Year: 1863

| Again: IL was generally supposed that will


our complete reoccupatioa Of the Mississippi


river large portion OF the victorious army Of
ward TO General Rosecrans. and that General


Iiaaks and Admiral Farragut would be detailed


10 the agreeable duty OF settling with Mobile.
Common sense suggested this line Of action. But
what was dones The army Of General Grant


was frittered away in little side expeditions
into Arkansas, and ROsecrans had TO suffer for
it. Some Of the veterans Of General Banks
were sent forward to Sabine Pass, 10 be re-
pulsed from an impossible mudhole, whore
even q victory would have amounted to
| nothing We understand that Secretary Chase,
casting about for cotton, had much to do with
this foolish Sabine adventure. He ought TO
have known that Mobile was the great cotton
port Of the South, and that the banks of the
navigable rivers tributary to that city were
probably stored with million bales Of cotton.
But, TO crown all this list of Cabinet blunders.
II appears that, against the remonstrances of
General Rosecrans. who understood his situa-
tion, be was compelled, by peremptory orders
from Washington, to descend from his strong
position into the plains of Georgia, where he
was speedily developed and repulsed by the
heavily increased legions Of his adversary.


This is lamentable recapitulation. Four or
FIVE great occasions lost, in which the rebellion
might have been crushed ia single campaign;
but all lost in consequence of the military inca
pacity Of the administration. The amiable ma
ture of President Lincoln is the weak point.
With even tithe Of tho iron will and resolute
character of Old Hickory, he would have sent
such incompetent war managers as Stanton and
Welles into Coventry long ago. But it
is still very surprising that President
Lincoln has not learned from the lessons Of
other nations, and the lessons Of his own expe-
rience, that cabinets and bureaus thousand,
hundred, or even twenty miles away, cannot
manage an army in the field. The generals Of
the Roman republic, as the unfettered COM
manders each OF his own army carried every
thing before them The untrammelled Caesar
was as successful as the absolute Alexander.
When the armies Of the French republic were
or committee at Paris; and if Napoleon. on the
other hand, gathered his victories from the very
jaws of destruction, il was because he would
have no such ruinous intermeddling, and be-
cause his continental adversaries, though great
generals, were hampered by Aulic councils and
by stupid instructions from Vienna or Berlin.
When Cromwell became the general Of the Par
lament he soon taught those ignoramuses the
wa. TO victory in having his own way; and 80
at later day the Duke of Wellington, in good
season, gave the War Office at London to under
stand that it should not attempt to regulate his
movements in Spain. He would be the master
of his army or he would throw up bis commits
sion. -


Wendell Phillips has said that the Cabinet at
Washington is at best but selfconstituted
committee to manage the next Presidential
election. In military matters its stupidity is
without precedent or else it lies open to the
suspicion of contriving the defeat of this gene
eral, and that general, and the other. just as he
promises to rise to the topmost round Of popu-
larity We sure that Abraham Lincoln
desir res the success of each and all of our gene
rails; that he labors 10 secure their success;
thai he desires peace and the restoration Of the
Union; but we must again. and yet again, ad-
me nish him that while the general policy of
tn 3 war is dictated by an INSCRIPTIONS aboli
ii on faction, and while the best contrived plans
O our ablest generals and naval commanders
are spoiled by the intermeddling blockheads Of
the War and Navy Departments. disappoint-
rnents and failures will still be the rewards OF


the military incapaclty Of the administration.





CITY PoIitics-Tricks OF the Factions.


In another column will be found an account
Hof the movements Of the city politicians and
the efforts that are being made by the leaders
Of several factions to barter away their princi-
pies and unite on the same ticket at the ap-
preaching elections If the Tammany Hall
leaders have any pluck they will reject all such
overtures, and refuse to endorse any such silly
combination. Tammany Hall is the only true
representative Of the conservative democracy
in this city and for her to unite at the coming
elections with the copperhead faction would
weaken herself and strengthen her opponents.
All the Offices given TO Mozart would only
strengthen that organization and weaken
Tammany, and continue feud which would


require fostering at every election, yoar
after year. II is time that this annual trading
over the ticket to be nominated was put stop
10. If Tammany will but be true to herself,
stand firm to her own sentiments, and nominate
| a straight conservative war ticket it will be


triumphantly elected, let the copperhead faction
do what 1t pleases.


The copperhead and niggerhead factions are


doing their best to ruin both the republican and
democratic parties. The logical result Of the


teachings and practice Of both Of these factions
Is dsunion and separation-the niggerheads 10
preventing the South from coming back, and


the copperheads In submission to the South
thus leading to the same result Tammany


can no more unite with the copperheads


in the approaching city election than she


can unite with the niggcrheads, with


IN endorsement Of Greeley in the bargain
| What Is the difference, we would like to know