Year: 1864




The New York World thinks that the
war, as it is at present conducted, is
faint one, without hope of other issue than
the success of the rebellion and the dis
union of the States. This is all a very
easy thing to say, and it may be quite as
hard to disproVe the statement as it would
be to prove it. The World would do the
nation, and particularly the government,
great kindness by stating plainly what
shall be done the better to secure the de-
feat of the rebellion, and maintain the
union of the States. If there is wisdom in
the World Office superior to the combined
wisdom of the administration and of the
military men who have had the principal
management of military affairs, it should
be placed Immediately at the service of the
government. No light so precious should
be hid under bushel. The government
has sifted out its officers to find the best,
and now it has Grant and Sherman at the
head of its two great armies, doing their
migttiest to cope with the military power
of the rebellion. Are there better officers
than these2 Are these interfered with in
the execution of their plans2 How shall
the war be conducted better than it is now
being conducted?


In the main, it must be conceded that our
armies are we'll officered, and that our men
fight we'll. Ought we to have more men
How shall we get them2 There is no gov
eanment that would not prefer volunteers
to conscripts but, if volunteers cannot be
had, then conscription must be resorted to,
to fill the ranks. But it is understood that
the opposition is not in favor of the draft.
The "good friends" of Gov. Seymour, in
New York city, whom the World patrouizes,
and for whose excesses it has no words of
censure, are apt to get excited about draft.
Gov. Seymour, too, has great deal of
trouble with the government about the
quota of the Empire state. 1t is never
right, and he is never satisfied. When
hundred. day men are called for, he is
obliged to wait for some technical points
TO be settled before he sends man to save
an imperiled national capital or assist a
sister state to repel a ruinous INVASION
The World knows that the only opponents
of a draft are among the party which it
represents, and that, if they could have
their way, no man should enter the army
who did not choose to do SO. Now, if the
improved management ofthe war does not
contemplate more efficient commanders
than Grant and Sherman, and does not call
for larger armies by means of broader
CONSUMPTION, will the World tell US what
material change it would have?


Mr.. Gilmore tells US that the president
of the rebels says he is fighting for inde-
pendence, and that the South will fight
for that until it is won. We should like
to know how he can be defeated in this
aim without overcoming him by weight
of military power, and how military power
can be procured without men. And we
should like to know how much confidence
can be reposed in party that loses no op-
portunity to embarrass the government in
its best and most essential efforts to de-
stroy the rebellion, George Francis Train
is democrat, and delegate to the Chi
caRo convention. Is he man who would
lift a finger to aid the government in the
destruction of the rebellion? His public
lutterauces have been simply and outrage
ously reasonable. He has been obliged
to run away from communities whose 10y
| atty he naQ lnsulLeQ. MT. fdllduulBubm
is democrat, and also a member of the
Chicago convention. Would he do any
thing to aid the government in any honest
effort to overthrow the rebel power? He
| is man whose treason has been proved


by competent court, and who is now at
large simply at the torbearance of the
government which he has outraged. Is
Mr.. Fernando Wood a friend of the gov
ernmeut2 Had he or his brother, or has
Governor Seymour of New York, or Gov
ernor Seymour of Connecticut, or any of


the other men who are regarded as the


representative men of that party of which


the World is an organ, ever said or done


anything to help on the government in its


military work2 Are they in favor of the
war at all2 Is it believed that these men,
if they should acquire power, would inau-


gurate a system of warfare so much more


efficient than that now pursued that the
rebellion would be speedily crushed p
We regret to say that such supposition,


in view of the notorious facts, is simply


absurd. af.


Then what is meant by the war "as at


present conductedF Is it unreasonable


scolding-partisan clAolor-or the intima.
ton of a radical difference of policy? Both.
The emancipation policy is not liked, the
/ emancipation proclamation is not approved,


the armipg of the freed blacks is objected