Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-06-05
Rebuking the t'Government'i on
the Conduct OF the War.

II seems that certain radical Abolition poll
ticians and journals reserve to themselves the
exclusive privilege Of crllIclslng and ecndenn-
ing the policy,o the President and his admin
ishation In the conduct of the war. Take for
sample an article In the New York Tribune Of
Wednesday, June 8, which opens thus:
An evening Journa, Of late date had dis
patch from Washington stating that the Pfesi-
dent. speaking of the military operations on
the Mlssiseippi, said, she expected the best re-
suits, but WAS prepared for the worst" IL the
worst comee, we hope he will be prepared TO
satisfy the country that everything that cou Id
have been done tc avert IL has been done.
We note this statement and refer TO II now,
in order that the Government may be apprissd
that the country, If called upon to bear the re-
verse that Is thus apparently half foreshadoWed,
will require much information that 1t does not
now possess to oonvice IL that the disaster could
not have been avoided.
The Tribune then refers 20 several disasters
which have befallen our armies in Eastern Vlr,
giuia, which il attributes 70 4want Of foresigh,
IN tho concentration of our forces, and closes
with the following admonitoty paragraphs;
We shall believe, however, go long as va
can, that the Government will not again be
chargeable with such fatal mismansgement.-
But il is we'll that II should bear In mind that
Zero Ia limit TO all human endurance, even
when the suffering is inflicted by ones most
trusted friends. 1t 9raDt and his brave army
shall be left to be overwhelmed, and the nation
be again sgonized with the spectacle of heca-
tombs Of it's children slain to no purpose, the
loyal millions will not quail nor abateone jot Of
their spirit, even in tho presence of 80 great a
calamity: but they may feel that it would be no
longer duty to tolerate the men In whom they
had oonhded, and who only day after day have
given proof upon proof that they can neither
comprehend nor grapple successfully with the
magnitude and ths demands of tho task before
them.
We feel IL our duty to tell the President
tbese things The people believe iu the per-
petuity Of the Republic, but they cannot be-
ieve In eternal weakness. They believe In the
ultimate triumph Of the National cause; but they
cannot forever endure chronic apathy and i'm
providence, that no experience, however sharp,
and no adversely, however appalling, eau stin-
ulats or instruct. They demand at least the
same foresight and vgot in promoting their
cause that its enemies exhibit in assailing It,
The time is past for quieting the csuntry sln-
der inexousable disaster with assurances tnat
tedious and loog wars and iDcompetency in
waging them are as ola as the world itselt,--
With unlimited means, and With poEers, civil
and military, that are literally despotic, placed
In the hands Of the President, there ought a.
this day TO be no failures. We trust that the
Issue at Vicksburs viii prove that there will
be none, aud that there ia an end oi the sys-
TEN, or no-system, which, il longer continned,
must wsste away snd consume, not the enc
n,ies OF the Republic, bdtithe Republic itself