The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-11-19
The Fad Near.

The end is near when this war is we'll be-
gun. And it seems we'll begun when the
President gives assurance that he will not
only stand by his proclamation, bit a0iM 1f5,.d
men to execute it. 70 make place for these,
the heads Of two do nothing generals have
rolled into the basket. The stroke long de.
i Ilayed has fallen, and Mcclellan joins his
twin, Don Carlos; in the retirement which.
for their country's sake, We would they
might have earlier entered upon. "
Months ago the Tribune wrote of McClel
Ian, that he had been weighed in the bal
ances and found wanting. lie has been
weighed again and by a most expensive pro-
cess the former verdict is sustained When
in the wnter of 1861, a distinguished public
man said ofsthe commander o:ahe Potomac
that "the country would do better to pay
him off with one hundred millions and have
done with him. it could scarcely have been
forseen that before his connection with the
management of this war should cease, the
cost of his failures would exceed that sum
to take no account of the brave lives lost
Thank God it is at an end. The rebels and
their sympathisers will mourn, commencing
with the Chicago Times. Gen. Mcclellan
had no personal enemy in the whole North,
when decked in stolen and borrowed renown
from Western Virginia, he came down to
assume command on the Potomac: One
shout o: welcome, unwisely as we see it
now, proclaimed him the Young Napoleon,
and passed him unchallenged to the highest
! place at the military council board.
Nor can he complain o. hasty verdict.
The fidelity and patience, and confidence
with which loyal hearts followed him for
month; after thousands of hearts were sick
with deferred hopes, is witness that he
had fair trial, or only unfair in trenching
too dangerously upon the interests OF the
country. lie had such an army as no EARTH
ly leader ever leiorc looked upon. He had
:, at his back the wealth and courage Of ma
ton. He squandered. wasted, trifed, with
all. The historian will have no slight task
to slt the evidence which shall set down his
failures either to incapacity, cowardice, CT
treachery. lie kept himself for months Oh
the defensive in the presence Of an enemy
less than one. third as strong as HIMSELF
With balloon rccornoissanccs of daily occur.
renee the enemy have come and gone undis
covered and at will When apparently ir
his power he never struck them, or striking
(orebore to crush The net result of Nc.
Clelan's connection with the command or
the Potomac is a gloomy budget OF disap
pointment, anguish and shame; relieved by
not single victory. The graves Of oul
brave soldiers have followed his imbecilt
Marches and mark where his camps fo
months have lain rusling in idIcness. Tho
indictment to be drawn against him viii
charge him with the ruin Of the best army
the world ever saw enrolled, the sore i'm
perrilling Of the holiest cause in which sworG
was ever drawn. That indictment is no
yet written. His crime against the republic
is one that may have no mortal hearing, but il
is none the less real. 1t is mild punishment
that tears from him the baton he has dis
graced, but it saves the Government. Bet
ter days are dawning-yea are hcre.-CAi
: caqo TiEune