East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-10-12

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last proclaim it everywhere Mr..
Stanton told the country, at that time,
he had hundred Thousand men more
than he wanted, and nowihe tells you
he wants hundred Thousand moro
men, l4O aDf4aify G-Irij etf ~
General Grant crossed thou lsi oiy
Rapidan with an'army va-ii'7 ],
riously estimated from one eA
hundred and eighty thou d.
sand to- 100000
He afterwards added Buffers 10000
He was reinforced. AS, 900
Making, exclusive Of Sigels w 81
10000 0O-------------..-- 2O5, 200
On the 1st Of September our.
forces were estimated, ex- fa.,,l. ~
elusive Of Sheridan's 3d. siiyI
coo, at t------l-s------.r $4,000
Conorel Loo had on, tho Rap tt.i,
idan, after he had concen- iG
trated his army----.---i- $4,000
Beauregard joined him att 10 81
Richmond with his forces ai1iIi
from tile South, which, :. aH
o, with those near Peters- 4. un
burg, amounted to------ 10000
Breckenridge brought. -l---l- 10000
And Leewas reinforced probs iy3la,
ably---.--.-.-.-L..---.~ i 10000
ylfl $3.50 it.tif4sl1 9liI il-------
Making in ALL 1850
On the lst of September his
forces wero estimated, at
Richmond, at---------. $4,000
mand- 10000
Showing the discharges. and
loss from Grant to be- 10000
And that of Lee to be-. $4,000
Judge Kelley, were the records Of
tho council of war, and that of the
strict course Of examination made by
AIR. Stanton, indicating the very diff
culties and dreadful losses Gen. Grant
had lately sustained, ever placed be-
foro him? And why notY. And who
is responsible for the 100000 men un-
necessarily and wickedly sacrificed
south of the Rapidan,, in the, expert
ment made, to prove that General Nc
/ Clellan and tho council of war was
wrong, and that the Presidents plan
was right. The army of the United
States, as you found it at the COM
mencement Of this war, was composed
of a high-toned, honorable, gallant set
OF, men, fully equal to the contest be-
fore them; they had always studiously
avoided all political connections, many
Of them had been thirty years in the
service Of their country, and had new
or voted. They held their country
and the honor and integrity Of it be-
] fore every other consideration. Had
a rule been adopted requiring no po-
litical subject should be introduced
into the army, but that uil political
rights should be respected, and had
army officers only been held responsi
bic for tho conduct OF the war, it
would have terminated. long ago
Why have Mcclellan, and Sedgewick,
and Mcpherson, and Franklin, and
Buell., and Meade, and Haverill, and
Porter, and score of other General
officers, with hundreds, if not thou
sands, Of officers Of an inferior grade
been offended and held back, and
mary 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 Siegel, and Sielsles,
and hundreds Of others; certainly no
better than the former, have becnp pre-
ferredY Why was General Stone,
than whom there is not more loyal
man, and accomplished gentlemen,
and gallant soldier in the country,
confined In frison for fifteen months?
And When released by an act Of Con-
gress, why wasit that neither the
-Presidcns nor Secretary Of War, nor
Secretary of State, or other persons
at Washington would assent to any
knowledge Jr participation in tho ar
festp. Such outrages are calculated
to break down tho honor and esprit d,s
corps of any army, and all have look
ed on With disgust and horror, and
pain at the shameful injustice and
loutrag6s'that have been continually
heaped upon 50 many OF their old
friends and comrades in arms, whom
they know incapable Of an uhgntle-
manly, fshonorable, unsoldierly, or
disloyal act. Why did the Commit
\ tee on tie Conduct of the War inves-
tigate and ialsiiy, with such nice pre-
eision the conduct of Mcclellan and
his friends, and overlook the volumes
ofcharges filed In the War Depart
frfent against Fremont, and SieSel, and
Hunter and others, and entirely over
Hook che immense slaughter at Chan
cellofsviIlc, and fredericksburg, and
south Of the Rapdan? Why did a
secret political inquisition, with no
other pretext than that they suspected
him of political ambition, sit over five
hundred days and manufacture over
.seventson hundred pages OF erIpartt
testimony against young, ioilicer,. a
Christian gentleman, an honest man,
lwho, heayen only, knows, never had
! but one purpose and that TO serve his
4 country and hrs Col? ~ ''D h"3
,tia You know, Judge, that while In
i Washipgton ! General Mcclellan stu.
rdiously avoided all political essocia.
ton, and to such an extent that many
,1'of his friends df both parties were
'mch o ofbnded The first knowledg'