The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-20
A Democratic Paper On M'Clel

reading the prominent passages IN the Re
port of George Is. Mcclellan. They are the
passages which are selected by such papers
as the New York World and others favor
able to him, to give him the very best SHOW
before American citizens They have con-
WINGED us, sincerely, that he is a man of
unsurpassed military ability. His letter
of February sd, 1882, to Secretary stanton,
setting forth the plan Of the Peninsuiar
campaign as he would have had 1t, Is mas
terly in its conception, and shows the nigh
est military talent in its details. Ihat Is
AS it seems to us. We regret that it was
not fully adopted by the Administration,
| for with its ultimate fruition the rebellion |
might have been thing of the past the
nation might have been united ana happy |
| once more and Gen. Mcclellan might have
been the enthusiastic choice for the next
Presidency. But the plan may have been
faulty: it certainly was, for good or for evil.
not carried out. Its protector has, for good
or for evil, parted company with the great
struggle for the Union, and seems to have
thrown himself, with his heavy. dead
weight upon all efforts to so on with the
war.
| What matters it here, in this time of Pc
ril, whether McClellans or somebody else $
plans and theories, in 1862 were better? 1t
is precisely of as much consequence as the
question OF GrOuchy's fidelity at Waterloo.
1t is matter with which history has to
deal-not we here in the trenches, resisting
an assault upon the life of a nation.
Suppose Mcclellan to have been badly
treated. Shall the earth and the sun stand
still until he is attended to? Give him
court martial, or u committee of inquiry, II
he wants it; shoot him or Stanton-wh ich-
ever is found to be in the fault-do any
thing in reason that he wants done, but let
us go on meanwhile with more pressing
and important matters.
Joe Hooker had as good right to growl
and grumble, and humph himself up. Did
|, he do it? Go and ask him, down there in
Tennessee, goOd-naturedly smoking his
cigar under the shadow Of Lookout Noun
tain John Pope, as brave a fighting man
AS ever lived, never had the hundredth part
of the time, the favor, the patient waiting,
which was given Mcclellan to do some
thing with the Army of the POtomac--did
he fall back, glum and cross, and demand
that nothing should he done until he was
avenged? He came from the command OF
, II great army to q mere Indian border war
as gaily as though it were holiday excur-
, sion. Burnside did not cope with Long
street at Fredericksburg, and was summa
, rily sent away; but he sought another trial
! and gave him hard knocks at Knoxville
Mcdowell, the earliest victim of ill-luck,
I has been vainly urging ever since, not the
> Endorsement of his plans at Bull Run, but
/ a command to lead once more at the rebel
army. Rosecrans, the beloved of ALL who
| was blown out after Chickamauga, as you
/, would blow out penny candle, referred TO
the druggist instead of the Government,
I about the opium question. Even Scott, the
greatest General living, who was set aside
gently but firmly, takes his morning walks
III the Fifth avenue aud If he doesn't EN-
coura ge, he dOesn I discourage the attempts
We are making to save this country.
Up 10 the advent of Meade, every Gene
raj who has had command OF the Army OF
th.,p .,fn hos
der circumstances which they probably did
not regard as hattering. But OF them al
there has been only one who has under
taken TO nfict his wrongs--if they wer,
wrongs-upon the country. That one i;
George b. Mcclellan. He asks the coun
l. try to take notice that not only his military
n plans, but his ideas as to the politics Of tn,
war, are different from those which hav,
Y been pursued. He publishes old letters I,
l. the President. lie charges Stanton, TIT
:. existing Secretary of War, with havin!
.e connived at his defeat and the destruction
+ OF the army. He advocates the election o
i a man to the Governorship Of Pennsylvani,
A. who decides that the draft Is unconstitu
a. tional. And he permits himself to be nam
J. ed as the Presidential candidate Of the Fer
nando Woods, the Vallandighams. and al
the other dead weights hangingon this war
1t is one of the fatalities which seem to AT
tend that class of politicians, that they ar
making u candidate of that Kind. So ion
y as they keep control of the Democratic par
ty, so long will it be beaten.--rreen Bo
WIS., ..d9ocnte.
t. REPORTED MURpEs OF DIR. LIVINGSTON
., IN AFRIcA.-It is reported that DR.. Liy
n ingstone, the African explorer, naS bee
n murdered by the natives on Lake Nyass:
A letter phblished in the English paper,
dated at the Cape on the 2lst OF December
says:
s'The doctor, after the recei pit of the new
Of his recall, had started tor Lake Nyass;
taking with him five Makolochas but n
Europeans. Unfortunately, after gainin
the Upper Shire, the boat--their only NEAR
of conveyance-was lost over one of III
cataracts with which the river abound
he Journey on foot II was on the 18th of Jul
Of that the doctor commenced his unhapp
Journey; and from the time OF the occu
IA. renee mentioned above, un.i the 9TH
IF November, nothing more was heard
80 him. On that day the Governor of Quill
name received letter from the Govern,
nd of SIENNA. stating that the doctor and h
he companions had met their death Il. Il
rad hands Of the natives On Lake Nyassa.'
The same correspondent, however, add
CIV "Although the account OF the horrib
,s. tragedy bears all the impress o. authentic
~ ty, gladly seize upon rumor which
.ba current. 10 the effect that the doctor, 9
= though badly wounded, is not yet dead
on The London itheneuas cites Sir Rode
re- lex Murchison as authority for doubtil
the report of DR.. Livinssstone's death.
ND says; n. a., :. III.
nd for hoping that this news was untrue;
opinion which is supported by the great a
ay. thoiity of Sir Roderick Murchson. I
Livingstone is said to have been wound
cd ir the foot and his companions to ha
been killed. a subsequent dispatch spo
r. of a massacre of the whole party; but II
is probably an exaggerated version of t
.es- first report"
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TRAGIC AFFAIR IN kENIUCKY.-Ca]
i n Crandal, Of the 18th Kentucky Cavalry,
Yer now in confinement in Louisville,
shooting Lieut.. NJ. a. Hogan, of the {
,m- Michigan. On the 9th OF January la
,eb. Capt. Grandall, who was stationed
Greensburg, was ordered to report
Knoxville. Not having seen his wife TO
o long time, Capt. Crandall sent word to I
.. RnSSpllyiIla 70 come and see him. =