The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-07-10

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monopoly. 1t Is every mans duty to vigor-
ously kick any person who il discovered to be
guilty Of boarding silver or selling it to
brokers, and If this duty is rightly performed,
and if Congress will add = little alloy to our
silver coin, we shall have no further trouble
about scarcity Of specie.
General Mcclellan and the Voice OF the
Press.
From oil parts of the country the journals
are enthusiastic In their praises of General Nc
Clellan touching his recent mastery retreat
upon the James river 1t is true that there are
exceptions Of the revolutionary, rabid stripe,
like the Tribune and Post; but 1t cannot be
doubted that the general sentiment of the
press. without regard to the political opinions
of the different journals, 10 most decidedly and
warmly in favor of Mcclellan, who, under
every disadvantage, has succeeded in saving
the army from capture or destruction by . very
delicate and difficult military opsration-the
only way in which it was possible to accom-
plsh the result; and, while they do justice to
the skill and fortitude Of Mcclellan, they do
not fail to render justice to the imbscility Of
spiracy Of the radical members Of Congress by
whom II was Influenced.
The Concord Patriot obssrves:-'It is doubt
full which is the most prominent sentiment in
the minds Of all patriotic decentralization
of the mastery generalship Of General
Mcclellan and the heroic conduct of his
troops in their late conflicts before Richmond,
or execration of the dastardly conduct of those
who have SO long and successfully labored to
bring upon that army the late disasters" The
Boston Courier says:-"Recently developed
facts, showing conclusively the insufficient
numbers Of the army before Richmond, which
made the m ovement just executed necessary,
have intensified popular feeling to an extraor-
binary degree against the shameful treatment
Of Mcclellan and his army. The feeling is that
conduct demanding such sacrifice of life, oil
of which might have been spared if McClellan's
earnest remonstrances had been regarded,
deserves no name short Of murder" The New
buryport Herald declares that "the retreat Of
General Mcclellan shows Is good generalship
rs anything that has transpired during the
war;" The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
neutrality-suspicious. has shown, bitter and
costly experience, that the instinct Of the peo-
pie and of the army was right in condding in
Gen. Mcclellan" The Patterson IN. - Regis
ter says "history Will record malisons upon those
who refused achievements, and bind laurel
wreaths upon the brow Of the chieftain who &C.
complained his purposes under such adverse cir
cumstAncss." The Trenton N. j. True Amai-
can does not hesitate to pronounce this judg-
ment:-"The Union troops fought witha heroism
unsurpassed in the history ofwara. Their move
ments we're directed with skill and bravery
which will do more to immortalize General
Mcclellan and the generals under his command
than if he and they had conquered the rebel
city which they had besieged for 50 many
weeks" The Providence (R. ~ Press main.
tains that mo one can deny that Mcclellan has
worked in the very teeth Of difficulties fornlida-
of common SOUL He has been the victim Of Of
fetal laundering and arrogance, and at the
same time of unfraternal jealousy in his CON-
peers in arms. The Troy IN. ~ Daily Times
says:-"An intelligent public opinion is seldom
mistaken, and it says to Mr.. Stanton, behold
your handiwork! McClelan's nobility of soul
though FESTIVE under such treatment, has kept
him silent. The loyal heart of the nation sends
greeting to Mcclellan" The St. Louis Repub-
lican gives utterance to the following:-"What-
ever responsibility has been incurred by the
proceedings of our army on the peninsula with
in the last week or ten days rests not with
Mcclellan. II there has been serious defeat
the blame Is not McClellan's. We have no
hesitation in arraigning the mismanagement of
the War Department for any disaster that has
been suffered in Virginia, from the day when
Edwin M. Stanton conspired with the radical
sbolitionists to break that officer up to the
present time" The st. Josephs (Mo.) Demo
crat thus sums up the campaign In vir-
ginia:-"The blunders Of tie campaign
in Virginia exhibit an incapacity really crimi-
nal. Deprived of the control of movements
beyond his own immediate department, Gen.
Mcclellan has found himself opposed by the
entire force Of the Southern confederacy. A
conceited Secretary has attempted to manage
campaign, and a. consequence all his armies
are beaten in detail"
We might multiply similar quotations froni
iouypals Of the North, the East the West and
the central States; but these are sufficient to
demonstrate the pulsstions Of the heart Of the
country beating from this great metropolis and
throbbing in every vein 10 the remotcst sx-
trcmities Of the republic. Justice must and
shall be done to Gen. Mcclellan, and II must
also be executed upon the radical conspirators
who defeated our armies, and who sacrificed SO
many heroic lives in order to destroy the gene
raj who led them, and to accomplish their
reasonable designs against the consttu-
ton. The war il protracted indefinitely,
its legitimate objects rendered more distant
and doubtful, and serious danger Of foreign in
tervention and foreign war looms up in the
eastern horizon. Now is the time for the Presi-