The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-06-02

should conjecture that his whole army b close
| again upon the old battle dsld Of Bull run.
Meantime In tho Oonsoriptioa lew the admins
tration has had Che power % TO strengthen our
armies In every quarter ~ to render them alb
soluteiy Irresistible East and West. But the
administration has hestated. and still hesitates.
to resort to the CONSUMPTION In advance Of some
encouraging victory or another disastrous de-
feat and so we presume that while the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet are waiting for the news
Of the capture Of Vicksburg they have resolved
to risk another grand rebel foraging foray into
Maryland, rather than boldly and theoretically
exercise the powers which Congress has placed
In their hands to sweep this rebellion from the
field.
These are humiliating reflections; but we
| cannot avoid them. Where Is the remedy
| against this shutting, timid and temporlzing
policy of the government We see no remedy
except in q reconstruction Of the Cabinet of
strong, consistent and harmonious war men.
excluding all pedling and tricky Presidential
politicians all miserable political cliques, and
all such Msrplots In the conduct Of the war a.
the Wades and Chambers and their impertinent
| Instructions Bat let the President boldly meet
the demands of the crisis in this way, and. vol
unteers or eonsoripts, there will be no diff
Gcslty In reinforcing the army to the extent, If
needed, Of another million Of men.
Ths Case Of vaIiandigham-D~ngs to
the Governments. and How to Meet IL.
II is stated that JEFF Davis has offered
permission to Vallandigham to remain at
large in the Southern States if he will take
the oath Of allegiance to the confederacy; but if
not not. Vallandigham. Of course, will not
take the oath, and he will be thus reduced to
one of two courses-either he will recross our
lines under flag OF truce and be sent to Fort
| Warren. according to the intimation he received
from Gen. Rosscrans, sr he will be permitted to
escape from the confederacy to Canada by way
of Nassau. He might in that event take up his
abode ON the frontier just opposite Ohio, and he
enabled to hold frequent communication with
the democracy Of his Stale. The probability
would be that he would gel the nomination for
| Governor, and, If elected next fall he would be
sure to find means to cross ever, and then he
would be sure to bid defiance to the President
and 10 Burnside; and it would be impossible to
civil war in the Western States.
Such are the perilous or humiiaing conse-
qucnccs to which the FIRST wrong step in
varably leads. No good can be derived from
the course pursued by General Burnside,
through the influences OF Chase and The orders
Of the War Department, and ii may be pro
dnctive Of incalculable evil. II will make a
martyr Of Yallandigham, and be the means Of
eleyuting hun to positions Of honor which
otherwise he never would have attained. hut
il will be sure to damage the government
The people, in their elections, have already ex-
pressed their disapprobaton of these arbitrary
and unconstitutional arrests in the loyal States,
and it was not prudent to continue them. The
lat Congress. sensible Of the current Of public
! opinion which had set in against the admins
tration, passed an act which was signed by the
President and became the law of the land pro-
hibting all such military arrests aud trials in
future, and directing that political offenders
should be dealt with by the civil law aud have
speedy trial by jury. In the face of this law
! Vallandigham was arrested, at dead of night,
by file Of soldiers, in o peaceful, loyal State
where martial law had not been proclaimed
where the habeas corpus had not been suspend
ed, and, being carried of to another State, was
there tried and sentenced by court martial. Such
: proceedings have not only no warrant OF law
but are directly contrary to law and the con
| stitution, and have not even the merit of ex
pediency to recommend them. They are ex
] tremely dangerous, and the sooner the ad
{ visers Of the President take the back track the
l better for themselves and for the peace and
harmony of the loyal States.
/ Let not excessive confidence in the armies
, now under its control influence the adlninistra-
ton to a series of fatal steps which must terni-
. nate at last in bloody anarchy. In lsfs
} France was more prosperous than 1t had ever
been before. Louis Philippe, King OF the
French. false 10 the people who elected him
, and false to his own interests. blndly relied on
: bis new Notifications around Paris, which he
, deemed impregnable, and on powerful, well
. organized army. to enable him to trampe upon
popular rights, as he did by the advice OF evil
counsellcrs. This liking Of the barbados, e as
he was called prevented first the assembling
of political meetings in opposition to his
policy. The leaders Of the opposition then
proceeded to get around the royal edicts by
announcing public dinners. These, too by the
advice of a perverse cabinet were prevented
: at the point Of the bayonet., The people. &C.
customed to representative government aud
to freedom of discussion for period of
eighteen years, would stand it no longer IL is
the last feather on the overloaded camel which
, breaks his back. Louis Philippe violated the
constitutions; he broke their charter. The
patience of the French people gave way under
J this last act of their king, and there were
plenty Of reckless desperadoes ready for their
own purposes to spur them on After