New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-25
GEN. JOHN COCHRANE.
The Horid SAYS:

The Horid says:
Brig Gen. JOHN CocHRASE Is ready 10 take the
stamp against the Weed Raymond clique. He desires
President Johnsons policy 10 succeed, and himself 10
have proper successor r-
The I'D Of July, 1861, was the darkest day
that ever gloomed ON the champions of Human
Liberty and American Nationality. In the
morning, the loyal States were electrified by
news that our grand army at Centrevillc had
won, the day before, brilliant victory over the
Rebels; by noon, they were overwhelmed by
the far truer but hideous tdings of most un-
looked.for reverse and overwhelming disaster.
Our army was not merely defeated but routed,
with loss of all its material and half its num-
bers, and its wretehed remnants were rushing
report said, like frightened sheep, across
the Potomac, wretched mob-a dcmoraized,
weaponless rsbble, which regiment OF cavalry
might at any moment scatter like ebaf from
the threshing- floor. Washington, with its parks
of cannon, its richly stored navy-yard, its
wealth Of small arms, munitions, md proyis-
ions-to say nothing OF its public edi6ces and
archiyes--was utterly at the mercy Of the tr-
umphant Rebels whose scarcely resisted possess
sion of it would probably be announced by a
proclamation from JEFF. Davis within the next
| twenty-four hours.
1t was in the mid-aftenoon Of that day. of
unparalleled and immeasurable horror, while
the shrouded heavens and pouring skies at once
imaged and heightened the pervading woe, that
John Cochrane-now General Cochrane--ap-
peared at THE TRIBUNE Office, where he had for
some years been an infrequent visitor. Instantly
/, -abruptly--he gave us to understand that-Io
r matter what he might have said at Richmond
) three months before-he was now resolved 10
stand by his fearfully imperiled country.
"There is but one way remaining TO as" said
:, John Cochrane to this writer, "if the Union is
to be upheld: we must proclaim Emancipation,
and summon the slaves from the service o
+ Rebels to the salvation Of their county,,
n For some years from that hour, John Coch
q rams was faithful to the conviction thus
avowed. He led to the field regiment which
had been raised for him, and foughtwith il, gal
. landy if not skillfully, in several battles. HI
i harungued il early and forcibly in favor Of Free
dom for All, and calling every loyal man, White
b or Black, to the defense of the National integ
n rity, the National life. And, after it had beer
thought best that he should retire from th
Military service, his voice and vote were still
given to the party whose triumphs were no
hailed with cheers at Richmond nor along tb'
lines Of the Rebel armies. Hence be was, TIVE
T years since, nominated and elected Attorney
General by the Union party of our State.
But fresh election approaches, and he is mo-
renominated- perhaps, because no delegate. u
the Union Convention happened to think oft
possibly, because rumors were aaoat that hC
was already plowing with all manner Of ques
tionable heifers. Though he had not yet beer
I slrned over preparatory TO swallowing by Johl
Van Buren,, it was instinctively felt that he wa
getting ready to 60 down easy. Not being of
fered fresh nomination on our side, and no
having changed his politics for nearly if no
quite four years, Gen. Cochrane seems to have
concluded that it was high time for somer
lsault. Perhaps it was.
But Gen. Cochrane can deceive neither him
! self nor others by talking of :" the Weed-Ray
mond clique" Right well does he knop tha
he is deserting and betraying the cause of Uni
versal Freedom. Right well is he aware tina
Ibe is dealing falsely, cruelty by the humble
and imperiled -Four Millions whom he wa
Iamong the first to summon to pour out thei
blood in defense Of the Union. No matter wha
protests and reservations he may SEQ fit t
make, Gen. Cocbrane, like Gen. Slocum, Judg'
lGroyer, and John W. Edmonds, after having
summoned the Blacks to our aid in q vita
emergency. row whistles them down the wint
I--remits them unprotected to the tender mercie'
of those who think "a niger is good in hi
places" but that bis place is under the feet Of thu
Whites, and his true, God-Ordained position
eternally that Of spurned, despised menial and
drudge. Gen. Cochrane has taken his stand in
fact, whatever be may profess, With those who
/ today; refuse to Colored Americans tho Righ,
Of Suffrage, whether in the North or in the