The New York herald., 1863-01-11

whether you would combine with hyenas or
Yankees trust every virginian would say,
give me the hyenas." (Cries Of Good"
Good and applause) This declaration was
coupled with an alusion to President Lincolns
emancipation proclamation, and from those
responses of 'good," "good,' we are admonish-
ed that henceforth the war on the part Of the
rebels will be fought with unity of purpose
and an intensity of hatred against the Union
W hich they have never yet exhibited.
To sum up the essential points of these late
speeches of JEFF. Davis in few words, they
warn the administration ct Washington that
the armies OF the rebellion, instead of being
nearly subdued, are stronger to-day than they
were . year ago; that the rebel leaders are
more confident Of success now than they we're
last January; that they intend to ''strain every
effort" to save vicksburg Port Hudson and
Richmond; that these are the strongest and yet
the vulnerable points Of the rebellion, and that
if we fail in securing them before the return Of
spring We may prepare for European interven-
ton and disunion, or for new army of a mil
lion of men.
Developments Before the Military Courts
or Inquiry.
The fog in which since the beginning of the
campaign the War Department has contrived to
envslop the causes of all its. shortcomings and
failures has been the means of damaging, for
time at least, some hardly earned military re-
putations Out Of respect for the rules Of dis
cipline several of our bravest and ablsst officers
have been compelled to bear in silence the
load of obloquy which tho blunders Of their
superiors had brought upon them. There can
be no better proof of the completion Of our sys-
tenn of military training-if mute obedience be
essential to its professionalism the uncom-
planning manner in which the misrepresenta-
tions, the calumnies and tho bitter prosecutions
to which some Of these gallant men wee sub
jected In order to cover up the errors of Wash
ington gsneralship, have been supported and
borne.
With time, however, everything rights ITSELF
Those who have been thus hardly and unjustly
dealt with are being rewarded for their for
bearance and patience. In the developments
resulting from the evidence taken before the
different military courts to which their conduct
has been submitted, they will have fuller re-
cord and = more enduring memorial to their
merits than would have been obtained through
a scant mention in general order, or through
the imperfectly informed narrative Of some
future historian. Thus 1t is now incontsstably
established that General Mcdowell, who has
been SO long made the scspegoat Of the radical
managers Of the war, and who has suffered in
public estimation in consequence, is one of the
bravest, most capable and Jealous officers in
our army; that General Porter, whom it was
sought to destroy In order to reach Mcclellan,
80 far from being obnoxious to the charges pre-
ferrsd against him in connection with the CAM
paign Of General Pope, was, throughout that
campaign, as upon every other occasion in his
military career, devoted to his duty and ardently
bent on its fulflmsnt that General Burnside,
in shouldering the blame Of the Fredericksburg
disaster, chivalrously assumed responsibility
that belonged to the War Department alone;
and that Summing up the general result), il
the plans of General Mcclellan had been pro-
perly supported and carried out, I'VE should
have avoided oil the humiliating and disastrous
errors that have led to these investigations, and
should be now in possession Of the objects for
which 80 much has been sacrificed.
The efforts that were made in the prosecution
against General Porter to injure Mcclellan,
have only had the effect Of damaging their
principal author, and Of placing General Sigel
in position neither creditabls to his Judgment
nor good feeling. Whilst the evidence shows 1
General Pope to be brave but impetuous OH
Ger, good as brigade or even division COM
mander, 1t proves him to be utterly unfit
to handle large army. And yet this is
the man whom the radicals desired to
substitute for the young hero, whose
plans, as has now been made evident to the
world, were twice on the point of securing us
Richmond, and would undoubtedly have done
so If on the first occasion the force under
entreates, had not been withheld from him by
the War Department, and il on the second the
reinforcement of thirty thousand men, asked by
him when on the peninsula, had not been re-
fused. And for these capital blundsrs who is
to blames The President, 1t is true, signed ono
or two Of the orders, and is ostensibly respon-
sible for them. But il is unnecessary to say
that Mr.. Lincoln is no strategist and that he
would not venture upon such interference with
the plans of his generals unless he was prompted
to II by those on whose Judgment he relied.
We have seen how In the case Of General Burn
side 1t was attempted to shift from the proper
shoulders the blame Of the Fredericksburg dis
aster. There has been great deal too much
Of this sort of juggling in high places for some
time back. The good nature of the President,
like that Of General Burnside, has been made
to serve IS screen for those who are the &C.
tual delinquents. It is the blundsring, the ig-
norance and the mismanagement Of the War
Department that are really chargeabls with
all these misfortunes. Mr.. Stanton ia
successful in but one kind Of strategy
that Of laying traps for and immuring un-