The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

many Of them dismissed from the army,
without a word Of explanation, an arbitrary
act unknown in Great Britain, while Pope,
and Burnside, and Hooker, and Butler, and
Hunter, and Banks, and Sigel. and Sicklcs.
and hundreds of others, certainly no better
than the former, have been preferred! Why
was Gen. Stone, than whom there is not
a more loyal man, and an accomplished
gentleman, and soldier in the country, con.
fined in prison for fifteen months? And
when released by an act of Congress, why
was it that neither the President, nor Sec
rotary of War, Secretary Of State, or other
persons at Washington would assent to any
knowledge or any participation in the ar.
rest? Such outrages are calculated to
break the power and esprit du corps Of any
army, and all have looked on with disgust
and horror and pain at the shameful irjus
tice and outrages that have been continu.
ally heaped upon so many of their old
friends and comrades in arms, whom they
know incapable of an ungentlcmanly, dis
honorable, solderIy, or ds!oyal act. Why
did the committee on the conduct Of the
war investigate and falsify with slch nice
precision the conduct Of Mcclellan and his
friends, and overlook the volumes of charges
filed in the war department against Ere.
mont and Sigel and Hunter and others, and
entirely overlook the immense slaughter at
Chancellorville, and Fredericksburg and
south Of the Rapidan? Why did secret
political inqus,ion, with no other pretext
than that they suspected him Of political
ambition, sit over fire hundred days and
manufacture over seventeen hundred pages
er Parte testimony against young .fficer,
Christian gentleman, an honest man, who
heaven only knows never had but one pur-
pose and that to serve his country and bis
God. ,e
You know, judge, that while in Wash.
ington, Gen. Mcclellan studiously avoided
all political associations, and to such an ex
tent that many of his friends Of both par
ties were much offended The first knovl-
edge that ever had of any political ambi-
ton on his part was after he had been re-
tired from active service and sent in dis
grace to New Jersey, and this was after
his fitness for the succession had been
discovered by Mr.. Lincoln, and the people
had signified their affection for him. His
letters and orders have been called political,
but they were eminentlv proper. and refer
entirely 10 the military policy of the coun-
Gen. Mcclellan had an ambition to be
laudable ambition, and is there any i'm
propriety in it, Is the field not open to
him as well as to Mr. Lincoln, or Mr. FIRE.
mont, or Mr.. Chase, or the many others
infinitely his inferior? So far as the
objections to bis military qualifications are
concerned. we have only to remind you
that, within the last sixty days, conf
dertial friend Of the president was sent to
offer him one Of the most important com.
mands Of the army But this proposition
was coupled with the most dishon rlble
condition that he should decline to be a
candidate, for the presidency. Ger.
Mcclellan restrained his Indignation, and
replied to the bearer of the messag,, go
back to Washington and say to the prtsi>
dent for me, that when receive my official
written orders he shall have my answer"
Beware, judge, Of the Incorporate
abuse of your political opponents, as proud
and loyal as you are, who would rather see
| the continent of America sink into the
ocean, with all that dwells upon it, tnnn
| see our nationality destroyed; who will not
endure this constant usurpation of author
ity and encroachment upon their rights
and whom you may drive into dreadful
| conflict, in which the abolit,onists and the
| negro may find themselves arrayed agains,
all who will unitedly stand, hand to hand
| and shoulder to shoulder, in defence Of the
constitution and the fundamental laws O
the land.
| Very respectfully, ~ L ...
HENRY NJ. NAGLEE
| To Hon. WILLIAM ID. KELLEY,
| Philadelphia.