Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-03-04
PrBLIsHED sHMkwfEKLy--
Tuesday Morning 4 Friday Afternoon.
Foolish Friends.


No man has had more confidence
reposed in him, by the Cnionists, than
has GEo.B.MCLELLAN. We have no
doubt he has faithfully and usefully
aided the President, Gen. Scott, the
Secretary of Var and Of the Navy,
and all the Officers he outranks, in
those plans-all matured under the
veteran SCoTT's supervision-which
have been since so well developed on
the Atlantic and near the Mississippi.
The execution of those great views,
matured months ago in Cabinet coun-
ellis, and approved by the President,
was entrusted to 90 or 80 different
Commodores and Gcnerals-most of
whom have performed their duties as
skilfully and as hcroicaIly as Scott,
Mcclellan, or any one else, could
have done it. Now, how unfair, how
uumanly, how false, to rob all those
Officers Of their just and hard-earned
fame, in order to heap it upon the
supervising Major General, who has
not personally directed a battle since
he left Western Virginia i. Yet there
are men engaged in just such mean
and base work. They published that
"General Mcclellan directed the movements
of the battle at Fort Donelson, by telegraph
from the station al Washington,
when there was then no telegraph line
to Fort Donelson, (unless the Rebels
had one, which was not in our posses
sion.) That impudent faischood was
no sooner exposed, than another was
palmed upon the public, among the
proceedings Of the Railroad Conven-
tion at Washington, as follows:
"Secretary Stanton paid high compliment
TO the young and gallant friend at his side,
Maj Gen. Mcclellan, in whom he had the
utmost confidence, and the result Of whose
military schemes, gigantic and well malured,
were now exhibited TO rejoicing country
This, too, is a wholesale lie. Mr..
Stanton had no occasion to compll-
ment Gen. Mcclellan or any one else,
for it was only business meeting.
Who invent these falsehoods,w which
are evidently calculated to excite bad
feelings between our Generals, each
of whom is entitled to his just share
of praise, and no more? The last one
has been traced to one S.M. Barlow,
notorious Pro-Slavery Breckinridger,
suspected of Secessionism. This fact,
and the fulsome, untrue adulation just
now showered upon Mcclellan 10y all
the Rebel sympathizers in the North,
has recently made-in conjunction
with other matters-some suspicious
of MClelIan's lack in fidelity or in
Judgment. Well may he say, " Save
me from such friends !" for whose vii
famous untruths we have not reason
to hold him responsible, (although he
might, like Stanton, generously give
others their just commendatlon.)
Gen. Mcclellan has had more than
half a year in which to arm, drill and
enlarge his Grand Army of the Poto-
mac. whose Central column alone he
controls. He has the sole power and
the responsibility, and he seems to
have the entire confidence Of the more
than 100000 brave Freemcn he may
soon lead to Battle-we hope 10 We
tory. Should he be successful, our
Joy will be mingled with that of all
loyal Americans, who will give NJ Clel-
Ian his full due, without snatching a
laurel from Grant, Sigcl, Foote, Ere
mont, MClernand, Wallace, Curtis,
Smith, Buell., Garfield, Nelson, Rose
Grams, Kelly, Lander, NJ Cook, Porter,
Geary, Heintzelman, Sumner Dupont,
Sherman, Banks, Butler, Burnside, or
any other, who-each in his sphere
has proved himself equally worthy.