, 1862-12-11
TIE 1EEEH<'E aED TTEE DEFEND
1:EkS.

Ihc clttrt OF the sympathlZerS to make
political capital out Of tie removal Of
11cC C!cllan, is dead failure. For q month,
now, they have bclabored the President
and pu1nmeled every man in the Cabinet
with tie mcst violent objurgations and
fercest den,neiations; but as Time and its
unavoidable revelations givcthe public new
5acts touching 1he miserable inefficiency
and seifwillcd iuslbcrdination Of tile hero
ofmany defeats their scoldi and threaten
mSs aTcjus as Intellectual as so many oftheir
prayers. The people will not resent the
Presidents act They will not applaud
those who seek to make it the reason for
an et1urt 10 excite popular discontent.
They will not she'd Tears ever McCIel1an's
fate. They ere looking ahead; and the
Young N;l,olcon who was tried and s.as
found wanting, LAS no more present attrac-
tons for them in his forced retirement,
than he had Nilei he was Il captain Of dra-
goons. They are willing to forgive; and
lie ought to be happy that they arc lis
posed to forget. But considering the obilu-
raey Of The people, the firm attitude Of the
President, the damaging revelations Of
Hallcck. and the unpronsising ma
trrc Of the @hcro" under whose skin
1hcy have got their quilts inserted for The
purpose Of blowing him up to the dimen-
tons of q great man, the persistency,
especially, Of these Mcclellan journals, is
Interesting, and were il not that they are
seeking to damage the great cause, would
tic amusing. Day after day, III article af-
Ter article, this man who missed opportu-
mites for cvcrything:but defeat, who never
exposed Himself to tic chances Of sudden
exit by a stray bullet ever, who accomplish
ed nothing for the cause, who spent more
Of the public treasure to no purpose than
all the o;Ler commanders we have had in
the field, whose greatest achievement
was battle which resulted in
drawn game, both parties claim.
ing the victory, and who is the poor.
est and smallest apology for great com
nander, ever forced by unlucky chance
upon warlikc reolle,-day after day, We
say, this man is pulled, praised, magnided
almost dcifed, as ifle were the representa-.
tive Of Mars himself And in the deii;ca.
ton how they lie. Without scruplc, sticking
at nothing; falsiiying the history Of yes
ter1ay as confidently as they would dis
pute controvcrted point in the first Punie
war; ma.ical]y changing mortifying de
1cats into glorious victories, denying al
merit in other commanders, claiming
everything for their favorite, assailins
with inyectiye and falsehood tht
President, but for whose kindliness Of na
ture and hopefulness of spirit, Napolco1
would have been sent to the rear yea,
ago,-1hey offer daily examples of the IN
reasonable bitterness of faction and TIL
marvellous endurance Of The public tha
permits such disgraceful and trcasouabl,
manifestations.
1t will excite no surprise when VIC sa,
that the men and the journals most mimi
cal to our censurcs are those that ha7.
from the first been most justly suspected o
want Of thorough sympathy with the na
tional cause Nay, the Journals that ar!
the 1oudest, most INSCRIPTIONS and mos
tcrocious in this bad work, arc those whost
disloyaity needed, when the war began
the intimidation Of nlobs to make then
support the imperriled government at all
Tie New York Herald, not a whit more
Infamous now than when, in aid Of seces
sion, il proposed to take New York out O
the Union, leads the pack. It is the hount
that sounds the key note to which sucl
lesser yelpers as the Chicago Time
atu1le their throats Our rea
dcIs need not be told its history, no
neea'vc call to mind the suddcnncss an
the Suspicious character Of its conversion
"Show the American Flagr' said the mo
that yelled beneath the windows Of the ed
to1ial looms Of that concern. ''Show yor
flag or down goes old print shopr' IL
renegade Scotchman, who has not yet b
come American, obeyed the command. 3,
truth compcls us to say that the mob mat
mistake. Under the cover Of that star
mask which it compelled the Herald to s
sumo, it has wrought more mischief than
it were openly rebel Less demonstati1
but not less mistaken, the N
in Chicago, scared the Times into
show Of loyalty that it did not feel The
East and West, with an intermediate he
er in the Detroit Free Press, which u
also threatened with bath in the 1iy
are the types and representatives of Il
loyalty that is keeping up the t. fire in
rear" of our advancing armies, beca1
an incompetent and insnbordin
soldier Of the Republic has been remol
from s command that he was far
small to wield. We ask the people
see the source whence the beI1owtngs COZ
and to value them for vi
they are worth. We know ri
all these things mean-what dark pl
and reasonable designs lie behj
this relting storm Of words; and VIC ass
the traitors, inciricnt and actual, that Il