ion.
Every day shows on what false principle this Cabinet was constructed,
not for the emergency, not in view to suppress the rebellion, but to
satisfy various party wranglings. Now the people's cause sticks in the
mud.

SEPTEMBER, 1861.

What will McClellan do? -- Fremont disavowed -- The Blairs not in
fault -- Fremont ignorant and a bungler -- Conspiracy to destroy
him -- Seward rather on his side -- McClellan's staff -- A Marcy
will not do! -- McClellan publishes a slave-catching order -- The
people move onward -- Mr. Seward again -- West Point -- The
Washington defences -- What a Russian officer thought of them --
Oh, for battles! -- Fremont wishes to attack Memphis; a bold
move! -- Seward's influence over Lincoln -- The people for
Fremont -- Col. Romanoff's opinion of the generals -- McClellan
refuses to move -- Manoeuvrings -- The people uneasy -- The staff
-- The Orleans -- Brave boys! -- The Potomac closed -- Oh, poor
nation! -- Mexico -- McClellan and Scott.

Will McClellan display unity in conception, and vigor in execution?
That is the question. He seems very energetic and active in organizing
the army; but he ought to take the field very soon. He ought to leave
Washington, and have his headquarters in the camp among the soldiers.
The life in the tent will inspire him. It alone inspired Frederick II.
and Napoleon. Too much organization may become as mischievous as the
no organization under Scott. Time, time is everything. The levies will
fight well; may only McClellan not be carried away by the notion and
the attempt to create what is called a perfect army on European
pattern. Such an attempt would be ruinous to the cause. It is
altogether impossible to create such an army on the European model,
and no necessity exists for it. The rebel army is no European one.
Civil wars have altogether different military exigencies, and the
great tactics for a civil war are wholly different from the tactics,
etc., needed in a regular war. Napoleon differently fought the
Vendeans, and differently the Austrians, and the other coalesced
armies. May only McClellan not become intoxicated before he puts the
cup to his lips.

Fremont disavowed by Lincoln and the administration. This looks bad. I
have no considerable confidence in Fremont's high capacities, and
believe that his head is turned a little; but in this question he was
right in principle, and right