Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-03-29
The Work Goes Bravely On.

C7- Now, by St Paul tho work goes gravcly on--ho
tide Of success is with tho Federal forces and Maj
Cen Mcclellan is working out the salvation Of the
cOuntry'-COlamJla Democrat
Yes, the work does 60 "brayely on, )"
but not till the President assigned Maj.
Gen. Mcclellan his proper place as Com
mander of the Army of the Potomac, and
assumed chief command himself, did the
"tide of success become so manifest 1t
cannot be denied that dilatory policy
had too much influence in certain quarters.
The great essential tending to the much
desired tide Of success was lacking, That
essential was Getjom.
Columbia Co. Republican.
It will be seen by the above extract that
DR.. John is making his paper tail to
Greeley's kite, and abuses and finds fault
with Maj. Gen. Mcclellan; and that too
in the very face of McClellan's soul STIR
ring address to his army, in which the
delay and its causes and reasons are fully
explained. And that too, when the tele
graph has informed us that Mcclellan sat
at one end of the wire, conducting the
operations in the west under Halleck and
Fcote; and was also in constant inter.
course with Fortress Monroe, and the
naval expedition. Since Scots retire.
ment every thing has been under bis super
vision and now when the result is seen the
abolitionists would rob him of his laurels.
If it were the ''Wooly Horse now, what
different tune the DR.. would play, But
Mcclellan is not an abolitionist, conse-
quently he is nothing in their estimation.
Such is the forco of Education, and the
pernicious results of reading the New York
Ifi5nne. The movement on the Potomac
was delayed, says General Mcclellan, be-
cause work was to be done at other points;
but the DR.. cant see that, and he assumes
that what has been done is all the result
of forward movement two weeks old ,
ordered by the President, after the plans
and arrangements had all been made and
were simply to be carried out. The envy,
the hatred, the narrowness and vlndlctlVe-
ness of aboli tionism is amazing.
On this very subject dispatch from
Washington says:
''In their efforts to disparago General
Mcclellan, the radicals arc continually
committing egrogious blunders and outra-
ging history. The order books of the
Commanding General, and the command
ants Of the several departments, contain a
complete history Of the origin Of all the
plans of the campaign, and point unmis-
takably to their author, The efforts to
confer this honor, first on General FIRE.
mont, then General Halleck, then General
Grant, and lastly upon Flag Officer Footc,
are all equally as vain as the effort of Mr..
Shanks in the House to attribute to Gen.
Fremont the idea Of employing gunboats
on the Western waters. Unfortunately for
Mr.. Shanks' argument these gunboats were
ordered and advertised for before Gen,
Fremont returned home from Europe, and
the construction of three Of them was ac:u-
ally begun before he toJk command Of the
Department of the West. The facts show
that preparations and plans of the Western
campaign were all projected while Gen,
Mcclellan was commanding the whole
Department Of the West, which then in
cluded Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri.