The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-07-31

ocGuce this moral: important State and
wsr documents a. tbs abose) muss not Be
directed to sweethearts. Quid est demon
strnndnm. No news. Very truly. ApJr.
JnAs once.
10 justice to Greeley, who 10 usually -,
near right as men generally get to be, We
quote the following from recent article Of
bis in the Tribune:
Aa indisidual,s Friefs or wrongs may be
OF little account to others but when the gra.
vest public interests are imperiled through
personal attacks and the cohraess imputa.
tons OF base motives, the assailed, however
humble, owes duties to others which cannot
be disrcgardsd. | propose here to refute
m onths OF persistent and envenomed defama-
ton by the statement Of few factss
am charged With having opposed the ae-
lection OF Gov. Seward for place In Presi-
dent Lincoln's Cabinet. That's utterly, alb
solutely false, the Presidents himself being
my witness. | might eall many others, but
one euch 10 suf6cient.
am charged with what is called "oppo-
sing the ADMINISTRATORS" because Of that
sslection, and various paragraphs which have
from time to time appeared in the Tribute
are quoted to sustain this inculpation. The
simple fact that not one Of those pa. agrdphs
pas either sCritfen or In amy scise suggesfed
o. prompted by me, suffices for that charge.
II 10 true-I have 10 desire to conceal or be.
little it--tbat my ideas "a to the general con-
duct OF the war for the Union are those re-
peatedly expressed by myself and others
through the Tribune, and Of eourse ere not
those on. which the conduct Of that war has
been based. 1t is true that hold and have
urged that this war cannot, muft not, be a
long one-tbat it must be prosecuted with
the utmost energy. promptpess and vigor, or
it will prove . failure--that every weeks
flying Of tho secession fag defantly within 4
days walk or Washington renders the sup.
precision Of the revolt more difficult if not
doubtful. II lie true that think Govern
ment that begins the work Of putting down
= rebellion bv forming "camps of instruc-
tion,n or anything OF that sort, 10 likely to
make pery long job OF it. ltis true that
thirk our obvious policy, under the circum-
stances, would have been to be courteous and
long suffering toward fore'go powers, bot
resolute and ready in our dealings with
armed rebels; and II seems to mo that the
opposite course has been taken. But the
watchword "Forward to Riehmond Z" is
not mine, nor anything OF like import
| wish to evade no responsibility, but to rerel
q personal aspersion. SO with regard to the
late article urging q change in the Cabinet.
While know that come Of the best materiaI
in the country enters into the composition
Of that Cabinet, l yet feel that changes
might be made therein With advantage to the
public service. Yet did not write, and
did not intend to have published, the article
calling for change Of CsbiBst, which only
appeared through miaapprehsnsion.
shrunk from printing it IN part because Any
good efecs il might have was likely TO be
neutralissd by the very course which has
been taken that OF assailing me as it's sup
posed author.
have no desire in the premises, but that
y hat in beet Tor the country shall be done -
II the rublic Judge ttfat THE great end-a an
energetic and successful prosecution Of the
War--will be most surely subserved by re.
tanning tho Cabinet as II is, acquiesce in
that decision. The end being secured, the
means are to me utterly Indifferent.
wish to be distinctly understood as not
aaak irv r. IN re!irvni f-nm arw rrsnnrsihl-
ity for urging the advance Of the Union
Grand Army INTO Virginia, though the pre-
else phrase sForward to Richmond 'is not
mine, and would have preferred not TO it.
crate Il. l thought that that Army, One
Hundred thousspd strong, might have been
ia the Rebel capital on or before the Goth
inst., while felt that there we're urgent rea
sons Why il should be there IL possible
And nov, il any one imagines that or any
cop6ected with The Tribune, ever commend.
- or imagined any such strategy ~ the
Launching Of barely Thirty Thousand OF the
One Hundred Thousand Volunteers within
fifty miles Of Washington against Ninety
Thousand Rebels enveloped in the labarynth
ol.stronp intrenehmepts and unreconnoitered
masked batteries, then dem onetration would
be lost on his closed ear. But | will not
dwell Oh this. II am needed as . scape
goat for all the military blunders Of the last
month, so be III Individuals must die that
the Nation may live. II can serve her bes,
in that capacity, ! do not shrink from the
ordeal.
| GA bali hour before Gen. Mcclellan
i was ordered to Washington, he received Z
/ telegram from Gen. Scott, asking him when
| be could reach Uarpcr's Ferry, and how
many troops he GOULD concentrate there in =
short time. Gen. Mcclellan replied that be
could reach there with Is 600 men in seven
i days, and proceeded Immediately to make
/ the proper disposition OF bic department 10
enable him to justify his word. A half hon,
later be VAS ordered TO report st Washing
ton imme diately.
SUCCESSOR TO tiKx. GARNErr.-It 10 STATED
| that Gen. Albert s. Johnston, late Of the q
8. Army 10 Utah, and brother TO Gen. JOSEPH
Johnston, who out generated Patterson ast
came to the assistance Of Beauregard, lefl
Richmond on Sunday last 10 take command
Of the Confederate Army 10 Western Virgin
10 lately commanded BY Gen. Garnet.
c. Tbs Baltimore end Ohio Railroad il
| 10 g5o,: running .sas7 between WHEEL. ..SS;;
and Cumberland. Unlses there should b,
further trouble from the enemy At uarpefsi
Ferry or along the upper Potomac, ths 60
PAW hopes to make thorough conDsStion.