The Placer herald., 1862-08-30
Supporting the Administration.

The irrepresssible Zach Chandler, the Sen
ator from Michigan, who advised the Cover.
nor of that State to senl delegates TO the
Peace Congress" pledged against compro.
mise, because. to use his own language
without little blood letting the Union is
not worth preserving" recently made a
speech in the Senate in which he attacks the
management of the war in his usual irrepres
sible STYLE lie says that crime has been
committed, which should be punished with
'the extreme penalty of the lava little
more blood letting-and that the criminal
is either the President or General Mcclellan
Here is the report of the speech as we find
it in tl.at extremely loyal paper, ihc Alta:
Mr.. Chandler said, the gentleman from
Pennsylvania wanted to know where the ar
my WAS, or who placed hem there. The ar.
my of the Potomac when it marched on
Manassas, numbered $50, 900 men. and the
enemy less than 10000. They marched on
Manassas and found 80 wooden guns and
100 dead horses The army could have
MAJ ched to Richmond in .hiry days and not
los, thousand men, and there WAS no i'm,
pe'linent to its marching to Charleston or
New Orleans But the Senator from Penn
syivania wants to know who place ! the army
where it is. The politicians and .he traitors
of the country declare that E. NJ. Stanton
put them there but Stanton had nothing to
do with putting the army in The marshes Of
the Chickahominy.
This is matter of criminalitv, Of gross
crminaty. which should assign the criminal
to elerEal detes;aion and condemnation
The country demands sacrifice for this CRIME,
and the press of the country are demanding
the sacrifice of the mere clerk Stanton, the
mere clerk to obey he orJers Of the iresf-
dent. lie (ChandIer) introduced resoIn
ton, which, if answered, would show the
true criminal. The crimiuaIi,y was reduced
SO as TO he between two persons. The great
crime consisted in sacrificing and dividing
this great army of the Potomac, and the
criminal Is either abraham Lincoln CT Geoyqe
b. Nc Clellon. There is no third man at ali.
The criminal, in his Judgment, should MT
only be deprived of Office bu. suffer the ex,
treme penalty of the law. The nation has
been disgraced by this division Of the army
of the Potomac, and E. NJ. Stanton always
opposed it. If that great army had been conn
manded by the arch traitor jeff. Davis, there
not have ordered since the first of December
He called on the press and The traitors Of
the country to stop denouncing a mere clerk,
and to denounce Abraham Lincoln or Geo
B. Mcclellan.
Who led the army into he marshes of the
Chickahominy, where they died like sheep,
and where the left wing was left to maintain
a savage fight when a reinforcement of 90,
600 from the right or centre would have sent
the rebels back into Richmond defeated?
The San joaquin Republican,, in speaking
Of the above speech. says, the President am
nounced in one of his first messages, in sub
stance, that party capable Of eecIing
President were capable of maintaining him
in his position, and we suppose by the same
rule the party which made the President are
competent to hang the President wihoutim
putalon upon their loyalty; but as to us poor
democrats, who had no hand in the making
the only alternative is unconditional support
of all his acts, criminal or otherwise, or to
be denounced as traitors and rebel sympathi
Zers.