The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-03-08
From the Green Bay, (Wis Advocate.
A Democratic Paper Oh NC.
CIellan.

The DEAD WEIGHT We have been read
ing tie prominent passages in the Report o
George b. Mcclellan. They are tho pas ssget
which arc selected by such papers as the New
York World and others favorable to him tue
the very best show before American cilizsns
They have convinced US, sine ,rely, that he is a
man Of unsurpassed military ability, bis letter
Of February Sd, 1859, to Secretary Stanton,
setting forth the plan of tho Pennsu lar cam
paign as he would have had it, is masterly in
its conception, aud shows the highest military
talept in its details. That 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 psst the nation might have been Unit.
ed and happy once moro and General McClel.
Ian might have been the enthusiastic choice
for the next Presidency. But tho plan may
have ben fsulty: 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 al Efforts to 60 on with the war.
What matters il here, in this time of peril,
whether McClellan's or somebody e.so's plans
~
csely of as much consequence as tho question
matter with who history has to deal. l..not
We here 10 the trenches resisting an assault
upon the life Of a uatiop.
Suppose Mcclellan to have been badly
treated. Shal! the earth and the sun stand
still until he is attended tol Give him a
court marshal, or committee Of inquiry, il
he wants it; shoot him or Stanton-which
ever is to be in the faalt-do auything in rea.
son that bo wants done; but let us 20 on
meanwhile with more pressing and important
matters.
Joe Hooker had as good a right to growl
anil grunble, and humph himself up. Did be
do ii 1! Go and ask him, down there in Ten
nessse, good naturedly smoking his cigar uu.
der the shadow Of Lookout Mountain. John
Pope, as brave man as ever lived, never had
the hundredth part OF the time, the favor, the
patient waiting, which was given McClsllan
to do something with the Army Of the Poto.
mac--did he fall back, glam and cross. and
demand that nothing should be done until he
was avongedf He came from the command
OF great army to mere Indian border war
as gaily as though it were holiday excur-
siou. Burnside did not cope with Longstreet al
Fredericksburg, AMI was summarily sent away
but he sought another trial aud gave him
hard knocks at Knoxville. Mcdowell, the
earliest yistim Of i'll luck, has been urging
ever since, not tho indorsernent OF his plans
at Bull Run, but command TO lead once
more against tho rebel army. Rosecrans, the
beloved Of all, who was blown out after Chick.
amauga as you would blow out penny can.
die, referred to the druggist, instead Of the
government, about the opium question. Even
Scott, the greatest General living, who was
act aside gently but firmly, takes his morning
walks in the Fifth avenue, and il he doesn't
encourage, he doesn't discourage the attempt,
we are making to save this country.
Up ID the advent Of Meade, every General
who has had command Of the Army Of the
Potomac has been relieved from it under cir.
cumstanc IS which they probably did not re-
gard as sttering. But Of them all there has
been only ono who has undertaken 10 inaict
his wrongs, il they we're wropgs-upon the
country. That ono is Geo. b. Mcclellan. He
his military plans but his ideas IF politics Of war
are d:f rent from those that have been pur-
sued. He published old letters TO the Presi-
don't. He charges Stanton, the existing Sec
rotary OF War, With having connived at his
defeat and the destruction Of the army. He
advocates the election of man to the Gov
ernorship of Pennsylvania who decides that
the draft is unconstitutional And he per-
mits himself 10 be named as the Presidential
candidate Of the Fernando Woods. the VAL
lasdighans. and all tho other dead weights
hanging on this war. 1t is one Of the fatal.
ties which sem 10 attend that class Of polite.
ians that they're making can 'idate ofthat kind
SO long as they keep cootfol Of the Demo.
cratic party, SO long will il be beaten.