, 1863-04-07
MCCLELLAN AGAIN,

II GTElY man IN Ine Noft4 could read the |
report Of the Committee Of the House and |
Senate On the Conduct Of the war, every |
made against McC C1ellan By those,
who, up to the time Of that Generals reno
ral, clamored for better officer in his place,
would be so proved that dispute over his |
merit or demerit would be hereafter impos-
E;ble. The nation, without dissent, would |
agree that he is traitor or plundcrer,
from whom the command ought to have
been w1ested sixteen months ago. We
have copy Of the document before us;
and after reading it attentively, and with
1re-dete1mination to find in it, if possible,
some justification or excuse for the wanton
and unnecessary delay the errors in
planning, and the want Of promptness and
zeal in executing, for which he has been
arraigned before his countrymen, VIC con-
less that we Gun find only the most posi-
live, and at the same time the most mourn
dnl, proofs that he either did not intend to
fight and dispezse his enemies, or that he
was, with immense resources in his hands,
paralyzed by his incapacity. And as we
cannot believe that the President, the Cab
inet, many Of the officers Of the arm;, and
Rll his personal friends, were so grossly
mistaken in his capability, nc are impcl1ed
to adopt the opinion, that while at the
head Of the army, he sought and expected
seme other solution Of the question at is
Sue, between the North and the South,
than that which he ought to have
found in the men ut his back We believe,
in short, that he had hardly arrived in
Washington before he became = politician,
=nd TINT what he gained in that character
helost as General He Was undoubtedly
at once the victim and the dupc
Ct the peace party; and with COM
1nendablc, and, as events have
proved, well warranted distrust Of his
talent for victory, he sought the oppoztu-
nifty to commend himself to his countrvnen
rs pacifcator rather than conaueror-
to coax the enemy back to loyalty and SUBJ
mission, rather than TO exterminate them by
Ills arms. The cordially with which he
was, and is get, supported by all men who
are justly suspected Of sharing the views
that we attribute to him; tho clamor made
by them when he was removed, and their
extraordinary efforts to rcinstatc him his
own personal associations in the army and
outside Of it, confined almost wholly to
those who have no stomach for the fight
are collateral but almost conclusive proofs
ofThat we say. We have no need to tell
how miserably he failed, nor how inglo.
riously be fell. The treasury to the amount
Of hundreds Of millions, the lives Of tens o
thousands Of our brave men, and the in
definite postponcment Of the triumph Q
the righteous cause, arc the fruits Of hi
campaigns.
The Report Of the Committee is thic
pamphlet Of near seventy pages, in fin
1ype, far too lengthy for our columns a
it should not be marred by presenting
part here and another there, We suggest th
prop1iety Of raising fund for IN editio
for circulation in the Northwest. Th
facts stated, their reliability, their impor
ance, and the impartiality with which the
are given, give the document permane1
historical value. It is the lamp by whic
the path ahead may bo illumined, if tn
Republic is willing to learn wisdom by c,
pericncel