Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-12

What Is said of 11cCleIlan's Removal.
The feeling of relief which has spread
through the whole country at the tardy re-
movaI Of General Mcclellan is best evinced
in the comments Of the press. A few of
those comments we extract from below.
They are but specimens Of what is said by
all journals except those Of thc Seymour
TalIandigham interest This fact is one
worthy of notice. The n. Y. Herald, Gin
einnati Enquirer, Columbus Statesman,
Chicago Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer and
others Of that ilk, all see in it disasters to
the country, while all those papers which
have been most heartily in favor of the
support of the Administration and the
Government, testify to the wisdom and ex-
pediency of the act.
The N. Y. Times says in its Washington
dispatches:
"It is certain that Mr.. Lincoln never
performed a duty that gave him so much
pain as did the removal Of General Nc
Clellan just at this time; but facts recent
ly presented in an official shape by the
General-in- Chief made it clear TO the Pres
ident that he had but one course TO pursue,
and when these facts are given to the pub
icS as they will be soon, all true sup
porters Of the Government will not hesi-
tate to eoncede the wisdom Of the act,
whilst those who are blinded by prejudice,
and chose sninated by spirit of disloy-
atty, viii, of course, seize this occasion as
an opportunity for renewing their express
sions of hostility to the Administrator"
Editorially the Times speaks thus
strongly:
"The fifteen months during which he
has had virtual control of the war have
been utterly barren Of results to the cause
he has professed to serve. Few command
ers in history have had such splendid op-
portunities, and fewer still have so osten-
tatiously thrown them away. With an
army capable of the most heroic achieve
ments, powerful in numbers, unrivalled in
discipline and equipment eager always
for active and onward movement, he has
accomplished absolutely nothing but sue
cessfuI retreats from inferior forces, and
the defence of the Capital at Washington,
which he should have left no foe capable of
menacing. The rebel armies have grown
up in his presence, and by his liberation.
Through all his long career he has made
but one attack and won but a single yicto-
ry, and that became absolutely fruitless
through his failure to follow it up"
The Chicago Tribune says:
"The end is near when this war is well
begun. And it seems well begun when the
President gives assurance that he will not
only stand by his proclamation, but 1viH
ind men TO execute Il. To mako place for
these, the heads of two odo-nothing generals
have rolled into the basket The stroke
long delayed has fallen, and Mcclellan
joins his twin, Don Carlos in the retire
ment which, for their countrys sake, we
would they might have earlier entered
upon"
The Cincinnati Times says;
"Glorious, indeed, is the news which the
telegraph brings to-day. The spell which
has so long fettered the army Of the Po-
tomac, huge dead weight which has been
constantly dragging it down, has been cut
away, and it is again free to move with
light step upon the enemy. Red tape, rig
idity, West Point frigidity, official stu
pidity, and yellow-kidity, have all gone
under in one full swoop Of Father Abra-
ham pen"
The New York Tribune says .--
4" At the last hour-too late to save his
friends, but not TOO late, we trust, to save
the country-the President has relieved
Gen. Mcclellan from the command of the
Army of the Potomac. General Burn
side succeeds him. Gen. Mcclellan retires
for the present from what is by courtesy
termed active service.
ave shall judge Gen. Burnside by re-
suits, not by our prepossessions. Should
he spend the coming Winter as fruitlessly,
ingloriously as Gen. Mcclellan did the last,
we shall not hesitate to call in the Spring
for his removal as openly and earnestly as
we did for that of his hating predecessor.
A Washington dispatch to the Tribune
says:
ave are happy to learn, through officers
of the Potomac Army who have come into
town since the change was effected, that
the army will gladly fight under Burnside.
He should have said that the officers would
The army, left to itself, will fight under
who shows himself fit to be its
leader. Partisanship is known at the Of
fcers' mess-tables, but not in the private
soldiers tent, exceptas inspired from those
mess-tables."
HRIleek on MeCIellan.