Year: 1862

abolitionists- Chandler, Sumner, Wade and
Wilkinson who are not content with the injury
which political humbugging and the uncsasing


Introduction OF the negro into public affairs has


already done the cause Of the country.


We repeAt that Congress has done - much


as could be G fpected from such body, and We


can afford to let it 60 now.


The Treacherous Policy % the Rebel


Leaders-How to Defeat Their Plans.


Among the intelligence from New Orleans
which VIC published yesterday was the address
Of the rebel Governor of Louisiana to the
people Of that State, in which he endeavors to
keep up the spirits of the rebellion, in the same
way ~ all the other Southern leaders are doing,
in order to prevent their cause from dying out,
and to save themselves. It is curious to OBJ
serve with what credulity the statements Of
these men are swallowed at the South. All
that they have thus far been enabled to accom-
plish has been due to this system of treachsry
and deception. According to their own state
ments they are the most invulnerable people in
the world. They are never defeated; they a.
ways gain great victories; and the pertinscity
Of their leaders In lying has become SO great
that even the rebel prisoners captured and
brought here do not know that their armies
have been defeated. Such ia their blind rsli-
ance on the misrepresentation of their leaders


twill be seen, by statement which we have
obtained from an escaped Northerner, and which
We publish In another column, that the rebels
now declare that they have seven hundred
thousand men in the field. They assert that
they had four hundred and fifty thousand men
when the new conscription act came into opera
ton; and they calculate that the levies made
under this act will give them two hundred and
fifty thousand more-so that their total force
will amount to the full number which they
claim. Now, if it be true that the rebels have
these forces in the ield-even though many Of
them must be raw and unarmed levies--it only
shows the necessity of our government placing
such force in the field as will crush the re-
bellion by q rapid succession of vigorous and
decisive blows. The first thing in order will
be the capture Of the rebel capital. This will
be blow more severely felt among them
than any other injury We could indict, and
would complete the Generalization Of their
affairs. For the safety Of our government,
therefore, and the final triumph Of our armies,
the constituted authorities must provide rein
forcements Immediately for General Mcclellan.
Not that the noble army under this gallant
officer will be defeated if such reinforcements
are not sent forward but to enable the General
promptly and victoriously to carry out those
~lo,~o oh kA haa bon fros rod frn
executing by the unwise action Of the radical
members OF Congress in Washington.


It is the duty of every public journalist to
support the government that vigorously
and irmly--refraining from all condemnation
of the Chief Executive and his advisers, SO long
as their course Of action is productive Of more
good than evil, even admitting that, to a certain
extent, they sometimes act alphabetically, If not
positively wrong but when the latter prin
ciple attains the ascendency, and the acts
Of the governing powers become productive
Of more evil than good, and everything
is made incident to the mere qualification
of the speculative motives of few
partisan leaders, then it as truly becomes the
duty Of the journalist, as q citizen and as a
man, to speak boldly and write fearessly
against those who may offend, that he may sus-
tain and vindicats the desires and inclinations
of every true friend Of these States, united to-
getber as one whole yet separate. though not
divided. In this connection, therefore, we
would most strenuously urge the necessity of
pushing forward with the utmost energy rein
forcements for the Army Of the Potomac, both
naval and military. General Mcclellan has
for a long time been making repeated and
urgent demands for q considerable accession
of troops; but his requests were disre-
garded until the late conflicts on the Potomac
showed the necessity Of much larger force
than were then in the field The President, by
his recent visit to James river, not only became
convinced Of the accuracy of General Nc
Clellans calculations, but he saw that the finest
army in the werld was saved by the skill and
courage Of the Gensral-in-Chief and the devo
tion and pluck Of bis soldiers. Mr.. Lincoln also
saw that General Mcclellan, now being in q
position to maintain himself with certainty and
security, must have the full support of the 60
vernment; but both the President and the Sec
retary Of War, In order to reap the fruits Of tho
recent operations on the Chickahominy, must act
promptly and vigorously up to the requirements
Of the country's danger, and give the General
such available strength as he can successfully
use within the shortest space Of time for the
country's good, and for the rapid crushing out
OF the rebellion.


All that General Mcclellan wants is to have
equal numbers with his country's foes; and the
very first duty Of the government at Washing
ton 10 to see that he shall have them without
any further loss Of time. This is the loud de-
mand Of the country and the patriotic sense Of
the people oil over the loyal States, wherever
there Ia sound head, a patriotic heart and a
good man. Let the government, therefore,
obey what the nation emphatically demands.


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