r disloyalty of some of the _employes_ in the Departments.
The explanation thereof may be that some of the thus called old
fogies, above all in the War Department, may be unfriendly to the war
without being disloyal. Such venerables took root in comfortable
situations; they slowly trod in the easy path of rusty and musty
routine, and at once the war shook them to the bone, exposing the
incapacity and the inefficiency of many; it forced upon them the
horror of _cogitandi_ about new matters, and an amount of daily duties
to be performed in offices which formerly equalled sinecures. Further,
these relics dread to be superseded by more active and intelligent
men; and _inde irae_.

JULY, 1862.

Intervention -- The cursed fields of the Chickahominy -- Titanic
fightings, but no generalship -- McClellan the first to reach
James river -- The Orleans leave -- July 4th, the gloomiest since
the birth of the republic -- Not reinforcements, but brains,
wanted; and brains not transferable! -- The people run to the
rescue -- Rebel tactics -- Lincoln does not sacrifice Stanton --
McClellan not the greatest culprit -- Stanton a true statesman --
The President goes to James river -- The Union as it was, a
throttling nightmare! -- A man needed! -- Confiscation bill
signed -- Congress adjourned -- Mr. Dicey -- Halleck, the
American Carnot -- Lincoln tries to neutralize the confiscation
bill -- Guerillas spread like locusts.

When at epochs of great social convulsions events and circumstances
put certain individuals into an eminent or elevated position, their
names become intertwined with the great epoch. In the eyes of the
masses and of the vulgar observers, such names acquire a high
importance on account of the commonly made confusion between
circumstances and personal merit, and, moonlight-like, such names
reverberate not their own, but a borrowed splendor. Thus much for the
official pilots of this great people.

The usual paroxysm of the foreign intervention fever. It ought to be
so easy to understand, that out of self-respect foreign powers will
not risk any intervention on paper; and to make an effective
intervention a hundred thousand men will be necessary, as the first
course. For such a service no foreign power is prepared. Intervention
is silly talk. McClellan and all kinds of his supporters do more for
the South than could England and France united.

It was