Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-13

Mills, IN Maryland, Oh Saturday last, in which, Al
the speech is reported in the Baltimore American
of Monday last, he not only reafirmed what he had
said In his speech delivered at New York as reported
by the Times, but fully justified the arrangement
that was CONCERTED" by the President with Gen
Grant for the object Of bringing Gen. Mcclellan
into the field again, provided The latter aOould re-
aoaace the nomination Ct the Chicago Convention
In his speech at Ellicotts Mills Mr. Blair said
In late speech in New York said that the President
had concerted ,o Gem Grant 70 bring again into the fed
as his adjunct Gen MeCeSn, he turned his back on
the proposals Of The peace jHnto at Chicago
And, after defending at some length the arrange
ment thus " concerted" between the President and
his Lieutenant General, and attempting to vindi-
cate it from certain implications which the New
York World had derived from it, Mr. Blair con-
oluded as follows:
therefore think the President did we'll in withholding
the command OF an army from Gen. Mcclellan until it
asceraned whether he would Join that peace party which
would compound with rebellion and make convention in
which would assert an independent power aud become
arbsr of the destnies of great republic We want
no convention The Constitution. purged of the element
that poisoned it, is sufficient peace offering to the rebels
We hope, therefore, the Times will perceive that
there is some /" evidence" that Mr.. Blair did make
the statement even if its own authority should be
ruled out as not worthy Of being quoted
Apparently aware of this contingency, our New
York contemporary, in its desperation, next un.
dertakes to aver that if the Elk Postmaster General
made any such statement he said what was moi
true. Itsays:
If he did make any such statement he made 1t without
II fr.n liant
did once ask Gen Grant whether Gen Mcclellan would
be acceptable him and useful to the country comman
der of corps the Army of the Potomac but he
said or lnmaed to Gen. Grant any body else, nor did
he ever think of giving him such command Of Offering
it to him condition Of his turning his back on Pres
Dental nomination. Whatever conditions if any, were
suggested or thought of in this connection of
purely military character and related solely and exclusive
" to the Generals probable usefulness In the field"
In an issue between the editor Of the New York
Times and the late Postmaster General with regard
to their comparative means of information on a
confidential arrangement of the kind in question,
we need not say that the latter from his intimate
relations with the President has every possible ad
vantage over the former. IF an issue Of compara-
tive veracity be raised between them we must leave
it to be settled by the parties most directly inter-
ested merely promising that we have the best pos
sible reason for saying that Mr.. Montgomery Blair
kneao aohereof he affirmed when he made the state
ment we have recited while the denial Of the Times
is proof only Of its own ignorance, if not rather OF
the recklessness with wniU,. Il makes assertions in
the conceived interest Of its party. The state
ment Of the Postmaster General is precise delibe-
rate, and reiterated, as becomes man speaking Of
his own knowledge, while the swift imputation
which the Times casts on his truthfulness will only
serve to fasten more firmly the hold of his dis
closure on the public mind, by revealing the des-
perate shifts to which determined partisanship
does not hesitate to resort in the effort to repair
damaging development A journal which has SO
little sagacity Of its own, Or SO little respect for the
sagacity of others, as to affirm that there is NO
evidence Mr.. Blair had ever used certain Ian
guage when that language was ascribed to him in
its own columns, is not journal whose random as
sertions can weigh feathers weight with any
body against the word of the Hon. Montgomery
Blair.