Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-10

son of their good behavior. 1t will be
time that no man can contemplate without
horror, when the aecessionists of West
Virginia attempt to defy the law or in any
way oppose its administration. Such
scenes as the one We have related will be
re-enacted and repeated every day. The
Union men of West Virginia owe it to
themselves to form thorough and perfect
Union OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES as they are do
ing in the loyal States. especially ought
this to be the case in the interior, SO that
every effort can be made to foster and
encourage loyalty-to disseminate and
build up strong and intelligent Union
sentiment; one that shall be able to coun.
teract and nentralize every effort of the
sympatbizers with the rebellion in behalf
of the cause of the conspiracy.
The Report OF the Senate Committee
WoF-starSling Disclosures.
From the New York Tlmes-Hererofore Mcclellan
Paper.
1t will be remembered that the dispatch
of Lord Lyons to Earl Russell, respecting,
his interview with the leaders of what he
calls the "Peace party" had the following
remarkable juxtaposition
"They seemed to be persuaded that the
result of the election would be accepted by
the President as a declaration of the will
of the people; that he would increase the
moderate and conservative element in the
Cabinet; that he would seek to terminate the
s0ar, not to push tito extremity; that he ,0ouLd
endeaUOr to effect u reconciliation sVith the
people Of the South, and renounce the idea
of su6jugating or DISCRIMINATING them.
ION the following morning, however, in
telligenCe arrived from Washington which
dashed The rising hopes of the Conservatives.
II sOas announced that Gen. az CEellam had
been dismissed. from the command of The army
Of the Potomac, and ordered to repair to his
home-that he bad, in fact, been removed
altogether from active service. The Gen.
eral had been regarded as the representative
of conservative principles in the army. Sup.
port of him had been made one of TIE articles
Of the conserVGtiUe electoral Program,Ne. His
dismissal was taken as sign that the
President had thrown himself entirely into
the arms of the extreme radical party, aud
that tue attempts to carry out the policy of
that party would be persisted in. The irri-
tation of the conservatives at New York
was certainly very great it seemed, how
ever, to be not unmired Nth CONSERVATION
aud dependency"
''The rising hopes" of the Peace Party
'dashed," and consideration and desmond
ency" ensuing, because Gen. Mcclellan is
removed from the chief commando Was
the like ever heard of? Anavowedly peace
party dismayed at the disappointment of a
Commanding General. There is but one
possible way of accounting for it; and
that is that the General was not furtherin1
'oGr policy, and t0as secretly in sympathv
Nth the party aiming at peace.
That we verify believe is the KEY to all
the extraordinary procrastination, inefi.
cheney aud unmilitary behavior which
marked the entire fifteen months career
of George B. Mcclellan as COMMANDMENT
Chief. That alone is the real explanation
of his constant study how not TO do it. and
to misdo it when he was forced to act. He
was for harming the enemy as little as pos
slole, aud for getting on peaceful terms
with him as soon as possible.
One is amazed in carefully perusinp the
late report of the Committee on the Con-
duct of the War, TO mark how uniformly
Gen. Mcclellan displays this disposition.
from the very outset of his assumption of
the chief command. The Committee have
not set this forth in the salient manner Il
deserved. They confined themselves sim
ply to digest of the Voluminous testimo.
ny, and abstained from all deductions and
all comments. They left to the readers to
take the matter home to themselves in
their own way. We believe that it would
not have been departure from their pro-
per functions had they summed up consec-
1tlVely the shortcomings and misdoings of
Gen: Mcclellan, as established inevitably
oy the documents and military witnesses
before them. In default of this. we havs
takeR the gains to go through the whole
Report carefully, and select the more inn
Portant particulars wherein Gen. McOleI.
Ian failed to do his duty as the Com.
manding General, aud acted in conform
iity with peace rather than a war pol
ICY. It's proved by irrefragable evidence
That with $4,000 men, on the lst of
December, he for weeks RETAINED from nd
Vanclng upon Manassas, where were Iaes
than 20, 600 of the enemy, though the roads
were hard and weather most fayorahIe
and In spite of the urgent solicitations IF
the President; -
That during all that time the Potomac
remained blockaded, because Gen. McCIels
Ian, though strongly urge by the President
would not send column TO co.oDerats
. WIN the naval vessels in destroying the
batteries and clearing the river: '-
That, in spite of the solicitations of ~
President, of the Secretary of War, and III Of
the War Committee. and "the opinions os
Generals most familiar with the subject
that 1t was of the utmost Importance he
neglected even to begin the division ~ L;s
large army into army corps until the Iot u us
March; - ~ 'ne ISL OF |
That no provision was made by him DIN.
ring the Winter to properly man the forti-
neatlons ground Washington, and exercise
mentn the management of the guns. S.'e
That the President, Impatient with me
long delay, on the 18th of January, issued
orders for general movement Of ali tba
armies that this order not being Needed
y Zen. Mcclellan, heissued another order
49, :,...S Gays attsrWard, specifically enioin-
y lpgi an advance movement BY the Army of
The Potomac before the 2Sd Of FebF1as "
apo9 Manassas, and thence on to Rich.
ncnd that Gen. Mcclellan opposed the