Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-07
The Tribune Explains itself

The New York Tribune, in reply to criti-
cism on some of its recent utterances, defines
its position in regard to the war against rebel
lion. After quoting the criticism, the Tribune
says =
'The above proceeds on the assumption that
the antagonist parties to our present struggle
are the shareholders confederacy and The
New York Tribune. This is the very error
that we have resolved to dispel If our "con-
sentative" and democratic" fellow citizens
do really regard this as their war-as the
war of the country-we are on hand for as
long and strong a fight as they may desire If
on the other hand they.choose to regard it as
our war, and not theirs, we propose to make
Il finish of it ere it shall be many months old
err And this is an issue that we have resolved
they shall plainly meet. Only prove that the
people of the loyal states generally regard
and treat the war for the Union as theirs, and
we are in for so many years more of conflict
as may be necessary"
We do not see how the critics in question,
and especially those who constantly find fault
with everything that is done to make the war
efficient, can reasonably object to this. 1t is
very certain that most of those who call them
selves democrats" and conservatives" do
not appear to feel that they have anything
to do with the attempt of the government
to crush the rebels, save to critcise or
oppose it. They do everything in their power
to make the war inefficient and unsuccessful.
Does the government arrest one of those ma
lignant northern traitors who ought be tarred
and feathered and hung for their infamous be-
nous behavior? These men raise an cutlery
in his behalf, and represent that it is a
crime for the government to defend itself.
Does military officer waste our men and
means and so manage his command as to do
the rebels as little injury as possible? These
men Immediately become his eulogists and
fercely denounce those who criticise his do
ings. Does a military or civil officer show
earnestness against the rebels and seek reso-
lutely to accomplish their destruction?
These men Immediately set at work against
him every agency of detraction, false
hood and SANDER. The government can do
nothing with which they will not find fault,
and it seems to be their purpose to treat the
war as a conflict between the rebels and the
radicals" in which their sympathies are on
the side of the rebels. 1t seems evident that
many of them would prefer to adopt the JEFF
Davis government and fight on that side; and
some of them say so very freely when their
partizan insanity is unusually excited.
Is it not time that men of this class were
made to feel and acknowledge their duty and
responsibility to the government which armed
and bloody treason seeks to destroy? 1t is
partizan madness and malignity rather than
dlsloyalty that controls most of them. A
few of them are hopeless traitors at
heart and should be dealt with as
traitors; but most of them are blind parti-
zans who will not see and realize what they
are doing. Is it not high time to throw upon
compel them to realize that the whole tenden-
cy of their conduct is to make a restoration of
the Union impossible? The rebellion may be
crushed and the Union saved in spite of their
partizan craziness but how much more easily
andswiftly wouldthe work be done if they would
act more Loyalty, desist from their efforts to
promote division at the north, and show a
genuine earnestness to crush the rebellion
quickly and thoroughly