Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-07-18

l2,OOO more. In regard to charges brought
against Kentucky he believed the neutral
ty adopted by that State saved that State to
the Union.
These schemes of emancipation might as
well be postponed till December, because
nothing can be done until the serried ranks
of the rebels are broken up, and he did not
believe that they would be broken up before
that time, but he was not going to call loyal
men abolitionists, because he believed many
OF them were most sincere in their belief.
Loyal men in the South certainly cannot COM
plain as much Of the abolitionists as of the
rebels, as the latter have taken fifty per cent.
of the slaves from Missouri. He was not in
favor of arming the negroes. The slaves
never could be made soldiers but he would
have the slaves used at every kind of labor.
He should vote for the resolution of the Sena-
tor from Michigan. The people might as well
have all the facts now but he was very sorry
to hear any doubts of his loyalty laid against
Gen. McClellah
Mr.. Chandler said that he had made no
charges of that kind, or any thing that would
bear such construction. He believed that
great mistakes had been made, but he charged
nothing further.
Mr.. Henderson was glad to hear that, and
he wanted it to go to the country that there
was no suspicion of disloyalty in the minds of
any one against Gen. Mcclellan. He had the
most perfect confidence in him.
Mr.. Salisbury offered an amendment, so as
to include the number of troops under Gen.
Fremont and Gen. Banks at the date of Gen.
McClellans departure for the Peninsula also
the number Of troops around Washington
Also the number of troops between Washing
ton and the Rappahannock-also the num-
Der of troops actually in service under Gen
Mcclellan, in the recent engagements before
Richmond.
Mr.. Chandler accepted the amendment
Mr.. Trumbull said he was astonished tina
Senator's were so blind in praising Mcclellan
and were yet so unwilling to hear any differ
ent opinion concerning him. The Senator
from Indiana, (WrightD with strange forget
fulnesS, said Mcclellan has not defended him
self in the newspapers. Has that Senate
read the papers? The papers have been full
of the praises of Mcclellan and his grea
strategic skill, and how he was drawing tn
rebels into a trap, &c. Gen. Mcclellan wa
placed in command more than year ago o
all the army, with full power. If the Senate
from Missouri, had been told that Gen. Nc
Clellan was to take command of the army an,
remain in one position not only all the fall
but all the winter, without making an attac
upon the enemy, would that gentleman
have chosen such a general?
Mr.. Henderson said he had thought tina
Manassas should have been attacked but h
also thought the Senator from ILL.,, like
good many others, had moderated the force {
the rebels everywhere.
Trumbull said we had always acted on tn
defensive--we were putting down the rebe
lion-but has the General in whom the Sena
tor has such unbounded confidence ever mad
an attack? Is this rebellion to be put dow
bysdigging trenches and acting on the defens
i've? The fact is, taking out the loyal slaves
there are only about 10000 people IN a
the States now in rebellion. The rebels coul
not raise as large an army as the State
New York, as they have to watch the slaves
Let the Union army stop watching slave:
lie was not going to express any opinion thi
morning, but the country will know whethe
digging trenches year is any way to pu
down the rebellion, and then, when attacked
leaving the trenches and doing the tightin
outside of them. He believed the peopl
were ready to make any sacrifice to put dow
the rebellion, and he believed he would do i
Mr.. Davis was in favor of the resolution
but believed the Secretary of War was il
triguing to supplant Mcclellan Ger
Mcclellan submitted his plan for conductin
the campaign, but the Secretary of War ha
overruled it, showing hostility to Mcclellan
Mr.. Morrill, asked if the Senator Davis
stated what he knew or on mere informa
ton.
Mr.. Davis said that what he had stated h
understood to be SO, and if the Senate woul
give him committee he thought he coul
prove it.
Mr.. Chandler said Gen. McClellan's plar
as submitted, was to leave the enemy at Mar
assas and the Potomac and have the Who'll
army shipped off by way of Annapolis. Thi
plan was overruled by the President and Sec
rotary Of War. The fact ought to be state
fairly.
Mr.. Wilson, Of Mass, said the Senator fror
Kentucky Davis had made some statement
which ought not to go to the country. II
| WILSON, should, without hesitation or oualif
cation, say that the Senator from Kcntuck
| Davis was utterly mistaken He Wilson
did not believe that the Secretary of War wa
ever engaged in any intrigue against Gen
Mcclellan. His (Wilson's) position as chair
man on Military Affairs gave him advantage
for finding out if such was the case, and thi
was the first that he had ever heard of il
There had been considerable difference in re
gard to the plans of taking Richmond. |
was understood that there were three plans
one was for Gen. Rozencranz to 90 bv tn
Valley Of the Shenandoah to Richmond, ant
that he believed that the Secretary of Wa
approved Of this plan; another was to q
down to Richmond by way of the Rappahan
mock the third was to go to Richmond b,
way of the Peninsula, which was the plan o
Gen. Mcclellan
Mr.. Chambers resolution then passed
yeas 80, nays 6.
On motion of MIR. Wilson, of Mass, tn,
bill amendatory o f the act CT 1897, calling
out the militia, was taken up, the questltr
| being on the amendment authorizing the
Pres dent to receive negroes into the U. S
service, for labor on trenches.
Mr.. Collamer said that he should vote
against the bill as it stood, On the ground that
it provided for an unlimited CONSUMPTION.
This country decided in the war of the Rev.
olution and in the war of 1912 that it would
not follow the system of European conscrip.
ton, but this bill allows the President to
draft men in such numbers and for such
length Of time as he chooses. which, in fact,
is just such CONSUMPTION; but be (Colla.
mer) believed that the country had
the right Of the services of the peo.
pie, whether white or black. He knew that
they did use b acks in the last war, and he
believed they did good service. In regard to
the second amendment, which provides free
dom for the wives, children and mothers of
those blacks who performed such service, he
said it was nugatory, because in this country
the slave knows no father, mother, child or
wife and yet this is called Christian coun-
try.
Mr.. Tenn Eyck moved to strike out the
words military or naval where it says cor