The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-08-09

So as compared with the mortality OF the week previous
and 295 less thar occurred during the corresponding week
last year.
General Grant and General Mcclellan.
Among the daily journals of this city there
is one which is universally recognized as the
accredited New York peace organ Of JEFF.
Davis, and the Hon. Ben Woods Daily Neacs
is that paper. As political speculation it
draws largely upon the profits Of the Hon.
Ben Woods lottery business and the favors
Of a few silly copperhead politicians. Advo-
eating the peace Of Southern coniederacy it
belongs to that International lottery policy
Joint stock humanitarian concern of which the
shining lights are Lord Micawber Palmerston,
Louis Napoleon, his good man Friday, Maxi
milan of Mexico and "such small deer as
George Sanders and Colorado Jewett. When
the Hon Ben. Wood, therefore, opens his
masked batteries upon the popular Mcclellan
meetings Of this city, he takes nobody by sur
prise; for everybody knows that General Nc
Cleilans peace platform is the suppression OF
the rebellion and the complete restoration OF
the Union.
But when the shallow witlings of the World
under the flag OF the war democracy, under
take to gorify General Mcclellan at the ex-
pense of General Grant, they betray lack of
discretion and consistency that is somewhat
surprising What dc they expect to gain by TIER
foolish attempts to show that the Virginia cam
pagn of General Grant, from the crossing OF the
Rapidan to tho late tiasco of Burnside and his
negro troops at Petersburg, has been nothing
but costly and deplorable failure, and that
Lee can never be dslodged from Richmond by
General Grant? Do they wish to make an
issue between the admirers of General Grant
and the friends Of General Mcclellan? If so,
how will the facts Of history stand on the one
side aud on the other? Let US see.
The historic events Of the war will sustain
these declarations in reference to General Nc
Clellan, that in arranging his plans and CON-
bnations for a grand campaign he displayed
the abilities and sagacity OF great soldier, and
that in the execution OF his plans he would
probably have been gloriously successful
but for the interferences of the blum
derng Washington Directory. II will be
stated as fact, however, which cannot be
denied that General McClellan's Richmond
campaign was failure, and positively fearful
to think OF, from his terrible losses in men and
all the materials Of war. 1t will be further said
that General Mcclellan, in his movements
against the enemy, betrayed too much Of the
confidence Of the inexperienced leader in his
no more retreats" and In such dispatches as
this: that " We shall drive the enemy to the
wall" 1t will be said, too, that from the un-
bounded confidence Of the country in these
promises Of General Mcclellan the revulsion
in the public mind from his subsequent mis-.
fortunes was infinitely more distressing and
harder to bear than any other disappointments
of the war.
Make an issue between the military services
Of Grant and Mcclellan, and these are among
the facts which the friends OF the former will
bring to bear upon the latter. Then, In vindi-
cation Of Gen. Grant, they will point to Fort
Donelson, vicksburg, Chattanooga, and to
Sherman's campaign in Georgia, and to this
present campaign against Richmond They will
point to the hostile FORTS batteries and Hotillas
mounting two thousand cannon, captured along
the lines Of the Mississippi, and mainly
through the wonderful military skill and
activity Of General Grant They will point
to the immense territory which be has re-
covered from the rebellion; and, in view Of his
great achievements, they may safely challenge
a comparison against those Of all our other
leading generals combined.
Against the HERALD General Mcclellan can
have no complaint We have fought his battles
through thick and thin. We have defended him
against q laundering, intermeddling Washing
ton Directory, and against malignant partisan
crusade from the beginning. But whom mis-.