Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-11-16
When That object Is Attained.


tunes or errors of the Entente Allies.
A nericans should he the most lenient,
OF all persons they should be the last
to believe that even the Interest dis
appointments st and criticisms of the
campaign. divisions of public opinion,
hostility of part of the press, jars of
politicians, col apse of Cabinets. mean
anything more than a firmer purpose to
carry on the war more resolutely and
more effectively. And of the British
''muddlng" those who saw. and those
who have read the history OF our civil
war, will not be too impatient judges.
How many dark days the North had
in the struggle! Boys Of the COS can
vaguely remember their grand-fathers
and relatives, long past the mill airy
age on some Sunday after disaster
to the Northern arms. loudly denounc-
ing "ineompetency and 'treachery
and eager to shoulder musket and
march against the enemy.
The fall of 1862 was bitter season
for the North, just as the Fall of 1919
has been for Entete Allies; and It fol-
lowed a bitter summer. The advance
on Richmond had not advanced. The
army of the Potomac had fought er-
gagement after engagement with SINAI
visible fruit. Mcclellan had be en- or
dered back from the Peninsula. Pope
had been beaten ANONYMOUSLY at Man
assas. Maryland had ben invaded. Lee
had threatened Washington. Lincoln,
placing Mcclellan in command of the
troops about Washington. pleased the
army, but Disguised the Cabinet and
dissatisfied the country. Ia September
Mcclellan al Antietam relieved Wash
ington and forced Lee to retreat. His
inaction, necessary or not, stirred MIR.
Lincoln to remove him in the first week
of November. Result, in little more
than month, Burnside's wild. disas-
trous assault at Fredericksburg.
So the struggle went. General after
General found wanting. Intrigues
jealousies. political and military favor
ties, great expectations, broken hopes
turtle enterprises, the Cabinet pitiless-
" recorded in it's discussions, cross
purposes, and self-seekings by old
Gideon Wells, the North sorrowful and
angry, every body blaming everything
on Lincoln. The South could not be
subjugated The peace mongerers
were clamorous.
In 1868 the same story. Mr.. Greeley
hunting for Mr. Lincoln's successor.
The Abolitionist assalling him as too
conservative Conservatives irritated
by the Emancipation Proclamation and
the enlistment of coiored regiments.
Practically no Lincon men in Congress.
But the real trouble was, as Mr.. Lin
coin told Wendell Phillips. The mass
es of the country generally are dis
satisfied chiefly at our lack of mill
tary success. Defeat and failure in
the field make everything seem
wrong" Joe Hooker, Number Four
among commanders of the army of the
Potomac, "going straight to Richmond,
if live" meets Lee and Jack son at
Charlottesville. Another costly and
shocking defeat. You are on the
road to hell, Sir, with this Govern
ment, is the remark attributed to Ben
Wade, asking Lincoln to remove Grant,
who was soon to capture Vicksburg
And the year of Gettysburg and Vicks-
burg was also the year of the draft
riots. Even in the summer of 1864, the
year of Lincoln's denomination, long
doubtful to himself and bitterely OPP
posed. the year when the official Demo-
cratic Party was sure that the war
was failure, Early's cavalry cut off
Washington's railroad communication
with the North.
This old history, and much more than
is here briefly glanced at, has its les
sons. 1t reminds Americans of defeat,
and chickering's and divided counsels
and heart sick with hope deferred. 1t
reads like stories from the land of
spirits that attempts were made by
some of LincOln's familiars to dissuade |
him from calling for 500, 900 additional
soldiers in July. 1864, on the ground |
that such measure would imperil his |
reelection. He was unpopular enough |
already.
While no statesman of the Lincolnian |
calibre is visible in Europe, is is well |
to recall the popular impatience with
Lincoln. 1t is will to recall also these
words of his. 1--WE accepted this |
war for an object, a worthy object,
and the war will end when that Job |
jected is attained. Under God, | hope
it never will end until that time. "
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