The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-21
Two MILLIONS DAY AND BAExRsPr
TRHAsURY; Six HuNpRHp THOUSAND MEN

TUESDAY tN,RNIN0.......JAN a, 1884,
Two MILLIONS A DAY AND BAEKRuPr
TREASURY; Six HUNDRED THOUSAND MKS
AND ROT FtoHr FOR SIX MosrHs.-The
war drags its allow length along; the Federal
debt ruhs up At rate alarming to the most
reckless; and Mcclellan persists in doing
nothing to satisfy che impotence and unsasi-
ness OF The Northern populace. At his wits
ends to effect something TO appeas 50 the rest
less popular anxiety for results, he takes sick
keeps HE bed for three weeks, and gets well
again, rs unable - ever 10 chow anything 81
fected BY six months of deep andall embracing
strategy. The two most puzzled men on the
Continent are Mcclellan and Chase-Chase,
% know how TO make revenue Of fifty mil
lions per sanum pay an expenditure OF six
hundred millions and McC iellan, to find out
some process by which victory somewhere,
however small, may be stolen or iilched in
come for,.,, by some part Of an army of six
hundred thousand men.
The last advices from the North bring us
intelligence Of cheerful character, at least
from Mcclellan. Thus runs the hopeful
oracle: Those whose impatience had in
duced them to murmpr at the, to them, appa-
rsntly unreasonable delay of any great mill
tary movement, will soon have occasion to
acknowledge their error. Gen. Mcclellan
confdes his plans to mono, except a. they are
70 be executed. His purpose is to e'fectually
crush out the rebellion, and TO restore the pub
Tic peace and the integrity Of the Union
Within the last few days, those who have
been admitted even TO partial confidence,
and among them some who have looked
gloomily upon the future, are elated at the
prospect presented, and express satistac ton
that all will soon 10 convinced Of the wis
dom of the course Of the commanding Gene
raj" This ID the sort Of stuff with which
the greatest General of the age" has
beguiled his credulous adulators for Six
months of total and imbecile inactivity
with six hundred Thousand men in the ielu
mourning expenditures at the rate of two
millions day 1t is the most remarkable
Gaze Of creduiity and gullibility III all the re-
cords Of human folly. The susceptibility OF
the Yankee race TO delusion by the shallowest
articles stands out III the most ludicrous and
pitiable light. What won't they believe,
and what mountebank Can they refuse
" conhde in, after being thus amused by Nc
Clelian Two millions day, and bankrupt
treasury six hundred thousand men main
tanned in the field, and not victory for six
months Mcclellan makes them put up with
that and yet Mcclellan is great General
We begin t. think Mcclellan really is a great
politician. A man that can keep twenty mil
ATOMS Of Yankees quiet under such Il tax upon
patience rs that which tortures them, is Ger
lainly man of great power over the popu-
lace. He would make u better President than
General.
Mcclellan, however, is certainly about to
do something dreadful at last. He was TO
have done 80 six months ago but was hot
quite ready. He has been on the point of
doing it every day since but his tar. reaching
and consummate strategy was not quite per-
fected. He was about to accomplish his
mighty purposes three weeks ago but un-
happily took sick, and was again and again
thrown into relapses by impatient serenaders.
He is now nearly ready again for the one
hundred and eightieth and the very last time.
What he il about to do admits of no doubt, it
il effectually to crush out the rebellion, and
restore the public peace and the integrity of
the Union" That is the precise object to be
achieved with the two millions a day and six
hundred thousand men. How the work is to
be accomplished he trusts to no man. The
world is to know that part Of the programme
only when it is performed. He does not dis
close 1t to his most confidential friends; bat
those who are admitted to partial confer
ence with the great Riddle, comes way de-
lighted at the splendid prospects he unfolds to
them, though not explaining the processes by
which they are to be reached
The substance of it all is that Mcclellan
intends the immediate humiliation of the re-
belllon, that he has a plan of operations
which be confdes to nobody, that whoever
talks to him on the subject imbibes great
delight and undefinable ideas that something
is about to be done, and that therefore the
populace must be patient. That is McClel-
lan's side Of the programme; the other side
Is that grim two millions day and. six hun.
dred thousand men for six months without
battle. Yet McClellan's fine fictions and
promises carry the day over these stern and
ugly facts. 1t is an old debate whether hope
is stronger passion than fear; and. here
Mcclellan typefies hope, and those two mil
lions Of dollars, those hundreds of thousands
vi eoldiers, and those nameless battles, like
the pale horse in the Apocalypse, with all
hell following at thier HEELS represent fear
Mcclellan has the day now, but the pale
horse with his frightful retinue is abroad.
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