New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-24
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reliance upon which the last rebel invasion ws
attempted We have referred from time TO time
to the facts which bore upon this point, especi.
ally 10 the remarkable condolences occurring at
the time-the mission Of Stephens to Washing.
ton; the otherwise nnaccountable alacrity of a
dsloya Governor in stripping this city OF troops
in order that it might become, at the proper
moment, the unresisting prey Of his friends"
the frantic delight with which the news OF tho
riots in New York was welcomed in Rich
rnond; and many similar incidents unmista-
Ikably indicating not only conspiracy,
| but a widespread knowledge of its OBJ
jects and confident hope Of its success.
| Not less significant are the comments OF tho
principal AngoRebel organ across the water,
the London Times. We quote, not to remark
on the GOODNESS with which il rebukes the
want of caution on the part of TIE Subscribers
TO the Rebel loan--a loan which its INSCRIPTIONS
advocacy more than any one cause contributed
to impose upon the British public-but to direct
attention 10 the fact that the Times was just a.
well informed Of the scope of Lees invasion and
his expectations of help from Northern traitors
as were the Richmond journals.
History contain, tx examples OF greater chance ~ pros
pee, that which k. occurred since the COMMENCEMENT Of
the sweeping and at f, unTe,,ed invasion OF the North by
Cen Lee Ifthe battle Of Gettysburg had been By tbs
Confederate the loan, which few days previously vas
largely ght about premium would probably hsSe ef
erienc.d se nearly ,ea, the l witnessed, 'use
every symptom ,hs, that result would have leo
the sinner, the Ccefederse powers in wasisto'
and r,op ade.ion from York and Penrsytsanrrf
For once The Times speaks truth, and speaks
il with an incautous frankness for which Sey-
mour and his friends will be a. little gra.eiu.
as they were for similar indication by their
Richmond organs. There ras every symptom
that that result would have led to the es-
Enlistment of the Confederate power in We, n
ington, and prompt adhesion from New 70 TX
and acknowledgements always that Co y.
Seymour and his fellow-conspirat had bee
able to complete their part Of the contract b. 2
delivery of the goods which they had b0rgaine
TO transfer That they meant to hand ovei
these States TO Gen. Lee is sufficiently clear.
Whether the States themselves and their loyal
citizens would have looked on in silence during
the execution of the agreement is rather differ
only Indignantly, but often gnorantly, in tho
wrong believed that the conspirators had tho
power to do what they had the will TO attempt;
hence its unqualified declaration in respect to
a contrary issue of the battle OF Gettysburg.
But putting that question aside, We Ask again,
on what theory can such EXPIRE sons in tho
London and Richmond papers be accounted for,
if you do not suppose there was conspiracy
whereof those papers were cognizant, And by
which the campaign of Lee, nde'ensible on
military ground alone, was justified
II may be remarked in passing that the Times
has AZ length come TO regard the great victories
Of July a. something more than a " CLEAN OF
success" for the National arms. II now finds
IN the sudden retreat Of Lee ana The simul-
taneous fall of yicasburg and Port Hu,tson-an
accumulation Of disasters rarely parailelet;"
and indirectly compares them even with the de-
feat of the French at Waterloo.
Again: We all remember the solemn by
pocrisv and cant wherewith the Times has be-
walled the terrible slaughter Of this " useless
contest" One would have supposed from It's
language that the British nation had usver been
engaged in u war, and was unacquainied with
its horrors. Its tenderness for human life has
nut 10 shame alike the philanthrOplsts 70 whom
nothing else is so sacred AMI the Manchester
utilitarians who find state OF hostillteS Pc
cunarily Improbable. 1t has always held tho
National Government responsible T.. A. losses
in battle, because il WAS IN the pOEer Of that
Government at any moment to end tAe struggle
-by abandoning it, authority, itS pledges It's
solemn duty TO the country, It's or'igaiiohS %
the cause of Human Justice lnd Liberty; mat
ters which To the Times seem OF little moment.
But this remarkable socitde suddenly comes
70 an end. Gettysburg, Nioksbu;g, and Port
Hudson have ohanged the aspect Of aha4r'. IL
is the South now which persists "A pro'-aot1nS
a =. useless contest" yet the Tunes, quoang-'n
n subdued toue--some of tae last ditch herocs
o. Southern papers, has 10 criticism 10 offer Oh
such boodthirSty spirit, no grpan 10: the dead
M diving, no sanctmOnious computations u"
regrets even that its slles ID not ahardOn h
cause which only "cG7nage and rhat oil u'
mos, frightful descrip .on can ioi-Ser up'l'uA
Il is impossible not 10 discover tie tone oil sp-
prevail and encouragement which runs Through
such sentences as these:
. p ,h .a,. iourna. which m the these adn'-.onssh
no sign of ftens dssrrminati'n 10 continue ~" 'uss
,,,h. Last With the spitd whn mas nlnA'1 'h""'
- , war they rally vita the sserncr resolution tho
NOR. gloomy their prospects eseome. II VIC N'iN ''"~
aha, the esen, baths. have Brought the var nearer to
no al. shed