Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-11-28
Change Of Commanders.

ed, and With his removal we hope ant
pray that the spell which boand so macy
hearts TO the great imbecile, TO his "mas
terly strategy" and his "bagging" pro
pensities, is broken. The long period
sloth and inactivity that has had such
crushing, deedening effect upon the pat
rio;ism OF the country, let US believe, i,
over. burnside is in command. How
much better he will prove than McClel.
Ian remaiDs to be seen. He cannot prove
worse. But we have faith to believe
that the courage, the perseverance, and
the energy that dragged an expedition
successfully over the sands of IIatteras,
and conquered an overwhelming enemy
in the mud Of Roanoke Island, will not
fail as the leader Of tie army Of the Po-
tomac. OHe thing aOgurs well for him /:
lie is thus FAR in 10 danger Of being
drowned by the battery Of the people,
and there is no likelihood Of his being
ruined with the worship Of bis friends, or
those who would like 10 become so. We
believe lie will be successful; If he is
not we hope the president will not com
nit the folly he Las ever been guilty oil
Keeping his commanders for months
after they have proved to the world that
they are incompetent. The president
has held on TO his first commanders TOO
long. There was Buell. at the west, MI |
last winter and spring located at the Gall
House in Louisville while his army |
greatly needed his presence, and he did
not leave the CALI House until bis com
mand had overthrown Zolicofer. and,
defeating the rebels, was pressing on for
Nashville. Then when Grant was at
Pittsburgh Landing and in danger of an
attack any day from Beauregard, he lin.
gered and loitered until it was almost too
late TO save our beaten forces under !
Grant. He should never have been al. |
Owed to remain another week after that i
almost disastrous battle. But the presi- c
lent held on until the enemy had taken /
III they wanted from right under BuelPs s
lose in Kentucky, and then even would b
lot have removed him had it not become Il
necessary. h
MIR. Lincoln is honest, but he is too y
low. If any one of his commanders is
onnd incompetent, he should be replaced
~ com p et It officer. No matter
wrenier ne ,ius ueen 10 west roint and
into scientific democrat
or not. II is well known fact that that
has been the tendency of that institution
for the last thirty years. Il did not aim
go much at making warriors as democrats.
And now the graduates are neatly all of
that stripe. 1t has been well CROUCH es-
tablished TINT the old line" in New
York and other states sympathize with
the south, and therefore a West Point
democrat should be well tried before he
has command at all. But this is not
quite what we mean to say.
Mcclellan, as we have before remark
ed, has at last been removed-afier long
agony, long and patient waiting, by tie
president, until his own friends by thou
sands cast him OF. We do not deny that
n great howl is made over the removal Of
Mcclellan. But who makes it? The
army 1t is true, 10 considerable extent
almost worship lin, at least SO it is said
by tile New York Herald, the most ipfa.
nous sheet published in the Union. Bot
aside from the army, who is it? Some
good men, WHO have 10 mtnd upon the
subject drawn from the facts are sorry.
&c. Yet the great mass Of Mcclellan
are those who are not in
favor of putting down the rebellion at all
John Van Buren,. who
advocated the dissolution Of the Union.
in the late New York canvass, immedi
ntely after Mcclellan was removed nom
mated him for next president. Ralnca. =
lion meetings, convened for the purpose =,
of denouncing the war and putting down
he government, have endorsed " Prince
Johns nomination. The tories of the
present struggle, southern sympathzers.
aisunion advocates rud the like, are out. u
rageous that Mcclellan is removed
Why? Because he is one Of them in ac- q
ion il not in sentiment. His acts were Il
ike their speeches, opposed TO putting y
Town the rebellion. Look back on the a
history Of bis command. When he was Il
allied to Washington after the disaster of 81
Bull Run, be was The most popular man II
D the nation, and he went forward bav- D
ng the entire confidence of the people. CO
What did he do? Nothing but what any TT
air drill master might have done, organ eli
zed the soldiers who were literally fur o'
ished him by ibe country, and had some