Year: 1862

From the New York Independently


There is no need of rousing the patriotism ei
| the people. It is an inexbaUstible quality. II
underlies their very life. The government itseii
is buoyed up by It, and rides upon 1t IKE snip
upon The fathomless ocean.


No. It's the government that nesdS rousing


We DO not need meetings on the Hudson put
motion on the Potomac. Ii is not IN Boston OF
Buffalo. or Cincinnati, or New York, that tnls
case is TO bs settled but in Washington. The
people are beginning to distrust their rulers.
Not their good nature, their patriotism theI
honesty, bug thei capacity for the exlgency oi
military affairs Thoy know that in wsf az, hour
otea carries a campaign in its hand. a day Is
a year. The President seems to be man With
ont any sense Of the value of time. Inc peo-
pie admits his disinterestedness Ihey DeheFe
him firm, when he reaches decisions. BAT Iney
perceive how long period he requires 10 ioflh
judgments how wide circuit he takeS oi IN
certainty aud Vacillation before he determines.
In civil affairs that can bear to wait the people
deem him among the best Of our long line OF
Presidents But, it is war. Armies are perish
ing Months are wasting. We are N the sec
ond year of rebellion. We have been Just on
the eve Of doing something for sixteen months;


The people cannot but see that the success OF
our arms has been in the ratio of heir distance
from the seat of government. In the great
West, where the government could not medale'
on the seabosrd, in North Carolina, at Beaufort,
S. c., at New Orleans, we have had success.
But in Virginia, withinreach of the influence OF
Washington, we have had 81 our delays and all
our mis1cTtunes. Do not the people consider
these thingsl


We walked from stand to stand in the great
meeting of Tuesday with q sadness that we could
not disguise. The necessity for such a meeting
was a mortifcetion. What President was ever
so royalty backed What resources, what en-
thusiasIn, what unity of feeling, what eagernes5
of men TO be enrolled, what confidence in the
administration And ono year has so nearly
wasted ali this that the government IS resorting
TO unusual Influences TO secure enGstments. Is
patriotism dead7 Is the love of national unity
quelched Why are such meetings needed ts
drun up recruits We are obliged to say to
Ir. Lincoln, the fault is not with the people.


They have been true and generous They are
determined and Undiscouraged. They wait
but it Is because they are intelligent. They are
used to the management of affairs They are
not disposed to throw away their power.


The nation rose up in its majesty to punish
rebellion. put magnificent army into the
Presidents hand. For one year that army was
besisgod in the capital


At length, this past spring, began the cam
pagn in Virginia. The people gloried in the
belief that the majesty Of the government would
be asserted. After four months campaign, the
armies of the United States are on the dJeRSlEe
Not less than a hundred thousand men have been
lost by death, wounds, sickness and captivity;
Mcclellan is cooped up on James river; Pope
is collecting an army; and the country is to-day
actusly debating whether the enemy cannot
strike q blow at Washington Is this such
management as viii confirm the confidence OF
the country in Mr.. Ljncoln's conduct Of the
war; Do we need to ask why men are slow to
volunteer Does any man need to be told what
the end of such things must be This Is not
Furnishing rebellion. Il is helping it.


In the second year Of the war And how
long viii it be before every nation in Europe
viii have a right to say, the South has shown
itself able TO maintain its independence?


The vacillation and hesitation Of the govern
ment are taking away from liberty her moral
pre-eninence. The loyal States, whom liberty
and religion have made so strong, and which
are ineffably superior TO the revolving slave
States, are made to stand before the whole world
as even less strong than they! The manner oi
crushing the rebellion was almost as important
as the act itself The energy, the directness
the stern severity, and the suddenness of the
stroke, should have put honor on loyalty and
iufamy on rebellion But we are making rebel
lion honorable few months more and we
shall have neither moral nor political right to
s.iguatiza the Southern movement. Then en-
ergy and val0r viii have extorted from Our
ueyer-ready generals and vacillating govern
ment success that will crown slavery and dis
honor liberty.


The President is understood to have assumed
the whole responsibility of the campaign in the
East. The people viii hold him to that respon-
sjbity The generals are Of his selection. All
things are in his hands.


But one thing is sure, unless there is more
purpose and vigor a. Washington, ell the p2blic
meetings in the land viii not save this country
from shame and disaster!