The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-18

evsr i.opniops may ~ d !eo wis and top lust
b. complain or UeherA VI hyB9 as hs iskrpt atthe
hAa,i Il . great s1ny = the tacs of his ensaDy.
d,ysrsi,n Of trocrs n s 0enerai Mcclellan which
hnys taken confrr1ir4Fy Ant aslr,t siIpes, whictt
have Ind the support = -ssae ietters wsifiea br a
few honest officers in Mo fistA, with only speeai
cient newsfaprr cofIrsp5Sleuss, or newspapers
which have mersed trr early tresson and
persistent facttcusn~s md esrn ef few R@pablican
newspapers ike the Ha,y 1f<reutsegssvhieb, instead
Of going to ihs prspes .o,,rcss for full knowledge
hsve been ~ dogms4tr ny titvv have feeu ignorant
In ths first place lei II not be forgotten that the Pre-
sisi~nt apti Cabinet Aaxe Ut fne3 sie special mill
the tessr of our army. and shss skin IA ssrase-
gist and whose powers OF cosnfntien are comn,eii-
mrnte 0pn the highest militsfx althotityJ with his
general culsltrr am c6ihprsht iyepssss And he Is
and experience, who callcd into consultation The
idea that Mr.. stanton alone intelf.res with or
changes. military PtAns = simply absuui.
No agreenscnt WIS = FER made BY the President or
the WW Department with General Mcclellan TO
send 10 the peninsula lr whole Of nc eDcwsls corps
For reasons dutsbt sufficient ~ Ms mind with
ference to his position upon the permissible, he
desired the whole. whcl, would have left not .
national soldier between the forts aer,Ss tile Pete
ni.c aud sitichMo0& by WY Of Frederick ksburg.-
Alafge part Of MefJostsi command wes However
seTr 10 him, which wsns n mtfeh M excesx ef ner~t
ment, and when the cerre spondenee Of the War
Department on that subject the light, il will
be found that the President himself nteriered 10
prevent the $1,000 mon left to Gen. Mcdowell from
being further sent in excess OF original agreement
Rut for the President wisely insisting that both fol
the safety OF Washington, and that Gen. Mcclellan
might be aided by flank movement, under Geu
Mcdowell, these u, OOO men should make part ol
a sufficient force, all OF General MeDowelPs army
would have gone to the peninsula.
And yet Mr. Stanton has been charged with d
Nering troops from Gen. Mcclellan, in violation o
original agreement, and with his having prevented
s'very flank movement upon Richmond, which
was long drlayed'bccause more men bad been sent
10 Gen. Mcclellan than he emitted to hy agree
rnent. The simple truth is, that tho reduction o
Gen. MeDowels command by sending 50 large
portion OF e TO Gen: Mcclellan, beyond agreemenf
If not in full compliance with his Wishes caused
the very arrangement OF original pl ms which ba.
been wickedly charged upon Mr.. Stanton. Unti
Gen. McDowell's force was Increased and the dis
position Of troops changed these facts could not be
publicly stated
In regard to the withdrawal of troops from Gen
Banks it would have simply been decent for ths
Daily Adserttssr, before attacking the Government
il nominslly supports, and before relying on the
statements OF an excited officer, who only knew
certain facts in relation to his column to hav.
waited to learn the overruling military reason and
necessity for the withdrawal-of which that office
and the Daily Adrcrtiser knew litteraly nothing
General Banks Is not III the habit Of cemnluniea
ting TO his subordinates the important plans til,
| necessities for changes of plan of campaign
We are at liberty to say much as this tha
try necessity, cheerfully acquiesced in the tempo
rary and necessary abandonment Of IL plan i,
whose original conception and partial execution
he had the most cordial and effective support O
the Secretary.of War. And we know further tha
Mr.. Stanton was among the last to yield to tn.
necessity, and that the President hself Intervene
and wisely decided that the troops should I've with
drawn II is, moreover. the fact that the necessit,
for the diversion of troops from Gen. Banks grew GU
of, and was i'll aid Of Gen. McClellans wishes ant
| his call for more trooT- Further than t1swe hav.
no right to speak.
We have only to say further. that the major par
of the facts stated in this article, have been fo
weeks in possession and that their publication
has been made proper and necessary By the lapse
| time. and by the most ignorant, viruent, and per
sistent attacks upon a Government whose lips hav'
| been closed against saying word which might
| even by implication, inure Que of its own Generals
! or the cause in which all engaged.
We have said that we know these facts We say
! this deliberately and responsibility jour
nasts aud gentlemen. II it be objected that ti
facts stand unsupported by the names of the
| of information, only add. that the assumF
tioii ef knowledge of pIsas and changes of plans il
/ the many newspapers, which have for two month
! violently attacked tho Secretary of War and tn
| Government, rests on no exhibition of authOrit,
| whatever. 1t will be time to name sources of in
formation when any respectable authority sit,,
ated as to know governing facts, is produced Ii
| due time the whole truth will see the light