Year: 1862

gard to our ocean steamers. We are engaged
in . tremendous war, upon which depends the
life or death Of the nation. Everything is at
stake the Union. government, law and order,
life and property-and in such struggle every
intelligent man must feel or ought to know,
that he rises or falls, is saved or lost with the
government Hence the universal acqniescence
in this interdict against the departure from the
country at this crisis Of any man liable to .
military draft.


The order in reference to the three hundred
thousand additional volunteers called for since
the late battles in front of Richmond, and the
more recent order for draft upon the militia
to the extent of another body of three hundred
thousand men, are working admirably. Under
the limitation fixed for volunteering, the first of
these calls we may say, Is already provided
for in body Of three hundred thousand volun-
teers, equal to the best regiments heretofore
sent to the field Thus, within the limits of
week or so, with the encouragement of liberal
bounties on the one side and of an impending
draft on the other, we have secured this large
body Of volunteers, while the late badly man.
aged, dilatory and discouraging system would
not have given US three hundred thousand fresh
troops till November or December next "


As 1t is, under these new orders and regula-
tions from the War Office, by direction of the
President and under the advice Of Gen. Halleck,
we feel already that the rebellion is surely
within our grasp, and that the government may
give little more time to the filing up Of the
forf fho fhroo h,,pd drodt thousand
by draft. Before the expiration Of the present
week thousands of our new volunteers from the
East and West will be on the march, armed and
equipped, for the seat of war. We are conf
dent at length that if the rebel forces in Virgi-
mia, to the extent of two hundred thousand
men, were to move forward this day for Wash
ington, they would be met on the road by
Union army strong enough to put them to
fight, without calling upon General Mcclellan.


The solid advantages, therefore, which we
have gained under this new, comprehensive and
vigorous war programme of President Lincoln,
can hardly be exaggerated We regard them
as insuring the safety Of W" 7hington against all
possible contingencies, and the suppression of
this Southern rebellion without the necessity
for single negro brigade. The Fourth Of
July-the day which we had hoped would be
signalzed by the celebration of the fall
of Richmond-was the darkest day of
the war but in the results and the
teachings OF those sanguinary battles on the
Chickahominy, in arousing our government, our
loyal States and people to the full measure Of
the rebellion, we have gained at last the road
to certain success.


Our abolition disorganizers may continue to
shrek and howl over the failure of their
schemes for crusade Of determination against
Southern slavery, and our Northern democratic
secessionists of the old hidebound. Albany Re-
gency faction may continue to mutter their
treason in the dark; but in these recent orders
from Washington successful war for "the in
tegrity of the Union" is amply provided for,
and we have only to follow them up to achieve,
before the end of the summer, great, glorious
and crowning victory.