New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-18
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The People very generally and heartily ap-
prove the call of Gen. GRANT to the chief COM
mand of the Union armies. They think it
means business, and that is what they mean
The call for 100000 more men is doubtless OF
Gen. Grants suggestion. He means to put
down the Rebellion, and asks to be provided
with the means. And he will be.
The People like what the Rebels call Gen.
Grants laundering audacity," since it so very
seldom subjects him to defeat, and so often
leads to victory. He has made mistakes-we
count among them his attack at Belmont and
bis evident heedleSsness of the Rebel approach
at Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing; but he is one
Of our very few Generals who never suspect
that they are whipped while there is chance
that they may not be. Had his assault on Mis-
sionary Ridge miscarried, every one would have
pronounced it mad; but it succeeded, and every
body says. Capital Admirable! that shows
military genius. Everybody seems to augur
good from his elevation but the Rebels, who in
sst that our only good General is Mcclellan
and wonder why we don't see it. Whether
Gen. Grant proposes to make his grand advance
in the East or in the West, we do not positively
know, and would MT state if We did. Suffice it
that he Will move when he gets ready, and when
he strikes somebody will get hurt. We should
advise any one who happens to be in his way to
get out of it directly.
There is one good point about Grant, wherein
no differs from some other of our Generals: lie
do Mt believe that Northern men are the natural
interiors of Southern in Military proves or apt
itudo; and he never runs away from a less num-
Der of Rebels than the force Inc commands,
whether before or after a battle. And herein
the loyal millions believe him in the right.
We believe our armies will this Spring be
stronger than ever before, and that the Rebels
will be weaker than they have been. Having
now conscripted all, they will have no reserves to
draw upon, and must conquer or succumb. And
we can't believe they are to conquer Tor
many reasons: one of which il our faith that
God does not want q new Slave Empire
established in this land Of newspapers, common
schools, and telegraphs-this Nineteenth Cen
fury Of Christian. light and love.
We believe the Rebel losses from desertion
will 90 far to balance all they can rake and
scrape by their Conscripdon. We know that
at least Ten Thousand deserters have come over
to Us since the battle of the Chickamauga in
Tennessee alone. And - The cry Is still, they
come -
Why should they not Why should a single
Poor White willingly serve the Rcbellion'
What is his inducementi Not pay; for his
months wages will not buy him ever 50 coarse
pair of shoes, nor anything else of the value Of
q gold dollar. And what good results arc TO
accrue from Confederate triumph TO himself
or his children2 No one taught tho Poor Whites
Of the South that this il, on the Rebel side,
" the rich mans war and the poor mans fight
U-.--- .,-, --. 49,
A loyal Roman Catholic clergyman in Mis-
sour, who has pastoral charge Of 9 large dis
trict recently observed that he never yet met
a poor man who was SecesSionist. This re-
mark is very widely true. Among our immi-
grant population are many who favor tho Re
bellion because ii play upon their prcjudiCes
and conceals its true character; but those who
know what they have seen and have been cogni-
zant with all our recent history arc inevitably
Unionists, because they cannot afford to be
Rebels. They do not choose to fight for their
permanent degradation Of their class and their
posterity.
If Gen. Grant should disoppoint n, we shall
frankly say so; but, for the present, we heartily
congratulate tho country on his promotion.