The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-30
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tAristic disregard of truth. says:

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teristic disregard of truth, says: ~
In the course of few lines he urges McC1el-
Ian no less than thrice to activity 81 think
this is the precise time for you to strike
blow,p Gays he. lit is indispensable that you
strike blow he repeats yoa nas1 p act are
but represented the feeling Of the whole coun-
try, and the feeling, of the army, as it then ex-
listed. His advice was not followed; his COM
mands, as Commander-in-C Chief were. dis 4
Obeyed. 80 :4 IA
What military minds those radicals
have! ellis advice was not followed"
Isit not a pity that the Peninsular expedi- Z
ton was not commanded by commission
of New York radical editors? They would
doubtless have struck "a blow somewhat
like Fredericksburg, and the result would.
have been congratulatory letter from the
President, and unutter able sorrow and dis .
may in the whole country. s a4s. ~
We recall these facts now, because the.
reckless character of the radical press is
constantly seeking to obscure history and
misrepresent its truths. We cannot be too
often reminded, in these days, Of the i'm
portant truths in the story of the war
which show where the errors in it's man
agement lie, and how they are to be here
after avoided. 1t has been the interior
ence OF the civilian and the politician with
military matters that has led us into sue
cessive disasters, and is still threatening
ruin to our cause. This notion of the
Presidents, that ''the country will not fail
to vote" this Or that, being interpreted I'M
plain English, means, ''political pressure
demands this course. and | wish you to
yield to it." He is a noble man, good
soldier, honest patriot, who resists the
pressure and refuses to rush headlong on
destruction. ....
/ But what shall be said of the remark
able opening passage of the Presidents
letter, on this subject of political pressure:
Your dispatches complaining that you are
not properly sustained, while they do not of
tend me, pain me very much. Blenkers divis-
ion was Withdrawn before you left here, and
you know tie pressure Ulader aoiich did IL, and,
as | thought, acquiesced in it certainly not
without reluctance.
What was she pressure uneie,. schich
] did U9" Are the people prepared for
the answer? Remember that this cam
paign was the great effort Of the war;
1t waste be the decisive campaign. Every
thing depended on it. If successful, the
possession Of the rebel capital would have
closed, in the eyes of the world, the hope
of the rebellion; and though the war
might have continued, it would have
continued with certain expectation of peace
whenever the Government was ready to
take wise and conciliatory measures for
it. The fate of the nation was in the
campaign. The whole energy of the
Government should have been directed to
strengthening it and ensuring its success
The President should have detied every
pressure" that weakened that grand ex-
petition. Yet the pressure under which
he did it" was irresistible, and he wrote
to Mcclellan explaining this, the first
grand diversion of the army of the Po-
tomac, the first step in the progress of
breaking up the whole Peninsular plan
of the General. And what was the pres
sure? Let the disposition which was
made Of Blenker's division give the as
founding answer. He was taken away
from Mcclellan and placed in new de-
partment, never before heard Of utterly
unnecessary and useless, namely, the
Mountain Department. (where is that
department now? p which was created ex-
pressly for Major General John Charles
Fremont, when first restored to COM
mand after his Missouri failures! So it
seems that the pressure to give Fremont
Il command, q pure political pressure for
office, broke up the Peninsular plan,
rsked the whole national cause, and the
ridiculous farce of creating new depart
ment was gone through in obedience to
this pressure, without reference to the
terrible crisis, and vast responsibilities
then resting upon the Administration.
Well may the President write appeal
ingly to Mcclellan. Poor man! who can
withhold pity from one so broken? A sad
der or more sOwowiul page than this letter
from President Lincoln is not to be- found
in the whole history of governments. 1t
opens in deep tone of sadness. 1t pleads
with the General, begging him not to COM
plain, but remember the awful political
pressure under which the President is la
boring. He says he cannot do more than
he is doing, that he cannot resist the press
ure on him, and he closes by urging the
General himself to yield to the same press
ure, and strike blow somehow and some
where to crafty the same men--the same
reckless men, who were pressing President,
army and country to destruction! What
will be the next revelation?-N. 7. Jour-
nal Of Commerce..