Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-03-20


THE Presidents wu .u."l und.r
date OF tut lltG m.. ,I".. .... .M. ..Hr
General d. .ci..au, hagn. y..#.u." H-
ken the field at the head 90. tur amN '.
the Potomac, until o.ucrV.e ord"rj, ho
is relieved OF the command oi lne other
military Departmental retaining the
command OF the Potomac" In consc-
quonce, all commanders OF departments
are required to "rcport scvcraIly and di-
rectly to the Sccrctary OF War"
The assumption, therefore, that Gcner-
al Mcclellan has been degraded or super.
seded, is utterly groundlcss. lie retains
his rank as senior Major General, and is
still er o6icio General Chief No 9th
er man has been appointed to that posi-,
/ ton, and cannot be so long as General
Mcclellan holds the rank OF senior Maj
/ General in the United States Army
Upon that officer dsvolvcs the duties of
I General. in Chief when in headquarters
at Washington City, and whom, by his
taking the field in person, it becomes I'M.
practicable for him to discharge those
functions. they arc performed by the Sec
rotary of War.
Winfield Scott being the senior Ma jor-
General, was General in. Chief the same
as George 3. Mcclellan is now. When
General Scott went to Mexico, he vas re-
lieved Of his duties as General.in-Chiel
as General Mcclellan is now, and they
were, as now, discharged by the Secrc-
tary of War. The Presidents order
makes no change in the normal course Of
things; it mcrly announces to the com
manlers Of departments to change in re-
gard to the officer to whom their reports
are hereafter to be directed.
On the day the Presidents order was
promulgated, the specials of certain pa
pers, who often know more than the
heads of the War Department themselves,
telegrophcd that from that day forth,
McClellan would cease to be General-in
Chief. 1t was malicious ialsehood
intended to deceive the public, and lower
General Mcclellan in the popular cstima
ton; for he is to-day as truly Gcneral-in
Chief as he was before the recent order
was issued-thc only difference being
that as he is now in the field as comman
der of the department Of the Potomac
his place as General Chief at Wash
ngton is, for the time being, supplied by
the Secretary Of War.
The Cincinnati Gozette gloats over
what it is pleased to style the removal o
General Mcclellan, with kind of a fen
dish Joy. 1t gives full vent to the out
workings of that malicious spirit witt
which the radical press have pursued the
commanding General for months past
What correspondent Of that Republi.
can journal, the New York Times, saiC
some time ago, is appropriate now
"1he capture OF Beauregarl. or the
downfall Of jeff Davis, could not hav,
spread more undisguised joy among a
certain class of our people than did tn,
maign rumor that General Mcclellan
hal been degraded by the Governmen
and reduced to mere local command.
But the able gcneralShip and skilllu
strategy of our commanding General hav,
been fully vindicated by the recent Union
victories, and especially by the bloodlcs
triumphS our arms have achieved. Iii
Northern traduccrs, like the Southeu
: rebels, ardently desire that his plans ma,
be broken up and his schemes thwartcd
and some red hot and reckless radica
placed IN the chief command. This woul
hasten rapidly the grand denouemem o
the war drama which Northern diaunion
lists and Southern traitors equally dcsir
to see-the final and complete overthrow
of the American Union. Statesman.