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Under this heading The National Intelli
qencer has an editorial commenting on tin
extraordinary avOwal of ex-Postmaster
General Blair, to which we called attention
the other day. We commend the followin:
pertinent remarks, extracted from its arti
Gle, to general attention:
''We wish the whole American people
to ponder this statement and mark it
significance. They will learn from thi
public announcement, made by a gentleman
who, as a member of Mr.. LincOln's Cabinet
has shared his confidence in an unsurpass
ed degree, that both the President and Gen
Grant have full confidence in Gen. McClel
lan's military capacity, insOmuch that i
had been concerted between Mr.. Lincoln
and the Lieutenant General that Gen. Nc.
Clellan should be the adjunct of the lat.
ter. They will further learn from this ex-
traordinary announcement that the Presi.
dent has no objections to General McClel-
Ian save such as spring from the position OF
political rivalry into which the latter has
been brought by the Chicago Convention
If Gen. Mcclellan had been willing to re-
nounce the nomination conferred by that
body, he would have been Immediately
thereupon good enough general to be the
adjunct of Gen. Grant in his difficult and
responsible duties. .....
''After this statement we shall hope to
hear no reflections OH the military capac-
ity of Gen. Mcclellan from any friend OF
President Lincoln; for any such reflections
can only imply that the President, in his
satisfaction at getting quit of a dreaded po-
litical rival, would have been willing to put
an incompetent officer in command of the
lives of our soldiers and of the military
fortunes of the Republic. When the state
ment is looked at in all the aspects it opens
to the candid and patriotic mind, we great
ly mistake the character of the American
people if it does not produce a profound
impression on the country. 1t is as sig
nificant as it is surprising. The friends OF
truth and of justice, equally with the friends
of Gen. Mcclellan, ought to be grateful to
Mr.. Blair for the aid he has brought to them,
by scattering at single Whit of his breath
the cloud of detractiOn with which, for po-
litical purposes, it has been sought to OBJ
scure the military reputation OF Gen. Nc
Clellan."
The statement on which The Intelligencer
makes these forcible observations is attract
ing great attention In the public journals OF
every part OF the country. 1t is regarded
as scandalous, nay, infamous, that the Pres
ident should have made arrangements for
bribing the opposition candidate to refuse
his nomination. 1t is thought to be equal
ly scandalous and infamous, that an able
officer, whose merits are acknowledged,
should have been Tor two years kept out OF
the army and prosecuted with ISLANDERS, for
no other reason than because he stood in
the way of Mr.. Lincoln's pesonal aspira-
tions. . .... ........... ...-...- .-,-.. @.
The Administration journals which have
made it their chief business to libel Gen.
Mcclellan, are, to use a lawyers word,
estopped. The Tribune, the sturdiest libeler
of them all, has actually, since Mr.. Blair's
exposure, published long editorial depre-
eating personal assaults on the rival can
didates. 1t is quick to perceive that in
the light of this revelation, its candidate is
alone vulnerable. Why did not The Tribune
bethink itself of this cry of ''principles not
men," at an earlier stage of the canvass,
when it was raking the secession newspa-
pers, and all the cutters of calumny, for
lies against Gen. Mcclellan? The conver-
sion of Saul of Tarsus was not more sud-
den than this of The Tribune, after Blair
lifted the edge of Lincoln's mask, and ex-
posed him as having formed deliberate
design to buy off the Democratic candidate
by offering as bribe what was confessedly
due to justice.