The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-05
From the New York Tribune.

An evening journal of late date had dis
patch from Washington stating that the Pres-
dent, speaking of the military operations on the
Mississippi said, - he expected the best results,
but was repaired for the worst" If the worst
comes we hope he will be prepared to satisfy
the country that everything that could have
been done TO avert 1t has been done.
Wenot this statement, ami refer to it now,
in order that the Government may be apprsed
that the country, if called upon to bear the re-
verse that's apparently halttoreshadowed, will
require information that it does not now possess
to convince 1t that the disaster could not have
been avoided
We do not hesitate to make this suggestion,
when we remember how the first Bull Run fight
was lost, and the Rebellion set firmly upon It's
legs while there were Union soldiers enough to
crush the traitors twice over reposing idly on
their arms within hearing of the din of battle
and when We further remember how, on that
same field, in the following Summer, Pope and
his gallant army were left to contend for two
days against murderous odds, and finally to fall
back, while more than thirty thousand men
were allowed to remain III sullen if not treach-
erous inaction at and near Alexandra, hardly
a days march from the field that was being
made drunk with the blood of their compatrots
and when we remember how, still later, Hooker
was permitted ingloriously to reinquish the
field of Charlottesville to the rebel enemy,
(lest, 50 it is said his communications with his
base of supplies at Aqua Creek should be cut
off, although National troops almost equaling
IN number the whole rebel army opposed to
him, lay scattered and unemployed around his
flank and rear, not iOrty-eight hours journey
iIOm the scene of conflict.
We shall believe, however, 80 long as we can,
that the government will not again be charge
able with such fatal mismanagement. But it is
well that it should bear in mind that there is a
limit to all human endurance, even when the
suffering is inflicted by ones most trusted
friends. Ii Grant and his brave army shall be
left to be overwhelmed, and the nation be
again agonized with the spectacle Of heoatOmbs
Of Its children slain to no purpose, the loyal
millions will not quail nor abate one jOt of their
spirit, even in the presence of SO great "a calam-
lty but they may feel that 1t would be no
longer duty to tolerate the men in whom they
had confded, and who only day after day have
given proof upon proof that they can neither
compl ehend nor grappIe successfully with the
magnitude and the demands of the task before
them
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things. The people believe in perpetuity of the
republic, but they cannot believe in eternal
weakness. They believe in the ultimate triumph
of the national cause bat they cannot forever
endure chronic apathy and lmproyidence, that
no experience, however sharp, and no adversely
however appalling, can stimulate or instruct
They demand at least the same foresight ana
Vgor in promoting their cause that its enemie,
exhibit in assailng it. The time is past fol
quoting the country under nexcusable disaster
with assurances that tedious and long wars ana
incompetency in wagiug them are as old as the
world itself With unlimited means, and with
powers, civil and military, that are literally
despotic, placed in the hands Of the President
there ought at this day to be no failures w
trust that the issue at Vcksburg will prove tina
there will be none, and there is an end of thu
system, or no system, which, if longer contin
ued, must waste away and consume, not thu
enemies OF the Republic, but the Republic it
self.