The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-31

that the nrm OF Jewett, Greeley, vallandighsm
and Napoleon wil soon inaugurate the mil
lennum.
General Peps's Report or HAS, CampAisn
In Virginia.
In the form Of report addressed 10 the chief
of General Halleck's staff, General Pope has
published vindication Of his military opera
tons in Virginia, occupying ten closely printed
columns of the daily papers, or sufficient to
make large sized pamphlet. This document
bears date the 9th Of the present month; SO
that 1t has barely had time to reach the War De-
partment before it makes its appearance in the
public prints.
To any one who has had the patience to wade
through the columns Of irrelevant matter &C
cepted as evidence before the Porter and Nc
Dowell courts Of inquiry there will be little
thati new in the statements put forward in this
report All the facts and circumstances that
could tend to place General Popes management
Of the brief and disastrous campaign during
which he held the command Of the Army Of the
Potomac In more favorable light before the
country were brought out during those investi
cations. II they failed to alter the conclusions
Of the public as to his unitness for the position
to which, unfortunately for us, he was assigned,
neither will this deliberately prepared defence
Of himself any the more affect them. The venue
has been changed, but the verdict will remain
unatered. II anything, its adverse character
will be strengthened by the persistent efforts of
the writer to cast upon others the blame Of his
own shortcomings.
All true friends of General Pope will regret
that he has been tempted into publishing this
report. Consigned to the archives Of the War
Department, it would have slumbered there q
harmless memorial of the indiscretioD which
forms 80 prominent feature Of the writer's
character; but, flung thus broadcast to the
world, with its strong evidences Of personal
rancor and recklessness of assertion, Ger.
tainly will not tend to weaken the impressions
created by his bombastic orders of the day and
his disastrous military blunders
How different the conduct of his predeccs-
sOr, Mcclellan, under circumstances infinitely
more calculated to try the patience and squa-
nimity of soldier. Not only have his most
carefully combined plans been thwarted, his
conduct misrepresented, and his feelings out
ragged by the humilations inflicted on the sub
ordinates to whom he was most attached, but
his reports, theonly medium through which he
could vindicate himself aad them, are suppressed
and withheld from the country. Did he rush TO-
the newspapers to seek the justice that was de-
MED him at the War Department. or endeavor
to defend what by radical perversion were
termed his failures? He felt too conscious of
his own strength, too certain of the skilfulness
of his combinations, the esteem and affection Of
those who served under him, and the just appre-
citation Of his services by the nation, to have re-
course to SO unsoldierlike and undignifed q
proceeding. Months have passed away during
which he has been subjected to calumnies> and
misrepresentation Of every sort, aud, still. pa
tient and confident Of the future, it remains for
him to betray the first evidence of constituencies at
the prosecutions to which he has been subject
ed. Still there should be term to such en-
durance. The country suffers while the 'ablest
and most patriotic Of its military defenders is
exiled from its service. General Mcclellan
has remained silent long enough toprovs his
respect for the obligations of military, disci-
pline and his contempt for the unjust accuse
tions Of which he has been the object. The
which all our military plans are drifting, and
the Intervention with which we are. threatened
from abroad, render further reserve ON his part
not only indefensibe, but criminal. To escape
the dangers that menace us in the future it is
necessary to lay bare and correct the errors Of
the past. There is but one mind in. the coun-
try that is capable Of thoroughly exposing the
causes and consequences of all our military
mishaps, and that is the one which had so large
share in devising the plans Of the campaign
General Mcclellan will, therefore, we trust
break through the silence that he has imposed
upon himself, and enlghten the country on the
many points that yet remain to be cleared up
in regard to the causes Of their failure. He
should set himself at once to prepare two re-
ports-the one covering his military operations
in Virginia. and the other those in. Maryland
giving to the world, without reserve or deli
cacy, all the facts connected with them. We
shall then learn exactly where the response
bilty lies OF the failure Of plans. which all but
the most infatuated of McClellau's enemies now
acknowledge to have been the only ones calcu- !
lated to bring the war to a prompt and success
iul conclusion. Let General Mcclellan enter |
tain no fear that the motives of such exposures |
will be COMPOUNDED. with those that have die |
tated the report on. which we have just com
mented. The one is demanded by the interests
OF the country; the other was suggested by the
necessity Of self vindication.
THE. Four PEACE PARTNERs.-M Mediation, like
misery, makes strange bedfellows. Jewett,
Greeley, Vallandigham and Napoleon are now
laying their heads together 10 accomplish a
peace. We warn each of them against his
three comrades; for 1t is dificult to say who Is
the worst of the quartette.
The SENATORIAL QUESTION AT AIBAxr.-Ths
politicians at Albany are IN . terrible stew
again. The city IL full d them and of cen