Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-30
Rogues Faiing Gut.

The northern journals in their mutual recrim
 nations in defence of thir tavorite generals on
 military affairs in Virs mia, clearly admit that
 the grand campaign b Scott and adopted by
 Mcclellan Is a failure.
 The Herald maintait that 1t is not Mcclellan
 fault-that both he std Halleck were forced to
 move before they wei ready. Somebody's stu
 pidity is blamed for Eviding McClellans grand
 army between Frenpnt, Mcdowell, Banks, and
 Shields We copy rom the Herald:
 Instead of movls in April, Gen. Mcclellan $
 army was compeItd to move in March, and
 the army of the Southwest had moved even n
 February. Owing to the fact that Halleck had
 the control and direction of the whole army
 of the Southwesthe was eminently successful
 but would have been much more so had his ad-
 vance been deayed, which would essentially
 have contributG to the capture or destruction of the whole f.bei army in Virginia. On the one hand, McC,eIlan had his army split up by abolition intrigue, and only fragment of 1t assigned to lis command. It was divided into four armies, one of which was given to Ere mont to opeate in the mountains of Virginia, another tolianks to operate i'll the valley ot the Shensndoah, rhird to Mcdowell to operate or the Rappahannock, and the fourth to Mcclellan to operate on the peninsula be. tween thu James ana Ork rivers.
 The ooject of this arrangement was to enable McDowe, who held the central position, to slip into Richmond while Mcclellan was laying siege to | 4orktown, which 1t was neccessar, for hin to reduce before he could make any furthe advance. Mcclellan was thus to be depriFed of all the fruits ofhis exertions-thp eclatof capturing the rebel capital. But by some fatal blundering the plan was frustrated. The Pathfinder lost his path in the mountains; Banks ran away to Maryland, distance of sixty miles in two days; Shields, brilliant general, with portion of Banks army was nowhere, while McDOwell's was fitting back ward and forward between the Rappahannock and Washington, doing nothing. The panic treated was equal to that of Bull Run, and was greatly enhanced by the alarming dispatches from the War Department about the dan ger of Washington. It Is scarcely necessary 10 say that these events were not very well calculated to avert foreign intervention. Mean lime Mcclellan, who was certainly not respon- ,ible for the disaster ot the Shenandoah, did Ill the fighting, but was left to fight his battles done against superior odds.
 Amidst these difficulties he advanced to the very subulbs of Richmond. Where are the other three Union armies which were to CO., operate with nln! Tn consequence or ms losses rom sickness and from battle he wants rein, orcements, and unless he speedily receives them here may be serious difficulty.
 Owingto the original interference with the general plan of the campaign he will now probably have to fight considerable portion Of army as we'll as Iohnstons. The 7ery journals who most strongly urged his premature advance, and sad his troops num- )ered two Or three to one of the foe, now unite n the most dismal strains, and s0Bnd the note )f alarm. The New York Times says there ia m" ominious pause" in the advance of Nc. Jlelan to Richmond and the reason is that le finds there far greater force tkan his own "a force of some 20Q,0QQ men, The World ays he ought 10 Le reinforced by every disci, )lined regiment in the country. The Tribune, which formerly said he had only Quaker guns md handful of men to contend with at Manas> as, urges that all the militia in the east, west md centre be promptly aent forward to his ehet here can be no clearer confession of Is own guilty conduct than this. If any terri. Jle disaster should beiall the army of the Poto- nae, there IS at least one man who is free from thy participation in the responsibility; that man 5 General Mcclellan. How the responsibility $ to be shared by others, from the special military adviser of the cabinet,' {" the Cesar of our army" down to the lowest subordinate ot, icer. may hereafter become the subject of earching inquiry. Meantime, sufficient unto he day is the evil thereof Let Mcclellan be promptly and all will yet be well.