The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
Burnside.
From the st. Louis Republican.


Again we say, let Gen. Burnside be-
ware! 1t will not do for him to brave
the unresting radicals. He will see how
soon they will be swapping at his
heels, and while he is laboring night and
day in camp and field, how they will be
pouring into the Presidents bewildered
ears stories of his incompetency.
We honor Burnside as heroic, ener-
getic, unselfish man. No considerations
of personal ambition will induce him to do
direct or indirect injustice to any soldier.
Right nobly, when the press and public
were eulogizing his courage, talent and mil
itary ability, as shown in the North Caro-
lima expedition, he, in an official report,
reflected back his laurels upon Mcclellan.
He said that the plan was McClellan's, and
that the literal execution of it had resulted
just as Mcclellan had predicted, thus
awarding the glory to his superior-one of
the rare examples Of selt-abnegation this
war has produced. Throughout, the pub
lie has known Burnside by what he has
done, there being little individuality in it
all
When Pope was appointed to command
the Army of Virginia, one of the first
things he did was to issue an order, the de-
sign of which was to cast q sheer upon the
character of McClellan's generalship. There
were to be no spades or dirt-dgging-no
lines of retreat-no showing of backs to
the enemy. In q wOrd-for this was
the meaning-there was to be nothing of
McClellan's style about rono's c2mpaign.
This served its purpose iog time Pope
was hailed as the prospective savior and
deliverer OF the country, and he was lifted
to eminence at once because he was an
avowed enemy of Mcclellan Had he been
a competent officer, he could have retained
the prestige Of his debM; but his ambition
overleaped itself and fell on the other side.
The very instrument employed to break
Mcclellan was the unwilling agent of Nc
Clellans restoration.
Now mark what Burnside does He is
too charitable to kick man when he is
dOwn-toO generous to reverse his opin-
ion of Mcclellan in the hour of adversely
too noble to outrage his own feelings by
seeking to elevate himself upon other peo-
pies enmity to his friend Burnside's Or
der assuming command of the Army ofthe
Potomac does credit to his heart. CLAY
ing been," says he, "a sharer of the pri-
vations, and a witness of the bravery of
the old Army of the Potomac in the Mary
land campaign, and fully identified with
them in their feeling of respect and esteem
for General Mcclellan, entertained through
long and most friendly association with
him, feel that it is not as a stranger I
assume command"
Assuredly, Gen. Burnside struck the
right chord to introduce himself with favor
to the army; for it was great deal more
important to him to have the confidence
OF the soldiers than win the applause of
the politicians through whose Vaccinations
he was raised to his new honorable posi-
ton. And how, we wonder, will the rad
lcals receive Burnside's order? He has
had long and most friendly association
with Mcclellan. If the latter had been
the semi-traitor, the imbecile, the incom-
petent he is accused of being, could such
a man as Burnside have fully Unidentified
himself with the Army of the Potomac elm
their feeling of respect and esteem for Gen.
Mcclellan ?"
What, indeed, have the radicals really
accomplished by the removal of McC lellan?
Fremont or Sigel has not yet succeeded to
his place. Asuccessor has been appointed
who is on record as an endorser of Nc