New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-12
The subioned table of the proposed tax levy
shows how recklessly they are going about tne
tho business:
GEN. MCCLELLAN.

From our political adversaries, We neither
ask favor nor expect justice. THE TRIBUNE II
thorn in their side which We can neitner OK
pect them TO regard with complacency nor FORE
90 any chance to assail. From our political
friends. We have been accustomed to expect
fairness; and we are surprised to find The A.
bnnv Argus quoting the following as from Thu
Springfield (Sia's.) Republican,
"THu TRsuss also conf."ssts fear that Gen McCels,
may become Democratic candidate or the rre'cenGy u
thinks e. good party trateey to .pts b., gun. .. n s
date TIA. be chief motive for The severe disso
it visits upon the GeneTsln'C h'f Gen. Mcclellan " 'i'i
deesi"
SO utterly, atrocously false is this, that
we trust it is not fairly extracted from The
Republican, or, at all events, that the gentleman
We have been accustomed to respect aud es-
TEEN as editor of that journal was surprised
when he saw it in his columns.
For he knows very well that The TRIBUNE
has said very much less that is calculated to
shake public confidence in Gen. Mcclellan
than we have uttered to the prejudice of Sec
rotary Welles, with whom We not only agree
in politics. but whom we personally like, and
whom We certainly do not " fear" as candi-
date for the Presidency. And our objection to
the General is precisely the same as to the
Secretary-this, namely, that We do not deem
him 30 energetic and effective as he might be
in the prosecution Of the War for the Union.
That is our objection, and the whole Of it, to
either. Mr.. Welles, we are sure, means to do
his best; Gen. Mcclellan, We fear, has been
too much under the influence of our old Brock
inridee politicians like Mr.. S. l.. NJ. Barlow,
who are more anxious for the preservation Of
Slavery than for the exemplary crushing out
of the rebellion. We cannot explain otherwise
the delays and procrastination, the neglect OF
opportunities and submission to such damaging
indignities as tho closing Of the Potomac,
whereby the Republic was, through the threat
ened interpositon Of European Powers, brought
to the very brink OF ruin. We believe the
Rebels might have been compelled to evacuate
Northern Virginia in December as surely a. IN
March, and that they ought to have been made
to leave half their guns and q good many prls-
oners behind them. The retirement OF an
army in tho face of q decidedly superior force
ia apt TO be one of the most difficult, perilous
and costly movements known to warfare: OF
all events, it ras so in other days. In the
case of our Rebels, it seems to be particularly
easy, smooth aud safe
We may possibly underestimate Gen. Me-
Cellan, but no one believes that We would
will ngly do him injustice. We praised aud
confded in him SO long as We possibly could;
wo shall most gladly praise him again when
ever be will give us on opportunity. such acts as
turning the Hutchinsons out Of his camps for
singing Anti-Slavery songs we shall not be in-
duced to like; and We think simple, single
hearted consideration of tho eIigences Of the
public service would have impelled him to
invite Unionists, without distinction Of color, to
escape from the Rebel lines and bring all pos
sible information to ours. All We ask 10 that
the War for the Union shall be prosecuted
simply as war, neither asking nor caring how
Slavery is thereby to be affected, and that no
Union man be- regarded as tho property of
Rebel. If these are Gen. McClellans views
(and the Washington correspondent OF The
Ersning Post says ho approves the Presidents
Emancipation Message, aud believes Slavery or
the Union must 80 under), they are all We
ask, and We care nothing for his supposed
Presidential aspirations. We deprecate them
only in case they stand in the way Of vigor.
Gus and determined prosecution of the War for
the Union.