The weekly Butte record., 1863-12-05

disposed Of. Twelve thousand dollars were
raised il 2 single corps Every member Of
GeD. Meades stat, except one, contributed, the
+ General himself setting the example, and v hen
the order va. received from Washington to
discontinue the collection and refund the money
the astoBIshnent Of the officers and men ass
! only eqaul.ed by their chagrn. nearly every
otiicer Of uoie IN the army having been per
mliied TO receive testimonials The troops
were a: q loss TO account for this unexpected
proceeding Until the mAliguiiy which prompted
/ the measure was betrayed IN the treatment OF
officers who interested themselves 10 the move
+ Uent Col Davis. Assistant lnspeStor Gen. on
! the staff OF Gen. Meade. a classmaie and init
mate frieud Of Gen Mcclellan, no took the
subscription list around among the officers al
headquarters has been reduced to the rank Of
/ Major. and ordered to Santa Fe. Other officers
are under the ban. while the troops. mortified
/ Indignant, pocket their contributions and wait
/ for more convenient season"
/ The following correspondence of the New
York World, gives general idea of the feeling
existing in the army concerning the matter:
CAMP NEAR TIE RAPIDAy,
Virginia, October D.
You have probably heard that the McClel
Ian testimonial has been abandoned. This
togen Of respect and confidence felt for him by
| his old army, originated with the best aud
truest men in the employ of the government
/ The subscription was beaded by Gen. Meade,
and was signed By almost every man Of note as
a soldier. l state this 10 order that you NAV
understand that ike all his other statements
! in reference 10 Mcclellan. the allegation Of
! Forney that il was without any sanction q:
/ headquarters, was false. 1t was intended TO
apply the money raised o the purchase of
sword, or a service of plate, and a very large
sum had been contributed. The only fiiculty
was in restraining the subscription of the sol
diers TO ten cents each. The dreadful plot TO
| honor their general was discovered. and Gen.
Meade was sent for by Mr.. Stanton, who inss
| ted that 1t was contrary TO regulations. The
General replied that he had received a sword
with oianton'S sanction only f.w weeks ago,
but the Secretary was inexOrable, and BY posi-
tive order the whole plan was abandoned.
ou can imagine the disgust Of the officers
and the anger Of the soldiers. 1t would be
unsafe for the Secretary of War to visit camp
jest now. The men whose confidence and
affection Mcclellan won, without anv relaXa-
ton of discipline; in whom be created an ardor
which Is the most convincing proof of the
manly merit of a commander; whom he fought
with skill. though always clogged by the i'm
beclty and treachery OF the War Department;
who know that he has no ambition but to serve
his country and to aid in restoring q cous,itu
/ tlonal Union; who know that he has refused to
take any part in politics or even to answer to
the vile lies Of Forney and Curtin, and Stan
ton-l say such men who esteem themselves
the children OF his creation, whom he baptized
as soldiers in the Of battle, Will never forgive
his traducers or forget their General They
only pray for the time when they can vote for
him if they cannot fight under him
An OFFICER OF THE PoroMAC.
Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune wr.es:
with our headquagter at Culpepper, we
had nearly seventy miles Of railroad to guard
requiring an army of itself, to say nothing of
the diliicclties of transporting supplies 50 great
distance over a single track of wretched
railroad. Oar lines too, invited continual rebel
raids IN our rear, with our opportunities of
checkmating any sudden movements of the
enemy IN front greatly impaired"
The radicals thus after two and a half years
experience have discovered the difficulties of
that route and confess them publicly. Perhaps
after a year or two more of feilure, they will
admit that General Mcclellan was right at
first and that he pointed out the only practi-
cable routes to Richmond. After more than
two years of effort, they are back to their start
ing point.
President Lincoln in bis inaugural said
Happily the human mind is so constituted
that ne party can reach the audacity of deny
ing any right plainly written in the constitution /!
II by mere force OF numbers majority should
deprive minority of any clearly written con
stituional right, it might, in moral point of
view, justify rebellion"
What a copperhead The President was Do
Thad. Stevens, Han. Hamlin, Ben. Wade, and /
Zach. Chandler, who sneer at the constitution. /
support "the government utterance as above
quoted? If not, are they not clearly disloyaI,
according TO their own logic? Do the aboli>
ton papers mean the President when they /
speak of "sympathisers with rebellion ?" Can
they find any sentence from any prominent man
North. that comes nearer to a justification of
the present rebellion 10 q moral point of
view ?" Itthey can we would like to see them
trot it out.
An item showing where The responsibility for
the mlsmanagement Of the war belongs, may
be interesting, On the 9Th Of April Mr. Ben.
Wade placed in the hands of the Secretary of
the Senate the report OF the Committee on the /
conduct of the War. In that report, the
Committee, consisting of such men as Senators
Wade aud Chandler say
The Administration called by the people to
the head of the government in this the most
critical period of the nations history, was more
promptly and fully supported than that of any
other government of which history has pre-
served any record. Not upon those whose
duty it was to provide the means necessary to
put down the rebellion. but upon those whose
duty it wBs TO rightfully apply those means,
aud the agents they employed for that purpose.
rests the blame if any, that the hopes of the