Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-05-26
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
THE ARMY AND THE PRESIDENCY


An officer Of an artillery company in the Penn
sylyania troops now serving under zen ul@h'
has requested us to give place IN our columns 70
the subioined article We have yielded 10 the
request with some reluctance, not lna' 'he.0 /"
any thing in his communication improper lot
citizen to saw or for us to publish, but because the
Do;nto which the writer discusses, SO far as they
a.. brouobt TO bear on the Presidential question,
are deemed premature for our Journal however
nroner their discussion may and will be after the
candidates for the Office of President are definitely
seleeled and presented to the country. But, as
the writer claims the privilege of offering has
views in reply to some who have assumed to inter-
pref the political sentiment of the PennsylVanlans
in the Army of the Potomac, we should DO MUS
flee to the freedom Of the press were we to refuse
him. 49,,
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, MAY %, 1864.
Messrs EDITORS: / observe in the columns of the
Manning Chronicle Of the 2lst instant that some soldier
bss called the Editor account for his allegation hat
Mcclellan had friends in the army lt seems 70 DO
taken for granted by the Chronicle and some other papers
that Mr. Lincoln will get the entire soldiers vote al tne
ensune election think that those gentlemen VINO thihh
no will wake up fine morning along about november
and find that the soldiers votes have played smash win
their calculations
can't sea how the leaders of the Administration party
can ask or expect the votes of the white soldiers for 1t
to be the object of many of them to show their ad
maton Of the blacks at the expense Of the white soldiers
Nv attention was called yesterday to an extract from
delivered in the House of Representatives by the
Hon William d Kelley, of Pennsylvania, IN which he ut
tered the following extraordinary sentiment:
"Mr Speaker the of this era OF whom the poet
will sing highest strains, the men whom The orator win
most euogze the men in this grand civil war OF WHOM
tha historian will write his most glowing panegyrics, are
the negro soldiers of the loyal army.
Nouu the moor white soldier who has volunteered to go
forth i, the cause of his county, leaving family ana Inc
comforts OF home receiving the small pttance oil thirteen
dollars per month to undergo the dangers and o.
.annsion i not willing to give up his place upon the
maya If his countrys history (perhaps the only legacy
be can leave his chdrsn} to these coored troops ana
.h; b;ts commanders He does not believe either that
4h soldier is more disinerested than the white 10
th snt of the existing conflict If the South succeeds
large portion Of these colored troops would DO
N their masters in the South and when they rtect tat
tb war was brought mainly BY the sympathy OF NORTH
ern neope for the blacks in their enslaVea condoh ne
ms feel that is not entirely dlslnterestea as Mr.
KeIlev would endeavor to make hlm peheVe. put lnis
ssems to be the sentiment Of the Administration party ana
= as to make il entirely current the Chronicle the Ad
minlstrahon organ, Cans esSoA = :
enthusiastic remarks: -
..Tba claimant words Of Hon VIM D Kelley, OF Penn
vIvapa spoken ia the House Of Representatives on the
:h of pr in vindicaon of the sel-sacflnclng spr q
onr fellow colored citizens will be read by every y an
nth necliar pleasure and know they viii De equay
gratifying to the brave disinterestsd white heroes III
the armies of the Republic
lam PENNSYLVANIA and speak more particularly for
nome regiments from that State and think may safely
.ay that Pennsylvania soldiers are oneeIm men, they are
Gov Curtin men, All Pennsylvania soldiers doze Curtin
because thew know that he iabored assduousy for
their interest and their welfare It's also asserted tha'
10 A5mn;strstiou or rather the War Department hai
-a.tea the suggestions and wishes OF Gov Curtin VIII
49, a,psct due him and the great State ne represents
;uao,d now that they refuse to slow Der 10 omcef u
too. shed by the State that they have sent fee
80 81 .,;,la,E Of fifteen hundred men into The
..oa f the War department.; and that they even re-
60 >. slIou the Goyerno to appoint surgeons i0r the
reoment but rushed it into the Leid Win one VI '"o e
dica students (kuown contract SUI ino" "
allowing these men what the law siiowedt.'e 'nree SUI
aons bo had passed the board Of medical eIaaiEston
for the State The Governor asserts that TINS oaPA
BILE usurpstion upon the part Of the War Department Of
reserved the States by the Constitutions that 1t
j. in violation Of existing acts of Congress upon the sub
ct and that he submit any such inrosd upon
the rights Of tho State. told that the President
agrees entirely with Gov Curtin but he has not got enough
Of old jackson IN him contend with the Secretary Of
War.
The Republicans in the army that when they voted
for Mr. Lincoln they supposed he was to have hepuo
can Cabinet and that they barganed for portion
Of the Lsoomp,on Cabinet Of Buchsnsns Administration
believe maority Of them for Chase, or old Green
back they call him they he furnished The grease
while Mr. Stanton AID Gen. Hsleck we're running the ma
chine the last three years and who could do this
certainly entitled the highest honors at the hands Of h
country
The Democrats the army for Grant or Mcclellan
Some OF them now speak Of Hancock, and what csndl.
ds,s he would make! H. is the admiration Of the whole
army His name is in every soldiers mouth He de
scendan of old john whose name stands iorth 80
upon the Declaration Of Independence aud he has
inherited all the patriotism and all the courage that stand
forth 30 deanty in that bold signature to the great pro
clamaton Of human rights He would sweep thu one hun
dred thousand soldier votes from Pennsylvania clean
PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER.