The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-07
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The World is doubtless aware of staff officer
Keys unlacky observation lust after Antietam
that at wasn't the game 60 have tho Confed-
crate army crushed, that this would destroy
slavery and prevent compromise. We presume
II viii not be pretended that Keys was not de-
voted TO Mcclellan, and familiar with the talk Of
his headquarters.
That General Mcclellan is loyal according to
his own idea Of loyalty we have never dou Nted
SO Is bis friend ROdman NJ. Price, Ex-Governor
OF New Jersey, whose letter. urging that State to
sccCde fom the Union and join the Southern
CCuieOcucy is a part Of our national history.
30 is Fernando Wood, who urged our city TO Sc
ccde from the state, so rs 20 be free TO join thC
CouicCcTacy. So are Governor seymour AID
Judge Woodward, who privately evinced a desire
that their States respectively should crawl in'o
the JEFF Davis concern.
Nay, moro we are confident that General
Mcclellan is more loyal than the Roman Catholic
speak Cf the President Of the United states with
contempt ard eNoCratou, willie ccrgmOnious,y
emitting the Rebel chief "IFsV3'V Davis and
which never, by any chance, express a wish that
the Union arms should triumph. We think he
must e moro loyal than the Democratic Congress
man from cur city who has never, since the war
began, allowed his DGiiV NrlrS 70 cOucgdc that
the Rebels were wrong or thclr opponents right
on any one Of the innumorablc differences which
have arisen during these four long, drCary, bloody
years. Nay we trust lac will prove to- loyal to
swallow the Chicago Democratic Platform.
But VIC DO not and cannot believe General
Mcclellan sufficiently loyal ever 20 have sought
or desired the rOut and dispersion of the Rebel
armies, and the consequent collapse of tue Rebel
lion. Had he been so, We know that he WOuld
not have held the gallant glorious Army Of the
Potomac, one hundred and ttty thousand strong,
pOruiyZcd, hJsicged virtually imprisoned, in tho
dCOnscs Of Washington, by less than third
OF its number of Rebels, throughout that long,
bright autumn and lore part Of winter OF 1861.
Nay We feel sure that the Rebel chiefs would
never have yentured, with their glarngy in
feror force, to close and bar against the Puto-
mac on the one hand aud the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad on the other. Those chiefs arc wary
as well as bold and they could never have thus
exposed themselves by moro than half encirCliug
an army thrice rs numerous as their own had
they not known their man. They must have
known of other Quaker elements In the struggle
besides the maple guns that they left mounted
at Centrevle
We are aware that General Mcclellan then pro-
ftsSed to believe that there were 5000 to 100000
Rebels in front Of his positions but We know also
that not only was this fact Otherwise The Lon
don QuGHerly snys there were but 10000 but
that our officers who stood between General
MCClellBn's snug quarters in Washington aud the
Rebel army were perfectly confident that the
Rebel force around Cgntrcville aud Manassas
Junction numbered less than 10000. Aud no
well-iniOrmed person, who has not sinister reasons
for so doing, will now contend that there we're
usually so many as that.
General Mcclellan is not q great commander
but he had an army which, it simply lelt tObtsclf
would have swept the Rebels like chah across
the Rappahannock before the middle Of Decem.
Der. Why then, did he fail TO do ii pscause he
did not try. Because he was waiting aud hold.
ing and holding off for pro Slavery Compromise
when he should have been fighting for peace.
That is the everlasting truth.
II any candid man doubts this, and wishes an
easy test, let him quietly and scyrrally sound
the next dozen MCClellAuites he meets aud ascer-
tain hOg many of them irish h. hGd promptly
routed and dispersed the Confederate army Of
Virginia, and thus crushed out the Rebellion.
II any one shall discover four among the dozen
who would have liked their hero better and sup
ported him more heartily had he moved against
the Rebel hosts with the celeity and yigor Ot Ma
poeon's first campaign in Italy, we will thank
him to let US know il. There may be such in
the army out of it we know of none. Aud OF
the votes he will get for President at least three
fuurths will be cast by men who would have
liked him less had he promptly and thoroughly
crushed out the Rebellion.