Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-05

Still hoat above each patriotic grave
Death to tho Traitor that would dare
TotFatl tt.through the dust of shame
Au honest hearts its lot will share
Aud totioVtt to Death or PRulo
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The MurfresSb0rO Battle.
Some details of the recent great battle
near aprfreesboro, Tenn are given in our
paper this mofnihg They throw quite a
shade over our hopes, bnt SUI 10 moi
qssPalr 81 sta fact thSt our amy IN has
e'.eohlsEed partial success, and that the
fortunes of the day were at last with tie
heroic Roseerans. Ths battle is5tHoag4t
TO have been the seyeFsst aud the .bloodiest
Of the war, but this is probably an excited
sappositiOu. Our noble volunteers fought
like heroes, just as they always do where
they have anything like chance. Gen.
Rosecraus, himself, has eudeared his name
to the country. His bravery aud his gem
q eralship were alike conspicuous throughout
the engagement. We shall look anxioGsly
for further news to-day. ss5as- zes q.
Murfreesboro is in Rutherford copDtr
Tenn, thirty miles southeast of Nashville
on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad.
Con. Mcclellan. ~ i5,;'' =
The Hon. L. w. Coe, Republican member
Ofthe Connecticut State Senate, publishes a
letter in the Waterbury American,s dated
at fredericksburg, Dec. 2lst, the same be-
ing an official report hich he made as
chairman of the legislative committee sent
to look after the Connecticut soldiers. Il
concludes thus
have found bnt one opinion in the ar
my about the merits Of Generals. The
army almost to man are for M'CIellau
aRd 1T LoR expect the army, TO- conquer L
peace, you hGse got to give them y choice
1t is as clear to them as sunshine, aud that,
too, with the best feeling for Buruside, whb
is much respected by all, that he has not the
capacity for the moving of any army of this
mAgnit6de. 80
Letters likerths above, together With
verbal statements, are so numerous th4t
one cannot help believing that they repro
sent about the true state of the case. II
the feeling Of the soldiers is as SO mach
testimony goes to show, so unitedly for
Mcclellan, we do not see what else can be
-t----:---.-I--L:---.-C Es--L--e no,
-. been among those who believed Mcclellan
u "Napoleon,"H nor among those who bS-
lieyed him deficient in military talent
We. have been content not to discuss him
e,y7nny extent, pFsferrinig 70 leave bisIbili-
'taty superiots to judge of his oqpaIffca
tious. The average opinion of the coul
try.is randit is onrsi thatif Ger. Mcclellan
had combined with his acknowledged eau
ton, more tendency to move. more Stone
wall Jacksouism, he would be exactly such a
man as we need, in respeotto military quail
ties. But while we say this the fact is not
to be disguised that along with this general
public sentiment in favor of Mcclellan as
a military man, there isaa widely spread
distrust of the prominent men who for
many months back have politically cen.
tralized themselves around him. What
/, was the ultimate intention of these me p
had not. fully disclosed itssfrup7to the
time, Of, McClellan's sqpersedpEe, but great
numbers Of deyQted men were apprehen
sive that they intended to, Try to use him to
foster and further their disorgaRizing pro-
t,gramme. lis notorious that he was ap-
pr6prtated and monopolized in the praises
OF those who were most obnoxious to the
loyal sentiment of The country John Van
Buren,, Ferpando Wood and that class,
took him under their. especial patronage,
and their whole aim seemed 10 be. not TO
use ihtm!as military leader, for tho grand
p,irp6sss Of the war, but as a pc.
ii,iSal leader by. whom aud through
Ttotnthey could most efectually PROSTATE
tho efforts Of the country to put down the
rebellion. Wewere never among those who
entertained approximations that these men
wound succeed, because We believed Con-
Mcclellan to be true man. Still al hist
tory Was before the people to make them
dIstrustful Of a leader at the head of:
great army when surrounded by suspicious
assoetations. Gen. Mcclellan could put
himself square up along side of Rosecrans
and Burnside in the political confidence Of
the country If he would cut loose from
those men who are SO evidently attempting
to appropriate aud partsanize him. The
Only wonder is that some of The many Int
auSntisI aud ardent Union men who are
his frisads have not prevailed upon him
ere thfs to make some declaration which
sbo1ld put an impossible gulf between
himself aud Van Buren, Wood. 4 Col
If at any time, on proper occasion, for
mouths past, Gen, M elellsn had written
such ailetter as Roseerans wrote to his
cincinnati friends not long ago, the conn