The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-03-04

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no affair of ours. We lave nothing to do will,
their wrangle, except to suggest that they ara
agonizing over prize that none of them sboi
possess, for it has been otherwise orlcreJ. Tbos
people have willed that General George b. M.
Clean, the patriot, soldier and Statesman. shall
be our next President and they intend TO sca
that he is Observation-Disclosures Standard. -,
Gen. NC Clellan's Report wpon the o,yan- .
ization Of tic A,my ef tie Potomac
anditsean.paignsin Fi,yiniia and Nary.
land.
This report was transmitted to the War De.
pariment in November, 1862. We find Il ON
our table February, 1864! Fill up that lon.
interval with Wilkes calumnies, Congressional
calumnies, all aided and abetted by the Wash.
ingion cabal, whilst the evidence Of their fals.
ty was in the files of the War Department. and
If you do not feel an honest glow of Indignation
very much fear my good fellow that you ara
not many removes from a klaye, or to say the
least, have about as mach blood in you as
turnip. We hardly know now which of that
pretty trio, Lincoln, Stanton, or Hallcck, wa
feel the profoundest contempt for, after reading
this exposure of their guilt. IL is true there ;s
another set of conspirators, Wilson, Wade q,
CO., who arc responsible for much Of the wron.
inflicted upon the nation, but their crime is mod.
crate compared with the offence of those men
who, being in power, trAe with the interest,
OF the country to crafty personal ambition aud
hatred.
AS we shall have occasion frequently to refer
to this report Of Gen. Mcclellan, it is our pur
pose now to direct public attention merely to a
few facts connected with the Peninsula battles.
and the Maryland campaign. And we desire
that it shall ever be borne in mind that from
May, 1862, down to the memorable letter writ
ten from Sayage's Station, Gin which Gen. Nc
Clellan charged the Washington cabal with sac.
rifcing the Potomac Army,) Gen. Mcclellan
urged, expostulated, and fairly entreated tho
cushioned officials at Washington to sand hs
A,n,g REIN ntorcements! There was his telegram
dated near Williamsburg, May 10th, and at
Cumberland, May 18th. In answer to this
telegram Stanton replied that Lincoln was afraid
to uncoverth the Capital and wouldretain Nc Dowell,
,uith 10000 men to defend it.
The result, of this decision was DISASTROUS
1t rendered it impossible for Gen. Mcclellan to
use the James river as line Of operations.
caused great Losses and delays in bridging the
Chickahominy, and left his army divided BY that
lan's letters, dated May 81 and 28, were an
swered insultingly. On June 9th, he again
| appealed to the Secretary of War for reinforce
| men.s; June 9Th ditto. On June lith ho beg
gcd Stanton not to interfere with his control Of
| the army. On June 10th he again ,besought
| Lincoln to extend him the proper aid in men.
| On June 25th, he wrote: Z
81 regret my great inieriority in numbers, but
| feel that am in no way responsible for it, As
| have not failed to represent repeatedly tho RE-
| ccssity of reinforcements-thatM this scas The de-
| cst,e point, and that all the acaiable means of
| the 0n,ernmeat should be concentrated here" s
On the 28th of June, at Savage's Station, the
pent up modification, sorrow and chagrin Of
this noble officer and patriot burst forth in full
| volume upon Stanton and his supcriors. Flesh
and blood could stand no more, and, in view of
wagon loads of dead and wounded men, Gen.
Mcclellan hurled upon the guilty heads Of the
| Washington cabal censure that will never bo
forgotten as long rs this war is mentioned in hu-
man annals.
| From this time there are just two significant
features in the Report. Ono covers the futile
| labors of Mcclellan 10 prevent tho abandon
| ment of the Peninsula the other his efforts to
avertsthe policy which resulted IN the defeat of
Pope, and his subsequent glorious campaign to
retrieve the consequences of that defeat and
shield the capital from the advancing rebel le-
gions 1t is heart-sickening to read the CORES
pondence from July, 1852, on to the lst Of
September, '62. Halleck seemed to gloat in
the opportunity of thwarting every plan submit
| ted by Gen. Mcclellan, and lost no opportunity
of wounding him by the most insolent taunts.
| There came time, though, when tho finger Of
| ialleck trsmbled too much to shape taunts
| and the Head of the nation had no leisure for
| tap-room jokes. Then II. w. Halleck, ESQ.,,
(author of book, and formerly commander at
| the Planter House. St. LOUISE wrote August
| Sd, 1862, at 10.7 p. m. ~
81 beg Of you to assist me IN this crisis ,cta your
ability and experience. am entirely tired omf'
All ha the day of gbes and jeers was over
| for time. Lees legions, flushed with triumph
were pouring on, with glittering bayonets and
rumble OF cannon, toward the cushioned seats
| at Washington. These were the days when A.
! Lincoln, Esq, could write, September 10Th:
"God bless you and all with you n ETC., etc
Alas! why talk of South Mountain and An
tietam-why talk of the wretched ingratitudc
of the men who owed their very lives to the
skill and genius which gave us Antiotam and
South Mountain. Shortly after these signal
achievements came the wolves in full chorus,
and then began the full tide of falsehood and
detraction. Malice fattened on its prey, and tho
merriment from the cushioned seats waved joe
und, the rebel hosts were on the other side OF
the Potomac and Belisarius was without com.
mand ~as
Citizens of the United States, how long will
yc tolerate these things7-Plsia Dealer, a.
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