Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-07-23
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ils LATE CHANGE oF POSI-.
TON NECESSARY III CON 6
SEQUENCE OF IT.
raE gggLIss on THE AMY or rae
The following from an army cores
pendent Of Inc Ne~ Kofks 7fibaas, With
In the lines Of General MeClsIlaa, must
have been admitted into that paper by
mistake. II Ia, howevaT, sill the more
valuable, coming from shs source that it
does. 1t will aid IN awakening the coun.
Try to realizing sense Of she terrible
FIRE In the rear, with which Gan. AfCCleI-
Ian and bis army had 90 contend
The movement Tin changing the posi-
ton OF his army will probably be sue
cessful, though its trail will be bloody.
The cord sriu regard as az o Tnasfsylu
stroke Of genius. The army Rill 30 re-
gard it, and viii feel for ita commander
the admiration and gratitude that sayiors
of men ever enkindla In loyal haarts.--
Bat the brillianey of this movement will
not for an instant dazzle the eYes of the
wronged and wrashfal men OF tho army
of the Potomac, nor viii it dazzle the
sight Of ths angry people SO as for q
moment to obscure thaiF psraepkioa of
the crime against tbs aGsion schlch has
made this change Of 6ase and front i'm
psTfosIsty necessary. This crime il the
refusal to reinforce Mcclellan. don's
care about the question which legisla-
tors, soldiers and politicians have dehat-
ed-of this Generals fitness to command,
The York and james River peninsula
was not the place for thai discuSsion.---
The hour OF the juaction Of Beaaregardss
and 3ackson's forces to those Of John
stoR Is not the time for such debate
| care not for any criticism Of General
McClellan's campaign on this Peninsula
or on the Potomac. have blows, but
not word, for the untimely casuist, ia
or cut Of administrative ofice, who, under
the roar of rebel cannon sweeping our
ranks with shot and shell, meets the de-
mand for aid TO this army With O ehro-
biological measure of delays at Fort
Monroe, ut Yorktown, at williamsburg,
at Sswea Places don't care whether
there were delays or no delays-whether
they vera MeClellan's delays, the Quar-
termAster 6eaezaI's delays, o. the delays
Of the elements No man, no party.
interest, shall, by ssseat Of my ., no
be permitted to mix up VIII silence
highs Of an outnumbere5 tae sacred
to demand help fFe~ American army
and to promps' "A their countrymen
questions % ~ receive 1t, collateral
3 aa~ fitness, Of vieor, of idelity
rseT handlers. When loyal New York
;: ,.lments, lifted from their feet By tha
Z hre of rebel brigades, cry out of their
wounds and death for help; when the
choicest New England and Michigan and
Pennsylvania troops, outnnmhered Ia
front and on both hanks by whole diVis.
ions of the enemy, beg for endorsements,
| say that the blacklist crime that power
can commit lie 70 stalk upon the Geld OF
peril and say, "soldisrs, have no faith
in Jonr commander! Let your martyr
| dom proceed :" And so says this army
I of the Potomac. And it registers TO
night VOWS Of Vengeance as il marches
| in the dark from q position which their
diminished numbers disabled them from
holding, bat which is eonsecrated to
them forever by their sufferings. their
Iabors and their wrongs. The politician
and sGaIesrsess ssho hacs Iefl rs hsss 10
Be osstaHnabsred and cla off frons our
supplies and the possibility ofrssreat ars
doomed ngeat
We here knew that the rebel army be-
fore Richmond wss being reinforced with
the most desperate energy. We knew
that jackson was to come. We knew
that the whole power of the Confederate
rebellion was bsing pat forth to accu-
malate farce here which jask by iss
| weight should crush the Union army
Why were not corresponding efforts pun
forth by the administration at Washing
toa to stronghold car army 81 least to an
equality with the enamy We being SUI
perior to the rebels in population, wealth,
and all resources, the neglect to send into
aay and every field q prepcnderating adj
vantage on oar side 10 of itself crime,
which, had we RaHaaR virtue, would be
inexorabIy punished with the axe. The
E&SASAS Va 1Skh &t1DG INV ShCAA OkA~
er's bosoms for whole month of deadly
animosity, and ours feeling every night
and each successive morning that the
enemy grew stronger while we grew
weaker-ofEcers, men, and civilians
ksenly conscious that, when the rival
hsigadss OF divisions locked together IN
coms~ss the -szsezay outnnmeerEng Us in q
constantly increasing ratio, and develop
cd their settled policy 10 be to attack In
columns in mass, because they had the
troops TO do 1t wish-aIl Of us demanding
rsiafoFcamsnts, and demonstrating iss
necessity, we gnsshed our teeth aE re-
eeiving from President makers and con
vention-eHgineers instead of corps n
sTm&e, question for dsbAta: Can q
civil engineer be 8 good general? We
had no time 20 debate whether Mcclellan
was good General or bad one. He
tcGs our General, and the strong grip OF
the strengthening foe was upon our
throats, aud we wanted help. We did
not care whether il came to Us under
| Halleck, or Burnside, or Was committed
10 Mcclellan. No. single man Of M
who Ia not q slave or fool lie fighting
here for the Qualification of any com
mander. We fght for SUCCESSIVE figh,
TO save the Republic, and TO sluelch for
ever on this continent, organised rabsi-
lion against the Democratic pFincipla.