Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-03-26

Again. such board would obvats the suspicion jealousy
and iav0nsm now levelled against the Commanding Go
neral Butler Fremont Hamilton, aud Sigel FIR instance,
all men remarkable for their energy sedulousy kept
CUT oil employment aud their friends alege by the
nfuence-an influence which could not be- exerted
erted only with difficulty, IN body Of eight
members"
As to the disastrous delay of our army whole
winter before Manassas" we take it that military
board could not have done much in the way of pre-
venting the rain and snow and mud which detained
the army OF Gen. Mcclellan from advancing against
the enemy at Manassas, as the same causes are
supposed to have been equally potent in holding
the same army, during the same season, though
under different leaders, in similar state of mac
ton before fredericksburg, and that, too, in
much closer proximity to the enemy than was the
case with the same army year ago. "Disastrous
delays" then, springing from physical causes,
would have been as likely to exist with military
board as without one, for does any body suppose
that Gen. Hooker needs such board to make him
break the disastrous delay" before Fredericks-
burg?
As to the suspicion of jealousy and favoritism"
which the Post says is levelled against Gen. Hal
leck because Generals like Butler, Fremont, Ham
iton, and Sigel are sedulously kept out of en-
ployment," we have only to say that this argument
is worthy Of consider alton only when the Post is
prepared to say that the General-in Chief is ami
mated by such unworthy motives, or that he has ac-
quired such an ascsndency over the mind of the
President and the Secretary of War as to make
them the unwilling instruments Of his own "jea-
lousy and favoritism." Generals Butler, Fremont,
Hamilton, and Sigel are not the only officers whom
the President has sedulousy kept" and is still keep
ing "out Of employment; butn the case of some Of
these latter the Post has suspicion of jealousy
orfavortism" to urge PLANTATION of their enforced
seclusion. If the President does not employ Gen.
Fremont in some field suited to his rank and abi-
ties, take it that he forbears to do 80 for the
same reason that he omits to avail himself of the
services of Gen. McClellan-because he thinks
some other officer can better fill his place and,
however mistaken he may be in the case of the one
or the other, we fancy that board of military and
naval officers would be little likely to change his
opinions on either score. And we are very certain
that any board of competent military gentlemen
such the President is likely to select, should he
adopt The hint of our learned contemporary would
be the last body of men to urge the appointment,
to any important command, of the particular
Generals in whom the Post is known to take q very
peculiar interest. Their best hopes of seeing active
service under this Administration will ever be
found in the good wishes of the President for them
personally, and in his natural desire to respect the
wishes of his political friends, like the conductors
of the Post. A military board would, we are sure,
disappoint all the expectations of our contemporary
under this head, besides disappointing them in
other and more important relations.