The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-23

y on Wednesday morning We printed On
the third page Of the DAILY REGISTER q
letter written by. General MCCLELLAN
to Secretary of War STANTON, after the bat
tie of Gaines Mills, below Richmond, in
which occurs this extraordinary language:
feel too Earnestly tonight have seen
too mauy dead and wounded comrades To
feel otherwise, than that the Government
has not sustained the army. lfyou do moi
do so now. the game is lost. LII save this
army now, tell you plainly that l owe nc
thanks to you, nor to any other person IL
Washington. You have done your best tc
sacrifice this army.
The Mcpbstophilean coolness with
which the Army Of the Peninsula and its
Commander were sacrificed by tae leaders
ofthe Republican party at Washington, te
what they denominate political necessity
is unsquaIled in the history Of Cabinet IN
trieue. since Cabinets had an existence
Regarding the popularity of MCCLELLAN
with bis known political principles, as fata
to their hopes of retaining the Government
of the country after the expiration of Mr.
LrNcoLN's term Of office, there ca, be nc
doubt that the men in power at Wash
ington and especially the Secretary of War
deliberately plotted and accomplished the
defeat OF the campaign against Richmond
in the Spring of 1862 The letter OF Gen
McCLELLAN, tho concluding sentences OF
which we print above, directly charges upon
Mr.. STANTON that he had "done his best
&c sacrifice the army, and puts the point in
| the clearest light. Tue whole course Of
events within his own knowledge could
leave the General no ether conviction, and
hs charges the crime fully, and with terrible
directDess, upon the rscreant Secretary
Tue words of MCCLELLAN will remain In
history, branding Mr.. STANTON with scar
ceIy paraleled infamy .
We do not believe II possible % add tt
the words of General MCCLELLAN. but We
d. re to put on recotd, mr. a conversa-
ton related to the ed'tol Vt the Boston
Courier, on the best authori -, more than 8
year ago, as having recently occurred, be-
tween leading politician of New Eng
land State and the Secretary CT War. Sad
the Secretary: General MCCLELLAN i:
getting too popular; We shall bave to check
him" "YoS Will have to check him very
quick then, or he will get into Richmond,
responded his intsrlocutor. "Oh, he can
not do that, he has not men enough; and
We don't intend to send him any more!
was the answer of the Secretary, Well
might he be shortly afterwards charged to
his face by the man whom he thus sought
7 too ssroy, with "doing his best to sacrifice
tie army"
To rther illustrate the satanic policy
which led t. such course on the part Of
the R publican leaders, we give another
scrap Of conversation, which, by chance,
once fell upon the ears of most trust
worthy friend of GU: own, in place Of
public resort, from whose lips, as repeated
! to Us now again, We give it. Said Re.
publican citizen to a radical politician-and
this occurred shortly after the first evidence
was made public, showing that McCLELLAN's
failure was owing to )MeDowELLs being
prevented fem cooperating in the attael
1upon 4Richmond-"It appears to me that
the President or Mr.. STANTON was to blame