The New York herald., 1863-12-22

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BsrnGSe aAd Hooker On the Rapps-
hs..esl, Am for tho email .et proas
~ General hesdes campaigns. Under tbs
sane sort of strategy and tactics In tho
West, the var oa our side would in all probs-
bility have been abandoned some time ago as
hopeless enterprise for the recovery Of the re-
bealious States.
How is 1t, then that, while little or nothing has
been accomplished around Washington in the
work Of subduing the rebellion, 80 much has
been accomplished in the West towards its sub
jugstion that only another good blow or two is
needed TO finish itY II is because in the West
our most important operations have been oop-
Quoted according 10 the combinations aud the
strategy and tactics of General Grant. Thus
the rebellion has been, we may say, reduced
10 that section of the South which lies between
the Rappahanaock river and the city of Mobile,
embracing q part Of Virginia, and, excepting
the seaooast the States of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama The
maintenance of this section by JEFF. Davis de-
pends upon the rebel army Of Georgia and, the
rebel army Of Virginia. As soon a. the
weather and the roads will permit, We have no
rebel army Of Georgia; but under the strategy
peculiar to Washington our Army OF the PO
tomac will probably be found watching and
dodging about on the Rappahannock for
another year to come.
Hence the necessity to the people of the
ne az; oh for q Cor
their next President of whose ability and will
to finish the work'of putting down the rebellion
at short notice there can be no doubt.
"Honest Abe Lincoln" has been tried and
found wanting. He has not the capacity to
bring this war TO speedy conclusion General
Grant is the man who can do it, and he is the
man, therefore, whose name will carry every
thing before it as the peoples candidate for the
next Presidency, Congress may pass 9 batch
of war resolutions every day for six months to
come; but if at the end of that time President
Lincoln shall not have found the right road to
Richmond We shall expect him, like an honest
man, to issue Proclamation in favor Of General
Grant, and that will settle the Question
Radical and Oopporhoads Say Of 1t.
The radical journals find General Halleck's
report to be excellent. but for reason quite
as remarkable'as their reasons generally are.
Regarding it through the medium of their own
high colored fancies, they see in that report the
complete vindication of the War Department
and Of the whole radical crew that has misman-
aged the war under the War Department au-
thority. None but the generals have blundered;
every one who has obeyed orders, as Grant and
Gilmore, has been successful, and all others
have failed-frOm first to last. Could those
who originated the orders have more glorious
vindication than this, And with this triumphant |
query they rest. On the other hand, the cop |
perhead journals look at the matter quite diff |
ferently and find that the radicals are crushed |
by this same report as completely as they might |
be if individually rammed down into one of the |
new five hundred and 6fty-pounders. They |
point out that, though success may have always
followed obedience to orders, 1t has not been
obedience to the orders Of the radical clique but
IF the Generalin-Chief, and that in fsot tho |
orders that have been SO uniformly and magically
followed by success, aud their failure by inevi-
table defeat, are in all cases the orders of the |
author of the report, who, they declare, is not
radical of all.
So between these two classes Of journals
Ehe public mind is likely to be somewhat
confused on the subject of this report
and that is great pity; for the re-
port Is full of instruction and possible profit for
the people. Indeed 1t is the only report sent
in to the present Congress that Is worthy of
perusal, or at all equal to the subject. Secre-
tary Stanton's report is utterly without inter-
est, and might have been written by clerk.
II shows what mere pettifogger Stanton is,
and that he is unable even to attract the public
attention unless he writes epistles about ''the
sword of the Lord and of Gideon" when he is
noticed, but only to be laughed at. But Hal
leck's report indicates thst-however indifer-
ent soldier he may be practically, however
unable to command an army-he is an admirs-
BILE military critic, and has the moral courage
to speak out plainly, and to arraign before the
peoples tribunal all of our military and other
delinquents and blunderers, even up to the
President.
II is singular spectacle in our history to
see the President arraigned by an Official high
in position under him, and convicted Of the
most lamentable incompetsncy to manage
armies that yet he will not leave alone-to
see his blunders, his imbecilities, followed
step by step, and to hear no reply. Never
before has this occurred in our history, and 1t
is due to the dignity Of the Presidents position
that he should demand Congressional court
of inquiry and answer these charges. Either
he must do that or he will stand in most
contemplate light before the country and the
world.
DISSERTATION OF WASHINGTON HEIo HTs.-We
understand that an effort is about being made,
and with every prospect Of success to induce
the Legislature to revoke tho powers granted
r. W.