Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-31
1uE TREpERIckssrRG DIsAsrKK-NcOxPErESr OFFICIALS
AT WASHINGTON

THE TREpERICKiBgRG DSAsIkh-lNCVArhThNIo fbiSlALS
At WASHINGTON.
The Northern papers devote much space to q discus
SION Of the report of the Congressional Committee on
the war end the officials at Washington get severely
lectured on les esponsiby for the failure at Freder
icksburg A long editorial in a New York journal
concludes as follows:
From General Hallecks own testimony It does not APP
near that he Is Of any use whatever at Washington. HS
acts the part Of clerk, copying orders but not
seeing that they carried On lie neither plans cam
paigns nor gives efficient assistance 20 the Generals who
do plan ami fight them The necessary supplies were
withheld from Mcclellan at llarpcrs Ferry st the time
when the radical journals clamoring against him
for not moving or, and so IT hiss been m the case oil
Burnside. General EranAhE SWears that, not~thsahd
ing the DELAY Of the pontoons the position OF the enc
INV would have been captured had more men been on
the field on the day OF battle Whose fault Is that =
l. il not boosted that have 100000 men in armSy Il
not the fault Of General Haeck and tho Secretary OF
War that We had not enough at the decisive pointr
II seems that there Is not only no military at Wash
ngon 10 carry Gu tue war but not even men OF COM
mon sense The only suggestion Burnside received from
headquarters was caution not TO attack TOO soon whe
all hi Generals agree that, from the imbeclity which
rules the capital his attack was delayed too long, anu
lhus failed
There is abundant ground in this report for the mos.
s,eruiued action of both Houses of Congress, and We
truS; that immediately after this recess ont resolution
will be- ADOPTED calling upon the President TO remove
Stanton aud Haeck AeigS and the whole batch OF IN
eomnstent Gcers whose delays Darayze the best eff
forts of the Generals in the field And TO aid In the
same result would suggest that great meeting be
called in this city TO give expression TO pubic OPINION,
aud send dcputatSu 20 Mr.. Lincoln. The meeang IN
tended TO be held last Saturday postponed tll fuller
information could be obtained Of the facts The Official
report of the Congressional Committee has furnished
on oath from the best sources and il the time for
the people TO act
An army correspondent writes follows upon the
visit of the Congressional Investigating Committee to
the Rappahannock, week after the battle;
The soldiers upon learning the nature Of the visits
were heard to say that they SHOULD have happened
along at about the hour one week ago, when no
rgury would have been necessary to have proved that
~ ere being slaughtered in manner calculated TO at
ford tie geatest degree Of enjoyment in the shortest
space of tins { ouch of them have been bowling for
an onward iGO'enen-
.The distinguished party visited the headquarters OF
various generals and from h. can learn had Jolly
good time over commissary Nhsy rrd hard TACK -
0f course thcy will go home and leytrt ia. the army
il comfortable and eager TO advance. GfcNever, all
die choice anathemGs which were secretly lGrnehed
A. tsva bv tho soldiers could take eject, they Sod
for the future have to complain Of colo wealth
| or at least.
Thc idea begins to prevail that this war has two mo
tves at its backhc soldiers or patriots and tue ho
or political motive The army ia waiting for the events
of the next month 10 disprovo this charge"
-Ur c9Is;5 N TIE ABOLITION cApINTr-TEE RADICALS
RESPONSIBLE ron THE MIsxASAeNENr OF TIE WAR
The papers CT the North have commenced " salts
factory settlement of the recent Cabinet difficulties, but
the following editorials from the New York Herald iur
MS, evidence that the spirit of discomfort rs L! no
mems l CRUSHED The extracts will repay perssai;
What ipfasseea, instrumentalities and aselts are
reSly responsible fer TIE Encouragement OF tois war
The radical majority ofthetwo houses Of Congress- ana
especially Of the Senate ana 1ho- colaborers aud IN
struneots in the Cabinet Having the power, W hasinS
the control OF Congress- &c raise poaey, ees ara ~
mics or to deny them this radical faction
the President many things to yield 70 their demsh
against his own ssgacious and conservative views, an0
Ia order TO secure tho ways and means to carry on tue
var The abolition radicals, then. and their managing
agents in the Cabinet and War Office are responsive III
thaIr dsorganling schemes and intrgues, fW all inc
foiss failures aud disasters Of the war; including ue
rangemen of our financial affairs, and adepreeated pa
per currency which adds perhaps, not less than nan
million of dollars day to the national debt NOT nave
we auy doubt that Mr. Secretary Chase has been in'
mime uorer In all these radical schemes and an active
to.worker With his confederates Of the Senate agans
Mr. Seward Upou its face tho volunteered resgnatol
Of the Secretary of the Treasury s vsrF plausible, gu