The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-19
Military Pagtisanship Again.

The partisan warfare over Mcclellan has taken
new form. The papers that have been the
most ardent in their worship of the General are
doing him damage now by q dscounting for
him defeat in advance, and making it the
ground OF an assault on Secretary Stanton. It
is vaguely asserted that somebody has political
aspirations tha5 a brilliant SUCCESS of Gen. Nc
Clellan IN the field would disarrange, and that
to put The General out Of the way as Il candidate
tor the Presidency in 1864, Secretary Stanton
has done what was possible for him III the War
Department to do, to so strip Gen. Mcclellan
OF troops as to peril his success, or insure his
defeat before Yorktown.
1t would be well for the assalers of Secretary
Stanton 10 take home to themselves q little of
the advice they so freely bestowed, few weeks
since, upon everybody who was SO unfortunate
as not to see their General through their spec
tacles. Mcclellan YVES complained of for his
inactivity, and for his delay in making use of
the army of the Potomac, but the most malr
nant of those WHO did not approve his policy,
never suggested that he was conspiring to bring
about the defeat Of any of the Generals in the
held. Yet for this criticism upon his inactivity
they were most sharply rebuked by the believers
IN " Little Mac" and were told that they were
not only medding with that which was none of
their Dusl1ess, but were also doing the cause
great injury. But when it becomes convenient
TOR these same strategists to find fault with an
other officer Of ths Government, they don It stop
at any mild condemnation, but at the very onset
squarely charge Secretary Stanton with what is,
II true, substantially treason, and this without
offering the first particle of proof
The case 80 far as stated against Secretary
Stanton, is, OF course, just as much an attack
upon the President as upon the Secretary, though
1t has been thought more convenient. or more
easy to persuade the people of the falsehood
when IL was uttered as an assault upon Stanton
than upon the Executive. President Lincoln is |
the commander-n.cbief, aud his word is now |
law as to the disposition of troops. If McClel- |
Ian has fewer troops than he needs, it is the
PRESIDENTS fault that he has no more, if they
can be spared from other fields of operation -
Ana the graveness of the charge, as it is now |
limited being the division of the armv of the
Potomac into three OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES unoues.
tlonably the Presidents act There is no doubt
'nas the President and the Secretary think that
lighting Generals should have soldiers. and thew
ought not to be blamed for holding 10 that
opinion.
We suspect, however, the real trouble with
these men who are omplaining of the admins
traton is, that they are apprehensive that their
idol is not, alter all, much superior in his gem
eralship, or his strategy, to some other officers
in the field. lie is not hurryng up tho death
blow" quite fast enough to fulfill their unrea.
sonable and extravagant prophecies and thew.
in casting about for some shoulders upon which
to put the blame, find the Presidents and Score.
tary's as convenient as anybody. We commend
to them little OF their own medicine. Thew
should have patience. The President and MIR.
Stanton are just as much in earnest about the
suppression OF the rebellion by tho speediest
methods as Mcclellan, or his worshippers. If
more troops are needed at Fortress Monroe, and
can be sent there with due regard to the safe.
~ of other points, they will be forwarded. In