The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-08-10

The Friends or General Grant and the
Friends or General BIcClclIan.
The World pretends to be the exclusive
friend of General Mcclellan, and the especial
advocate and mouthpiecs Of those friends Of
General Mcclellan who urge his chances for
the Presidency; and 1t has the folly and the
impudence to assail General Grant, and to vir-
tually charge that he il the last and the worst
of our many military failures In the course
Of Q siege an assault has been made, and has
not met with the success expected from it.
As usual in such cases, II has been very easy to
trace this failure to real and adequate cause,
That cause, the World knows well, was the
failure OF su observation-disclosures and Burnside
to do their duty, conjoined with the cowardce
Of some bad material that the abolitioniss bad
forced into the army. Such is the simple his
tory Of the late disaster, and yet the World
seizee upon this disaster as pretext to impugn
the cspabiity Of General Grant for his posi-
ton, and declares, with malignant misrepre-
sentation, that this failure Is the elimination
Of a series of disasters, and must end the cam
paigu. IT the World were the organ OF JEFF.
Davis it could say no more than this; but, as
the organ of the friends OF General Mcclellan,
such Wholesale and hasty charges of failure
come with very i'll grace from it. II any
general has better record or has been more
successful In this war than General Grant
has, it is not General Mcclellan Gene
raj Grants achievements are great and
tangible. His victories are counted by
the half dozen, and when the people run
over in their minds the lists of our great bat
ties they name six Of the victories Of this illus
trious soldier where they name one achieved
by any other. General Grant is the man who
has planted the Stars and Stripes on all that
part Of the rebel territory that we now occupy
1t is upon much smaller basis Of success than
this that the World persstently admires Gen.
Mcclellan, and it must see how glaring is its
inconsistency when, despite Grants great sue
cesses, it attempts to raise elamor against him
because his subordinates mismanaged an as
sault.
We always had faith in the abilities Of Gen
Mcclellan, and we often had need Of It, We
sympathized most heartily with that true and
modest soldier when the radical and President
making influences at Washington were arrayed
ruthlessly against him and caused repeatedly
the failure Of his good plans; and we now
know that the same influences are arrayed in
the same way, and with the most uncompro.
misiEg hostility, against General Grant. While
we deny that Grants campaign is in any sense
failure. we yet know that its positive success
has been thus far prevented by the very in
fuences that caused the miscarriage of General
McClellans many attempts. The inflated
dotard at the head OF the War Departments
man as centemptible in intellect as he is ma
lignant and pretentious-s.ands in position of
even more determined and open hostility to
General Grant than he ever did to General
Mcclellan; for General Grant opposes him
with more force than ever Mcclellan did. And
the PresIdent-wbose corrupt intrigues have
been denounced most bitterly in bis own party,
from the Pomeroy circular to the Fremont
manifesto anl the Wade-Davis letter-sufYers
those intrigues to stand 10 Grants way to
worse purpose than his msddlesome interfer-
ence ever stood in McClellan's. Grant, in his
late visit to Washington, required certain things
of the President. Nothing will be done that he
he wishes woald injure the Presidents chances
for reelection. Grant opposed tho appoint.
ment OF Butler aud Sigel; but they were kept
in place, to ruin our earlier chances Of success,
despite his opposition. He desires the removal
Of Meade and Burnside; but they will remain
where they are, to cause the failure Of assaults
yet to be made. Grant needs men-and the
draft would give thsm-but the President will
not make the draft until after the election is
over. Moreover, since the President has but
one idea, be is likely to even attempt the ruin
of General Grant on account Of his fear for the
Presidency. It is the Presidents creed that
every man who will not give pledge not to
run against him for the Presidency is q candi-
date for that Office. he sends round men to
require these pledges. By this means he has
conjured up very respectable list of oppo-
nents, and it seems that General Grant is enc
Of the number. That infinitely little parasite,
Mr.. Hay, says that Grant is a candidate. Un-
doubtedly the President has taken the right
method to make him one; but in the mean
while his friends may see in what we have said
the exact cause why the campaign does not go
forward more effectively. It is silly in any
ono, under these circumstances to charge our
present difficulties to General Grant; but it is
more especially SHY for the friends OF General
Mcclellan to do so.
Iu-K-A.-The meaning Of the queer name Of
this town, where Grant won battle, osght to
be explained by Ssnset Cox at the Mcclellan
meeting tonight. He can also explain why the