New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-18
GOOD NEWS AND BAD.

GOOD NEWS AND BAD.
Croakers are as old as the Had. There are
always two classes of men in the community
when great public interests are at stake-the
hopeful and the despairing. II must be admit
ted that we have in this country fair share OF
those who look at the future through a smoked
glass, and whose dreams are uncommonly
brown and boding-timid folk who are always
ready to inform MS that we cannot put down the
Rebellion, and who are apt TO make the unchar-
table think that they do not wish it put down
at all. What with the hot weather and the in-
telligence from Gen. Grant, the croaker must
Just now have q very lugubrious time oft For
it is peculiarly of this iHsus, that nothing sat-
isles him. Whatever the intelligence, il is sure
to be displeasing TO his nicely difficult nature;
and 20 he goes on to the end, grumbling and
growing, making the good bad and the bad
wore. We sincerely believe, and We rejoice in
the belief, that q good time is coming which
will be very gricyous 20 the Copperhead The
capture Of Richmond will be pretty sure To
break his heart.
But there is another class who have fairly
earned the lofty satisfaction which is in store for
them. Say what our foreign enemies
may Of US, history WILL if faithfully written,
bear full and unimpcachable testi-
mony 10 the heart and the hope with
which the people, under the mos, adverse cir
cumstances, have stNNadherod to the opinion
that sooner or latertie Rebellion, in the nature
of things, must be crushed. II Il the weghty
prcdominance Of this feeling which has sus-
tanned rs when news was adverse and the i'm
mediate future anything but brilliant. But
however We may have been mortified or disap-
pointed, the people, a. "A body, have never
dreamed of making peace with treason, and
there has never been time when the authori-
ties Executive or Legislative, at Washington,
or anywhere else could have yen,ured to even
hint at recognition of the Confederacy," and
surrender of the domain over which it impu-
IDENTITY claims authority.
And when victory shall come, it will be
doubly gratifying because the loyal people OF
the United States have deserved it, Their cause
is not only morally and politically just, but they
have sustained it by the most devoted self
sacrifice We are not at all ashamed OF the
support which the people have given to the
Government, for it has been warm, unlimited,
unquestioning, and ungrudging. The war has
developed a degree Of social virtue, Of divine
charity, of open-handed benevolence, and OF
sacred pity, the existence Of which, if there had
been no war, would not have been suspected.
Everybody knows that we are, if anything
undertaking the truth.
Lest these same GROWERS and woepers should
mistake their duties and 60 Oh with their sigh
ing too long, We call their attention to tn,
gratifying fact that the intelligence from Vir
gnia is already working miracles. In ali oui
experience we have known no newspaper whlcl
has seemed to enjoy its agonies and anguishe
more heartily than The Express. 1t has beer
its habit to gloat over Union defeats with kinC
Of half-conccacd satisfaction, and with dolefu
prophecies of worse to come. People who rca(
its bulletins won't away shaking their heads
and quite prepared TO witness second delug'
without establishment. What must be thel
bothcration to find The Express suddenly grow
ing lively, and, if We may say 80, friskily
patriotic, under the genial influence of the ncwi
from Petersburg. Last night, this extraordi
nary paper was in such tip-top spirits that i
came within a mile or so Of being grammatical
in its English, which, for The Express, wa
: coming very near indeed. A longer, louder
and more hilarious crow than that which Il
gave over the surrender Of Petersburg never
awakened tho denizens Of the barn.yard. II
pronounced our victory "resplendent." 1t did
not find the least fault with Badly Smith. II
the excess of its rapture, 1t forotold the downfall
of Leo, the prostration Of the Confederacy, and
the triumph Of the Republic. 1t was extremely
happy. We sincerely trust that no mischance
may drive II back to hating loyalty and blub.