Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-05

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Of the Blairs, or to play into the hands OF
the Secretary of State. The Government
is inexcusable, when 1t appointed him to
the command of the Mountain Department,
for not furnishing him with the means of
doing what it exacted Of him; of placing
him under the command OF a man under
whom it was known he could not serve
without compromising bis honor, evident
" for the purpose of compelling him to
ask TO be relieved; and for promising him
another command. informing him late at
night that he would be appointed to 1t, and
the next day appointing another officer TO
the same command.
Snch treatment for political reasons, OF
an officer then of the highest grade and
secoud in rank in the army, and who bad
been the chief founder OF the party that
elected Mr.. Liucoln President, was simply
atrocious; and we shall be surprised ii he
does not jet make it's authors bitterly re-
pent ii. He msy not be elected President.
hut be has friends, aud is not without iu-
fluence. Even Mr.. Lincoln, when it is too
late, may discover that be has made
bluuder, not merely got off joke. Gen
eral Fremont is not politically dead or dy.
ing, and he may yet assist at political OBJ
sequies of the men who have sought to kill
him.
TRUMAN SEYMOUR.
An outcry has been raised against Con.
Seymour for his disaster at Olustee, Flori-
da, and some have supposed he failed be-
cause unsOuud on the negro question. Gen.
Seymour is, and always has been decided
anti slavery man, us he has assured us
with his own lips, and is a brave and loyal
man, and an able officer. We shall not
blame him till We know better than we now
do all the facts in the case.
BUELL..
Our generals should have no enemies to
fight but those in front Great Injustice
has been done to excellent officers by out
side criticisms. For ourselves, we believe
General Buell. has been made to suffsr un
justly by unpfofessional criticisms He is
u loyal man aud an able officer, whom the
service can i'll spare. le did not carry
out the anti slavery policy in his depart
ment, but did the Administration ever
order him to do SO? or would it have per
mitted him TO do SO at any time while he
was in command of the Department Of the
Ohio? Cannot his failure be explained by
other causes than disloyalty or lukewarm-
ness in the national cause? He has, it IS |
said, Southern wife. So has the Presi-
dent, besides being Southern man him
self.
GRANT. |
We know not whether its expectations
will be met or not, but we cannot see that
Government could have acted more wisely |
thnu ii i. has done in placing the whole
army under Lieutenant General Grant, |
headquarters in the field, and 10 retaining |
General Halleck at Washington as Chief
of Staff If the President will now leave
the management of military matters to the
military anthoriiies, aud exert the whole
power Of the civil administration TO sus-
iaiu them aud to facilitate their operations,
we think there is a reasonable prospect of
success. Let General Grant be the real,
not merely the noTiual, Commander .in-
Chicf, and let the President be content to
regard himself us II civilian, and the ChIet
Magistrate of the Republic. Gen. Grant
may fail hat, if he does, let him beaT the
the responsibility. We have great conf.
dence in him. as we have in General Hal
leck, who deserves not the uupopularity
he seems to have. He is where we wish
him, and where he can still render services
TO the army and the country of the highest
Importance.