A New military more.
The New York
Tribune says the country will be delighted to hear that
President Lincoln intends to take the command in person of the
Federal army.
The
Tribune professes to consider the
South as still a part of the country, and therefore it includes us, no doubt, in the delight which is felt that
Lincoln is about to lead his legions to the field.
At any rate, we doubt whether all Yankeedom would hall with such rapture the appearance of Abraham in the battle as his revolted subjects of the
South.
We have been inviting him to do it all along; we have pointed out to him the example of
President Davis, who took the field on the famous 21st of July; we have urged him, as the accursed instrument of all the blood that has been shed in this war, to expose is own precious person to a battle field.
The hero of the long cloak and the Scotch cap, who skulked into
Washington in a baggage-car at midnight, and who surrounded himself with a body- guard to prevent the imaginary danger of assassination, has actually plucked up courage enough to put on regimentals, and to take command of the "Grand Army!" At least, so says the
Tribune, which may be poking fun at
Abraham, but may tell the truth.
Most devoutly do we hope that it may be true, and that
Seward and
Chase may be persuaded to accompany their illustrious Chief, as his Aids, to the battle field.
If
Lincoln will give to the
Southern rebels one such chance of retribution as this, not all the coats of mail that Yankee armorers have wrought, and one of which no doubt he always wears on his ungainly person, can save him from destruction.
There are Marylanders and Kentuckians in the Confederate army--to say nothing of the universal competition which would spring up to hit the bull's eye — who know the man personally, and who owe him a grudge which will be fed fat on the day that he tempts such a doom.
Would to Heaven that it were true, and that
Seward & Co., who have set in motion the whole infernal machinery of this war, would show one little spark of manhood, and for one minute present themselves in front of the people whom they are endeavoring to degrade and exterminate.
