The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-10-06

Potomac hal been e"usnTntet bE MAJOR Sen1rat Jei
Is. Mcclellan. lie had nf ane hundred an
fftr nine tacus AMI men upon tHc P-nn suIa, aat a
testified - bv Cen Hooker. That TIM there wer
only from fifteen theas4ni rebel troops b
cen him anI the capital If tAe southern Conf Iera
t cy. There tie mined with tins lTnnI@nse tnre'
without accomplishing thing untd = me mont
Of july, when he r-trstsd the James RIVER ~ItA
loss Of slxts THOUSAND mrn Many battles had pee
fought but upon occasion had tner5 been any tli
like tic aggregate force Of the army brought INTO con
with the enemy General Mcclellan then defnan
e reinforcement Of City thousand troops u enabi
him to resume active operations IL was found ina
the government could supply him with twenty thous
{ AMI with this he profes.ea himself content. But
Immediately thereafter, he wrote asking Tor hteeh
thousand more from the Western army, aud a
these could be furnished it resolved TO brnt
the army away. In the month OF September follow
ing the army fought tie great AMI blooiy battle @
hutiean. in which it achieved partial success II
October the President ordered General McCieilah Z
the Potomac AMI within gfp'fi from the tim
tie order given he had succeeded in transserrn!
his army from the north to the south bank 0t th
river. Shortly aftcrwatd the commander OF th
Army Of the Potomac was relieved.
The army Of the South COMMANDED by hai0
General Buell.. uder his direction the army mlrehe'
through re State OF Tennessee into Alabama, witt
scarcely any fighting but finally returned to the oh'
River, discouraged ard unsuccessful on are al. o
yGu familiar with the spirit AMI FteS WIN which zen
er.tl Buell. entered upon the war, and you all know Z"
at Last might have known, that nothing could ha -
come ot IT, 1t was not his plan I" rs t2 pun
ti. people Of the south ani thus bring them back .
the observance of the Laws and 10 their allegiance
the Government. lie ent rtaine the idea that nobody
army and marching il AMI fro across the country
the rabes we're to the hopcSsuess dt their
give up tie contest ani come back INTO the mon
without tine shedding Of any blood oa either sIte-
That Ot course would not do.-lt was tnay ani yet
it appeared 10 the country that such was the policy
adopted bv General Buell. aud prIetcei by hlm during
the entire time that he IN command et the Army
of the South SO that taking into view the conduct
Of both, Mcclellan in command on the Potomac, an !
Buell. commanding the other great branch of the
Union army the complaint cannot be called nHFe4son'
bic, that the war had not been prosecuted with the
yiEor and efficiency that promised success.
In this State the election OF 1861 re
suited in the choice of men who had oh
tanned your votes upon the pledge that
if elected they would use every influence
they could to secure change of policy
and more vigorous and efficient prosecu-
ton OF the war. but who now appear to
have believed from the very start that 1t
would he 4 fortunate thing il the South
should have the power to keep the armies
of the Union at bay, or eXpcl them from
Southern soil, and that in that case the
party which they call the Democracy
wonld have been better off.
The election was alike disastrous to the
L nion cause i'll some of the other states
Governor Seymour. OF New York, ut
every meeting where he appeared before
the people. complained bitterly of the
want Of vigor with which the war was
prosecuted, but no sooner was he elected
than he began to throw every obstacle
that he could in the way of the Admins
tration and finally when the attempt
was made to enforce the draft in the City
of New York, multitudeS Of armed men
rose against the Government, tarew the
whole city into state of terror, tore
down asvlums for colored orphan cail-
drcn. killed soldiers, women and chill
drcn, and when ut last il became ah>o-
lutelv necessary for the Governor to do
or say something to allay the popular
clamor. he assembled these mur1lerers
and rioters. and called them his "friends.'
Such WAS the man elected Governor of
New York in @lo62. The elections
throughout the Union, when adverse to
the Administration, for the most part re
suited in the choice OF a similar class of
men.
Under such circumstances what would
YOU have had the President to do In
the first place. you would have had him
place, more vigorous efficient Generals at
the head oft the army. And that he did.
You have frequently heard the state
ment made all over this State that this
Is an Abolition war-that if the President
had not changed his policy aud prose
cuted the war for other purposes than
those which it was originally instituted
to accomplish. they would have sustained
him: but that his converting the war into
a crusade against slavery, Instead OF the
OF the Union, required them,
- Just and true men. to withdraw their
support from the Administration.
How Is this an - Abolition war -
Did not the President revoke the eman
cipation orders of Hunter and Fremoutt
Surley these men cannot complain OF that
act of the President. Again: Mr. Lin
coin was NJ an early stage in the progress
of the war, solicited To avail himself OF the
services of the colored people
The people Of Kentucky were opposed
to this measure. At that time We had
= few muskets. Il very few, upon the
shoulders Of keutucbians { subsequently
about fifty thousand OF the men OF that
State took up arms for the GorerA-
ment; but still the President was TN
willing to carry the policy of negro
cniiStments into cfcct-hut let it be re
membered that SO far Is he did 90 i'll any
thing touching the question OF slavery
all the recorded evidence Of the views of
General Mcclellan upon this subject
amounts to the conviction that he corli-
ally sustained Nun up 10 ltt NSA y NtN
that he was relieved of his command.
Let me appeal to the facts. Before the
President had taken 81 single step towards
freeing the slaves or arming them. Gen
Mcclellan had written him a letter. now
celebrated from the Headquarters Of the
Army of the Potomac, urging the Presl
dent TO adopt the policy Of calling ne
groes into the military service That
letter discussed all the various questions
taat were then agitatIug the public mind
aai declared that tn slaves oaght 10 lie
brought into the publie service aud that
he should commence by taking the slaves
Of Missouri. Western Virginia, and prob
ably Of Maryland, paying their loyal
masters taeir full value. an,. asserted
that by 90 doing we woalj have right
TO expect the approval OF all loyal men
and the favor Of Divine Providence.
Such were the Recommendations of
General Mcclellan As vet the Presi-
dent had done nothing, Congress. TO be
sItra hal p9sspI a lsw rspiusr tha SfayaS