Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-04-09
A FEW usrrul. SUGGESTIONS.

The writer Of tbs tutioin 4 letter, ing aware
that We are hot IA The habit OF noticing anonymous
Communications, meant doubtless nothing more
than TO give Us a private snd friendly hint on
point as TO which, from our want Of "means or
capsbility of judging" we are, he conoeives, in
some danger of being Led astray. But as his let.
ter, notwithstanding the irregularity under which
1t reaches US, afford, US u good opportunity for
saying few timely words in response to his friend
ly suggestion, we have determined to give it in
sertion in columns Our anonymous CORE
spondent writes as follows:
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 9, 1863
To the Editors Of the National InfelliCencer
GENTLEMEN: Ia reading your valuable paper from time
to time-to whch regularly subscrbe--I notice con.
slant endeavor your part to bring Mcclellan into
favorable remembrance. ml0h than any one else
among the relieved officers Of the grade the army
If you show. BY any reliable facts good ground for
such partially, il we'll acquainted with this gen.
eman and bis family ard therefore know sDmethng of
the capable and incapable parts Of the members Of the
family and know ALSO whilst having he best persnna feel
ing towards them ibdvduals, that the General now
much overrated by many people. chiefly by those who
have capsb lily judging at least Of the
difference between the genuine and the reverse NAV
also add that be has been flu coded in aud honored for
all that he has dom, buth xii and leading the
army under his cpmmtbd; and, am say M one
having every confidence ia the great civil power Of tho
lnnd ana HgtLC (the G,y6rnment at Wash
the subordinate and military aIm under he lead OF Mo-
Celan has resulted much delay and loss II valuable
lives. and he eore much harm 10 tho just of the
country. In uson permit to add that those de-
sgbiR and lnsidlous men who plotting iutrO
duce the lame Of Mcclellan to the public martyr to
the cause (to serve their ambitious purp0ses) will
lind themselves anticipated. Yours, SUBSCRIBER.
With the members Of Gen. MoClellan's family
We do not conceive that we have any thing to do.
The advantage possessed by our anonymous Cor
respondent in knowing something of " the capable
and incapable parts Of the members of this family
may be such as to justify him in the conviction
that the General is " now much overrated by
many people" Under this head we have nothing
to say, for We have never seen any members
of Gen. McClellen's family as indeed we have
never seen the General himself, or had any cor
respondence with him, direct or Indirect. IL
has been our disadvantage Cor our advantage) to
know him simply by his public words and acts.
Having no personal prejudices against him and no
prepossessions in his favor, we have supposed our
selve, "capable of "judging" him and his pub.
lie conduct without any danger Of beiog pl, dyed,
like some, to find him always aud infallibly tight,
or, like others, always and inevitably wrong.
While he was honored with the confidence Of the
Administration and retained by the President in
high military command We gave him the support
to which we believed him Untitled as faithful and
skful soldier OF the Republic, who, if he did not
deserve all that was claimed for him by some Of
his admirers, had at least not deserved the syste-
matte detraction with which he was pursued by q
class of politicians always more conspicuous for
their zeal thar their discretion We suppos ed,
doubtless in ignorance, that the confidence
and affection won by Gen. Mcclellan from the
gr, at majority of his companions in arms, who
knew him in the camp and on the field of battle,
were as likely to be good evidence of his military
capacity as could be obtained in any other way by
human testimony.
After he had been relieved from military COM
mand we had hoped that his detractcrs would
at least give respite to their assaults Power.
less to weaken the confidence of either the army or
the great mass Of the people in both the patriotism
and the capability of the dismissed officer, these as
saults were henceforth purely gratuitous, for we
suppose they we're not needed, however much 30
intended, to prevent the Administration from re-
storing Gen. Mcclellan to active service. They
served only to keep alive that irritation and debate
which, after his removal, should have been rather
appeased than exacerbated by his enemies, if they
had been as discreet as they are embittered. All
attacks made upon him under such circumstances
can only enure to the advantage of his personal
popularity, unless the grounds of that popularity
can be undermined more efectually than was ever
done by vituperaton or by &c pare allegations, un.
der whatever color they may be concocted and cir.
culated.
We shall cease to make Gen. Mcclellan theme
for remark just SO soon his enemies are willing
to leave him undisturbed in the retirement to which
he has been RENTED by the President But if he !"
is perpetualy assaed, and if, at this stage of his
military career, we called to publish long and
elaborate documents in review of his military ope-
rations, We shall necessarily continue to treat him
as current topic" Our correspondent, in sup
posing himself to perceive constant endeavor
on our part to bring Gen. Mcclellan into favorable
remembrsuce-made much more so than any one
else among the relieved officers '-must be recuse
who reads only the pages Of the National InteIli-
gencer. If others wero content to leave General
Mcclellan in the secusion he adorns BY his silence
we .hould have little occasion to make "remem.
hrorcav of hin. and 10 he pvaro