The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-11-04

that Mr.. Mcclellan was Good general, whom
1 it would not do to disturb ana with this W
were compelled to leave the White House, will
the rattlSsnnke flag Haunting its contempt il
our very faces o h53ias f.ua "a.
Well Congress met and returned to that bo
1 dy with some hope that an impression might b,
made There were 10000 fighting men b,
this time in the army of the Potomac
know the exact numbers from the records of the
1 War Office, and speak by the book And
/ there was the enemy confronting our splendid
host, and there was not man over 40, 900 o
them.
We waited upon General Butler, a man who
generally knows what he is about [tremenduon.
applausel and asked him if he knew anyrhing
about this enemy that is so dishouoring and put
ing us to shame, General Butler had posted
himself greatly to our satisfaction. The govern
ors of the,Southern states had communicated tc
their Legislators the number oftroops that their
States respectively had furnished, You knew
that the Governors could not be likely to under
stand the number, for each one would be dis
posed to make his State look as large as possible
Gen Butler had gathered these facts and put
ing them all togeather there was but 10000 Of
them all, in round numbersl
then waited upon GOV. johnson, protesting
against this State of things, and asked him t
go down to Geo Mcclellan and demonstrate
gsinst this disgruce We went together,
and what did I'VE fnd2' We found Cen Nc
Clellan constructing some ponoon bridges so
that they might have the means of safe retreat.
in case something should hapren![gaeat laughter
and applause. Knowing that Jhers were 900 900
of our men against 10000 rebels, was some
what indignant and told Gen. Mcclellan that
| would burn those pontoon bridges in the faces
of the soldiers, and let them know that they
had got to whip the enemy or be lost but that
policy did not suit Gen. Mcclellan. / was
hasty-unmlitary and injudicous.
| Now there are some circumstances thatled me
1 to doubt his being true man. | Will not call
him traitor but will give you facts and you
| can judge weather he was traitor or coward
We took the testimony of the corps comman-
der. Calling up each one as questioned about
the situation Gen, MDowell, what do you
know about the strength Of the enamy2 Their
| reply was that they were not premited to get
| such information Should deserter or q con
traband come "into our lines the corps con-
manders are forbidden to question him about the
enemy" but the order was imperative to send
the witness off to Washington to be examined
by Gen. Mcclellan, Il Laughter o
What does. this all mean2 Gen. Sumner can
you tell what this means?
"NoI cannot tell, but such is Che peremptory
order" . g., nl-H ..t r.
The only explanation of which snch an order
susceptible, was that Gen Mcclellan desired to
exclude the facts from everybody else, SO that he
could exaggerate the number Of the enemy
and thus deceive the President, Congress and
the country [Tndignaton.l / cannot come to
any other conclusion. He had some purpose in
that, and leave you tojudge Of it in the light
of the many other curious facts in this Generals
military career on the Potomac. .~f
When General Mcclellan was solicited, for
the sake of distressed country to cross the riv-
er, he hestated, doubted and said it was dan
geroas-[great laughter]a might bring on al
general engagement! renewed laughter
Why, General Mcclellan, thought that was
what you desired, as you are so strongly en-
trenched in your American sebastopol l
thought you would be glad to get him out Of his
entrenchments and meet him on fair terms
But no he would not move.
AT last things got SO desperate that no one
could stand it any longer, except General Nc
Clellan himself and those Just like him. APP
plause] So Old Abe finally got his back up,
aud gave Mcclellan positive orders to move on
certain day. NJ a.. 5...s.gta s
What did this Young Napoleon" do them
He did what he had not dsne before-calle a
council Of war He gathered in twelve Of his
Generals. and managed to get eight of them to
decide it inexpedient TO move; that it was ex-
trsmely dangerous, -Four Of them stood out to
the last,and begged the Gsneral-in Chief to
move; but he had q large majority that voted it
dangerous.
But Old Abe was ine1crable, and said to
"Go, or will find some one who
will move" Upon this, he made movement,
growing and grumbling about getting smashed
up, and you know the result,
There it is, (pointing to stick Of timber with
one end painted black, lying on table to his
right)--a "Quaker gunl'' General Mcclellan
found what few Notifications they had, moan
ted with such guns as that, and some of the
esfthworks were inadequate TO any kind of
atmor.
Nr Mcclellan himself admitted more