The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-08
President Lincoln again takes the Response
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1t the recent war meeting in Washington
President Lincoln made the following charac
tcristic speech
FeHow- Cih2eaS believe there is no ,Tece
dent OF my appearing before you On this Occa
SION, (appIauSe,) but 1t is also true there is ~
precedent Ter your being here yourselves, (ap
Iplause and laughter,) and | offer in justifca
ton OF myself and OF you, that upon examlna-
ton have found nothing in the Constitution
against II. (Renewed applause | have, how
ever, an impression that there are younger gen
tlemen whC will entertain you better, (Voices-
- No, nO,-none can do it better than YOUR
self =" 80 on, and better ADDRESS your I'M
standing than | Will or could
| propose bat to desain you a moment longer.
! (Crlos, " &c on-tar and feather the rebels. y
| am very little inclined on any occasions To say
anything unltss hope 70 produce some good by
! il. CA voice, " You DO that--so ou.') The
only thing think OF Just now not likely to be
better SAID by some one else, is 4 matter IN which
We have beard somc other persons banned for
what di. myself Voices " hat is ii o.
| There has been very widespread alie1n pt to
have quarrel hetY cen Gen. Mcclellan and the
Secretary of War. Now occupy u positl on
that enables me to heleye at least these two
gentlemen are not ne%rly Geep IN the quarrel
us some presuming to be their friends. (Cries
of good J
Gen. AlcUlean's attitude is such that ia she
very sehshness OF his na9ure he cann9t but wish
to be ssscesstui, and hope he will be and the
Secretary OF War is precisely in the same sl'ua-
; ton. 1t the military commanders in the field
cannot be successful. not ONLY the SECRETARY OF
War but seyseli, for the tiiae being the master
Of them both cannot but be failures Laugh.
ter and applause.)
| know Gen. Mcclellan wishes to be success
full, and | knew he does not wish il any mors
than the Secretary OF War tor him. and both.
OF then together no more than wish it, zap.
plause and cries of Good.') Sometimes we
have dispatch about how many men Gen.
Mcclellan has had, and those who would dis
parage him say he had u very large number
and those who would disparage she Secretary
of War insist that Gen. Nc Clellan had a verv
small number
The basis for this is, there is always wide
difefent9-and Oh this occasion, perhaps, wi
der one-between the grand total OF Gen. Me
Cleilan's rolls and the men actually fit for duty,
and those who would disparage him talk of the
grand total on paper, anu those who woul dis
parage the Secretary OF War talk C, those at
presen, fit Tor duty. Gen. Mcclellan has some
times asked Tor things ha. the Secretary Of War
did not give tlm
Gen Mcclellan is not to blame for asking for
what he wanted and needed. and the Secretary
Of War is MOTTO blaMe for not giving when he
had none to give, applause and Iaug hter. aud
cries OF . uod, good and ] say here. SO
lar as know The Secretary of War hes with
held no one thing at any time in ny power TO
give him. (Wild applause and voice, q Give
him enough DOW -
believe he is "a brave and able man Zap
planse), and stand here, as Justice requires
me to do, to take upon myself what has been
charged upon tie Secretary OF War, is with
holding from bin. have talked longer than |
expected to-(ries ot-No no 20 on)-and
now | avail mys:Ii OF my privilege of saying no
more
We have some curiosity to see what the bit
ter maligners OF Secretary Stanton will say to
this straightforward and unequiyocal DECLARE
ton, acqultting Secretary Stanton Of any inter-
NEEDING with Gn. Nee ellaa' plans. \ long
time age we told these sharp critics that they
ought 10 strike 4; the President rather than the
Secretary, if thy aimed at any body, and they
cannot now fail ID see that sher abuse Of Stan
ton, was equally an abuse OF President Lincoln
They ought to learn wisdom from this oevela-
hon. which we trls; will. at least, silence the
enemies of Mr.. Stanton, unless they are at the
same time the sn.miesof Mr. Lincoln.