New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-13

There are sundry conceivable and even popu-
lar modes of suppressiDg the Shareholders Re
bellion in which we are known to take Io
stock-as for instance, ]. The Straugling it in
the folds OF q great 4" anaconda;" 2. The
starving it out; but we have even less faith IN
living it down by Chinese bulletins OF Union
victories never won or the suppression OF re-
verses actually experienced. On the contrary
we deem il infinitely wiser as well as bonester
to state facts as they occur, and thus put our
selves in the way Of proftng by our own mis-
takes and avoiding a repetition of OFT past
errors. We are sure that this course best bc-
comes great and brave people When the
Roman Senate publicly thanked the Consul,
Varro, who had rsshy sacrificed great army
at Gamma, because he had not despaired OF
the Republic, they evinced the spirit which To-
sured the ultimate defeat OF Hannibal and de-
struction of Carthage.
A silly Chicago paper denounces THE TRIB.
uNE for representing Hooker's late demonstra-
ton across the Rsppahannock IN too gloomy
colors. As we had number Of correspondents
watching and reporting that demonstration,
while our critic probably had none, we cannot
deem it necessary TO say more than that we
printed exactly as We received it every letter
sent us by our reporters on the spot, as we
had done on former occasions and expect TO
do hereafter. In so doing, we no more assume
the correctness Of oil our correspondents write
than we last Summer Endorsed the structures Of
that correspondent who, writing from before
Richmond on the heel Of the defeat at
Gaines's Mill, laid all the blame Of McClean's
disaster on the failure Of the President to send
Mcdowell 10 reinforce him. This was the
current talk in McClellan's army, and our cor.
respondent repeated it: We gave it exactly as
it reached us, adding an ayowal of our own
conviction that it was mistaken. II is so plain
that the letters of eye-witnesses Of military
movements become utterly untrustworthy and
vaueless from the moment that they begin 70
be clipped and pared by stranger hands to
adapt them to the facts as il 10 presumed they
ought to be, that we have no words TO offer
on the subject. If anybody wants journals
wherein War News 10 thus doctored, they can
unu tucnl III dpununuCci put AHb in'ptNL
will not answer their purpose.
| If Gen. Hooker, in bis late offensive move
ment, committed the error Of extending his lines
too far, and thus enabled Lee to prscipitate all
the Rebel force successfully on different parts
Of ours, no good can be attained by denying
and seeking to conceal the fact. On the con.
trary, the perception Of past mistakes is the
first step toward their avoidance in future. 1t
lie well to learn from enemies 80 wary and
skillful az the Rebel chiefs notoriousy are.
They knew how to fight Mcclellan on the
Peninsula with fewer men than he had 80 as
always to have q larger number at the point
of actual confict-witness Williamsburg, Fair
Oaks, and Ganes's Mill. When Mcclellan had
retreated TO the James, 20 that be had no
chance to scatter his men, they assailed him
at Malvern Hill and were badly whipped-so
badly that they had no stomach for further
trials, though he remained In that vicinity for
weeks afterward. When Hooker's army had
10 like manner been pushed back into com.
pact mass, 20 resting on the Rappahannock
that ito tanks could not be turned, Lee soon
discovered that he was wanted elsewhere.
And he viii be Of that mind vhsgeysr sgd
wherever DO is required 70 meet Qfr army in
,,, ~ numbers On 4 fair, oben held. where