The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-05-30
Major-General Joseph Hooker.

When Major General Joseph Hooker
was called up before the committee on the
Conduct of the War, Mr. Gooch inquired
of him:
Quesuon-''To what do you attribute the
failure Of the penlnsular campaign?
To which question, Major General 10.
Hooker made the following
Ans,cer-"I do not hesitate to say that
it is to be attributed 10 the want of gener-
alship on the part of the commander.
Major General Joseph Hooker having
by this decisive answer obtained the com.
mand of the Army of the Potomac, crosse.
the Ra ppahsnnock AID meets with re-
pulse.
He then issues "congratulatory order
| ofwhich this is part:
1T is sufficient to say they THE reasons
for retreat were of a character not to be
or resources
When MAJOR General Joseph Hooker
crossed the river he said this:
! HEApouAnrERs ARMY or THE FeToMic,l
| NEAR FALMOUTH, Va. April 80.
! 1t is with heartfelt satisfaction that the
general commanding announces to the
! army that the operations of the last three
! days have determined that our enemy
must inglriously .fy or come out from be-
( hind his defenses ard give us battle On
our own ground, where certain destruc-
. ticn awaits HIM.
By command of Mai. Gen. HookER.
s WILLIAMS. Adjutant General
When MajorGeneral Joseph Hooker
came back again he said:
! an Withdrawing from the south bank
of the Rsppahannock, before delivering a
general battle 10 our adversary, the army
has gwen renewed evidence of its conf
dence in itself and its fidelity TO the prin-
ciples it represents. In fighting at a dis
advantage, we would have been recreant
to our trust, to ourselves, our cause and
our country.
All of which Major-General Joseph
Hooker submits to the impartial judg-
ment of an intelligent people
Mai. Gen. Joe Hooker is the IDOL Of the
radicals, but Gen. is a. copperhead,' as
witness the following:
DESoUNcISG GEANr-While Gen. Grant
I
rebellion in the south, and CALAMITY lead
ing Illinois troops Upon "the enemy's
works" prominent abolition journal of
this state is representing him as "disloy-
al" The Chicago TriJune's 'ewn cores
pendent" at Washington, Supposed to be
the individual who made such fast time
from Bull RUM thus denounces Grant:
The only commanGant of depart
ment that patronizes dislnyal papers and
protects and encourages their circulation
among his soldiers and the secesh Of his
department, is Gen. Grant"
THE TRIBUNE DoUBrs-Even the Chicago
Tribune has misgivings as to the safety of
the precedent set by the administration in
the case of Vallandinghan. In its issue
Of May 22d that paper says:
During the last session of congress this
paper repeatedly and with great earnest
ness called upon the republican and union
members of that body to lose no time in
framing and enacting a law which should
make offences like Vallandinghan 8 mis-
dcmeanors punishable IN the civil courts
by fine and Imprisonment. to the end that
in the strifes that We saw were brewing
there might be no necessity for an appeal
to the military power-an expedient al
ways OF doubtful utility And gentle
man of our editorial corps spent week
in writing to members of the house and
senate and others in authority, begging
that this might be done. But in spite of
all our appeals, the matter was neglected ;
and now we have nothing left but the
cosrse that Bursside has pursued; and
we are fee to confess, that though we can
see and appreciate the necessity for action
like that to which he is impelled, ahsre is
dsngsr IN the precedent thatJte establishes and
in the occasion for the unnecessary chal-
longing of the populat opinion in regard
| to the supremacy of the civil over the mil
| itary power. even in time Of war.
Should the republican party be e1ter-
, terminated at the next fall elections in
consequence of the challenging Of popu:
lar opinion" on the case Of Mr.. ", as it
certainly will be, it will owe all its calami.
ties to the fact that congress and the
President tailed TO heed the advice of that
! gentleman of our editorial corpsr'
LOUISIANA WlrLIEG-A1l account from
Louisiana agree that four tfif.hs of the
people of that state are heartily sick of
the rebellion and would cheerfuNv ra