Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-06

Why have Mcclellan, and Ssdgwick, and McPhsrsou,
ana bayard and Fraoklin and Buell. aud Meade and Az
ef ana Porter and of other general officers, with
hundreds, not thousands of officers Of an nror
and held back, and many of them dismissed
from the army without word of explanation an arbitrary
&c. unknown 10 Great Britain whilst Pope and Burnside
ana hooker' and Butler aud Hunter, and Banks and
oge and Sckes, and hundreds of Others certainly no
Do'0l 'nan the former have been preferred Why was
o'ohe' tnan whom there not moro loyal man. and
gentleman and gallant soldier in the country
ia prison fifteen nonths And when released by
an congress- why it that neither the President
nor Secretary Of War; Secretary of State nor other
at Washington would assent to any knowledge or
any participation in the arrest7 Such outraqes are cacu
ated 10 break down the honor and esprit de corn, of any
army ana all have looked with disgust and horror and
pam al lhe shameful injustice and outrages that have been
heaped upon many of their old friends aud
~ arms whom they know incapable of
genuemaniy dshonorable, unsolderly or disloya act
why dd tho Committee on Tho Conduct OF the War in.
Vesgste and fas with such nice precision the conduct
OF Mcclellan aud his friends and overlook the volumes Of
charges filed in the War Department against Fremont
ana o'ge and unter and Others and entirely overlook
Inc Immense slaughter at Charlottesville and Fredercks
oufg ana south Ut the Rapd-Ann7 Why did u secret po-
nnoai ihquStoh with no other pretext than that they
suspected MN OF political ambition, sit i've hundred
Jays anu manufacture over seventeen hundred pages of az
rafe testimony against young officer, Christian gem
te"an' an honest man, who, Heaven only knows never
had put one purpose and that to serve his country aud
his God
You Know, Judge, that whilst in Washington Gen Nc
o'ean Htudousy avoided all political on, and to
sucn an extent that many of his friends of both parties
were much offended The first knowledge that ever had
hall
retTed from active service and in disgrace to New
Jersey and this was after his fitness for the suecesson
had been discovered BY Mr. Lincoln, and the people had
sRhhed Their affection for him. His letters and orders
nave been called political but they emnenty proper
anu REFER entirely to the military policy of the country
hut Jui ge suppose that admit that Gen. Mcclellan
had an ambition to be President of the United States was
u not audabe ambition aud ia there any improperly in
f Is the field not open 10 him well as to MIR Lincoln
or Mr. Fremont Mr.. Chase or the many others iuf
nitey his interiors So far the objections to his mill
tary qualifications are concerned have only To remind
you thLt within the last sxty days. confidential friend of
Inc President was sent TO cer him of the most i'm
portant commando of the army But ia proposition was
coupled with The most dhonorabe condition he should
decline to be candidate for the Presidency Gen McCle-
restrained bis ind gaaton and replied to the bearer o
the massage Go back TO Washington and say to the Pre-
sident for me, that when receive my official written or
ders he shall have my answer"
Beware, Judge of the Incorporate abuse of your pot
cal opponents as proud and loyal you are who would
rather see the continent of America sink into the ocean
with all that dwells upon it than see our nationality de-
stroyed who will not endure this constant usurpaon of
authority and encroachment upon their rights and whom
you may drive into dread ul conflict in which the aboI
ZIONIST and he negro may find themselves arrayed against
all who will unitedy stand hand in hand and shoulder to
shoulder in defence Of the Constitution aud the fundamen
tai laws of the land Very respectfully
HENRY NJ. NAGLEE