, 1863-02-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


r hich provides for an indefinite increase OF
tie armies Of the Republic, and takes no nc
count of State sovereignty or State rights.
The voice Of the nation is SO Enthusiastically for
all tie peace talk one hears
that 1t cannot be disregardcd
It was wise to make tho exemptions from
the obligation to serve the country so few.
The exclusion Of clergymen OF Of members of
Congress, as was proposed, would have tend
cd to make the bill unpopular, while It's re-
gard for the claims or necessities Of family
ties will commend it to favor.
Had conscript law been enacted at the
outbreak of the rebellion; had the people Of
every State become accustomed to the en-
forcemcnt Of the national authority without
regard to the limitations Of State boundaries,
whether geographical or legal, the Copper
heads would have made less headway than
they have done. The draft recognized and, |
popular opinion, these boundaries; and the
Mar Department las been lampered by the
traction or improper action Of tho Governors
in its enforcement. But national tax
and national conscription, must 20 far to
# ster the national feeling and to Increase the
national unity.
GEN. FOSTER FOE FREEDoM-u1s CoLoRED Or |
AANAAA4ItNSs
lam gTatified to learn from one who is in O !!
position TO know the facts, that Gen. Foster |
Is rs true man, as true to the policy which |
tie Administration has marked out tor itself,as |
earnest for Its SUCCESS, US General Rosccrans, |
Gen. Hunter or Gen Grant. In the Depart
companies OF black piouecrs attached to each
brigade, who 60 i'll the advance to remove OBJ
structions, to build bridges, and to do other
hazardous work for which the greatest bravery.
rs well as intelligence is required, many Of
tile regiments nre doubled, as 1t were, in ef
tensib1y acting as servants to the soldiers, but
usually bearing arms, and In case Of necessity,
using them BY tho side Of those whose mus
kcts they clean and whose tents they keep in
order.
am told by Colonel, who commands one
Of tie regiments whose soldiers are thus du-
plicated, that the white and black men SO re-
lated arc excellent friends, and that whenever
the trg Of war comes, there is no unwilling
ntss on the part Of one to be assisted by the
other.
Gov srAS1T's RESIGNATION.
It was not positively known, even to Sena-
tors likely to be we'll informed, until Sunday
If IL man Can resign an office which has no
existence in point Of lar-as Military Govern
! or Of North Carolina. Yet that resignation
WAS sent to Washington Immediately On the
IEEETL1DI u tHE NEH Cl15 u
Freedom at Ncwbern, North Carolina not hay
Ing been exempted from its operation, rs
| Stanly desired. Unless, however, it has been
| accepted within a day or two, and upon the
| representations Of Gen. Foster, Gov. Stanly
continues to discharge the anomalous duties
| Of his anomalous Office.
! WHAT srASLY HAS DONE.
The character Of those duties no one in
Newbern prctcnds to know. A Colonel, who
| hcs been there longer than Stanly, says that
| the only act he has performed since the ex-
pulsion Of Helper for addressing him a letter
in which the word ''frcedom" occurred, and
his closing Of fcollyer's eoloIed schools, besides
the returning Of fugitive Slaves, is one Which
slight as it Is. illustrates the character Of the
man. Ono Of the Stetsons OF New York, hay
| ing reopened a hotel, formerly known as the
CASTOR House, christcncd It the "union
House" Before the paint Of the new name
had dried stanly issued an order and sent a
! North CaTolinian painter to execute it.
| "Enion' was erased and "Gaston" re-
stored. A name in which all North Caro-
Ira could glory was substituted for one that
was dear to bnt small proportion Of the in
lepiatc; p " might embitter the feeling against
the Union" To correspond with the rebel
Governor Vance, who gave him sulphur in
exchange for rosewa' er; to do his best against
tle "frce.labor movement" which,, whether
a chimcra-ns the prcsencc Of Charles Henry
Foster in 1t might lead one to suppose-or
not is 60 lar forth as it exists, step in the
right direction; to tlatter the disloyal and op-
pless the loyal, to hamper, go far as In him
lay, military operations those have been the
occupations Of Governor {socalled) Stanley.
EVERY GENERAL AGAINST HIM.
From the first the General officers in com.
na1!d in the department have disapproycd o1
ard prevented, so far as practicable, his pro
cecdngx, Generals Burnside, Foster, Rene
ard Parke begged Mr.. Schoolmaster Collye1
read, and if arrested, to carry up his cast
10 Washington. SO as to make III
issuc at once md in the strongest form will
this man who set the statnte book Of Nortl
Carolina above the Constitution and the Dec
, lar:.tion of Independence, Ms well rs the law
/ Of war and The laws of humanity. But Collier
: rs is the case too often with professional phi
r lanthropists, was too tinid to accept his re
, sponsibility and preferred to come North witt
lis complaints, to crave sympathy for martyr
: dem which he had never suffered and after hi
: return to cat ali his words humbly,
t WHY NOT DISMISS srCn AND APPOINT TRC:
/, MEM
4 But why does stanly still cumbcr th
ground:- Why are such as he and John $
PAelrs who is to Arkansas what he is to Nort
Caroline, continued under pay from Govern
mcnt whose policy they do their utmost t
1nnaf sg5'y yS1 II a0:f Fsemons we 'hna miits9 s
i ability csnnot deny tha. were he i
/. tie riacc Of either, if i Military Governor b
}, necessity, the really loyal population, whit
c or black would rally to the National stand
and ey Ig nT he any, I 1o an% sfS nSn notSS
I'D Why arc such is hc and Burnside and BuflcI
l. ! whose capacity, whateyur it may be, is II
&c creased tcnfold by their unconditional aeyc
o | ticn to the cause for which we are fighting
allowed to rust in retirement, while Stanlc
and Phelps aud German SOW tarcs in tue flu
row made by the plowshare Of war? If
would fight successfully the rebels in Il,
= Snuth and Coppcrleads in the North, the A
n ministration must have no subordinates VII
- nrc not deadly foes Of both. So long rs clcrs
y remain In the Departments, who can be bic
1t by New York Copperhcads to carry Nc
ii Hampshire, and Gcnerlls in the field VII
~ practice what Wicklihe breaches, in buylu
- cotton with freedmen, and - Military Cove
d. nors,'' who seek to rcconstitute the States,
c. which they are the nominal rulers upon tt
4. sclfeamc principles, out Of which the re1c
- lion sprung, We may not expect, because =
u do not deserve, to triumph.
PROGRESS BIT NOT ENOUGH.
] do not deny that much has been don
~ tl.at we are a world better off than VIC we
IN six months ago. Rosecrans for Buell. Hoo
u er for Mcclellan, Hunter for Branunn ar
" indeed, changes for the better: But the wo' M
I'll treatment which Is applied to q Lieutenan
IN who resigns because..he q hates niggcrs," a1
tc doesn't wish them to be made free, should
~ =, rjEid1y enforced In the case ola Major Gcner
IT. OF a military Governor" Of similar tu1
1t Of mind. 1t is halfway measures that p
the brakes on the wheels of progress. II
inexorahlc carrying out Of tile inc3orable pt
ht icy is our one chance Of salvation.
u Especial Correspondence ofthe Chicago Tribun
L. WAsH1Sa7oS, Feb. IS, 1853
ss TIE MISSOURI STATE GUARDS.
o. It appears from = communication from c.
sc Wood, Acting Adjutant General Of Nilsson
's. transmitted in response TO Senate resolutio
that Gov. Gamble had rnised over is, 1000 nj
w. for purposes of local defense, before the P;
=. sagc Of the act limiting the number to II, OF
- The number in excess, not desiring to cut
=. tEc general service, were ordered to be MI
~ tered out, but at the request Of Gen. Sch
- field, Gov. Gamble WIS authorized to reta
49, the surplus in service during time Of spec
nj cessity. Recently orders for the rcduct1
10, Of the force have been issued, and now
[e 10,31O are still in service.
at | SHALL. SPIES BE HUNG AN ABLE COT
II. MARTIAL TO SETTLE TILE QUESTION.
,no John ". Powell Is to be tried to-morre