The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-28

in which he secuted the idea of subduing the
rebel States by military power, favored the
organization of Union party and the aban-
donment of Republicanism, and recommend.
ed paci6cstion on the goddess basis Of the
Crittenden resolves Of January, 1861; or that
We should say to our ''wayward sisters 70 in
peace" Democratic policy made Gen Nc
Clellan commander.in chief, by falsely claim.
ing for him the victories of our arms in West
ern Virginia, achieved by Rosecrans. Norris,
and Benhsm, and by the endorsement of Gen
Scott, who, as the country has since learned,
did not believe in the war which Government
had insugrated. Democratic policy, through
Gen Patterson as its Representative, detained .
large army in the valley of Winchester which
should have marched against Gen Johnston
and his inferior force, instead of allowing him
to join Beauregard at Bull Run, thus securing
the defeat and rout Of our army, instead Of .
decisive victory, which, else, would have
crowned our arms. Democratic policy, thro'
the authority of Mcclellan kept the Potomac
blockaded during the fall and winter of 1861
and 1862; and when the Navy Department in
sisted, as it did repeatedly, on putting an end
to the blockade, which it could have done at
ct any moment, our Democratic general object
ed that sit would bring on general engage
ment;" and thus was the honor of the nation
compromised, and millions sacrificed through
its interrupted commerce, without cause or ex.
cuse. Democratic policy. personlfed by Gen
Mcclellan and Gen Stone, sent Colonel Baker
and his gallant men across the Potomac
against superior force with only one scow
and two small boats as the means of transport
alton and after crossing had commenced,
twenty four thousand men under Gen Mccall
and Gen Smith, who were within striking dis
tanc, and expected by Col Baker to join him,
we're ordered to retreat by Gen Mcclellan;
while fifteen hundred of our men at Edward
Ferry, only three and half miles from the
battle field, who could have reinforced Col Ba.
ker and turned the fortunes of the day, were
compelled to stand idle while the gallant hero
and his men were. butchered without mercy
During the autumn and winter months which
followed, Democratic policy made the grand
army of the Potomac squat before the wooden
guns of Centreville and Manassas and altho'
our forces were many times larger than those
Of the rebels, and our men in fine health and
discipline, and eager to fight, while during
these successive months We were favored with
solid roads and clor frosty days and nights,
yet neither the persuasions of the President
nor the clamors of the people could induce
Of the Cabinet nor the President himself nor
any general in his army, know his plans, or
why our forces did not advance. Democratic
policy refusing to allow our armies to 20 into
winter quarters or to march upon the enemy.
kept them strictly on the defensive throughout
the Union, till the President in the latter part
of January of last year gave the order forpard,
resulting in the victories of Fort Henry. Fort
Donelson, and Newberp, which SO electrified the
country. The army of the Potomac was re.
quired to march on the 22d of February. but
Democratic policy held it inactive till the 10TH
of March, when Gen Mcclellan, in obedience
to preemptory order of the President. took
up the line of march toward Centreville, after
having FIRST learned that the rebels had retired
toward the Rappahannock. This pink and
beau-ideal Of Democratic policy, instead of
pushing at once toward Richmond, which he
could have done By railroad by way of AQUA
Creek and Fredericksburg, or by the Manassas
and Gordonsville road, marched his army
back to Alexandria, where hundreds persisted
or received the cause Of their death, in the
open fields and woods in sight of their tents,
during the cold, drenching rains to which they
were exposed for many days prior to their
embarkation for Fortress Monroe. Democrat
lc policy still ruling the country through Gen
Mcclellan, planned the i'll fated campaign on
the Peninsula; and although he had insisted,
while himself near the Capital, that the whole
army OF the Potomac was necessary for it's de-
fence, yet on leaving, under positive orders
that this city should be amply defended, he
seems to have considered fifteen thousand raw
ana undisclplIned troops, the refuse of the ar
my, sufficient FORTS protection; all of the army
IN and around Washington, except this mea.
gre force, being ordered by him to proceed at
once to the Peninsula. Democratic policy
compelled the army of the Potomac to sit down
before Yorktown till small army had grown
to be large one, and then permitted it to
evacuate at its leisure. Gen Hooker with his
advance force, followed; but Democratic policy
refusing to allow him to be reinforced, held
thirty thousand men within the sound of the
battle, ny which our forces were repui.ed
and the escape of the enemy secured,
When our army at length reached the
Chickahominy, Democratic policy founded the
Kingdom of pickaxes and spades, and sent thou
sands OF our soldiers to their graves, because
the employment Of ableabodied negroes in ditch
ing would be offensive to Democratic gentility,
and might endanger ''the Union as it was"-
When Gen. Mcclellan, by order of Gen Hal
ieck, lett the James river, and reached Alexan
oria IN time to save General Pope at the second
battle Of Bull Run, Democratic policy, forget
ting the country, allowed him to be sacrificed
Democratic policy, sitting its deadly poison into
the mind Of the President, again placed Genera
Mcclellan in command of the army of the Pc
tomac, and reinstated, at his request, the gen.
erals whose failures had caused Pope's defeat
and the strategy" which followed left the way
open for the withdrawal of General Lee, aod
delayed the march of our forces till Harper's
Ferry had fallen into the hands of the enemy
democratic policy, at the battle of Autietam
kept at least forty thousand OF our men in re.
serve, and thus converted magnificent victory
most temptingly brought within our grasp. into
at best drawn battle Democratic policy
which cost US more than fifty thousand soldiers
on the peninsula, Systematically mised the pub
lie by compelling the newspaper correspondent:
within our lines to suppress facts and utter
falsehoods, in order to glorify General McClel
Ian, shield him from public disapprobation, snd
perpetuate his command. Democratic policy a,
this moment clamors for his restoration. apG
every man who blames the Republicans 70,
bringing on this war, and who declares, as Gen
Mcclellan did at its beginning, that the South i.
right; every man who believes in wearing ou
the Datience Of tho couptrv ~ u;l;tarc C,;I,.-.