Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-03-11
From the Green Bay (Wis Advocate.
wAa DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL ON
MCCLELLAN.

NA'SAhsLAANs
We have been reading the prominent pas
ssg.s in the Report Of Geo. B. Mcclellan
Iney arc the passages which are selected by
such papers as the New York World and 9th
crs favorable to him to give him the very bes
show before American citizens. His letter
Of February Sd, 1862, to secretary Stanton
setting forth the plan ofthe Pcninsular cam
paign as lie would have had it, is mastery
In its conception, and shows the highest mill
>ary talent in its details. That is as it seem:
to US. Nevertheless the Ian may have beer
faulty it certainly was, FOR good or for evil
not carried out Its protector has, for gaot
or for evil, parted company with the great
struggle for thu Union, and seems to hav,
thrown himself, with his heavy, dead weigtt
upon all efforts to GO on with tho war.
What matters it here, in this time OF peri
whether McCltllan'sor somebody tlss's plans
md theories, in 1862, were better? Ii Is
precisely of as much consequence as the CUES
ton of Grouchy stidcity at Waterloo, Il is
: amatter with which history has 70 Geal-noi
we hsre in the trenches, resisting en- assault
upon the life ofa nation.
Suppose Mcclellan to have been badly
treated. Shall the earth and the sun stand
still until he is aittnled TO? Give !sm a
couIt.niariial, or committee OF inquiry. ii
he warts it; shoot him or Stanton-which-
ever is found 10 he in faalt--do anything in
reason that he wants done but let US go on
meanwhile with more pressing ond impor-
taHt matters.
e joe Hooker has IS good right to growl
and gru,nsle, and hua,pt himself up. DID
he 90 il? 60 and ask him down there in
Tennessee, good -naturedly smoking his cigar
under the shadow Of Lookout Mountain
John Pope as brave lighting man as ever
lived, never had the hundrcdth part of the
time, the favor, the patient waiting, that was
given to Mcclellan 10 DO something with the
Army OF tho Potomac--did he fall back,
gum and cross, and demand that nothing
should be done until he was avenged? He
came from the command of great army to
mere Indian border war, asgai'y As though
it were a holiday excursion. Burnsido did
3 not cope with l.orgStreet at fredericksburg,
and was summariiy sent away bat sought
another trial and gave him hard knocks at
Knoxville. hrDoweli, the earliest victim Of
i'll luck, has been vanly urging, ever since,
not the endorsement Of his plans al Bull Run
but n command to lead once more at the reb
ii army. Rossc.ans, the beloved Of all, who
was blown out after Chickamsuga, as you
would blow cut a penny candle, referred 10
the druggist, instead Of the Government
about the opium question. Even Scott the
greatest general living, vino was set aside
gently but firmly, takes his morning walks
in the Faith Avenue. and if he doesn't en-
courage, he doesn't discourage the attempts
we are making to save this country.
Up to tho advent Of Meade, every General
who has had command Of the Array of the
Potomac, has been relieved from it under
circumstances which they probably did not
regard as fatteriag Dut Of them all, there
has been only one who has undertaken &c
i,.aict his wrongs-upou the country. Tha:
,onc.i is Geo. b. Mcclellan. lie asks the conn
Try 10 take notice that moi only his military
plans bat his ideas as to the policy Of war
are different from those which have been
pursued. lie publishes old letters to the
President. lie charges Stanton, the existing
Secretary Of War, with having connired a
his defeat and the destruction Of the army
lie advocates the election Of a man to thc
Governorship of Pennsylvania who decides
that the draft is unconstitutional And ht
permits himself TO he named as tho Prcsi
dental candidate Of the Fernando Woods ti!t
Naliandigha:ns and the other dead weight
hanging on this war. I. is one of the fatal
ties, which seem to attend that class of poll
ticians. that they are making a candidate o
that kind. So long as they keep control o
the Democratic party, 50 long ''i.! ii be beat