The New York herald., 1862-07-17

know Of any other force which could have been sent
neral Mcclellan. Thus Mr.. Chandler saii II is shown
that l6S NJ the beet troo that stood tods
foeistoo have been sent General Mcclellan. and yet
tho ucasMb OF the country bowling against
the Secretary Of War because he had not sent reinforce
men's 10 ier er Nc lellan. Ho read further the
and saying ,ha. he believed everything that Mcclellan
tie government. Mr.. Chandler continued. say.
mg. ifas Mcclellan lost more men IN the
enemy since The army went to yorktown. A, last, when
small frac'i"n Of the army whipped tho enemy a. WI.
liamsburg Mecelan, at long distance from h field Of
battle, wrote desratch 10 the Secre Of Wa that he
should try TO hold the In check but they
fast. The road 70 Richmond was and al he had
but he 70 nj the swamp no ccui, and sal right
down in the middle M IL and went to wor kd gging
there by sickness Then, at last, after waiting till tho
enemy chose, for IL would not be strategy to attack
them t they were ready We kept on digging tire ches,
whole rebel forco was hurled small PARTON of our
army, who whipped thom, and drove ihsm back psll-
NELL int Richmond, and across James river. But
Of course did follow themthat would ncs be fair
70 follow whipped enemy, and so the battle Of Fair
but IL did MS no good IL would have bsen unfair 10 take
advantage o. n routed army, magnanimoiay STOP
ped and comuisnced digging. There was no amy 10
front, AMI inrsnchmcnts In front, bnt nd nos
know what elso 10 do, and began " dig ditch,
and We kept digging bitches nntil they had impressed
aihm ami they sent Jackson q raid to vi chester,
and we waited for him 10 o,me bark vii hts 30 0C0
M u, anu We neard tDAb IN was eysc afed.
But u would have been unfair to commence an attack
until they brought their troops from Corifh. and
we waited Tor the army from .orinth; and w,cn they
Ct in all tho troops they hOrcd To rsise. then
did not attack them vt oil. They attacked ns
had reason to suppose they wonl Tiny at
Whole forea on our rish. wing Of 10000
men, and darng the whole that 1hirsdav our littlo
army 30 0oo held ound AMI roaIed that vast
ride oyo' AID over again, and held their ground at
ni2ht Well SIR, II course reinorcsmenis we seitto
th avs mon, To ano them TO send int dastardiy
hnc intn RSehsf, npA ant,A ,st.
they did ~ io anything Of tho Kind Al might ins cad
Of rein rceinents they were ordered 10 rc,reat. Well,
cat, said ia tue dispatches, the enemy fo w-d
Us iko dsmons. Of course they world Who ever
heard q ss,, M army S.y resren's that r n.
and centre remained intact. icint was made
left wing centre. AZ have hoard from Of
the br vest men In that whole Army o the Poiom,c.
He said when his regiment was ordered der arms no
had NO co.. b that he YVES going 70 march Richmond
with his regiment, He believed The wnole force OF the
euemy q sacxed our right wing Ho bsitsved there
was nothing N front. Ho behsvei that our hour Of
triumph had come His men sprung ino line with
avidy prepared 10 rush at the pcni Of the bay
Into and Richmond And no never discovered
his M no million AID half Of dola worth
to think i did not wear the aspect an advance
on Richmond. They had been working thre ard
40 ss s.y or s"
trenches without firing agln Our army ordered 10
advance the sunboats instead Of on Richmond Tn
CooDs ld thai he fought the onemy three days snd
whipped them each day, and then every night like
-, using wicked word No portion that q, my
Ia tho fight except tho under Porter. and they
VIII ppsd tho enemy tho first day. Well, sir, this s
called strasegy. Now, sir, again say why was
this great army Of the Potomac, Of two hun
nulty, and scarcely divine wisdom, couid have devised
any other way have that army defeated than the way
that WAS adopted simply charge that grave errors
have leon Committed; but as saii before, no thcr
way could have been devised TO defeat that army.
have thought IL necessary that these sh uld 90
forth 70 the people. know that AL be dcnoui csd
but only by two classes Of psopsons traitors and the
other .oos. Nobody olso will denOunce me.
Mr.. SUMNER offered resolution that the Committee
tho Conduct Of the War have leave 10 sit during The
cess OF Congress Laid over.
The senate then went into executive session.
Adjourned.