Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-04-29
LATEST NEWS.
Rnrnside's Order N. s.

The ashIngton correspondent Of the
Chicago Times thus oycrhauls the ia.
nous Order No. s, promulged by Gen.
Burnside:
Tue developments of Burnside's cam
paigns have proved that he himself is a
man of weak judgment, and totally unfit
10 conduct successfully the movements OF
large army, or to plan campaigns and
OF this fact the President is SO well CON
yinccd that he has withdrawn him from
service Of that kind, and made him Mill
tary Governor of the loyal State Of Ohio.
But, while this is so, burnside is a man
of truth. His veraci,y has never been
called in question. Ills judgment is de-
fectiye but he never utters falsehoods
When lie saws, therefore, that Hooker
has been guilty OF the high military mis-
demeanor mentioned above, it is true and
i furnishes the reason why that officer is
unfit to hold an Important commission.
What shall we think, then, Of Mr.. Lin
coin, for appointing to the command Of
the Army otthe Potomac they very man
whom Burnside has denounced as disaf-
fected and unfit to hold an important
commission. This is one of Lincon's
csprlces, for which the country will pay
dearly.
When he wrote this Order No s.,
Burnside must have fanced himself an
Eastern Satrap. with almost kingly pow
ers. The order further recitcs that
"Mal Gen. VIM. B. franklin, command
ing the Left Grand Division, consisting OF
the lst and 9th Army Corps, can be of
no further service to ihi. army, and he is
hereby relieved from duty
Why, upon what meat had this our
Caesar fed, that he had grown so great !.
Burnside dismissing Gen. Franklin from
the army Why, every intelligent man
who has watched the progress OF the war
knows that, in all things that 90 to make
up an able and successful General, Frank
lin is infinitely the superior Of Burnside
And every one who knows the two men,
who has seen them both for months in
camp, and frequently in action, knows
that, to use familiar and rather inele
giant expression, there is more military,
more Of the soldier and the General in
Cen Franklin's little finger, than in Burn
side, whole body Gen Franklin has
been an army officer all his He. The
science OF war and the art of war, its
theory and its p ac,ice, its tactics and its
strategy, had been his meat and his drink
for thirty years. Burnside, though he
had been at West Point for three years,
never gained any distinction in the old
army, aud had been, for twenty years
previous to the rebellion, in civil life.
Franklin, though a younger man, had the
gray AMI grizzly old Gen. Sumner, was a
man of the Sumner mould. Indeed, in
tue old Army Of the Potomac, Franklin,
as General, had no superior except
Sumner unless, indeed, it was brave old
Heintzeman. Was Burnside, then, the
man to dismiss Franklin with isnominy
from the army! Evidently Cd Abe
thought not, and for once he was right
The report of the Committee on the Con-
duct OF the War says: "The President
informed Burnside thai he d. cl ned TO ap.
prove his Order No s, but had concluded
10 retire him from the command of the
Army of the Potomac, and to appoint
Gen. Hooker in his place.
Evidently Old Abe is wag. lie
do love practical Joke" Here was an
opportunity of playing capital one on
Blu inside, and Honest = Old Abe could
not resist the temptation. Burnside"
be said in ctfect,-" burnside, | have
petted and caloed you now I'll take
You down. You thought, because |
pulled down Mcclellan and set YOU up
in his place, that you could play the ty
rant. Know that me and Stanton re-
serve that game to ourselves. You were
ticklcd at tie idea of playing Marius to
McClcllan's Metellus. Bat | will find a
Hooker for the part OF Sylla." And,
sure enough, burnside had to swallow
the bitter pill of surrendering his baton
and the command Of his great army to
the man whom he had sought to dismiss
in disgrace, and whom he had branded
as unfit to hold an important commits.
sion" Truly, Old Abe is hard master
to serve.
Who will say, however, that Burnside
ulu uot ucsciNc li'dl stuSi"s iehuH Ills
same "Order No. 8" struck right and
left, and smotc down dozen of the best
officers in the Army Of the Potomac. =
Gen. Brooks, Gen. w. I. Smith, Gen.
Sturgis. Gen. Ferrero, Gen. John Coch-
rane, and Lieut.. Col. l. ii. Tavlor, the
Adjutant General Of the Right Grand
Division, were all "releved from duty F"
by this order. No wonder the President
" declined to approve" it. Why, at
that rate, Burnside would soon be with
out any officers At al.