The Abolition General.
There seems some plausibility in the idea of a Northern journal that the appointment of
Burnside as
McClellan's successor is not designed to be permanent, but that he is merely to hold the place till an Abolition General can be found who will carry out
cos amore the spirit and letter of
Lincoln's proclamation.
Burnside, it is understood, is of the conservative school, and has labored for some time under the suspicion of being a gentleman.
If this suspicion prove well founded, we may be sure that his command of the Army of the Potomac will be much briefer than that of his predecessor.
There is another circumstance which gives color to the surmise that
Burnside is not intended as a permanent chief.
The New York
Times, some weeks ago, declared that when martial law should be fully inaugurated in the
North the
Federal Government would subordinate the
State Governments to its own will, and pay no more regard to the
State Constitutions than it has done to the
Constitution of the United States.
It is not altogether impossible that the central despotism at
Washington will take to treat the late elections in the
North the people should undertake to deploy the army to enforce submission in that event as Abolition General at the head of its army.
A con that purpose could easily be found, of a gigantic crusade for the
Government of both countries be complete.
The of
Burnside do not entitle him to his once and there must be some ulte object in his appointment.