Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-06-11

spatch to that city from Washington stating tina
the President, in speaking of the military opera
tons on the Mississippi, had said " he expected
the best results, but was prepared for the worst
expresses the hope that, if the worst comes, q he
will be prepared to satisfy the country that every
thing that could have been done to avert it has
been done"
Our New York contemporary notes this state
ment, and refers to it in advance of the result
at Vicksburg, and in these terms, "in order that
the Government may be apprized that this country,
if called upon to bear the reverse that is thus ap
parently half foreshadowed, will require much in
formation that it does not now possess to convince
it that the disaster could not have been avoided"
The Tribune, after recalling that the first battle
of Bull Run was lost and the rebellion set firmly
upon its legs, /" while there were Union soldiers
enough to crush the traitors twice over reposiDg
idly on their arms within hearing of the din Of
that battle" proceeds to upbrad the President as
follows:
1--WE shall believe, long can that the Govern
ment will not again be chargeable with such fatal misman
agement But it is well that should bear in mind that
there is limit to all human endurance, even when the
suffering is inflicted by ones most trusted friends. If
Grant mis- snail lett TO overwhelmed
and the nation be again sgonzed with the spectacle Of
hrcaombs of it's children slain to purpose, the loyal
millions will not quail abate ot of their spirit
10 the presence of so great caamty but they may feel
that Il ,oond be no longer duty to tolerate the in
ohOm they had c0nded and 0hO only day after day hare
gipsn proof upon rroof that they neither comprehend
nor grapp successfully pi the magnitude and the demands
of the task before them.
We feel it duty to tell the President these things
The people believe in the perpetuy of the Republic but
they cannot belieos IA etern Ceakness They believe in
hQ QlfI
oreuer endure chronic apathy and improoidence that no
experience hooeuer sharp and aduersy ho,oeucr ap
palng, stimulate instruct They demand least
the same foresight and Ugor in promoting their that
ITS enemies exhibit in assaLing it, The time is past for
queting the country under nexcussbe disaster with
surances that tedious and long and ncompetency
waging them old the world itself With unlimt-
ed means and with powers, civil aud military, that
literally despotic placed in the hands of the President
there ought at this day to be failures We trust that
the issue at Vcksburg will prove that there will be none
and that there is an end of the system system which,
if longer continued must waste away and consume not
the enemies of the Republic but the Republic ITSELF
As the Tribune is pre-eminently "loyal pa
per" we suppose it is entirely right and proper
for it to say to the President what it would be
highly reasonable for any body else to say Ger
tain it is that we have never found occasion to
hold this tone of mingled contempt and menace
towards the constituted authorities while exercis-
ing our right to animadvert on their conceived
shortcomings And we think there are many con-
siderations which should impose on the Tribune q
peculiar modesty in any arraignment of the Presi-
dent and his advisers before the American people
as men "who, day after day, have only given proof
upon proof that they can neither comprehend nor
grapple successfully with the magnitude and the
demands Of the task before them"
Not to say that the Tribune by its wide and
potential influence contributed largely to the ele-
walton Of these men to the power which it now
says they have proved themselves incompetent to
WELD, we beg to submit to the candid considera-
tion of our contemporary that more than any other
journal in the country it has aided to "press" upon
the President the adoption of the peculiar policy
and the peculiar measures which constitute the most
hopeless features of our present political and mill
tary condition. Whatever of obloquy or criticism
the President may encounter from other quarters
he should be sacred from the Tribune's assaults
1t will be remembered by our readers that in his
first interview had with the Representatives and
Senators from the Border Slaveholding States, in
order to explain to them the design of his policy
Of compensated emancipation, Mr.. Lincoln stated,
in reply to a suggestion made by Mr.. NoELL, of
Missouri, respecting the position of our New York
contemporary on this question, that " he must not
be expected to quarrel with the New York Tribune
before the right time came he hoped never to
have to do it, and he would not anticipate events y
And in response to an inquiry made by Mr. CRIs-
FIELD, of Maryland, the President after again in
timating he had before done, that quarrel =
with the "Greeley faction" was impending, said
he did not wish to encounter it before the proper
| time, nor at all if it could be avoided"
| Thus far the President has "avoded' this
"quarrel" by doing voluntarily or under "pres.
sure" pretty much every thing that the Tribune
has desired and, under such circumstances, we
again submit that he has right to look for great
degree of forbearance, not to say justice at the
hands Of its conductor If the latter will but re
cur to the "prayer' which he addressed to the
President in the name of "twenty millions" some
time in the month of August last, (and to which
the President replied through our columns he
will find that Mr.. Lincoln has subsequently faI
exceeded the desires whose qualification Mr.. Gree
ley then thought would ensure the speedy salvation
of the Republic beyond peradventure, as they
would certainlv cou pote the bonn;na.. &c he IN,