Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-05-07
SAVAGE ATTACK ON GEN. Nc
ra CLELLAN
From Che Riehnond wing. April q.


Young Napoleon is desd-dead be-
vond resurrection. In the flesh be
nav still walk the earth; but in the
spirit. in power, in the hope of glory
he is defunct. It is a noteworthy fact
that the mutations and hullsbaloos
over this person have ceased in Yankee
land. For two or three months after
his dismissal he was the pet object oi
Democratic pity and Conservative"
sympathy; but now even Beast Butler
has erander ovations than he. His
name is seldom heard among men,
He is no more.
A review of his career, from the
time he claimed Rosecrans' lauials in
the little affair at Rich Mountain, down
to the time of the battle Of Antietam,
would be Instructive to the nation of
liars who accepted him at bis own ly-
ing valuation, and discarded him be-
cause his falsehoods, gigantic as they
were, produced no visible impression
on the rebellion. 1t might also profit
the Cenfederscy to trace, 10 the career
Of this braggart, the ovenuling power
which has never failed to darken the
counsels of the wicked and to cause a II
things to work together for good in be-
half of the Just cause. Nothing is
easier of proof than that the elevation
of Mcclellan to the position of Com
mander.in- Chief of the Yankee army,
was all that was needed, after the elec :
ton Of Lincoln, to insure our independ-
ence. The recital of few facts will
show how greatly we are indebted to
him.
In October, 1861, he had 18O, 900
men, and the most overwhelming array
of field artillery that had ever been
seen on this continent. Before him
was an army of 10000 COnfederates.
occupying Mason's and Munson's hills.
and defantly daring him to come out
side of his Notifications. The roads
were good, the weather splendid; be
had but to advance in force to gain
an easy victory. So, at least, thought
his master, Lincoln. But he knew his
men were towards, and he was afraid
of his reputation. He did not want to
fight; he sought merely to push us
from one position to another by dint
of enormous numbers. Hence the
flank movement by way of Leesburg
which ended SO horribly and benumb ed
him with fright for three months.
Driven by an imperative order to
advance again, in spite Of the winter
mud, he entered the intrenched camp
at Manassas only to find it q mass Of
smouldering ruins.
He whipped around to the peninsula,
taking 10000 men with MIN. Ma
gruder opposed him with but $500
men, kept him in check, and forced
him to the spade and pick--his favorite
weapons. He made seige, and in due
time occupied our deserted lines. The
battle of Williamsburg followed. His
advance was whipped by Johnson's
rear guard; but, owing partly to the
ignorance of the country and to the
bad handling Of some of our troops, he
was enabled to gain enough advantage
on one wing TO put some conceit into
his men. He acknowledged, however
that at one time it looked as if the
Bull run rout would be enacted again.
After this battle, an event occurred
which has been forgotten, but deserves
now to be recalled. A Confederate
surgeon, left in charge of the wounded,
told Mcclellan that his gunboats
might possibly reach Richmond, but
that his infantry never would. The
little Napoleon smiled, as If in pity OF
the surgeons ignorance. The surgeon
told him, further, that the Abolitionists
were making a tool of him, and that
they would throw him aside, proclaim
a general emancipation :, the negr oes,
and put an Abolitionist in his place.
Mcclellan replied that be was in no fear
of the Abolitionists, so long as he had
command of that army; "but," he ad-
ded, eff they do throw me aside, and
set the negroes free, shall go to
Europe, and cease to have anything to
do with the war"
How literally the surgeons predic-
tions have been fulfilled! Mcclellan
is kicked out of Office; the insurrection
proclamation has been issued; Hooker,
pure blooded Abolitioni,t, has COM
mand of the Army Of the Potomac;
and it has not been two weeks since,
Mcclellan, in public speech, urged
the people to sustain Lincoln! How
debssed the creature is! Why is he
not in Europe, and why does he longer
live here, except in hopes Of a new ap-
pointment under the Abolition despot.
ism?
Space will not permit us to folio W
young Napoleon through the minutie
of his career. The Yankees say he
might have taken Richmond after the
battle of Seven Pines, when our forces
we're in confusion. After the battle of
Hanover Court House he might have
done the same thing, after the battle
of Antietam the same. In his report
of the battle he convicts himself of
falsehood in the most glsring
manner. He excuses himself for not
renewing the battle the morning of the
18th, by saying his losses were SO great.
and there wasso much disorganiza,ion
in some of the commands, that he did
not think it proper, especially as he
was sure of the arrival that day of
$4,000 fresh men. He "happens 10