The weekly Butte record., 1862-09-13
nepuUlIcan Dogs Assalllng McCleHan.

ltuuereu some changes, Oh Inc part Vi OOfo!n-
ment and of the Generals. in the army, neces-
sary In doing this, the President has thought
proper, according TO the Geographic reports,
to require the resignation Of Stanton, late Sec
rotary of War. the arrest of Mcdowell, on
charge of treason, has sent Pope to quell the
Indian difficulties in the Northwest, and rein
stated Mcclellan in command of the army of
the Potomac, from whence he had been hurled
by Republican Congress. as one Of the Re
publican speakers in the late canvass stated in
Oroville, because lie had been mentioned as
the probable Democratic candidate for the
next President.
The Sacramento Union, Of the 10th instant,
adopting the drunken TRADE of Senator Chan
der, of Michigan, against Mcclellan, as its
new base Of operations, assails the Govern-
ment, Gen. Mcclellan, and every body and
asks what has occurred to restore public
confidence in Mcclellan ?" The public have
never lost confidence in Mcclellan or Presi-
dent Lincoln. If they have lost confidence in
any department of the Government, it is in the
Republican Congress that has violated every
pledge it made one year since. TO the nation,
and borne down the President with "press
ure " that made him appeal to the slavehold-
ing Union men of the slave States for relief
The cause of our reverses rests not with the
President, not with Mcclellan, but may be
found in the hellish partizan spirit of Repub
lican Congress, that was determined 10 bear
down all who did not agree with its political
platform. 1t may be found in the boast of the
Republican press, on the adjournment of Con-
gress, that every essential promise in the Chi
cago platform had been redeemed. As Nero
fddled while Rome was burning, so the Re
publican Congress forced their partizan policy
upon the country, while tie Government was
struggling for existence against armed rebel
lion, and plotted the defeat and consequent
overthrow of every General who did not &C.
knowledge their political faith. They plotted
thus against Mcclellan when he was on the
York Peninsula, and denying him reinforce
ments, left his army of $4,000 men to be over
whelmed by treble their numbers, after weak
ening Banks DIVISION so that there could be
no diversion in favor of the former. When
Banks had been run out of the Shenandoah
Valley, and Mcdowell, under orders of Secre
tary Stanton, was remaining passive at Fred
icksburg, and the whole rebel force was assai
ing McCleans army on the Peninsula, we
have the authority of the Washington core
spondent Of the Sacramento Union for saving
that the Republicans of that city were as
jubilant as they dared TO be, over the prospect
of McCellan's defeat" That is the hellish
partzan spirit that defeated the Government
army, and permitted the rebels to invade 10y
al States to plumber, rob and murder Union
men, women and children, whose efforts and
prayers were all for the Government.
The Union asks what has occurred to re-
store public confidence in Mcclellan p When
Mcclellan was called to Washington, to as
sumo command of McDowel's routed and pam
ic-stricken hosts, he re organized and massed
the army, forming it into divisions In this
he was at first opposed by the veteran Scott,
who finally acknowledged, however, that the
young General was correct. The civil authori.
ties were divided upon the proposition, and
when Mcclellan was on the York Peninsula.
weakened the force under Banks, so that l5,-
900 or 10000 rebels drove his division out of
their way. The same authority kept Mellow
ellis division quiet at Fredericksburg, while
the whole rebel army assailed and defeated
McClellan's army. Had McClellans policy
been carried out, the whole Federal army
and the rebel capital would have fallen. The
Republican Congress and party wanted to see
Mcclellan displaced for political reasons, and
kept the different divisions of the army apart,
until they were set upon, in turn, by superior
numbers of rebels and defeated seriatum. Had
McCellan's policy prevailed, the rebels would
not have been able to outnumber and over
throw the different divisions of the Govern.
ment army in detail, as they have done. The
President now sees that Mcclellan was right,
and the political Generals were wrong; that
under the lead of the latter, the Government
army has been whipped clear into the fortifca-
tions surrounding Washington. That is what
has occurred to restore the Presidents conf
dence in Mcclellan" The public confidence
OF which the Union speaks-probably means
Republican party confdence,-an We do
not think that has been restored to him, or
ever will be. They have proven themselves
set of damnable traitors, who would rather see
the Union discovered than restored through
the efforts of General not of their political
faith. If the President had less of their DAM
ming confidence, be would not be compelled TO
fight of their proclamat;ons and appeal to the
Border slave States, to relieve him from a
" pressure that is overpowering his irmness.
his Indictment and his ideas oe Evaaut;ra dot.