The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1862-04-30
What We Think of Mcclellan,

We have searched, labored, and tried
TO satisfy our own minds as TO the merits
of the official acts of General Mcclellan,
and we have failed to find any good rea-
son that he should be cast off and rejected
as unfit for the high position he holds in
our army, as many designing, intriguing
men seem to desire. We find he has ac-
complished work astonishing in its mag
nitude, aided by the President and his
Cabinet, and his noble CONDUCTORS. He
has collected the mightiest army known
in modern times. From crude masses he
has created veterans. He has inspired
the soldiery with that love for country
that will lead them to victory or death.
He has placed himself at the head of a
portion of that vast army, and is march
inc to the conflict We have every rea-
son TO believe that, when the smoke of the
bloody contest before Yorktown, if such
We are to have, shall have cleared away,
there will be revealed to the eyes of those
who have long waited the development of
events on the Potomac, auxiously, perhaps
impatiently, military exploits and strate-
getic plans unknown since the days of the
great Napoleon brilliant counterpart
indeed of the unexampled feats of Com.
Foote and his co-workers in the reduction
of Island No. 10 aud its adjacencies.-
Besides the labors of Mcclellan on the
Potomac, have his assalants considered
the herculean task he has been subject to,
until recently, in planning, ordering and
arranging for movement the vast mdteriel
Of an immense army in its onward march
along the Mississippi, and its tributaries,
rs well as on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
And if lie has not pushed forward on the
Potomac, till after repeated victories have
crowned our invincible arms westward,
has he been idle? has he done nothing
Let those who think his inactivity his
greatest virtue see him rs he rides into
camp, night after night, covered thick
with mud, his charger all wearied with
the long days journey, while the chieftain
has Travelled along the vast line of his mar
shaded hosts, examining their discipline,
their equipments, seeing for himself that
all things are in readiness to meet the en-
envy successfully, when circumstances shall
warrant vigorous onslaught on the works
of strongly entrenched enemy-thcn,
after hasty repast throwing himself on
his rude couch for few hours rest, and
early On the following morning up and
away again in the same patriotic work,
and then say, if they can, that the heart
of Mcclellan is not in the great work of
crushing out the rebellion, and saving his
country, and thus worthy the support of
every true American who is willing that
discretion, and prudence, and easy victo-
ry, shall follow our army, rather than pre-
cipitation, rashness, and perhaps defeat,
or advantage gained only at the price Of
slaughtered myrads and the desoation
ofthousands of once happy households.
In view of all, should we not, as true
men, drop our grumbhng,support the pow
ers that be, encourage them to their whole
duty, and stay their hands while doing it
not only McClelland, but all our self
sacrificing officers and soldiers who are
battling in the holy cause of the Union,
raw, and order.