The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-02-14

received q COMPLETE copy OF this important
document 1t occupies. without the maps, only
two hundred and .fortytwo pages, which
after the opposition made to IFS being printed
on the score of the expense, will surprise the
public not little. Portions of the report have
already made their appearance ir the newspa-
pers; but the most essential parts--the orders
and kilograms on which the vindication OF
General Mcclellan mainly rests, and which
were kept back by the War Department
now for the first TIME made public. II it were
possible we would at once publish the whole
report; but the length to which it runs will
compel us to place it before our readers in in
stalments .n
Few documents OF greater interest than this
have ever commanded the attention of the
country. II furnishes a complete key to the
causes of all the plumbers and failures which
have marked the conduct Of che war since its
commencement. That which we. partially got
at through the reports Of General Halleck and
of the joint Military Committee of the two
houses is fully substantiated by IL. The most
prejudiced cannot rise from its perusal without
arriving at tho conclusion that 1t is 10 the vani
ty, imbeclity and constant interference OF Mr..
Lincoln with his generals in the field we owe
Che continuance of the war, and that if General
Mcclellan had been allowed to carry out his
plans it would have long since been terminated.
There is, unfortunately, another conviction
which 1t establishes, and that u.s. that as long as
our Presidential Don Quixote and his Sancho
Panza Of the War Department continue to con.
troll our military affairs they will obstinately
ride the hobby which has carried them against
so many stone walls and wiudmills.
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION OF
LoNDoN.-We find in the London Standard a
pompous, but by no means an alarming advcr-
tisement announcing $50 late as December,
1869 the organizing and programme of this
delectable society. The chairman is A. j.
Beresford Hope, Esq; the treasurer, Lord
Eustace Cecil; the secretary and Parliamentary
agent, A. Kintrea Esq. and "thc committee"
the Most Noble the Marquis OF Lothian,
the Most Noble the Marquis Of Bath, and others,
noblemen, NJ. P.'s and esquires, making in all
a committee Of eighteen. The association
declare that JEFF. Davis and his confederates
have fairly earned and are worthy Of
an independent confoderacy; that Central
North Amorica-the United States-is
bound to be broken up into groups of indie
pendent States; that the loyal portion Of this
Union will be strong enough without the South;
that Southern confederacy will be just the
thing for British commerce and manufactures,
and 50 on to the end Of the chapter
But tho association, while laboring for the
recognition Of the so-called Confederate
States" intend to urge upon them the necessity
Of providing for the abolition Of slayery--which
will be gloves labor lost" AS declared by
the rebel Vice President Stephens to all the
world, "slavery Is the corner stone of the
Southern oonfederaoy.' Take il away, aud the
whole superstructure comes to the ground.
And this is just what thoir rebellion has done
for Davis and his confederates. They have
killed the goose that laid their golden eggs,
and their confederaoy has thus become use
less concern. The distinguished philanthro-
pists OF this London association come forward
too late in tho day TO share even in the profits
Of blockade running. The best thing they can
do is to reorganize their association for the re-
lief Of .bs starving masses Of Tic English peo-
pie by providing ) fund TO assist them u
onlgfsEos e &c United States, ia view Of
filling up the waste places Of the South a. they
are reclaimed from the rebellion. Let them do
this, and they will not only do much to benefit
the evil day Of an English rebellion.
A POWERFUL ALLY IN BEHALF OF THK Cox.
srrruTToNAL ABOLITION or SLAvERY.-The Catto-
Tic Telegraph, the official organ Of the Arch
bishop Of Cincinnati, in closing strong and
earnest editorial against the continuance OF the
institution Of Southern slavery, says that "the
absolute necessity for its extinction before
anything can BE- accomplished for the repose OF
the nation has taken hold OF the minds and
hearts ofthc people, and any attempt to retard
the popular will must end in Disaster" that
1--WE are particularly pleased with the change
which is taking place in the sentiment 81
Catholics on this subject" that party prejudice
is giving way under the pressure Of public
opinion; and, finally, says the Telegraph 1--WE
hope the day is near when q clause in the
constitution will proclaim liberty to all men
within the limits Of the United States"
This Is good. The ball is rolling on, and
soon, like the stone which was cut cut Of the
mountain, It will Gil the whole land.
MORE THAN He BARGANED FoR.-Hardly
bad Mr.. Simeon Draper scattered abroad his
confidential circulars for general Lincoln
Presidential movement on the 22d Of Febru-
airy when he was publicly warned that on the
22d Of February regular radical liberty con-
vention will be held ct Louisville, and that IL
will bring out General Fremont expressly to
run "Old Abe' of the track. Greeley says
the friends Of the President are too fast; and