Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-15
BIoCIeIInn.s 5TiIItary Career.

-r, From the Hmo that General Mcclellan
began to bully General Scott and make
military movements without any reference
to him as his superior officer, his military
reputation has been chiefly in the hands of
the vilest Copperheads Of the land. Dur
ing his long and disastrous reign at the
head Of the finest army the world ever be-
held, be found an ardent champion
among the men who were opposed to the
war, and who took qualification in any
Union reverses. he was Immediately rec
ognized by them as the best man to con-
vert into hero, martyr, sage, a Napo-
leon, and eventually President of the
Republic. he had within him those ele-
--nsRts essential tothe purpose of the crafty
men into whose hands he had fallen, and
who expect, in case of his election, to use
him for the accomplishment of their own
selfish and sinister ends. Therefore it was
that bis military reputation was defended
and bolstered. Therefore it was that the
most bigOted opponent of the war, and the
man who came nearest to an out-and-out
follower of JEFF Davis, was found to be an
ardent champion ofthat wonderful military
prodigy, General Mcclellan. The Ameri-
iOan people have not, however, forgotten
the career of the man who began with
reputation and facilities for accomplishing
IA great work, such as were never before
granted to a young man, and who ended it
with nothing accomplished commensurate
with the means and the time which had
Vbeen allotted him. He had command OF
athe army at a time when all the en-
lthusiam and wealth of the North were
poured lavishly at his feet. The avenues
to the Capital were rhulred with the =ro7vds
of young men who hocked from every ham
let in the North to enable the young Ma
-pOleon to put an end to wicked rebellion
No one, when he was at the head of the
armies disputed his right. He enjoyed
the most complete possession of it. With
out toiling through years to such lofty
hight, he was suddenly raised to position
that might have been envied by the great
est generals of the world. The whole
North, with desire to make him hero,
such as never has been shown to any other
man, never thought when Mcclellan was
at the head of 100000 men, in addition to
1.-The Navy, that he would cover before foe
for so many hong months.
No one would have thought when, at
the head Of 1s5, 900 men, he moved to the
Peninsula that the summer of 1852 would
{ be frittered away in useless attacks with
but a small portion of the grand army,
in debating and lecturing his superiors
until at length, defeated and demoralized.
with half his army a prey to the swamps
Of the Chiel1shominy, on furlough, or de-
serted he should be obliged to cover un-
der his gunboats at Harrison's Landing,
and be on the point of surrendering to the
rebels before him. But such was the re-
suit Not only that, but he was Obliged to
retrsce his steps back again to the ground
where for many months he had been
watching quaker guns and going through
with parades and the pageantry of war.
And finally, after exhausting the patience
OF the country, and bringing our arms into
the contempt of foreign nations, and
making Intervention and foreign war i'm
minent he was relieved of duty, only to
array himself along with those men who
had constantly opposed the war, and who
Hinoe have thrown every obstacle in the
way of successful termination of the re-
beIlion
In view Of all this, the American people
are now invited to reward him for the in
that failed to take Richmond
destroy the rebellion and redeem the coun-
try from all the woes and wretchedness.
which has since come upon it. The man
who on the 4th day of July 1852, was ex-
pected by the civilized world as well as by Z
.very ragged rebel in the South, to take Q
but who utterly, shamefullv 7
iailed, Is now asking the American people
% reward him for his want of Success i
But this can never be done. They have u
nsd enough of him. They want no more q
'oeh vascillating weakness at the head of I
'aF armies, more anxious for the preserva- 4
aon Of negro slavery than the restoration II
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