Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-02
from The journal Of Commerce]
(seneV.al Mcclellan.

4, For long time General Mcclellan has
been the object of radical SANDER. Sud-
denly the radicals are again, as so often be-
fore, looking to him for help. and loud
cry goes up, led by The Ne,c York Euen'y
Post, beseeching his aid. Again and again
he has been called to save the capital, and
as often has saved it. Our readers have not
forgotten how frequently we have toiu
them that in any hour of distress or ankle
ty the radicals would be sure to call on
Mcclellan, though as long as they telt that
things were safe without him they would
let him remain in retirement, the target for
all their malice. Just now there Is a loud
call by radical newspapers for his presence
and services. The rebels are in the Shen-
andoah Valley, and the experience OF
the last raid is not very encouraging.
But we take the liberty of suggesting
to. the fearful gentlemen that Washing
ton is safe. General McClellan's fortifica-
tions are magnificent works, and handful
of men can hold them against ahost OF rep
els. He saved Washington three weeks
ago as surely as he saved it before, when IN
! the field at the head of the army, driving
the enemy before him. The people are all
beginning to look to him, not alone TO
save the Capital, but to save the Union: III
| is not alone the generalship of Mcclellan,
but it is those noble principles Of American
craftsmanship. that faithful love of Consti-
tuition and Union, that clear view OF the
objects of war and the ways and means OF
peace which Mcclellan has always eXhioit-
ed, which the country now needs, wh1cn
Mr.. Lincoln now needs. There are good
and able Generals in the field. The army
of the Union is brave army. Better and
braver the world never saw. But the ulti-
matum of the President. peace only at the
end of slavery, peace only with Abolition
triumph peace only with q revo-
luton in the Southern social sys-
tenn, peace only with a provision that
is nowhere in the Constitution, peace only
with arbitrary terms of Union unknown to
the fathers, repudated by Congress and
people In the Crittenden resolutiOns--this
it is that makes the people hopeless of that
Union and peace for which the war was
commenced-this 1t is which makes it OF
much less importance who or what Generals
are in the field. If General Mcclellan were
now i'm the field there can be no doubt that
the malignant persecution which removed
Colonel Bowman O few weeks ago for ask
ing Mcclellan to deliver an Grafton at
West Point, the same persecution which
ordered suspension of soldiers tribute
of love to Mcclellan at the very moment
when the Secretary of War was aiding
in q similar tribute to another General,
The persecution which has followed not
only the General himself but every
friend that he has in the army, would be un-
tagging in its vindictiveness. If the radical
newspapers would call off the radical dogs
that yelp and howl at the heels of McClel-
Ian, there might be some hope for good to
come from placing him in command, for
there might then be an end to the present
policy of the President. If Mcclellan were
in the Presidents chair knowing as he well
knows how to make war and how to make
peace, two points Of knowledge which the
present Administration does not possess,
there would be hope-certainty-of the
glorious restoration of peace and Union.
But we do not think that Mr.. Lincoln will
be induced either to change his policy or to
seek the aid of Mcclellan in the field, except
at the last extremity. Certainly, if we
should urge him to do the latter it would
probably have just as much effect as il we
should urge the former. Il. y