New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-11
IF vrCKsBURG SHOULD FALL


Tho Federal Administration with its War
management has had to bear tfe obloquy aud
odium of much abortive effort, Ill success and
popular disappointment. Friend and foe--tho
former, perhaps, little the moro severely
have alike pitched into it on every fair Oc.
casjon, and opportunities have certainly been
abundant. 1t has been blamed for every
reverse it could and many it could not
have avoided. Tho loyal Millions have not uD-
reasonably said to tive have given you
all you asked-we ask of you in return but one
thing, Succcss-and. that failing, we shall hold
you responsible. We dom want excuses nor
apolopcs-we demand victories aud conquests,
and snail condemn you if they arc not forth.
coming. Hurry them up"
We have united in these e1nctions, and we
now. in common fairness, lntcrpose O sug
pestion-that Success, II adhered, be praised as
Failure ha, been blamed. Do not charge oil
failures on the Administration and credit all
successes wholly to the Armies, but let the
rule which prevailed in adversely be held good
also in prosperity.
The disgrace of Bull Run was purely Mill
tary. yet the Administration shared tue re-
proach, and justly for it was bound to take
care that superunnunted, incapable. unfaithiul,
bali.bearted leaders should not have had con-
troll of our preparations and combinations for
that first serious trial OF strength with the
Rebels. So with Other bunders, mischances,
ont la spsI o. 4
is YOUR business, Mrssrs. President and Cabi-
net. TO take care that our sons and brvihrrs
are not sacrificed to Military incapaclty or
treachery: and, whenever they are, We shall
hold sOu responsible" Aud THE, with ren,on-
able limitations, is as II should be.
Now, if Vicksburg shall really fall, and tn
/ Mississippi be oPoEed, with no couniersaiius
disaster ON our part the Rebellion will have
received a staggering, We trust a mortal blow,
md the Administration will deserve large
measure OF credit therefor. |, is 10 easy task
to keep such vast armies as ours supplied VIII.
everything indispensable to their efficiency,
e.pecially when some If them can Only be
reached BY long circuit at heavy coat o,
time; whereas tie Rebel commun cations aud
lines OF defense nre FAR shorter than our., and
JEFF Davis, sitting 10 the telegraph Office ni
K chmnnd, can talk with all bis Generals thi'
eide Of the Mississippi as though they wer,
gathered around his dinner. table. Uuhl re-
Gently. he could have directed the movement
of troops III TeIa. as readily a, ~ Virginia,
but thu. 10 now more, as Nc trust
olute,, 49, n.~-.-sippi soon Is ~ be-
lx.H Million soldiers defending h. em
pire are fully equal ~. twice ne u.an,
surrounding and from all sIdes nssoilng 1t.
And if Grant shall be enabled Ia reduce Nick,.
bur, aud Banks Poft Hudson While DO ti4..
gerins blow is dcn, TO tie Union cause ~ auj
other quarter. II wal surely not DO because Tie
Rebels are asleep or Lpaihetc, but because
the disposition oil our ysrIou, atmic', IA nc.
cordance VITA orders from " asLinston. Was o.
Akilliul as TO afford our desperate foes DO
chance.
Again wc say, As We have al. blamed tie
Administration for failures when incurred, let
us credit /! for .r.umlhs If achieved. And
when the history Of this war comes to be truly
written, We trust 1t vii appear that Grant has
been REINFORCED nnd supplied and su'tained
throughout 50 promptly, amply, zealously, as to
reject great credit on the Government without
dcirac,Ing ole iotl from his own merits OF
those ol bis gallant army