The Herald, the organ.
The New York
Herald was, at the last advices, engaged in snubbing the hapless
Greeley for endeavoring to fan the flames of discontent against
Gen. McClellan, on account of his procrastination in advancing upon the rebels at
Manassas.
The
Herald insists that
McClellan knows what he is about, that he is bringing the drill and discipline of his army to perfection and is determined this time to make sure work of it. The
Herald has also discovered that the line of the
Potomac is not the only nor the most important road to the subjugation of the
South.
That by the
Mississippi, and from
Bowling Green, are of as great importance, and moreover, says the
Herald, the period is not far distant when the
term of enlistment of the Southern volunteers will expire, and they have determined not to re- enlist.
Their hopes are based upon the desertion by the
South of its own cause, and on the conviction that the men whom they cannot defeat in battle, by their refusal to reenlist will defeat themselves.
The
Herald, it must be admitted, has often thrown light upon the real designs and expectations of the
Federal Government, and, as a Federal organ, seems altogether to have cast the
Tribunes into the shade.
This must be a horrible pill for
Greeley to swallow, but it is none the less certain and inevitable.
Bennett, who, at the beginning of the war was mobbed for disloyalty, has now elbowed his way to the head of the faithful, and reads lectures to the
Tribune upon patriotism and fidelity, with a front of grave and complacent virtue that is edifying to behold.
The knave has thrust the fanatic to the wall, and is now, as he should be, the court journal of the meanest and most rascally despotism under the sun.