The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-08-16
Plain Talk.

The retrograde movement Of "thc army
Of the Potomac" has disguised the friends
of the Administration, and they are cen.
surfing members of the Cabinet, especially
the Secretary os War, for the disasters be-
fore Richmond. 1t is very pretty Gami-
, ly quarrel and promises some rich devel-
opments before it is settled. Some accuse
Stanton Of otficious interference with Gen
McClelan's plans, and throw the respon-
sibility OF failure on his shoulders while
others assert he studiously RETAINED from
making suggestions and left the whole
matter with the President. Amid so ma
ny conflicting statements, all apparently
well authenticated, it is difficult to arrive
at correct conclusion. That some one
blundered fatally all admit, and it is not
strange that those who are responsible for
the blunder should try to shift the respon-
sibility. The people insist upon knowing
who are the authors of the mischief. The
blood shed in the battles before Richmond
isupOn their heads, and history will record
them as the vilest traitors and most heart
less wretches that ever controlled the des-
tiny of a nation. Gen. Mcdowell says he
desired to cooperate with Mcclellan, but
was ordered 70 re@aiu ..;,.1Dt;> -. S.',,t5 cg
dre23 din IN dO'sOg Yhe New~kdrk he
press lays the blame to the President
Chandler, the Republican Senator from
Michigan, in his Seat on the 18th of July,
speaking Of the "artny of the Potomac
and its disastrous retreat, said
1.-THE army of the Potomac, when it marched
on Manassas, numbered 23u, 900 men, and the
enemy less than 10000. They marched on
Manassas, and found thirty 1.-TWO wooden guns
and eleven hundred dead horses. That army
could have marched to Richmond in thirty
days and not lost n thousand men, and there
WAS no impeachment to its marching to Charles.
ton or New Orleans This Is Il matter of Grim
inality, of gross criminality, which shonld con-
sign the criminal TO eternal detestalion and
condemnation. The great crime consisted in
sacrificing and dividing this great army Of the
Potomac, and the criminal is either abraham
Lincoln or George b. Mcclellan. The criminal
in his Judgment, should not only be deprived
of office, but suffer the extreme penalty Of the
law. The nation has been dsgraced bv this
dtVisioa OF the army of the p"t"naG> apdE ".
Stanton always opp SEED it. If that great army
bad been commanded BY the arch traitor JET
Davis. there has not been IA movement which
he would not have ordered since the first of
December"
Pretty strong language fora Republican
United States Senator. The Michigan
Senator accuses Abraham Lincoln or
George b. Mcclellan with criminality,
gross criminality. which should consign
the criminal to eternal dctestatun and
condemnation" lie goes further and SAYS
" the criminal, in his Judgment, should
not only be deprived of Office bat suffer
the extreme pendhy of the law" Sup
pose Democratic Senator had made use
of such language on the floor of the Sen
ate, would not the Republicans have cried
"trcaSon" and Insisted up N his immedi-
ate expulsion? Wound he not have been
arrested and incarceratrd in one of the
political BaStilcS? Would not the min
ions of the Administration, the poor, de.
SpiSed, AFFECT slaves of power, who still
gloat over the expulsion Of Bright, whose
crime consisted in adhcring to the princi,
pies of the Democratic party, have ap.
proved and justified the act? Most GER
tainly, is the answer Of all who know the
nature Of the " creeping vermin."