The New York herald., 1864-10-09


Lees real weakness-the want of men. He
has men enough to hold Petersburg, and he
has to hold Richmond with the same men; be
has to move them from one place to tue other
as either extremity is threatened, and he may
not always move them with sufficient rapidity
1t is this that the Richmond Examiner means
when it says that in the operations on the
north side /" the future is shown" and in the
fear OF that future it calls desperately for men
to be brought from anywhere to Virginia y
and declares that "the safety of these lines can
not fairly be left to Lees present army, which
has too great load on it already"
The Partisan Press. Revolution and
OWL War.
The World of Saturday devoted consider
able space to the denunciation of the political
oath which Governor johnson has ordered
to be administered to the citizens OF Ten
nessee as test Of their qualification to vote at
the coming Presidential election. In this docu-
ment Is found evidence sufficient for that jour
nal to predict a revolution and civil war If
Lincoln should be elected by the vote of that
to- AT best it is only political oath, ordered
by partisan meeting, and becomes, therefore,
simply q partisan political oath, of no more
account than that Of the Know Nothings few
years since or the Loyal Leagues of the present
time. No person pays any regard to oaths of
that kind when he comes to vote. The famous
Know Nothing party administered an oath to
its followers, pledgng them against sectional
agitation and to oppose every attempt to alien
ate one section Of the country from the other;
but many Of those who took that oath com
menced their intrigues and efforts to incite the
people of the North against the South with
their very next breath after taking the OATH
Some Of those men have ever since been
the most abusive and violent agitators
known in the Northern States, while,
on the other hand, many of those in the South.
who took the same oath. have been foremost in
the Southern resellion. The same is the case
with the Loyal Leaguers. Hundreds and thou
sands Of the men who have taken the oath Of
that Lincoln organization are now supporting
Mcclellan, and will vote for him in November.
All this shows that they amount to nothing
These partisan political oaths have not the
weight of feather in the minds of the people
when they come to decide how to vote in Presi-
deniial canvass like the present
There is nothing in the oath which the
World makes such an ado about to prevent the
Mcclellan men taking it, and then quietly
walking up to the ballot box and depositing
their vote for Little Mac" The oath was
adopted at political meeting, no doubt for a
partisan purpose, 10 secure the success CT Che
Lincoln ticket in Tennessee; but as such is can
easily be made the instrument Of the defeat of
that party All this fuss about it seems to us
as silly. 1t need not from necessity exclude sin
gle vote for Mcclellan, but, on the other hand, in
crease his vote. If a majority of the citizens OF
Tennessee are in favor OF Mcclellan they eau,
even with that oath, elect the Mcclellan ticket
there, aud no possible harm can he done them.
AS to the revolution and boodshed which the
World sees as the result OF this oath. we can
tell them that the revolutionary course of the
partisan press on both sides bids fair to bring
that about. oaths or no oaths. In tho preseat
unsettled condition Of the public mind, the.
vile slang and abuse OF the extreme partisan
journals are fast forcing US into serious revo-
luton. The signs of the times clearly indicate
that It makes no difference which party is.
successful; the extreme men of both sec.
tions will very soon find it too hot for them
to remain in this country. The speeches de-
livercd by Jef. Davis in Georgia and Alabama,
shows by his own confession that large
portion Of the soldiers of his own army havo
deserted him aud his revolutionary cause. If
Davis and his rebel associates continue to
persist in their course the time will soon come
when they, and all the rank secession leaders OF
the South, will be forced into exile by the
soldiers in their own army. The abolition
bubble will then burst in the North,
the people will fully realize who has
caused this useless and wicked rebellion.
and the men who are responsible for
all its evils and suffering in both sections. A
day Of reckoning will then come for all such
fanatics as Greeley, Beecaer, Sumner, Wilson,
Wade and Chandler. Even the election of
the election in November result either way-in
the success Of Mcclellan or Lincoln--it will
make no difference. The signs Of the times all
indicate that day OF retrbution will, sooner
or later, come to the fanatics of the North and
the secession leaders Of the South.
JEFF. DAVIS on THE SOUTHERN ARarEs.-It ap-
pears that the rebel States are badly in want
OF men. One Southerner is no longer equal to