Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-17

An official order from the War Department
announces that the resignation of Gen. Nc.
Clellan was accepted on the day II was received
and ordered to date from the Sth of Novem. or
on which il was written. All the solicitudr,
therefore, Of bis friends lett he should fight in
war 10 which he is 80 much opposed was
unnecessary, The President was not anxiou
to go through another such q course of anxiety
aud trouble as Gen. Mcclellan occasioned him.
The latter had full opportunity, and failed
disastrously, dismally, disgracefully. His
career only served to bring the military pre-
tensions of the Republic into contempt while
1t lasted, which even the magnificent victories
ut the West and Southwest could not obvistc.
simultaneously with the publication of this
| order, San Francisco paper reaches US con.
tanning report OF a remarkable speech deliv.
cred In that city, pending the electoral canvass,
by Maj. Gen. Mcdowell, which contains at
least one strange revelation. II seems that the
President worn out by the long delay of the
campaign in Virginia, detected on account OF
the attacks upon him in Congress and in the
press, and the low condition of our finances,
cent for franklin and Mcdowell to saw to them
that, as Mcclellan was sick, he wanted them to
prepare some plan Of action, and that some
thing must be done. They had three different
interviews with the President, In which each
General submitted plan, McDowell's being
for an advance by the northern route from
huu fIulklll ulO0E Inc YORK
river peninsula.
While these interviews were pending. the
President aud Secretary OF State each went
separately to Gen. McClelan's Headquarters to
consult him, but ho pretended to be too siek
to receive them, and they were sent away.
Yet McClellan's long report of his campaign
shows that on that very day he wrote his dis-
patch TO Burnside; aud Mcdowell states, on
authority which he knows to he reliable, that
Met lpIlan althpuuh bta rpFuggI To ann tb.,D d..
idcnt or Secretary OF State, did receive private
gentleman, at the request OF the reporter Of the
New York Herald. Moreover, il appears that
no member of the medical stntf was in attend.
SnCe on McClellan-that, In fact. so far from
being dangerously sick, as was given out al
the time, he was not sick at all.
To appreciate properly this deliberate insult
to the Chief Magistrate and Prime Minister OF
the republic, we must bear in mind that both
were, up TO that time, the warm and earnest
admirers and friends of this upstart. II was
extremely difficult for any one to get either
President Lincoln or Secretary Seward to do or
say anything calculated to Interfere with Me-
Clellan, and II was owing to this very fact that
the Administration was suffering under an In.
tense dissatisfaction Of the public, and Cspe-
cially among the Union men. The whole re.
eponsibility of the long delay rested, not upon
Mcclellan, but upon the two men whom he
shammcd sickness to escape seeing. II is not
difficult to understand the reason of such ex.
traordinary conduct. Mcclellan had his eve
upon the Presidency. We'll, he has secured a
Democratic nomination and has been beaten
terribly.
His public career in the army is ended by bis
resignation. The passion of political prefer.
ment las entered his soul, and he hopes to get
to the Senate from New Jersey. Should he
succeed In doing so he will then sink down to
his natural level, for the bold debaters OF that
arena will go through dozen import
ant manTuvres before he will be able to make
up his mind what to do about any one of them.
As for keeping himself in the pasture as a can.
dldatc for the Presidency during the remainder
Of his life, the trial he has already gons through
Is enough to satisfy his Democratic friends that
they can make nothing of .-IGi!nlclthia
Norh impicdi OF ms morning.