The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-1864, 1862-09-06
Read 1t THE Doom of the Politicians.

Detroit Advertiser. and lis abolition echoes
who have denounced Gen. Mcclellan on any
and every occasion. and back up Zach. Chan
der in bis weak and lDdicrous efforts to crush
this General in the L s. Senate, 10 read the
following extract from the y. y. Tribune's
Potomac Army correspondence, dated = On
the march through White OAK Swamp.
June 2eth:
Our dead beyond the Chickahomiuy lie
uuburied Though it broke oar hearts to leave
our wounded on the star lit battle-ground. we
abandoned them, crossed the river. burned the
bridges. and interposed natural barrier 10 q
renewal of the attack of yesterday, in which
the disproportion of three 10 one made battle
a frolic for the rebels, aud forlorn hope for
the troops of the Union. The unburied dead
and the abandoned wounded do not lie there
unavenged. Wherever the FIRE Of our artillery
fell yesterday, the rebels lie in ridges The
word " carnage alone retains enough Of IN
hackneyed expresSiveneSs to convey to those
distant from the scene any impression of the
literal paving Of fields and woods with the red
carcaSses of the soldiers of slavery, mangled
and torn with shell, canister. grape, and MIME
musket balls. Our fighting at Seven Pines
was awfully mortal, at various points. There
were places on the Chickahominy yesterday
where it was fercer and deadher We left
our dead unbured, and to Stouewal jackson
if be survives, have We abandoned our wound
ed, and we march now through the White Oak
Swamp Outnumbered, surrounded, at any
moment liable to be cut off from our base Of
supplies, and 10 have our possession of the
\ nrk river Railroad wrenched from our grasp
Mcclellan came out q star-riSing from the fight
in which he had shared the perils Of a soldier
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walton OF the army from annihilation by FIRE or
loss by capture. He ordered new roads TO be
instantly cut through the swamp that separates
US from the Charles City highway, and com
municated to his Generals his purpose, to
change his base By rapid movement to james
River, and while saving his proximity 10
Richmand, to take position where bis con-
nection with Baltimore, Washington, and New
York could never be cut-where he could
never be surrounded-aud where, peradventure
he could cover the removal Of the distinctions
in the James River to the ascent of our iron
clad feet to the duty and policy of ruducing
Richmond TO ashes. Orders had been previ.
ously issued TO ship every pound of public
property from White House Point. and to
send every vessel under government charter
out of the Pamunky and York Rivers around
Darling.
We march now through the White Oak
Swamp, TO change, in twelve hours time the
the base of a great army-doomed where it
was, and having now bat little grace of delay
accorded to ii by an active and brave enemy
numerous enough to eucircle Us at every point
and outnumber US at ALL The movement is
bold, soldierke and brilliant. but eminentlv
t. l., Il. i
burning of every one of The bridges which We
have thrown across the Chickahominv, and
within hearing of the destruction by our own
hands. of the railroad which gave Us supplies,
and was to secure US retreat. The movement
will probably be successful. though its trail
will be bloody. The arorld irH regard II as a
mastery stroke Of genus. The army will so
regard it, and will feel for It's commander the
admiration and gratitude that savors Of men
ever kindle in loyal hearts. But the brilliancy
of this moment will not for an instant dazzle
the eyes of the wronged and wrathful men of
the army of the Potomac, nor will it dazzle
the sight OF the angry people so as for mo-
ment to obscure their perception OF the CRIME
against the nation arhIct has rendered hlS
change Of base and front 'mPeriously necessary,
This crime is the refusal to reinforce Mcclellan.
| don't care about the question which legis-
lators, soldiers and politicians have debated
of this Generals fitness to command The
York and james River Peninsula was not the
place for that discussion. The hour of the
junction of Beauregard's and Jackson's forces
to those of Johnston is not the time for such
debate | care not for any criticism of Gen.
McClellan's campaign on this Peninsula or on
the Potomac | have blows but not Il word.
for the untimely casuist. in or out of admins
trative office, who under the roar of rebel
cannon sweeping our ranks with shot and shell,
meets the demand for aid TO this army with a
chronological measure of delays at Fortress
Monroe. at Yorktown, at Williamsburg at
Seven Pines. don't care whether there were
delays or no delays-whether they were Me
Clellan's delays the Quartermaster Generals
delays, or the delays of the elements? No
man, no party, no interest shall, with my as
sent or my silence be permitted to mix up
with the sacred right of an outnumbered
American army to demand help from their
countrymen and to promptly receive it. col
lateral questions of fitness of vigor, of fidelity
in commanders. When loyal New York
Regiments, lifted from their feet by the fire of
rebel brigades. cry out of their wounds and
death for help; when the choicest of New
England Michigan and Pennsylvania troops,
outnumhered il front and on both tanks by
Whole divisions of the enemy, beg for rein
forcements. say that the blacklist crime that
power can commit is to stalk upon the field of
peril and say, Soldiers. have no confidence
in your commander. Let your martyrdom
proceed = Aud so says this army of the
Potomac. And it registers tonight VOWS of
vengeance as it marches in the dark from
position which their diminished numbers dis
abed them from holding. but which is conse-
Grated TO them forever by their suferngs, their
labors and their wrongs The politicians and
statesmen lrho left us here to be oununbercd
and cut of from our supplies and the possible
ty Of retreat are doomed men