The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-09-15
Military Bespotism.

The Baltimore Sun, few days agt
asserted that McClellan's troops had bull
lied the President into the reappo'ntmen'
of Mcclellan witLfull powers to manege
the war upon his own P lans and withou'
future interference. The editorial al
iuded to asserted that the troops presented
only this alternative, that Mcclellan or
Stoncwall jackson should be their leader
The New York Herald and the class OF
politicians and Army officers Of which II
is the mouth-picec, urges Mcclellan to
20 still further and insis. that the Presi-
dent shall reorganize the Cabinet under
his die,ation and in his interests.
Wilkes Spirit of the Times asserts that
the President was dragooned by the Army
officers into the reinstatement of McClel-
Ian in command Of the Army. And in
sists, in laborod article, that the civil
liberties of this country have already
passed under the sword of military
Dictator.
Such intimations as these are calculated
to create terrible apprehensions in the
public mind, even though destitute Of
foundation, and with the MANY circum
stances alleged to substantiate them the
condition of the country is truly appall-
ing. The suggestion of the Herald to a
Military Commander to force the Presi-
dent to reorganize his Cabinet. is the
most reasonable utterance during the
War and yet the Herald is not menaced,
although hundreds of persons have been
arrested and are still in prison for less Of
fensive expressions. Why this differ
encc? Is Mcclellan the too powerful
protector of the Herald in its treason
The special Correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune, gives the following as the
substance of the Herald article:
The New York Herald to-day has an
article more fully indicating the plots for
the establishment of military Dictator
ship than anything else that has found its
way into print. 1t compares McClellan's
position now with Wellington's on the
Spanish peninsula, when the British
Cabinet was opposed TO him, and says
that Mcclellan ought to insist on re-
construction 4 the Cabinet to purge it
of the radical faint which may again in
fuse its poison over the whole. 1t con
tinues, "now is the time for Mcclellan
to prove himself not only great general
but n statesman worthy of the occasion
and OF the responsibility which he has
assumed. The safety of the country is
entrusted to him and he is bound to see
that no insidious enemy Turks about bis
base of operations. He is master Of the
situation. He ought not to rest satisfied
till he is assured by facts, not mere prom
Uses, that his plans shall not be interfered
with hereafter The game is now ia his
own hands. and unless he plays his best
trump and disposes effectually of the
radicals as he has the power to do, they
will soon dispose Of him by striking him
down on the very crisis of the campaign
now opened in Maryland.
The Herald ostensibly demands the
expulsion Of all but Mcclellan men but
what it really means is to urge coup a
etat on the part of Mcclellan like that
which overthrew the republic in France.
Wilkes Spirit of the Times declares
THAT when the president was draeoored
by the assumed clamors Of the soldiers,
and in opposition to sentiments of the in
telligent and patriotic classes of the peo-
pie, to reinstste the man that lost the
Peninsular campaign, and whose minions
sacrificed Pope, the civil liberties of this
poor country passed beneath the sword,
and virtual military dictatorship was
inaugurated, the end Of which no man
can foreses.h
The South revolted because Republi-
can President was elected, and now the
Herald and Mcclellan 'sympathizers pro-
pose to overthrow the Government be.
cause the people have elected majority
OF Republicans to Congress, and because
the Cabinet officers do not agree with
Nc Clellan and the New York Herald in
political sentiment.
If tho Administration submits to that
kind of brow beating with meekness, we
may expect TO see Congress trundled out
of the Capitol during its next session by
some Of Little Macs" military tools,
as the Herald has already advised them
to do.
We presume that the only foundation
of truth in this statement. importing that
the Pres 4tAtst- rfrHu0nnpd IN fo fhe