Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-02-18
A NEW ARRANGRmENT.

The Chicago Tribune asserts with the utmost
confidence that the Federal authorities have
taken the conduct of the war into their own
hands 50 far as to make Mcclellan a subordinate
entirely. That paper says the change WAS e1-
pected, and adds:
We AVE no doubt Of the correctness of our
Washington correspondent when he telegraphed
US On Sunday, that the late movements In Ken
lucky were ordered by the President and Seere-
tary Of War, without the concurrence of Gen.
Mcclellan nor have we any doubts that the re-
ports which say that Mr.. Stanton, with the aid
and cooperation Of Mr.. Lincoln. has taken the
reins into his own hands, and will be responsible
for the mishsps and entitled 20 the credit Of the
ensuing campaign, are also true, though the par
t;sans Of the do-nothing policy are doing little
else than asseveTsting that they are false. We
assume from what We know of the arrangements
ct Washington, present and prospective, that
Zen. Mcclellan viii cross the Potomac with his
staff, and take the immediate commsnd Of the
army there encamped, while the general opera
tons cf the war will be conducted by his sups-
ncrs, who have, up to this time, delegated their
power to him.
We are sure that, if our predictions are veTi-
ned, there will be general rejoicing IN the cOun-
try, because 1t is certain that the masses of the
intelligent people Of the North, weary of waiting
and hoping-bOred with nearly nine months
preparauon-will welcome any change which
promises to impose greater activity into our
We do not know that confidence in Gen. McClel-
Ian Is destroyed. He is brave. skfIfuI in the
disposition Of a small force, in the theory of his
art, and undoubtedly sincere in his wishes to pat
the rebellion downby bis method. But men ssk
themselves if they have not expected too much
ii their hopes were not undUly excited when he
took commsnd-if there is any one man IN the
army who can WELD the six hundred thousand
troops with whom be has been entrusted-if.
without censuring him for faults Of omission. it
would not be wise TO relieve him of a share of
the load that he has carried, and by entrusting
to Mr.. Stanton, as the representative Of the
President, the supreme command, divide the labor
and the honors of the ensuing campaign7
OF course all who dare express thoughts like
these will be met by the ready reprosch, "Oh,
you know nothing of military affairs-you are
q civilian ~ But we take it that people will not
willingly wait through another period Of seven
months i~naction, before making their conviction
that there has been a failure somewhere, under
stood. They may not be learned in military
theories but it requires no theoretical skin to
know that the inAction of our srmy is an
anomaly in military history that its msinten-
anee costs two millions a day that the do
nothing policy promises to entail endless foreign
complications upon US and that already the
treasury, though we stand in imminent danger
Of q war with half of Europe, is bankrupt. In
all these things, the people, though not gradu-
ates Of West Point, are able to see their way
clear. Is it strange, then, that they should be
impatient Of the longer continuance of the in
action, or that they rejoice over the prospective
change of which our advices TOm Washington
tell US :