Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-11

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REPoRTRD RECALL OF MoCLELLAN.-No
one, with ordinary powers of observation
yesterday evening, could fail to see how
various classes of people were effected By
the New York rumOr, which found its way
over the wires to this city, aud which re-
ported that Halleck was to be removed,
and Mcclellan called to take his place in
Washington.
We make appeal to the few hours' expe.
rience oil our readers, since this story was
bruited about the streets, to testify wheth-
er fully nineteen twentieths of the ear
nestly, generously, unequivocally loyal
and public. spirited of our eitizens-(and
that portion of them forms nineteen -twen-
tieths of all that anybody knows, and com.
prehends everybody that is anybody
whether, we say, the universally prevalent
sentiment among the good and true men of
| all former party ana political associations,
was not one of the strongest kind of dis
| satisfaction, leading some even to utter
words of despair for the salvation of the
country from the Vaccinations of its en-
emies.
And we also appeal to the same few
hours experience, to testify whether every
known Copperhead of every known spe-
ces-every known sympathizer with the
Rebels-every known deuouncer of the
Government and apOlogist for rebellion
and treason-and every eulogist of Rebels
and traitors-did not show the exultation
and sinister triumph which he felt in giving
ready credence to the welcome neWs-sO
easy to believe because he so much wished
to believe it. The exultant sparks of
many snaky eye told what even the rib
aid tongue, with every resource of its
well-thrummed sIbilaut accompaniment of
smooth phrases of falsehood, conned in
the dens of Copperheadism, was all une-
quail to.
Nothing could be eplainer-nothing more
obvious-than the above described differ
ence of the effect of the story on the two
classes we have spoken of. If some few
very .few-weak- headed and amiabIe, but
therefore all the more liable at times to be
wrong g-headed and obstinate citizens,
whose loyalty will be checrfully conceded,
mildly or otherwise joined the Copper
heads in their Fluctuations, the very amount
of this exception, so trivial in every way,
itself proves the rule.
II. No, not bit of it. Witness Gettys.
burg.
III. We can only judge the future by
the past. The present thoroughly Pro-
Slavery, Pro.Rebel Legislatures of New
Jersey, Indiana, and Illinois, were all
elected while Mcclellan was in command
of the Army of the Potomac aud persistent
ly disobeying aud defying the order of his
superiors that he should pursue and fight
the army of Gen. Lee after its defeat at
Autietam. Our first Auti-War State Con-
vention-that addressed by Brooks. Com
stock i Co. at Troy-wAs held under the
same auspices. Horatio Seymour was
nominated for Governor by the Democrats
of our State and opened the canvass by q
very bitter speech, full of the subtIest and
most malignant Copperhead venom, while
Mcclellan commanded our main army and
while President Lincoln was still holding
out against the War policy of Emancips-
ton. The Democrats known to US were
just as hostile to the War then as they are
to-day. How should it silence them to go
back to the very General and the very pol
icy under which they developed their OPP
position, ostensibly and specifically to the
conduct of the War, but essentially aud
really to the War itself?
No, Mr.. Graves; there is neither VIC
tory nor safety in the downhill road you
would have the nation travel, but the ex-
act contrary. We have had enough, and
more than enough, of McClellau's general
ship. "Speak to the children of Israel
and they GO FORWARD"