Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-04-18
Form the New York Independent.
The CondGet of the War.
By HORACE GREELEY.

The Condaet of the War.
BY uoRAcE GREELEY.
The report of the joint Committee on the
Conduct of the War, appointed by the
concurrent aelion of the two Houses of
Congress in December, 1861, and which
has pursued its Investigations by the person
al examination of the principal persons co.
gagged in or connected with that conduct
through most Of The intervening period, is
at lcngth before the public That it has
been orwil be carefully read 10y neatly every
intelligent aud patriotic cilizen of the Unit
ed States, is a sufficient reason for refrain.
ing from any attempt 10 epitomz4 its cou
tents Being itself remarkably tcrse and
lucid summing up Cf sersn hoVsand close
pages OF written testimony taken 10y The
Committee, it does not fairly admit OF far,
ther condensation, and no one will do justice
10 this fearful expose or to himself Who
fails TO study and weigh every word Of it,
| | propose here TO submit some general re.
| lleCtOns which its pernsal has excited.
There are those who marvel that the
loyal heart of The Republic is sometimes
sunk in dependency or stirred toirreprcsSi.
bc Impatience in view of tie slow prog
resS Of he War for the Union. | aa not
Of the number. l rather sympath 'ze with the
petulant remark attributed byCount Gurow-
xxi TO cne OF HE bravcst Gmd most
! thorough Senatorial champions OF the Uu.
ion w ar, that he did uot woudIr that so
many persons were impellcd 10 reuouuce
their country and go over to JEFF Davis
that ii would require but little more pro.
vocation to irduce hin 10 follow their eX.
ample OF course, this was hyperbole,
but exaggeralous Indicate an underlying
truth. Tue Shareholders Rebellion ought
loug since to have been suppressed, aud
! could have been if the meaus 80 lavishly
supplied by the loyal Millions had been
wisely aud vigorously applied. We have
made large cUnqests from the Rebels since
the stuggle began, aud now hold at least
lflh OF lhe terIlloty and govern u fourth Of
the people claimed as belonging to the
Sou heru Confederacy yet we have not
crushed out the Rebellion, because of flg
rant imUecilty aud deadly treason ia our
Military councils. Half our leading Ufii.
GERS have been at hearEeither' adverse or
Indifferent TO the complete success Of the
Uuon cause. They are not DiSuniouiss /;
tEey would la e The 'wayward sisters re
claimed to the family hearth; but they can
not bear to have Ibis Effected Otherwise
than through a Compromise which shall
save the pride of tue insurgents, pro ect all
their interests, and leave Slavery stronger
and more enduring than ever. Il see te.
fore me divided duty" is their mental ex
clama lion. They want to save the Uuiou
| "A m IN IA
a>sallants, its implacabc foes. Hence
they strike irfesoIu'ely, obviously, inctlect.
lively. They wait TO be assured that their
blow will not reach too far, until the time Of
striking has passed. They caunot forge;
that they are part!sans, AID that The giant
tinlquity which melted aud upholds the Re,
beiHou has been tower OF strength, u
source of triumph and Of power to their
party. They labor ~. reconcile lncompalg'
Ullltles, and their energies are paral zed by
the attempt. Drawn in two oppOSIIlIe
directions, they fail TO move in either.
1t is common to speak of The resources
and power Of he Union as immensely trans.
cendug those OF its aSsalaurs, aud so, in
a superficial view, they are. lnpopulalion,
Intelligence, wealth, industrial capacity, ia-
come, credit, etc., the loyal States far sur
pass The rebel. But when We consider that
the Blacks of the South are mainly mere
machines in the hands of their oppressorS
end kept at work to prepeIuate and butt
ress their own degradatIon-lhatt the Poor
Whites of that region have no press, nc
public sentiment, no means OF exchanging
ideas-and that an aristocracy OF Two oI
Three Millions wic!d the energies aud re
sources of all below them without resistance
or scruple, aud that this artist ocracy is tram
ed from infancy TO the use OF arms, and re
CARDS the present as its llte-and.death strug
ge-we shall begin TO realize that this is 4
very serious contest, and that no preceding
rebellion ever evoked aud for years Kept II
the field arms comparable in numbers tc
those of the Southern Confederacy o
On the other hand the People of the 10y
J al States are over Twenty Millions, rarely
, or never surpassed in all that makes Ma
, iion formidable TO its foes. But nearly OF
. quite half of them are SO debauched 10y
years of gaInful com )lleity wph the Slave
Power, and SO surcharged With the virus 0
, negro.hate, that they are In no prope
: sense hostile to those now seeking the des
tfuction of The Union. Listen TO the cur
rent conversation in the bar,roOms of New
York to day, (apd so measurably, of olhe
cities, aud you would naturally suspec
0 THAT the utterers were at war with the UI
. ion Government, not with that of the Con
/ federacy. Denuncialion OF everything don
a or attempted, or supposed DO menltat
. ed by President Lincoln aud bis support
1 ers. is ineessant ;while reprobatoa oil MI
Q JEFF Davis, his works and ways, IS rarel
heard, The average conversation Of VI
nro .lfla lalar la .-.--.