The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-16

kNcOHGo ohxc tine w ar Omcee
AS the full details of the late unsuccessful
dash of General Sherman against the rebel
deiences of Vicksburg are laid before the coun-
try, the decline of the public confidence In Mr.
Lincoln's administration is becoming positively
alarming. 1t is apparent on all sides, among
men OF all parties, all pursuits and all classes
and we see it in thousand forms Of manifesto
ton. We see it in the startling perturbations
Of Wall street. and in the present anxious coun-
tenances of men whose faith in browning
winter campaign was not even shaken by the
Fredericksburg disaster. The clouds of doubt
and dependency. which hitherto have been
relieved by broad spaces of a clear sky, now
seem to overshadow the armament With
despairing earnestness never witnessed till
now calm thinking men are inquiring OF each
other, is there any hope for the country from
the present administration and, ii none, Will
not chaos be upon us before the appointed
period for the election of anothers
This is dismal picture; but it is true; aud,
to make the matter worse there are good rea-
sons for this fearful depression in the public
mind of the loyal States. They have furnished
the men, the money, the means and the facili-
ties of all kinds equal to the task, if ckilfully
| managed, Of putting down twice the armed
forces of this rebellion. We have now the best
equipped and most numerous and powerful
army afoot which any nation on the face Of the
| globe has ever brought into the field; we have
navy which il equal in itself to all the armed
forces of the rebellious States; we have earn
est jealous and able generals, brave and intel
ligent soldiers; and yet, at the very time when
| the contrast is the broadcast between the
| strength of the Union and the weakness Of the
rebellion, our reversss and dsappOintments
come most thickly upon us.
There is but one solution for this most ex
traordinary and most unfortunate state Of
things, and this solution is an moon petent
administration. Good intentions are some
thing patriotic motives are something, an
honest devotion to the cause of the Union
is something, and all these good things
are generally and generously conceded
to President Lincoln; but they all to-
gether amount to little or nothing while
our armies and naval expeditions are
wasted in petty enterprises and foolish
combinations; while the resources Of the
treasury and the country are squandered
| by hundreds of millions, and when the public
patience has been exhausted with never
onding but still increasing budget of blunders
aud inexcusable disasters. The exigencies of
the day admit of no further trifing As
friend of President Lincoln, and in behalf Of
his administration, we must tell him, seriously
and earnestly, that the country has had enough
Of the military plans and combinations Of
Mr.. Secretary Stanton and General Halleck.
They have been tried in the balance, and have
been found wanting in every essential for
military success. TkN should have been
turned adrift Immediately after the rendering
| in of the report of the Congressional committee
| on the Fredericksburg disaster; for that report
| condemns them. The cause of the Union now
demands more imperiousy than ever the re-
moval of the present laundering Secretary OF
War and his inefficient General-in-Chief.
But how are their places to be filed? We can
tell the President how. Put Gen. Mcclellan at
the head of the War Office, and abolish
the Office of Gensral-in-C Chief, and Mcclellan
| will do the work which Stanton and Halleck
combined will never accomplish. Two heads,
| saith the old adage, are better than one, even
if one be sleeps head. But this will not
apply to military affairs That great master
Of the art Of war, the first Napoleon, says that
in the management of an army one bad general
is better than two good ones. How much bet
ter, then, would be one good one, like MoClel-
Ian, than two bad ones like Stanton and Hal
leck, at the head of the armies of the Union.
Put Mcclellan at the head Of the War Depart
ment, and letno intermeddlng Genersl-in-Chief
stand between him and our armies in the feia,
and VIZ shall soon have succession Of cheering
victories, like those of the first five months of
1862.
The victories Of Fort Henry, Fort Doneson
Roanoke Island, Newbern, Pea Ridge, &c.
were the fruits of McClelan's combinations as
General-in Chief, and they would have been
followed by still greater successes had his plans
been faithfully carried out. The repulse OF
Mcclellan from the gates of Richmond, the
disastrous retreat of Pope, the Fredericksburg
and vicksburg disasters, are the results of the
bungling combinations OF Stanton and Halleck
We have had enough Of them. They have
brought our cause and our hopes to the verge
| of ruin. The crisis demands their removal,
and the country will rejoice again with
McClelan's appointment to supersede them
both. He is our man in the hour of danger
He is the man who can restore public con-
fdence in the administration, and the man to
save it and the country from universal bank
ruptcy. dissolution end the political chaos Of
Mexico. President Lincoln must reorganze
the War OH ce, or all il lost.
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