The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PLOPRISTOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ERMS cash in advance, Money sentby mail will he at the SERRE am None bus Bank bille current in New Yorks tukew Volume XXVIT.....60c00e AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tar Nicut Dancers, WALLAOK’S THEATRE, No. 544 Broadway.—Domser & Son. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway,—Younc Paincr—Katry O 5uxat WINTER GARDEN, Broadway. —Tax Wraro's Tearest. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Zingim\—Buavry axp tae Béast—Koica7s OF THB RUaD—GOLDAN FaKnen. XUM'S AMBRICAN MUSEUM. Broadway —C c., at all hours. Cinpewetia, oa. CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE, 585 Broadwa: Sores, Dances, &¢.~BuLY Parrenson. WOOD'S MINST’ Bones, Danons, Ac RT HLOPIAN OL WALL, 5M Brow lway.—Eraorian Pixies Lax, AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No, 444 Braadway.—Sovas, Bukixsoues, Dances, Ac. NATIONAL THEATRE AND mai » Dances, Boni rsge HALL, Canal CONCERT HALL, oe alana, —DaRawing x78, Bugcesaves, ac PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— Open daity trou 10 A. Mutt ly PM. New York, Monday, July 7, 1862. THE SITUATION. We have no later account of military movements near Richmond. Advices up to Saturday night state that everything was quiet and that the troops were in fine spirits. General McClellan Issued an address to his army on the Fourth of July which breathes the spirit of success. He congratulates the troops upon their courage, daring, endurance and discipline in the face of a foe immensely superior in number and without the hope of reinforcements. He says that, although compelled to fight for Several days under severe disadvantages, the object im view was completely at- tained without the loss of stores or guns, except a few of the latter, which necessarily had to be abandoned, but thet the guns taken from the ene. my cover the loss ef our army in this particular. Taking the opportunity of addressing his men on what he appropriately calls the ‘‘nation’s birth- day,’’ he agsures them that they have accomplish- ed a military feat which places them on an equality with any army known to history, and that it will be a proud boast henceforth to belong to the Army of the Potomac. The young chieftain proclaims that the capital of the so-called Southern confede- racy will soon be captured, and that at any ex- pense of time, treasure and blood, the constitution and the Union ‘‘must and shall be preserved." The wounded officers who have arrived in Wash- ington from McClellan’s army are unanimous in stating that no defeat has been experienced on the Peninsula; that our losses are greatly exaggerated; that the siege guns are not lost, and that not only is the position of the army better than ever, but that they have the utmost confidence in General McClellan's success. We give additional Mats of the killed and wounded to-day, together with some interesting details from our correspondents. An important order has just been issued from the War Department, requiring all the officers and %oldiers who may have been released on parole, after being captured by the rebels, to report at once to the camps of instraction in the different sections of conntry from which their regiments have come, and there’ report themselves for such duty as may be compaMble with their parole. In other words, we understand this order to mean the organization of # home guard for garrivon duty and defence, composed of those soldiers now at large who have served and were taken prisoners by the enemy in previons battles, Our news from the West to-day is cheerful and exciting. Vicksburg, as we before aunounced, is safely in onr han s, thus leaving the Miesissippi open, from its source to its wouths, to the Union artus and the commerce of the nation. aiar has recently taken place at Bocnevilie, below Corinth, hetween a party of Col. Sheridan's Michigan cavalry and a superior body of the Col. Sheridan, it appears, bad only 725 wen under his command, and, although eppered to a force of 4,700 rebels, succeeded in defeating ike latier, after a desperaie fight, which lasted seven hours. rebels. The loss on our side killed, wounded and missing. hat of the enemy could not be ascertained, but it must have been heavy, because sixty-five dead were found upon the deld. Major General Halleck, in officially onnouncing this magnificent encounter, very properly recommends Col. Sheridan for promotion. The Kangaroo and Hibernian, off Cape Race, dring telegraphic details of the European news to the 27th of June, published in the Henanp yor-erday (Sunday) morning. The Londen Leruld, organ of the English aristo- Grats, urges Briish “intervention” the affairs @f the United States, while the London Times Sheds hypocritical tears over the “carnage” in America end the tnances of the Union. ‘The Emperor of crance is to make a great mili- Cary aud naval demonstration against Mexico and &n the waters of the American continent. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamships Kangaroo and Hibernian, off Cape Race, televraph news froin Europe to the B7th of Jui we days later than the odvices of the Scotia. A synopsis of the report of the Hi Deruian, tho latest, appeared in the lienau yes ferday morning, and the details are given to-day. The Liverpool cottun market was citad on the 27th of Jane. with av advance of from one to ons and ahalf penny, Breadstoile were stedy, with unchanged rates. Provisions were very dull, Con- pois closed in London at 91% a 9174. The news from tie Voutinent of Burope is pot Wiportant. | The heat yesterday was most intense, in fact by Peverai degrees greater than on any day during the present season. Svoarcely a breath of air was Stirring, and a duil, heavy, sultry atmosphere en- veloped the city. The heat was @ good while somiug, but it is on us with @ vengeance now, and Boudt eas will last longer than wo desire it. Rev. bir. Thompson preached wa highly colored Pmsooipation sermon fast evening, inthe Taber- hacle, corner of Thirty-fourth street and Sixth pvenue, toa rather sim congregation, which was Nobably owing to the extreme oppressiveness of was only forty-one the heat. Previous to commencing his discourse | he informed his hearers that a collection would be taken up for the benefit of the wounded soldiers who were expeoted to arrive in this city during the week in large numbers. After the collection the reverend gentleman proceeded to preach from | the following passages of Scripture, taken from the book of Exedus and other sources:—‘ Thou shalt neither vex the stranger nor oppress him, for we were strangers in the land of Egypt.”’ “ Oh, house of David, saith the Lord, execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him ont of the hands of the oppressor.” The preacher delivered a lengthy discourse from these words, urging the necessity of emancipation as necessary to the re- establishment of our government. A large and highly respectable assemblage con- gregated at the City Assembly Rooms last even- ing, to assist in the inauguration of a Christian Alliance, composed of Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians. The object of the association is to afford wanderers an opportunity of embracing and practising Christianity. The exercises of the evening consisted of able dis- courses by the Rev. Dra. Tyng, Goss and Weston, and singing by a choir under the diregtion of Pro- fessor Wilson. Services will be held hereafter every Sunday morning and evening. Seats free. We give below the names of the localities of the various battles which have been fought by the contending armies before Richmond: — Thursday, June 26—Battle of Mechanicsville. Friday, June 27—Battle of Gaines’ Mill. Saturday, June 28—Battle of the Chickahominy. Sunday, June 29—Battle of Peach Orchard; battle of Savage's Station. Monday, June 30—Rattle of White Oak Swamp; battle of White Oak Creek; battle of Charles City Cross Roads. Tuesday, July 1—Battle of Turkey Bend. Onthe 24th ult. John J. Pettus, Governor of the State, Gen. Earl Van Dorn and Gen. Mans- eld Lovell were in Vicksburg. They probably skedaddled when the city surrendered, Up to the present time this year $21,750,000 in specie has left the United States for Europe. Dur- ing the same time there has arrived at the port of New York from California $12,255,070. The new Congressional districts of Maine have been so arranged as to throw Hon. 8. C. Fessen- den, ef the Third district, and Hon. Frederick A. Pike, of the Sixth, into the same district—the new Fifth. A republican nominating convention was held on the 2d instant, and Mr. Pike received the nomination for the next Congress. This closes the door against Mr. Fessenden. The health of ex-President Van Buren does not improve, and very slight hopes are entertained now of his recovery. All the patent medicines in Alabama belonging toNorthern doctors have been sold at auction, for the benefit of the Dixie confederacy. There was quite a rally in the stock market on Satur_ day. Stocks of al! descriptions—governments and rail. way shares—advanced from 1 to 3 a 5 per cont, the market closing buoyantly. Money was in rather better supply; call loans 6 26 percent. Exchange closed with .transcetions at 121\ a 3g. Gola 100% a110. The bui- lion export of the day was $2,683,050. The cotton inarket was firm on Saturday, before the news was received, and about 150 bales wero sold on the basis of 30c. for middling uplands. After the in- telligence by the Hibernia came to hand, giving an account of an unvauce of 14d. or about 30. per pound ta Liverpool, holdera advanced their terms, and asked 40c., and in some cases even 4ic. per pound, which checked transactions, as they were not mot by pur- ehasers. Flour was steady, and in fair demand from the trade and forsbipment. Good extra grades of State and Western were quite firm, while other kinds were unchanged, Wheat was tolerably active. Inferior qua- jities were dull and easier, while good shipping lots of Western amber, red and ciub were firmer, and for some descriptions rather better. Corn was in good request, and prices without ehange of importance, with sales of old Western mixed, good to choice, at 54c. a S5c. Pork was lower, but active at the concessien, with sales of mess at $10 50 and prime at $8 504 $8 62%. Sugars were firm and active, with salts of 1,300 bhds. and 410 boxes at full prices. Coffee was quiet and steady. Freights were firmer, with a fair amount of engage | meus. The Mismanegement and Misman of the War Dopartment. There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak. The campaign has concluded with our repulse from before Richmond. The campaign to come will require new troops, new plans and new combinations, with, perhaps, new emergencies of {foreign complications. The time has come therefore, to expose, rebuke and correct the errors and mismanagement of the past, in order to secure @ thorough reformation for the future. The weak point of the nation is the War De- partment. From the gross errers, reckless mis- management and criminal intrigues which have disgraced that department can be traced all the disasters, all the defeats, ail the repulses which our arms have sustained. The errors of the War Department have been of a threefold cha- racter: errors caused by ignorance and inca- pacity; errors caused by personal and political jeaiousies and imtrigues, and errors caused by fanatical abolitionism. Some of the blunders of the Secretary of War and his advisers ap- pear instigated by a combination of all of these fauits. We shall endeavor, however, to sufficiently distinguish them, and to demon- strate by results that either an ignoramus, an intriguant or a fanatic is uofit for a Secretary of War. How much less qualified, then, is a iman Who combines these three unpopular char- acters? And we must state in advance that it will not do for President Lincoln to at- tempt to father Stanten’s blunders, as he en- dorsed Cameron’s extravagance. The people will allow such slf-dewotion for once; but if it be too often renewed the people may take the President st his word. It is better to change Cabinet offcer than a President. No Executive has a right to sacrifice himself in the respect of the people in order to save the credit of an un- popular subordinate, To fret refuse, then accept, then again refuse, and the m call for recruits, was an error of ignorance, conceit and incapacity. Of the same character is the error of uot receiving all recruits and organizing them in camps of in- struction, $0 as to have them prepared in case of rgemcy. it ia an error of incapacity to take Stute troops to Wasiington and keep them there, on some trifing purctilio, without being sworn im, and consequently without pay. No busi door ness man hangs his worst goods at the of his store; but the Secretary of War ecatters his hospitals throughout all ovr large cities, places t! next to the re- eruiiing offices in our parks, and expects mea yo enlist with all the horrid mutilations of war storing at and discouraging them. New re- crulis consider it an hoaor to belong to a veie- ran regiment of tried valor; but sweh regiments, when deciinated in battie, are not filled up, but are allowed to dissolve and merge into other regiments. Thus the prestige, the ec/at, the ex- perience of the veterans are lost to the raw re~ cruits, who are obliged to form new rad raw regiments, like some in Casey’s brigade at Fair Oaks. The Secretary of War makes no provi- sion for accident or emergevoy, and issues a call for three bundred thousand troops, not just before @ battle, when the people are enthu- siastic, but just on the heels of » repulse, when the people are depressed. When Stanton di- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, , JULY 7, 1862. vided McClellan’s command he eer alia the practical direction of the campaign. The people knew and the press announced that Jeff. Davis was massing all his troops at Rich- mond, just as a good business man concentrates his means where be finds the best investment. ‘The Secretary of War could not understand this, Consequently our troops at James Island retreated from a foe who had gone to Rich- mond; our troops in the Shenandoah built in- trenchments against Jackson, who bad gone to Richmond; our troops at the West stood on the defensive against Beauregard, who had gone to Richmond; and Burnside sought in vain for the North Carolina rebels, who had also gone to Richmond. McCletlan was, therefore, overwhelmed. Now let the Secretary of War reverse his policy, and call our troops from the West, the South and the East, to reinforce McClellan, and the rebels will reeonquer Co- rinth, Memphis, Newbern, the Shenandoab and Hilton Head, by returning as hastily as they left. This is not strategy, but simple common sense. We hope Secretary Stanton will not thus complete his long list of blunders through ignorance, conceit and incapacity. Omitting for the present references to the extravagance and corruption in financial and contract matters which are openly charged upon the War Department, we have space only to refer briefly to the official errors from per- sonal and political jealousies and abolition in- trigues. The public no longer doubt that cer- tain parties in Congress and the Cabinet regard this war as a mere machine to make Presidents and achieve emancipation. Every general officer, therefore, who distinguishes himself or adopts a decisive policy is at once attacked, and, if possible, disgraced by this half political, half abolition clique. MeClellan’s plans have been disastronsly disarranged. Fremont was supported in Missouri when he ought to have been removed, removed when he ought to have been supported, and appointed to the Shenandoah when he should have been kept in retirement. Banks and McDowell have been sacrificed. Butler has managed New Or- leans so well that it is said the War Depart- ment has rebuked him. Hunter is first ordered, and then forbidden, to arm negroes, and is accordingly disgusted. Dupont is kept idle at Hilton Head, while Goldsborough, who was impliedly rebuked by the President for not destroying the Merrimac, keeps our iron-clads idle in James river. Farragutis detained weeks before Vicksburg, because ignorant of the cap- ture of Mernhis and the existence of Davis’ and Ellet’s fleets. Incompetent officers are promoted and competent oflicers kept down, by the influence of these political and “abolition wirepullers. Is this war? What other govern- ment ever assailed its own generals in the field? What other Secretary of War would have forced the President to go to West Point and submit McClellan’s plans to-General Scott’s supervision? How much longer must the people endure this transformation of a war for for the Union into a political squabble and an abolition intrigue? We all fee! sure that Presi- dent Lincoln is honest and well-meaning. How much longer, then, will he allow himself to be deluded—to be separated from the people—to be misrepresented and misled by these in- triguers? How much longer will he allow our brave soldiers to be sacrificed? How much longer will he permit defeats? The crisis de- mands the sublimest statesmanship, and we seem to have no statesmen in the country. We express but the opinion of the people when we suggest the removal of Secretary Stanton, who, rightly or wrongly, is unanimous- ly regarded as the tool of the abolitionists, the organizer of disasters, the author of defeats. The President may rest assured that the Secretary of War distracts the confidence of the public, and that his mere retention in office delays enlistments and discourages en- thusiasm. The people desire, also, the sup- pression of abolition traitors, who injure the Union cause by their intrigues, by their public utterances and by their asserted familiarity with the President, who has more to fear from Charles Sumner than from Jeff. Davis. The people desire that the oath of allegiance be administered to all the citizens of the loyal States. Abolitionists cannot take an oath to support the Union as it ie without deserting their abolitionism; and thus abolitionism is proven to be treason, Those who take the oath, then, become conservative, and those who refuse should become prisoners of State. The President, General Scott, Gene- ral McClellan and General Halleck should con- sult, and arrange @ new campaign, and the President should see to it that it is carried ont, and our generals supported firmly against all cabals. Thus reassured for the future, the peo- ple will contentedly endure the prolongation of the war, the increased expenditures of men and means, andthe possible foreign interventions which past official errors have brought upon us. ‘Phus will the Union be speedily and glo- riously restored. Tue Ravicat Press ann Tue Late Disasters tv Vinainia.—The revolutionary press is very bitter in its assaults upon the War Department and the administration generally in relation to the late disasters in Virginia. But these very journals and the radical members of Congress, whose organs they are, are morally responsi- ble in a far higher degree than the Cabinet, though exempt from any legal rexponsibility. It was under their influence and clamors that the War Department, ignorant of war, weakly yielded to the intrigues of the abolition mem bers of both branches of Congress, and reduced MeClellan’s army to @ condition so numeri- caliy inferior to that of the enemy that re- treat was inevitable, as General McVlellian is known to have long since warned the gov- ernment, unless it sent him sufficient rein orve- ments in time. That General has the siugular merit of ng his army from utter ruin ead punishing the pursuing army witha severity which the surviving portion of it will never forget. The radical preas are cloarly ble for these disasters in two ways. First, by encouraging the idea that the insurgent chiefs had only a handful of baif armed men; thay General McOlelian’s ariny, with ample muni- tions of war, and with a superabundance of the best weapons known to mo- dern military art and science, outnum, bered the rebels at least two to one, and that the reason why he didgpot attack them vigorously and capture Richmond at once was because his sympathies were with the slaveholders. Secondly, by their violont advocacy of confisoa- tion and emancipation, and their malignant hostility to the whole people of the Southern States, breathing out slaughter and threatenings egainst them, which, if realized, would leave them nothing to hope for, causing them to fight with all the energy of desperation, as they did in the es apse TBH seven days before Richmond. These are the chief causes of the present con- dition of affairs. The radical press is responsi- ble to God and man for the result, and for the lives of thousands of Union soldiers who have been sacrificed. What do these journalists deserve in return? Let their own base, black hearts answer, if they are not completely seared by cupidity and the love of public plunder, or by a fanatical, reckless party spirit which drowns the voice of humanity with its cries, as the worshippers of Juggernaut drown with their drums the death shrieks of the tortured victims offered in sacrifice upon the burning pile which consumes them to ashes, The Formidable French Navy—Threats of Intervention—How to Meet Them. By the telegraphic news from Cape Race; brought by the Hibernia, up to the 27th ult., published in yesterday’s Hraxp, we learn that “Admiral La Graviere will immediately take command of a strong concentration of French war vessels in the American waters,” which con- centration, the Patrie says, “is justified by what may arise out of the American war and Mexican affairs.”’” This, taken in connection with the recent tone of both the French and English press, is very significant. Admiral La Graviere is the foremost naval officer in the service of the Emperor, and is to France even more than Farragut is to the United States. He has writ- ten several works on naval warfare, and not only stands very high for his ability in his pro- fession, but is distinguished for a high order of cultivated intellect and for great practical knowledge of human affairs. Hence he is en- trusted by Napoleon with high political as well as naval authority. By reference to an article im another column, containing the substance of the report of Captain Hore, of the British navy, on the strength of the naval forces of France, it wiil be seen that the announcement contained in the news brought by the Hibernia is not a mere empty menace, but that it affords food for the digestion of our Navy Department and a powerful stimulus to active exertions in the same line. It will be ‘recollected by our readers that several weeks ago we anticipated this report, and all our contemporaries, by the publication of the facts, upon the authority of a gentleman who had been lately Consul at the port of Bor- deaux. This article, which we copy from an English journal received by the last mails from Europe, fully confirms the accuracy of our views, even to the very ports where the iron- clad frigates and gunboats were and are being built. The following is a brief abstract of the state of the French navy afloat on the Ist of January last :-— Ships-of the-line. Frigates—serew Frigates— addie. Frigates—1 Floating butteries—iron- Other vessels, including ie In addition to these there wore being built ten fron-plated frigates, two iron-pluted floating batteries and twenty-nine other craft, making in all forty-one. The total force when com- pleted, as it is now or soon will be, amcunts to three hundred and sixty. The iron-plated fri- gates alone number sixteen, and tie iron-plated batteries fourteen. This formidable navy, it appears from the re- port of Colonel Claremont, of the British ar- my, is backed by an organized military force of 686,546. That Napoleon intends to find em- ployment for both, either in Europe or on this continent, very soon, can bardiy admit of a doubt, The late disasters to our army in Vir- gina will probably be his pretext, first, for “friendly” mediation, then for recognition of Southern independence, and, lastly, for armed intervention and war. He fears revolution in France, and his purpose is to ward off the stroke by launching the nation into a foreign war in order to unite it, and quench the smoul- dering fires of domestic insurrection by the sun- light ef patriotism. He would have the moral and diplomatic support of Eugland in his scheme of intervention in American affairs; for her statesmen desire to see the thunder cloud which lowers south of the Straits of Dover borne by the winds here to the shores of the New World, to burst afar from British heads. if the English government can form a secret alliance with Napoleon, and embroil him ona sea of troubles in an open conflict with the United States, it will thus stave off the evil day for some time longer from the British aristoc- racy, and at the same time weaken two rival maritime Powers. What is the duty of the Secretary of the Navy under these circumstances? It is to look well to our seacoast defences, thet they are pul in order, and to hasten the completion of the iron- clad vessels now in the course of construction or contracted for, and to see that none of them will prove a failure, like the Galena, to be pierced by Leavy metal as readily as if they were wooden walls. If he is not satisfied with the number, size or quality of the vessels now on hand, let him advise Congress to that effect, and call for more or better vessels. If war with France should find us not couipletely pre- pared with a navy equal to that of Ncpoleon, after the repeated warnings we have had-of tie dan- ger of European intervention, the country will exact {rom Secretary Welles a terrible reckon" ing. The best way to prevent a forcign war is to be well prepared for it. If the ruler of France sees that we are in a condition to repel his blows with interest he will be very slow to atiack us, and, if he should, the nation will have the satisfaction of knowing that our flag will be borne triumphantly through the battle and the breeze. To be unprepared is to invite foreiga aggression ag well as domestic strife. Had our government been proper'y prepared, even with a military force of thirty thousand men and a suficient naval armament to capture and to hold Charleston, the rebellion would have been nipped in the bud, instead of being per- mitted to grow into such formidable propor- tions by delay that half a miliion of troops are now found to be insufficient to prt itdown. In point of land forees, when the three hundred thonsand additional men called for by the President shall bave heen enrolled and organ- ized, the government wili be equal to any emergency. Lettie country be equally strong at sea, and there need be no fear for the result should the combined Powers of Europe assail the American republic, the palladium of liberty and the hope of downtrodden humanity to the ends of the earth. In the struggle it will have the sympathies of the democracy of atl Europe, if not their active aid by lighting up the flames of revolution. If the Freach repubiic seventy years ago, without # formidable naval forco, wes able in defence of ite unity and integrity to hurl back the legions of the crowned heads of Burope in coalition against her, aad separated trauspor' from her frontier only by an imaginary geo- graphical line, or a narrow channel of twenty miles, how much more will the republic of the United States, with a greater population, greater resources, greater intelligence, and a powerful navy, be able to drive back the armies of the same Powers, which will have to cross a stormy ocean of three thousand miles before they put foot on her soil. Who Are the Traitorst—Ihe Aboli- tonists. Out of the diverse and conflicting sccounts received from General McClellan’s army the public mind seizes most readily and most strongly upon the prominent fact tliat those abolition politicians, in and out of Congress and the Cabinet, who have assailed McClellan and delayed his reinforcements, are responsible for whatever losses and disasters have been sustained by the Army of the Pétomac during the tremendous conflicts of the past week. No matter what other fact may be doubted, disput- ed or denied, this fearful and damning respon- sibility of the abolition politicians is universally admitted, Among the opponents of General McClellan none were more active, more bitter, more vin- dictive, a few short weeks ago, than Sam. Wilkeson, then the Washington correspondent, the lobby agent, the chief of the infamous Con- tract Bureau of the New York Tribune. Our readers will recall the characteristic letter in which Wilkeson announced the closing of his jobbing agency at Washington; and shortly after the publication of this letter, Wilke- son, satisfied with his contract spoils, or disgusted at the lack of them, left Wushington and joined McClellan’s army as the Tribune reperter. A very short experience in the army served to converts Wilkeson from an opponent toa friend and admirer of General McClellan. In letter after letter he has endorsed our views of the war, and assured, and endeavored to convince, the Tribune editors that their hostility to McClellan was hostility to the Union cause, and that the Trilune and its abolition supporters, in and out of Con- gress and the Cabinet, were the worst onemies of the country. The Tribune editors, however, have regarded the warnings of their own oor- reapondent as lightly as they have our repeated admonitions. For this they doubtless have a motive in their interest in gun contracts, which are only valuable if the war continues, and therefore they still endeavor to continue the war. In last Thursday’s Tribune, Wilkeson, who no longer has coutsacts to nurse, tells tlhe abolitionists and the public, in a letter which we transfer to our columns, that the Army of the Potomac “registers vows of vengeance” against those who have perpetrate! “the crime against the nation which has made this change of base and front imperlously neces- sary; that “the politicians and statesmen who left us here to be outnumbered and cut of from our supplies and the possibility of retreat are doomed men ;” and that the persons who are responsible for McCileilan’s losses are those. who ‘mix up with the sacred right of an outnumbered American army to demand help from their countrymen and promptly receive it, collateral questions of fitness, of vigor, of fidelity, in commanders.” These are brave and true words. These are facts which we have repeatedly stated. These are thoughts which the public endorse. The Tribune, however, will not endorse them; for it has abolitionism and its gun contracts te preserve, no matter what becomes of the country. To Mr. Wilkeson’s letier, therefore, it adds the significant editorial note that it is not “responsible for,” nor doce it “agree with,” the views of its correspondent, who is in favor of “tighting for the republic,” and not for abolition. Wo charge home upon the abolition politi- cians the responsibility of every disaster which has occurred to our arms since the War Depart- ment interfered with te plans of Gen. McClel- lan, We arraign them upon the testimony of hundreds of witnesses. We prove our aszertions from the letters of Mr. Wilkeson, formerly one of the fanatical disorganizers, but now State’s evidence against them. The nation has thus far been only playing at soldier, and bas not been permitted to make real war. Aboli- tion Cabinet members have deranged the plans of our geserats. Abolition Senators have stopped recruliiag and déclaimed in favor of reducing the army. Abolition Congresemen have squabbled about the occupaney of Geue- rai Lee’s house while delaying reinforcements by intriguing with the Secretary of War in fa- vor of some pet abolition general. Abolition Potiticiaus have fussed about emancipation so- cieties and nigger schools while Uniow soldiers were being sacrificed. Aboiition editors have endeavored to prolong the war in order to en- joy fat contracts and make emancipation inevitable. Abolitionists, great and small, have endeavored to saer'fice the nation to the negro. Only the genius of McOlellan has saved us from ruin. If his army had been captured or routed, what could have saved Washing: ton? What could have saved New York? On the Fourth of July we celebrated a double preservation of our liberties. Nothing but McClellan and his brave soidiers, whom all but God had deserted, preserved those liberties from onnihilation by tho rebel armies before Rich- mond. Events have demonstrated that aboli- tionism is treason, and that abolitionists are traitors. Henceforth they should be held re- spons'ble, in public and private, for the war they have caused; for the disasters they have brought upon our arms; for the repulses our forces hi swffered; for the prolonga- tion of the war; for the imminent risk of for- eign intervention; for the unnecessary sacrifice of our relatives and friends, whose dead bodies ery to Heaven for vengeance from the recent battle fields. In Congress, in the Cabinet, in politics, in the pulpit, in nowspaper offices, the abolitionists are now “doomed men.” Without delay the three hundred thousand men called for by the resident should rush to arms to save their brothers in the fleld. To-day the knell of the aboli- gion traitors who have distracted the coun- cils and impeded the success of the nation should toll. The government must now awake to the task of putting down traitors in the loyal as well as the disloyal States. In every city public meetings should he held to appoint committees of safety to hurry off reiutorce- ments and to suppress domestic treason. Every citizen, throughout the couatry, should now be called upon to take the oath of aile- giance, We are in perilous times. The re- public is im danger from earned rebels and domestic traitors. Let us awako to the reality of wer, and malotain the Union against all foes, foreign and uative—sgainst ail treasou, whether it be called sevessionism or abolj, tionism. ? O_o Congress and the Late Reverses Bofors Richmond. The proceedings in the House of Reprosen- tatives on Saturday last throw much light om the share that the radical members of Con- gress have had in causing the late disaster to our arms in front of Richmond, as well as the disasters in the vailey of the Shenandoah. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, confesses that he has been using all hisinfluence over the Secretary of War to force him into the adoption of the atrocious policy of Hunter. He says he fouust Mr. Stanton entirely opposed to it; but it is to be feared that in other points the Secretary of War has been borne away by the overwhelming pressure of such radicals as Stevens; and the very pertinent question was asked by Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, whether the Secretary of War, to be consistent, ought not to dismiss Hunter? If he is not dismissed, then the best thing Mr. Stanton can do is to dismiss himself. Let there be go political jug- glery, but let the people fully understand where the responsibility lies, and let every man who wishes to be clear of it when en im- dignant nation demands investigation new wipe clean his skirts from participation in the guilt, Itis very evident from this debate in the House of Representatives, as indeed from va rious other indications, that (he chief responsi bility for the late reverses to our arms, which may involve the most serious consequences to the nation, rests with the radical wing of Con- gress, as well from their revolutionary speeches and proceedings, exasperating the rebellion to madness and desperation, as from their in- trigues with the War Department and the Pre- sident, by which they have, m the firat place, prevented a sufficient army from being raised, then stopped enlistments, and finally cut up McClellan’s force and dissipated it over a wide area, while the rebel chieftains were concen- trating their whole force at Richmond te pounce upon him-—the very ,ame they played at Big Bethel, Buil Run, Ball's Biu®, Pittsburg Landing, and in the valley of the Shenandoah. This was done designedly and with malice prepense, in order to disgrace McCleilan and drive him from his command, so as to make room for some other general who would be more subservient to the designs of the radicals, and at the same time get rid of a popularity which might prove very troublesome to them hereafter, baffling all their calculations and wirepulling for the next Presidency. Them this policy prolongs the war and gives the oon- trol of the contracts and the plunder to the men now in power. Mr. Stevens says the South oan never be conquered as long as the negroes in the intertor of the country are permitted to raise provisions for them. From this Mr. Stevens deduces the conclusion that universal emancipation ought to be proclaimed, as the oniy measure that can render the war successful. Like all the logic of the abolitionists, this is extremely fallacious. In order to stop their fanatical cry and to demonstrate their ‘olly and their wickedness, it would be almosta wise course for the President to yield to them and issae a proclamation. It would be soon seem what effect it would have, If the President were to issue a thousand emancipation pro- clamations, they would have no practioa! effect whatever on the war, except in uniting the Southern population more closely against us and exasperating them to deeds of desperate, valor. The proclamation of Mr. Linoola wontd not make any slave free who is now in Rich- mond or Montgomery. We muat first get. poe session of those cities before we can dispose of the property they contain. Every slave that wishes to rua away, and can succeed in enter- ing our lines, is now as free as any proclamation can make him. He is not returned by the army to bis owners, and proclamations cannot reach any othera er have any influence upom them. It is evident that the slaves wil! nut cut the throats of their mas:ers, or of their wives and children, at the bidding of the aboiitioniste; for they are we!! aware tuat if the whole popu- lation of the South were exterm'nated—as the amiable Stereng snzges's—they would only be- come the slaves of new Northern masters, whe would soon become as 3outhern in their ideas “as if they were native end to the manor born;” aud the negroes, moreover, know that, in spite of auy prociamation that may be icsned, they will have to work for their own broad, and raise provisions for tae white race at the South, as long as that race has aries in the tield and holds posses sion of the country. Mr. Stevens, therefore, puts the wagon be- fore the horse. First defeat in the field the armies of the South, and then the disposal of the negroes is in order, But when the rebel- lion is put down the slave quesiion can only be disposed of by the State lswa; and the institution, if the people desire it, is re- vived, no matter what the President or Con gross may do in the premises, unless, indeed, tuey succesded in abolishing State rights and the constitution, breaking up our whole fodera tive system by # bloody revolution, and form ing = consolidated government like tha: of Franee or Great Britain. The course, there fore, pursued by the radicals in Congress ts revolutionary and anti-ccnstitutional. It would establish anarchy upon the ruins of law aud order; it is defeating our armies in the field, and ii is opposing an effectual and eternal bar to the restoration of the Union. The Farewell of the Rev. Dr. Chapin. A crowded auditory azcembled in the Kev. Dr. Chapin's church, Browlway, yesterday awrning, to listen to a parting discourse suggoated by the apnrosch- ing departure of that gontiemaa for Furope. The ser- mon was founded on the text recorded jin Uhilipptans— 2, xxvii.—and was @ very toucuing farowell, He com- menced by abiding to the fact that the Apoutte. a Paul was @ creat pastor as wot asa great prescher, {roles mixsionary, familar with many » ling with many ton, he never forgot (lio given to be the fenite of bis inbor; ard, irave wide, o'er Jaad and sem, hi great hour? was anche: every Christian comtauuily: aad by evory thet bag received. at his hamte ihe blessing of the ¢capel. De. Chapin then proceeded to rave an applicacion of the tems to the circumstances of the oceasion us appropriate to, minister's ariimg discourse te nis people, He he was reluctant tle eo.atry at a time like ig and only coaseuted to do #0 at a dictate of necensitgs, He hoped be might return to, bebold the Cewa ev. stored, tte Mag waving over mi the States in trituggth, With rome general counseis and horig@ory eeaur.ge- moats, he closed his discourre De. Chapin wale for Fowkrat op Tas devaon Riven fenerai of Henry Morphy and Alfred Hottaman, the tee unfortunate Astor House waiters killed om the Hidsow River Reilr ad on Saturday Inst, took Wace yesterday afternoon from the Williamsburg Catho).c ohuich, wodor thd dircotion of Officer Devoe. It way largely attouded inde of te deceased, the? formor eompan- aster Hows accompany Vag the somains to the ¢ sivary Comasory, where they moe faterra with Gatho. ‘ic seraoomies, fo le the {nteatloty of sé. 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