Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-02-13
Special correspondence Of the Chicago Times
The Abolltionists end GeneTni Me'
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CtoltNms
.WteHNnTor, Feb, 4.
mo pesLIlent radical abol tionistsin Congress-
.h8 8llpr draseed iho oogntrt, into VAt. are bow
th,owine every possible obplacle ia fthe way Of
M eucco,slul prosdcpliO1 TheS nte doing this
mi Of Icsenae, becbuse lhey hadihat they can,
Ilot sucooed Nj making his nsF A war agalnst
4IAyety and elav oIdefs. Whenahe present
session began, there was q good prospect snat
they wopld he ahle 10 force through all their
H,sSsnyeE. Hut they h6ye been irustfasd az
symv turu, r The dlsmlsanl lef Ny Cameron
rom tha War Dephrtuient Vas noJsal blow
IL IbsIr cadse But when they ysee tiat FOL.
lowed by .ths, collapse Of limg l.ane's.hag o.
wind when they aee that Lanes expedltion,
ITO be conducted, on Lane'e " known pfincl-
|pleAp ol bteAil6g, maucipAllhg aud afming q
negroes, is not TO take place after all and wheA
they see themselves left oit 10 The Geld by Mrs.
tincolD, they become convinced that Their
game .is up. But they are dstsrmlned,it they
cannot have the war conducted 10 Nthe man-
ner they Wish, that It shall not be carried on
at all. This is the conclusion that the AGO
Iliiion LEADERS In Congress have delioera'e
ly arrived asAt isand you viii very soon
see the manifestations Of this traiiorou! Ies-
olutioD, both in Congress and ths apo'inon
Newspapers This Is the secret OF ha.iaetiOua
opposition made by Owen LoVtjoys Ihaddtus
SteVens, Roscoe ConkliDg. and theiFo followers
in the House. toall measures for replenisoing
The now empty treasury and saving the creqlt OF
Che nation. This ia lhe.seere.ot the oppQsi tion
ip the Senate toIthe buildi9geo such ships as
can alone be uielulin modern naval warfare,
Thisisthe seesetaof Gurley's attack on Cent
Mcclellan. and OF similar, attacks that have
been made on Gen; Fiiz Johu Porter and Gen.
Lockwood, ,all rselly aimed att the GommAnderI
In Chief. ,46s,ysfsfs lid "a t,nsaf
III . atrociOus scheme Of the AhplJioni.te to
fomeut iealousy beLgeen, wtaeis P,esldentsl the
Secretary OF War, and itheis Commander in
Chief byasser,ing that Gen, Mcclellan has 10
right to- the ltltlh Of Gommandetsin Chief oi
the army, bat that title was oulya eemPlirient
aFy 10 General Scott personally and that the
fresidai1t and Secretary oftWar intend TO place
Gen. Mcclellan In command of the army ol
the Potomac alone, while they; discharge the
functions Of C0mmandeF-in.Ch Chtef3 oil theiOrmy,
will fail, as all pof atheir other schemes have
failed 1t rWasl the thleof LifufeEaht GentraI
which w infeldlScott alone aud ptrjCnally en-
loved. The Presidents In hsfm eseage distinctly
saysslhAto on the retirement0 OF Gen Sc0ttit be-
came The duty of the President 10 appOiDta hew
Commander.ih1C Chief oflthe army dandi that be
performed that duty by appointinei Gem McCiel-
Ian to be C0mmandsr-in- Chief Gdwaiehnspp1iut-
imeut was Immediately faiiIled andTcoufir ed
by the Senaie.bBov 10 l3omBn sdj 90iaod .
htThe Presidentis indeed by virtue OF his ofhce
and by Gourtesyy sGommsndersinlC Chieflof both
the army and navy ID Bas Old Ale haStno mill
tsry ~ in him gaud would llnngh atthe idea even
of pntting ON uniforms mo one is more sen-
sible than himself of the priceless treasure be
has in the military knowledge DaDd strategic
skill Of Gen. McC ClellGns0 He is wise enough
10 make McClellan's talents eerviceable in
crowniug bis administration with hcimperiehable
iustFs, and not TO throw them away. Whatever
may be the weaknesses of the President vanity
aud selfac0Dceit are not among them.nlAs TO
MIR Stanton, heuudersiands perfectly the diVid-
log lao between the functions of, q Seer etary
Of War and a Commander.in-C Chief, and he will
not cross thatline. He finds quite enough to
occupy his time, Systematically divided as Il is,
He will belen rapport with Gensl Mcclellan ail
the,time, but be will not usurp thefuDciions OF
a CommaudeP in Chief. need not add that
these three distinguished peIsonages are dis
gustgd viva the mean attempts to create the idea
that there are sny jealousies between them Is