Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-23
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"Geueral HALLEcK," says the New YORK
Tribune. .commands, under President LINCOLN,
ali the forces Of the United States" The lat.
tor is Commander-in Chief Of tho Army and
Navy; the former is only suberdinate-a
Geueral.in. Chief. General HALLEcK is the
creature--the servant Of tie President, who has
placed him where be is, and retains him In his
command. All the grand movements OF our
forces are directed and the details OF their op'
eratlons "nodiHed" by the President and his
General-in Chief.
There is a third party who is responsible Tor
the general conduct Of the war along with the
two already mentioned. II is the Secretary or
War, who is also the President's appOintee, and
his minister or servant, whom he has made and
can unmake at q word. These three, Presi-
dent LINCOLN, General HALLKcK and Secretary
STANTON, constitute the triumvirate. the grand
council, on whom rests the responsibility oil the
rIph. conduct of the operations Of our land and
naval forces ip this war. The President is gu
preme over the other two, and has the au'not-
ity to "modify" their views to suit his own
10 truth, 1t may be said that what they DO he
does, on the universal legal principle that what
man does by an agent, he does by himself
This being so, whoever fnds fault with the
general conduct Of any one OF our grand ar
mics, whether that army be in Virginia under
the immediate eye Of the President aud his Two
war chiefs, or in Kentucky, between which and
w ashiugton the communication Is rapid and
constant, finds fault with the President, dis
trusts the ability of the Gsneral-in-Chief and
DESTROYS confidence In the Secretary OF War
IL is. as these fault finders themselves argue
when complaining Of their political opponents
telling the country, aud telling the rebels too.
that our military management is bad, ruinous
to the national cause, and cannot possibly
bring the war to successful close
Yet such course Of fault-fnding, OF tuning
and fresting over tho prosecution Of the war Is
steadily pursued by the Aboitionists ell over
the country. The Eastern Abolition papers
Get up howl about the slow, dllAtory move
meu.s Of our army under MCCLELLAN, and
about the want Of vigor and skll In BUELL., and
s.raightway the same growl, which has become
little louder since the election Ia heard In such
papers as the Journal of this city, the Cincin'
natl Gazette, and other Abolition sheets In the
West.
We hear Of men every now and then being
arrested and sent to prison to be kept there AZ
the pleasure of the President and bis military
chiefs. Such men are said to have been ar
rested on charges Of disloyalty and discoursg'
Ing enllstments. But We have never heard that
in a single instance one of these fault-hnde's
and defamers Of the CommsndeT-!n.Chief, the
General-ir. Chief and the Secretary Of War;
has been arrested and imprisoned without the
benefit of kabeGs corpus and trial BY jury for
destroying confidence in the war management
of the Government, discouraging eniistmen's
and giving "aid and comfort to the enemy"
The people are beginning to inquire in earnest
why these things are 90?