New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-07

based its statement
The World cannot be ignorant that its candi-
date for President had been one Of the marked
cards Of the conspirators for Southern Slave
Empire long before they rushed into rebellion.
The Richmond Wing says they had noted, while
a student at West Point, that he avoided North
ern companionships and affected Southern inti-
nacies. The World is doubtless aware that he
was deep in the Fillbuster intrigue, and was
enlisted as one of Gen. Quitman's subaltens for
his long meditatcd raid on Cuba which was fruS'
Itrated BIZ Gen. Taylor's administration. That
Gen. M. ever favored the Confcderates while in
command ofthe armies Of the Union, The Worid
of course will not admit but that he was eu-
ptcted to do so by the Confederate leaders, Is
truth too notorious to be denied. We are as
sured that at one time when Richmond appa-
rently lay at bis mercy, and when the Con.
federacy seemed on the very brink Of collapse. o
prominent Unionist (well known to us)
travelling in the cars from Richmond to
Charlottesville heard two Confederate officers
Just before him discussing in a low tone their
prospects, when the elder said assuringly to the
younger, "Never fear anything from Mcclellan;
we knou he is all right" When they had left
the car, the Unionist asked of an officer near
him the name of HIM who had given this as
surance, and was answered "Gen. Kirby
Smith," (Kirby is a Northern dough-lace
slightly changed into an outright Rebel. and is
presumed to know their Northern friends ex-
tensively.)
The World is doubtless aware Of staff officer
Keys unlucky observation just after Antietam
tia. sit wasn't the game" to have the Con
tolerate Army crushed-that this would destroy
Slavery and prevent compromise. We pre-
sumo it will not be pretended that Keys was
not devoted to Mcclellan and familiar with the
talk of his headquarters.
! That Gen. Mcclellan is loyal according TO his
o,on idea Of loyalty, we have never doubted. so
| is his friend Rodman NJ. Price, Ex-Governor OF
New-Jersey, whose letter, urging that State TO
secede from the Union and join the Southern
Confederacy, is part OF our National history.
SO ia Fernando Wood. who urged our city to
secede from the State, so as to be free to JOIN
the Confederacy. SO are Gov. Seymour and
Judge Woodward, who privately eyinced de-
sire that Their states respectively should crawl
into the jeff. Davis concern. Nay, morc' wa
are confident that Gen. Mcclellan is more loyal
than the Roman Catholic oracles issued from
our city which habitualy speak of the President
Of the United States with contempt and eAecra-
ton while tremendously emitting the Rebel
chief " President Davis" and which never, by
any chance, express a wish that the Union arms
should triumph. We think ho must be more
loyal than the Democratic Congressman from
our city who has never, since the war began,
allowed his Daily Neps 20 concele that the
Rebels were wrong or their opponents right on
any one OF the nnumcrable differences which
have arisen during these four long, dreary,
bloody years. Nay: we trust he will prove too
loyal to swallow the Chicago Democratic Plat
form.
But We do not and cannot believe Gen. Me-
Clellan sufficiently loyal ever 20 have sought or
desired the rout and dispersion Of the Rebel
armies, and the consequent collapse Of the Re
bellion. Had he been so, we know that he
would not have held that gallant. glorious Army
of the Potomac, One Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand strong, paralyzed, besieged, virtually I'M
prisoned, in the deicnscs of Washington, by less
than third of its number Of Rebels, throughout
that long, bright Autumn and fore part Of VIM
ter Of Is6l Nay: We feel sure that the Rebel
chiefs would never have ventured with their
glaringly inferior force, to close and bar against
US the Potomac on the one hand and the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad on the other Those
chiefs are wary o, well as bold; and they could
never have thus exposed themselves by more
than half encircling an army thrice as numerous
as their own had they not kEOrn he,r man.
They must have known Of other Quaker ele-
ments in the struggle besides the maple guns
that they left mounted at Ccateryie
We are aware that Gen. Mcclellan then pro-
fessed to believe that there were $4,000 to
100, 600 Rebels in front of his position; but we
know also that not only was this fact otherwise
K The London QarteHy says there were but
80, 0OO)--but that our officers who stood between
Gen. Ms snug quarters in Washington and the
Rebel army were perfectly confident that the
Rebel force around Centeryillc and Manassas
Junction numbered less than fifty thousand.
And no well-informed person, who has not SIMS
ter reasons for so doing, will now contend that
there were usually so many as that.
Gen. Mcclellan is not a great commanders;
but he had an army which, if simply left to it.