Year: 1862

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success Of the Union arms seems about to be


realized. without any chance of the accomplish


ment Of their darling project, the abolition of


slavery in the Southern States. Such is their


venom and hostility to the government that they


venture to incur the risk Of the penalties of


treason by giving important information to the


enemy, because their inmost wish is to see our


armies defeated when they cannot control them


for their own revolutionary purposes. day
or two ago We adverted to the conduct Of the
Tribune in exposing to the enemy the plans Of
our generals in the Army of the West. Yester-
day the editor of the Times was guilty of the
same crime as regards the Army of the East and
General McClellans operations in Virginia.
Whether this treason is to be permitted to have
its full swing, to the destruction of one or more
of our armies, remains to be seen.


This course of action is the result of con-
spiracy Of the radicals against the President,
which began to develop itself Immediately after
his Inauguration and has been unfolded steadily
and persistently up to the present hour About
year ago one of these organs proposed to
"supersede" Mr.. Lincoln, and substitute in his
place George Law as dictator, because the Pre-
sident would not surrender himself soul and


body to their schemes. This reasonable pro-
position was followed up by series of the most
scandalous attacks upon the brave old veteran,
General Scott, whose long and faithful services
ought to have shielded him from their base i'm
putations, and would have done so were it not
that the infamous radical journals have sunk to
the lowest depths of degradation Owing to
deficiency of moral courage, the hero of Lun-
dy' Lane and the conqueror Of Mexico gave
way to their son to Richmond clamors, and
the disaster of Bull run was the consequence.
Mcclellan, Scotts successor, was next the OBJ
ject of their malignant assaults, because he re-
fused to repeat the unfortunate movement
against the Notifications of Centreville and Ma
nassas which had brought disgrace upon our
arms; and now, when, after due preparation,
he, by his strategy, has compelled the enemy
to evacuate his stronghold without firing
shot, and to retreat, demoralized and disheart-
ened, with the loss of a battle at Winchester,
they not only give him no credit for his sue
cess but absolutely turn it against him as a
fresh accusation, and invent silly stories about
"Quaker cannon" so efiectually disposed of by
the fact brought to light in the recent engage
ment of the enemy with General Shields divi-
sion when it appeared that even Jackson's
small force had as many as twenty eight pieces
Of artillery. In the same way, they refused to
give him credit for that series of brilliant
movements on the Tennessee and the Cumber-
land, which resulted in the piercing of the
enemy S line, the occupation of Nashville and
penetration to the very heart of the South
ern country, even to Alabama At the very
time that Mcclellan was organizing these victo-
ries he was assailed day after day in the col
umns of the Tribune, by telegraph from Wash
ington, the dispatches being permitted to pass
by Mr.. Cameron, who then had the censorship
of the press, and gave the Tribune the exclusive
privilege of publishing what was contraband Of
war. These attacks upon the General-in-C Chief
appointed by the President failed in their in
tended effect.


The next step of the conspirators was to as
sail the President, through his family. That
they thought, would fetch him. Under cover Of
Congressional committee, got up for the os
teDsible purpose of inquiring into the acts of
Mr.. Seward, they libelled Mr.. Lincoln and his
wife in their domestic relations, and the tele-
graphic correspondent of the Tribune who had
of War, was again permitted to send over the
wires dispatches of the most malignant and
slanderous character, in order to aid and assist
in the plot to break down the resolution of the
President, and compel him to fall in with their
atrocious and sanguinary designs. These at
tacks were copied, with exaggerations, into nu-
merous small journals in New England and ac-
companied by the most dastardly comments.
How little is the success which has at
tended them may be judged by the fact
that the radical journals not only continue their
onslaughts upon the army, charging the gene
rails with disloyalty, in order to impair the con-
fdence reposed in them by the troops, but they
deliberately reveal the plans of the campaign,
and even its very details, to the enemy, in order
that he may welcome our soldiers with bloody
hands to hospitable graves" AS the Union is
to be restored without the destruction of the
peculiar domestic institution of the South, they
prefer the success of the rebel arms and final
separation between North and South, and they
are doing their best to aid in the accomplish
ment of these results. Their loyalty is not to
the Union and the constitution, but to fanati-
cal idea.


Here ID the secret Of the animus which per-
vades the speeches of the radical members Of
Congress, and the foul source whence flow
through their organs the turbid and filthy
streams of abuse against the President and the
generals of his appointment Even the sane
tity of his domestic circle is violated by these
ribald newspapers which are without parallel
in history, except the Jacobin press of Paris at
the time of the French Revolution, consisting of
hundred and thirty-three journals Of the most
beastly character, sparing neither men nor wo-
man, nor aught deemed sacred in Heaven
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