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Savage Attack on Gen. Mcclellan.
Prom the Richmond whig, April 81.
Young Napoleon is dead-dead beyond
resurrection. In the desh he may still
walk the earth but in the spirit in power,
in the hope of glory, be is defuuct II is a
noteworthy fact that the ululutious and
hullabalOos over this person have ceased
in Yankee land. For two or three months
| after his dismissal he was the pet object
of Democratic pity and "Couservative'
sympathy; but now even Beast Butler
has grander ovatiOns than he. His name
! is seldom heard Amoug men. he is no
more.
A review of his career, from the time he
claimed Rosecrans' laurels in the little af-
! fair at Rich Mountain, down to the time of
/ the battle Of Antietam, would be iustruc-
| tive 10 the nation of liars who accepted
him at his own lying valuation, and dis
carded him because his falsehoUds, gigan.
tic as they were, produced no visible im-
preston on the rebellion. Il might also
profit the Confederacy to trace, in the ca
reer of this braggart, the overruling power
which has never failed tO-darken the couu-
se!s of the wicked and TO cause all things
- S'RS%HSA AOt eSOO III bcIdIl Vi tue
just cause. Nothing is easter of proof
than that the elevation of Mcclellan 10 the
position OF Commando in Chief OF the
Yankee army, was all that was needed.
after the election of Lincoln, to insure our
independence. The recital of a few facts
will show how greatly We are indebted to
him.
Ia October, 1861, he had l8O, 600 ueu
and the most overwhelming array of field
/ artillery that lAd ever been seen on this
continent. Before him was an army of
40 500 Coufederates, occupying Masons
and Munson's hills, and defantly daring
! him TO come outside of his forti6catious.
The roads were good, the weather spleu-
did; he had but to advance il force to gain
An easy victory. So, at least, thought his
master Lincoln. But he knew his men
were towards, aud he was afraid of his
I reputation. he did not want to fight; he
sought merely 10 push Us from Que position
TO another by dint of enormous numbers
Hence the flank movement by way of Lees
I burg, which ended so horribly, and be-
numbed him with fright for three months
Driven by an imperative order to advance
again, 4 spite of the winter mud, he en-
tered the entrenched camp at Mans ssAs
only to 6nd it a mass of smoulderiug ruins
He whipped around to the peninsula,
taking 1900 men With him. Magrader
opposed him with but I 500 men, kept him
in check, and forced him TO the spade and
pick-his favorite weapons He made
siege, and in due time occupied our desert
ed lines. The battle of williamsburg fol-
lowed. HIS advance was whipped by
Johnstou's rear guard but, owing partly
to- ign orance of the country and to the bad
handling otRsome of our troops, he was
enabled to gain enough advantage on one
wing to put some couceit into his men. He
/ acknowledged, however, that at one time
it looked as il the Bull Run rout would be
enacted again.
After this battle, al event occurred which
has been forgotten, but deserves now to be
recalled. 4 Confederate surgeon, left in
charge of the wounded, told Mcclellan
| tina, his .guuboats might possibly reach
| R Richmond, but that his infantry never
would The little Napoleon smiled as f in
| pity of the surgeons ignorance. The eur
geOn told him, further, ihat the Abolition-
| lists were making a tool of him, and that
they would throw him aside, proclaim a
general emancipation of the negroes, and
| put an Abo!itiOnist in his place. McCleI-
Ian replied that he was in no fear of the
Abolitiouists, so long as he had command
Of the army "but," he added, ''if they do
throw me aside, and set the negroes free,
shall go TO Europe, anfcease to have any
thing to do with the war"
| low literally the surgeons predictions
have been fulfilled Mcclellan ia kicked
out of Office the iusurrection proclama-
/ ton has been issued; Hooker, a pure
blOoded Abolitiouist, has command of the
Army of the Potomac and it has not been
| Two weeks since Mcclellan, in a public
| speech, urged the people to sustain Lin
coin How debnsed the creature is Why
| s he not iu Europe. and why does he long
er live here, except in hopes of new ap-
! poiatment under the Abolition Govern
ment:
Space will not permit US to follow young
Napoleon through the minutiR of his ca
rcer. The. Yankees say he might have
taken Richmond after the battle of Seven
Pines, when our forces were in confusion.
After the battle of Hanover Court house
be might have done the same thing. after
the battle of Antietam the same. In his
report of the battle he couvicts himself OF
fHlsehood in the most glaring manner. He
excuses himself for not renewing the battle
on the morning of the 18th, by saying his
losses were so great. and there was so
much disorganization in some of the com
mands, that he did not think it proper, es-
peciallY as he was sure OF the arrival that
day of 5000 fresh troops. He '.happens
to recoIlect" the returns of his suemV,
Eooker's corps, Viz:-3, 500 men for duty,
and four days afterwards the same corps
showed l3 500. Yet after this admission
of loss and disorganization, he closes by
claiming great victory, with the capture
of thirteen guns, thirty-uiue colors, Il, 900
small arms, and 5000 prisoners.
his bombastic dispatches fIom Western
Virginia secured his elevation his reputa-
ton WAS founded on lies; in lies he lowered,
and under lies he is lost, crushed. How