Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-15

The London Times, of the Oath of November
says of the removal of Gen. MCCLELLAN:


What are we to say to the sudden collapse of
Gen. McClellanl Is it heroic patriotism, or dis
gust, or absence of ambition, or want of pluck,
or is il policyY Here is a man occupying the
first place in the worlds eve He had great
army at his back, which respects him as il re
spects no other leader He is the foremost mem
Der OF party which is coming into power He
is the only man among the Northern Generals
whom the enemies of the North respect; and
perhaps We may even say he is the only man
among those generals whom the world at large
respects. Yet, while he is in camp with his army,
surrounded by his friends late one night
missive is put into his hands from a President
who seems to have lost all influence, and from ii
government which is sinking daily into contempt
and Immediately this powerful general lays down
his command. sinks into a private ndv ual.
and, with short farewell to his men, goes AWAY
into retirement, and almost into exile
General Mcclellan obeys the law. He appears
to be the only man i'm America who admits that
the law has any force If Mcclellan had wanted
precedents pretexts for tossing his official dis
missal iuto his camp fire. neither was difficult
to find nor far to seek. If it was proper to re
sist by military force the process of the Supreme
Courts and TO deny the habeas corpus writ in
cases of arrest of American citizens. surely
great necessity might have been pleaded to pre-
vent the action of a mere State Secretarys let
ter and it the whole municipal laws and indlyld-
ual liberties of America rightly suspended
under the plea of military exigency, surely a
similar plea might have justified resolution of
General Mcclellan not to leave his army leader
less while in the face OF the enemy. Ii was a
bold exercise of power in Lincoln, one of those
bold exercises of power which weak men some
times do. but seldom at the proper time To
strike down this party foe even at the head of the
army OF the Republic, was an act of vigor which
might have had important consequences had the
generals ambition been equal to his opportunity
Ii General Mcclellan had refused obedience.
there il great reason To believe that the army
would have stood by him, and that large party
OF the Democrats would have applauded him
To save the constitution by force from the forci
BILE violations by the President would have been
a fair party cry. But Mcclellan has preferred to
play the part of the model constitutional Demo
crat: he Yields obedience even to Mr. Lincoln,
that he may show his zeal for the constitution
and, with smotherei complaint of doubt and
GOODNESS in some quarters, he turns aside from
the possible dictatorship 10 till his New jersey
farm.
Mr. Van Buren, proposes 10 run Mcclellan for
next President; and, TO man who has made
himself renowned for slow and certain tactics,
perhaps this is better chance than that offered
by the opp,rtanity OF bringing into immediate
n
bold, patriotic man might have been dazzled bv
the glory or impelled 10y the duty of daring every
thing, in order TO put end to the present out
pouring OF blood, and arresting the present rush
10 ruiz: but so far the world know General
Mcclellan, he was likely see things in differ
ent light While matters are going so vel. for
HIM and his party, there is no need OF any great
coup No doubt Gen. Mcclellan has confidence
in Lee aud Jackson. If We have not in Gen Burn
side. and he naturally thinks that operations
which he did not believe to be wise to attempt
himself could not be successfully carried out by
the General who has superseded him A great
defeat in Virginia would bring back Mcclellan
with augmented power and reputation, and would
finish up the present decayng Government Such
may be the calculations of the obedieuG General
who formed the army OF the Potomac; and if
such be the thoughts that swayed him. they seem
10 be shared oy great many others. During
the few days which have inteFvened between his
dismissal and our last adsices, rumors Of defeats
have been already rife in New York. These are
probably only the wlnspcrings of general ap-
prehension. The new commander must OF
course. do something 1t Mcclellan was super
seeded because he refused 10 advance, Burnside
must have been appointed because he ready
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