptly equipped
for speedy advance upon the rebel
army of General Lee, and that army
may be cut up and dispersed and
ours may, without further interruption of any
moment push on to Richmond, and thence into
North Carolina. before the first fall of snow in
that quarter. At all events, tho defeat of Lee
will open our way to Richmond, if we catch
him and defeat him in the valley of Virginia,
and will enable General Mcclellan to establish
his winter quarters in the rebel capital, and
send the rebel government adrift " without
local habitation or name"
Our occupation of Richmond before Christ
mas. we verify believe, will be the death blow
to the rebellion, not only in Europe. but in our
cotton States, from popular reaction therein
in favor of submission to the Union, in order to
Save their cotton and their institution Of
slavery With the loss of their Confederate
capital, their Confederate scrip will be worth
less trash even In Charleston; and thus, without
provisions or clothing for their armies, and
without money, or any satisfactory substi-
tute in the way of paper or credit, our
already impoverished Confederate cotton States
must give up the hopeless struggle. They can
not sustain Confederate tax of twenty per
cent upon the incomes and products of their
people, in addition TO the terrible drawbacks
and losses from an invasion by our armies in
land aud our fleets from the seaboard.
But if we permit these golden days Of autumn
to slip away, and our Army Of the Potomac to
be embargoed by winter, we may have another
year Of war before us, and all the disastrous
consequences of financial revulsion may be
added to tho present heavy burthens and draw
backs attendant upon all our business relations.
A defeat of the rebel army of Virginia within
the next two or three weeks, a crushing de-
feat, which our splendid Army Of tho
Potomac is competent to administer, will lift
us at once to our feet, and speedily
bring gold and silver again into circulation and
confidence into all our business affairs. To the
government alone, in . financial view, deci
sive victory over the rebel army Of Virginia
within the next thirty days will be worth a
thousand millions Of dollars. as compared with
the detention Of our army on the Potomac till
compelled to 60 there into winter quarters
We are assured that Gen. Mcclellan il anxious
to advance. We know that his army is. and we
have no doubt of its success If il should advance
to-day and compel the enemy to fight or retreat
The delay, we are told on every hand, sis on
account Of the slowness or bad management of
the Quartermaster's and Commisssry depart
ments at Washington. But this will never do
Mr.. Secretary Stanton should understand that
his responsibilities in this business involve
the life or death Of the nation, and we ad-
monish him of the wrath of an offended people
in the event Of his failure at this important
crisis to meet their just expectations. Let him
see 10 it that all the necessities Of our Army Of
the Potomac are supplied at once, 30 that in
speedy victory all the advantages Of our recent
successes may be multiplied thousandfold.
Let us hear no more that "the Potomac is
safely guarded" but let us hear that the rebel
army is routed. and we shalt know that the
Union In saved.
GENERAL SCOrr's LETTER-MR BycHANAN's