New-York daily tribune., 1863-09-12
GEN. MCCLELLAN.

MCCLELLAS s RTfoRT.-Now that thls Iohs "
pec,cd document furnished the Radical organs are neyousy
le the Wsr Department should be nd%t'e'
enough to allow iis publication. ihe'a'u,
The above is simply, nakedly false. No
"Radcal organs" are enormously apprehen-
siye" of any such publication. Whether the
Government ought or ought not to incur the
cxpsnse Of it, it becomes others TO decide; but
if Gen. Mcclellan will ask permission to print
lis Report, and can find or persuade publisher
to undertake it, We trust it may appear forth
with. We will subscribe for a reasonable num-
Der Of copies if that be required to insure such
publication. If there he any conceivable ex-
planation short Of downright treason Of the i'm
becility or cowardice which kept more than One
Hundred Thousand gallant soldiers shivcrng in
tents in front Of Forty Thousand snugly housed
Rebels cantoned about Ccntreville and Man.
assas Junction all through that tedious. gloomy
Autumn ard Winter Of 1-6l-2, until thOse
Rebels deliberately and lcisurey walked away
without tho loss Of picket or gun-cA-
cent tho maplcs--we want To see ana
comprehend it. II any body can conceive
reason for that long detention OF the
grandos. and best army our country ever saw
One Hundred and Fifteen Thousand strong
before Magmder's Ten Thousand at Yorktown,
until they. Likewise, evacuated. We want LOOK
a. that And if any one can Imagine Jusuhca-
ton Of the wrc.chcd chancc-medly at Williams
burg. with no Commandcr-in-Cheiat at hand, ana
one division Of our Amy standing pa"Ve
waiting orders. while another was badly cut up
hv an overwhelming Rebel force, which under
proper rencralship, might hayo been routed
md hall destroyed, We want look at that.
So II the surprise and temporary ront OF Gen.
Casey's division az the Seven Pines or falr
Oalp. where Seven thousand Cnionists in our
extreme advance wore lcft without available
supports 10 bc smashed by the enemy at their
convenience can be rcconcilcd with loyalty and
ability in our commanding general, We want TO
sec how. And If letting one-third oi our gal
Ian. Army Withstand the entire Rebel army at
Gaines's Mil. while the other two-thirds stood
die q few miles of, looking for an enemy
toward Richmond whore 10 enemy Of any
accouu, was. and, the assailcd wing being
ultimately crushcd-a' il could not fail TO be
then abandoning thousands Of our wounded,
burning OF blowing up millions worth OF munl-
tons, provisions, &c, and leaving an equal
amour, 10 tie enemy, while the residue OF our
Army was ordered TO make On inglorious retreat
without fighting. though not hall oil them had
seen the face Of an cncmy-f this Is mastery
strategy, We wan, TO know what would he I'M
lbecility cowardicc and shameful incapacity, or
thn. halfhearted loyalty which Is next door to
treason. Finally, We want to see II Gen. Me-
Clellan can give plausible ground for believing
that be- could 10, have fought the Rebels as ad-
yantagcously and beaten them as thoroughly IN
his strongly fortified lines in front OF Richmond
which we had spent weeks and thousands oi
precious lives in pcrfccting, "a three days Alter
IN his newly taken and wholly unfortiiied posi-
ton at Malvern Hills, after he had sacrificed his
wounded. bis Summers work, his provisions and
His munitions. 10 reach ii. Most certainly, II
he was right in rc,reating from before Rich
mond without giving battle, then Rosecrans
ought to have been shot for pcrsistcn,ly fighting
ill he won a, Murfrccsboro', after one wing oi
his army had been surprised, routed and crushed
out Of all Military fcmblance or efficiency. oi
these two opposite modes of confronting par
ual discontinue, both cannot be right; ana We
prefer that Of Rosccrans. But let us see wha,
Mcclellan can say on the subject. If he or ms
publisher wishes TO print his Report, We in'1S'
that there be no objection.