Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-04-13
How the War Might Have Been Ended
IN ONE CAMPAIGN,

IN ONE CAMPAIGN,
TIE Report Of General Mcclellan is
now before the public, and under circum
stances of unwisdom on the part Of his
adversaries, which makes it more sought
for, more thoroughly studied and more
calmly weighed, than it would have been
If there had been no signs of wish to
suppress it. The fact of the report hav-
ing been made, could not be concealed
but as an excuse for Withholding it, the
rumor was sent all over the land that it
was of such magnitude as to forbid its
publication.
The reports Of all other generals we're
Voluntarily given by the Department, but
this had to be called for by Congress.
And when it was sent in and passed over
to the Printer, the Secretary still forbade
an inspection of it--a meddling interfer-
enee which would have caused an indig-
nation at any other time than this, The
report is now before the public, and the
government copy is a thin volume Of ia
pages, and more than five newspapers
and journals have published it entire
At the very beginning of the reports
a paper written to the President within
seven days after he took command of the
army, which follows these remarks, and
which We commend to our readers for
their careful perusal. 1t is a most re-
markable document
On the 21st of July, when General
Mcclellan was in the mountains of West
ern Virginia, he heard of the battle Of
Bull Run. On the 22d he received or
ders to proceed to Washington On the
23d he went; on the 26th he arrived; on
the 9th he was put in command of the
army In this straight he vas asked by
the President to give his views and pre-
pare a plan. Amid all the pressure up
on him, in his new situation, when all
the nation stood aghast at our failure,
he prepared this paper, and on the 4th
Of August presented it. From this paper
/ it is now clearly seen that he was the
only man who saw the rebellion in its
full prOportions-the only man. who did
not underrate the South; aud he seized
the very point of the whole case when he
proposed to array such force as would
overcome in one campaign the military
power of the South, and at the same time
treat the people with all the kindness
and protection required by the principles
of civilized warfare, and the requirements
of the Constitution. And at the same
time he developed the outlines of his
plan of subduing their military power,
by sending a force into East Tennessee
and thence advancing to their railroads
and taking them, and without a battle in
Virginia, making their army leave it;
and also taking New Orleans, and with
it the Mississippi; and at the same time
press them on their Atlantic coast. But
this did not suit the inpatient ignorance
at Washington, and it did not suit the
abolition faction which had an eye to
OverruDning the whole country and des-
olating the plantations and spOliating
them in the abduction of their slaves.
In this master purpose of the Republican
party, as held in the clamp of Giddings
and Wendell Phillips, Mcclellan could
not suit them, and so he was got rid Of
and to make that riddance complete, he
must not only be removed, but be des.
troyed in the eyes of the people. But
truth lives in adages, and it lives in this
Man proposos-GOd dispoSos. And Sc
will it be here. Vaccination ever over
looks something, and vaulting ambition
overleaps itself. Time is unerringly
wise, it is unerringly just, and its retri
buttons on wrong doers, though slow ar,
sure