The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-20
Exactly to the Point.

reading. There is not a sentence too
much -
There is much in the recent military
movements of the national authorities to
inspire the heart of the patriot with hope
for the future. The delays which Rave
embarrassed our progress have at length
have the power to change the course of our
armies and generals. 1t seems to be
recognized that something more than end
less preparations is needed that patient
waiting has produced no fruits, and that,
SO far from there being an inadeguacy Of
forces, there are more men than the gen.
erals know how to handle.
But more than all, it appears that the
President, the Secretary of War and the
General-in- Chief are now united in the full
determination to make success the test of
all our generals, and to keep changing
them continually, after failure, until men
shall be found competent to subdue the
rebellion. Entirely too much trust has
hitherto been placed in the ability of
commanders, who have nothing but popu-
larity and prudence to show as their quail
fcations, whose disasters all seem to be
carefully covered up, and whose slightest
actions ct successful character are mag
| nIfied into tremendous achievements.
This resolution is nothing new for the
Secretary of War and the General-in- Chief,
| who have from the beginning taken it as
| their rule Of action, as far as they had the
power to carry it into effect. Now that
the President has seen that his amiable
| lenience and good nature have been abuse !;
= hot. ha dc N oho %
ers, and has made up his mind that the
country is right, the skies are frightening,
and there is far better look of the future
| than ever before.
Let us group together the facts which
induce us to think that great and sweep
ing change of policy as we'll as of men has
been inaugurate6. Gen. Wool has un-
wisely complicated himself with one Of the
factions in Baltimore, and lately committed
the blunder of arresting some of the best
and truest Unionists the city contained
He is, therefore, superseded, and Gen.
Robert c. Schenck, who has fought brave
ly in more battles than any other general
of this war, will take his place as soon as
his wounds will permit him. Gen. Schenck
is live man, full of enterprise, courage
and ability, and statesman as well as a
soldier.
General Buell., whose campaigns have
been characterized by the most remarkable
series Of delays, mismanagement and mac
ton, who has lost in the West all that
Halleck gained with so great an expenditure
Of blood and treasure, is at last finally re-
moved and sent to vegetate at Indianapo-
lis, while military court of inquiry is to
;nvacti 20 4; ,,,oouo,,ont Co,
eral Rosecrans, who has shown himself to
be man of high capacity, takes his place
in Kentucky, and at the very outset re-
ceived sharp rebuke from the General
Chief for suffering delay of two days
before leaving Corinth to take his new CON-
maud.
Unable to get Gen. Mcclellan to pursue
the rebels actively, or co pduct the war
with any view to a speedy conclusion, the
government has superseded him and put
in his place Gen. Burnside, the victor of
Roaroke Island and Newbern, a careful,
industrious, necessarily active man, obedi-
ent to orders, and who will do his best to
carry out the views of the War Department
without setting up any special will of his
own further than is the duty of a CON-
nanding General Mcdowell and Fitz
John Porter are removed from the com
mand of their respective corps, after
delays which seem to the public unaccoun-
table. Pope charged Porter with being
the cause of all his disasters, and Sigels
report showed clearly that he was unfit
for his post. Hooker, a real fighting man,
takes Porter's corps.
General Curtis has been overhauled for
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Ridge, and Notwithstanding the RESPONSE
bility of his position, we hope that the in
vestgation will be prose cuted to the utmost
that We may know whether it be true that
he was filing his pockets by specializing
In contraband cotton, when he should have
been carrying the war into Arkansas. This
is boldly charged against him, and it so
readily accounts for his otherwise incom-
prehensible delay and inaction, that his
course must now be fully Investigated and
explained.
While We are very glad to notice this
new policy, we would suggest to the gov
ernment that it is hardly just to the men
whose lives are sacrificed by incompetent
or inefficient generals, nor TO the country
whose interests are at stake In this contest,
nor to the people who are taxed so heavily
to bear the burthens Of the war, that the
officers who cause US such serious losses
should be suffered to escape with a mere
dismissal from active command. These
officers all have their partisans and adhe-
rents, who Indignantly assail the govern