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WIsHSGTcS Aug 25. 1862
II anybody wishes to see to what desperate shifts
the par,isa.ns Of defeated General compelled to
resort TO cover up truth and suppress criticism, let
him compare wha, PROGRESSES to be a copy Of THE
TRIBUNE letter from the Army Of Virginia appear
ing in The osto. Journal OF Aug 70, with the orig
inal in The TRIBUNE.
Tie editor Of Tie Journal prefaees the letter by
saving that he omts only what lad previously been
published in bis teegraphc columns, viz; the con-
cusion Of the letter There is nothing in the copy
itself TO indicate that anything left out. Yet he
has gsrbled paragraphs muliiated sentences omitted
clauses and suppressed words, wherever there vas
reference he did not like 10 Mcclellan. quote
some paragraphs and sentences from which TIE
Journal omitted what is here printed in italics:
Mcclellan, suppose and hope, n'ale .inofhe' DAY
M sAorhol0 much HEas e5Hto safe him Troop are hurry
ing to mee; US @c. TT,
Every life thswas poured ont under tie shadow Of c. ar
Mount.a was given ia noble purpo,e-gren % 'a,e Go'c
oier ire. uhia aad vet been faay n. Jaiai
PeniasHla i,i'ttne 70 hear io@ Mcoieila1 e'e"nsFe
az Mcclellan has sen, forward Lis troop tor
ono, rapidly the North has 'cn, them Il they meet u on
" TLe Journal had no night to copy letter aud dis
guise It's contents in that style. But 10 mutatc II,
aud then cQntpieuously declare II t. be an exact
copy, somewhat eurpasses even the usual uniarness
OF tha, paper
call attention 10 it because ! think j, right 10
publish the INCOMPETENCE OF a General. aud 10 I'M
Inask the dishonesty Of his partisans For the de-
laws, Disasters, the enormous expenses, aud more
than all the terrible waste Of lives on tne Potomac
end on the Peninsula, which directly and imrIe-
diaiey chargeatle to the nc.pacty and tlnidiiy ~
Gen. Mcclellan, | hold tie bliud credulliy Of the
public aud the insane euloges OF the press largely
responsible. The time has come when the iscts can
no longer be concealed, when the movement 10 the
~ IL n baV A
der when the Pres lent again begins 70 think II pos
sible 10 no. upon his conviction oi Mcclellan IN
compel enee, whea his own army, ione clnging VIII
more than told-ry fidelity TO their oomIn.nder, re-
nouncc their belief and admit their mistake. IL "
in such nn hour that one OF the weakest and moot
interruptions Of his defenders resorts to such
wreichel articles ~ expose in tbs letter
The armies OF Virginia stand ut this moment with
unequal nunIhers fronting desperate foe. Military
espotsn shfoads every movement Ia secrecy, but
every heart f,eis that the crisis In mOmeufOus Let
us at least for the hour hay ABIDE personal prejudice
and partsan spirit; forgetting the political plans o.
the future, and remembering only thai We have q
country TO be saved IN the present.
waste three lines to say TO MIR. j. Il. BALDWIN,
OF No Is Nassau street that mis- note IN TIKI TRIB
rYr OF the I'D was n bluDder us well un imperii-
nence. Leut.-Col. Ksrge was III at The Time, and
Major Bean was ia command of the Ist New
jersey Cavalry, "a the dispatch stated.
There il q statement IN Tic Pik06eipi,a IgQRtrcr
of thls morning that hali the LIST AeW-Je!sey taV-
airy were captured beyond the Rappahannock Oh
Wednesday. hope the severity OF the censorship
nav be 70 far relaxed as 20 allow "A contradiction TO
be teie,raphcd Ii not, this will assure the friends
OF that fegment that the account is wildly eAagger-
ated Tie regiment was in skrInsh on that day:
and Wis dangerously exposed by the sudden ana
cauales retreat OF ;inother-the Harris Light Cav
alrH L lost IN killed. wounded and missing. Al
mel-anong them Lieut.-COl. kaIgc, severely but
rot dangerously wounded by "a ballet in his thigh,
while calamity leading hia men. Lieut. Stuart,
Company A, IS prisoner. Lieut. W. Il. Robbins
is wounded, and ALDO prisoner No other officers
hurt OF missing.