The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-10-21

by the President" and DO you not know
that, to the present hour, the country was
never informed that. Oh that occasion
Hooker and the President fought the best
army that was ever got together, number
ing no less than enc hundred and sixty
five thousand men, against Gen. Lee, with
an army of ffty-seven thousani-lost
thirty-6ve thousand mcn-were complete.
ly routed, and to such an extent that, rs
said before, but flr the proviaential kill.
ing Of S,onewall Jackson, our army would
have been annihiated +? Why have you
not told the country this, instead of the
more pitiful story, that "the llth Army
Corps gave way in confusion"
Why did not your COMMITTEES on the
Conduct of the War exhaust few of those
five hundred days, and portion of those
seventeen hundred pages especially devoted
to Gen. Mcclellan, upon the military sue.
cesses OF that great leader, Gen, Butler, be-
fore Petersburg, where six thousand of his
men were marched prisoners into Richmond
almost without his knowledg e-he and
MIR. Stanton coolly assuring the country
that there had been great fog, and that
it came before breakfast?
Before leave your friend Mr.. Stanton,
l will Instance another evidence of his
treachery to Gen. Mcclellan. All know
of the disasters caused by the interference
Of the President and Mr.. Stanton with
the Army of the Potomac, it was necessa-
ry to have a victim, and General McClel-
Ian was selected and removed. A short
time afterwards, Pope being placed in
command, failed most disastrously, and
Washington was again threatened. The
President and his Cabinet were alarmed
to that extent that a steamer was repaired
and ready to assist in their escape. With
earnest ertreaty and supplication, McClel-
Ian was solicited to assume command and
save them and Washington, lie consen.
ted--ignoring the solicitations of his
friends, who desired that he should first
insist upon the removal of Mr.. Stanton,
which he utterly refused, replying that he
would not permit any personal considera-
tions 10 influence his conduct when the
capital was III such imminent danger. He
then accomplished the greatest military
success of the war. He recognized the
domoralized army of Pope whilst on the
march, and gained the glorious vic
tory of Antietam. McClelan's star was
again in the ascendant. Mr.. Stanton beg.
ged forgiveness for the past, and promised
bis devoted friendship for tue future.
Again, General McClellan's trusting
nature prevailed over the advice of hi.
friends, aud the treacherous conduct OF
Mr.. Stanton was forgiven by General Nc
Clellan, only to be again more wickedly
betrayed than ever
Washington was no sooner relieved and
the President aud his Cabinet safe, than
by the influence Of Mr.. Stanton, General
Mcclellan was again removed from the
command of the Army of the Potomac,
when upon the verge of battle, and or.
dered into retirement.
You call up the ghosts of The departed
soldiers. Be assured, Gen.. Mcclellan s
sleep-will not be disturbed by them; but
what must be the broken slunbers et
those who ure responsible for the tens OF
thousands lost by Pope, and Burnside,
and Hooker, in attempting to carry out
what the President calls his "plan;' and
the hundred and fifty thousand lost sine
the 4th of May, south of the Rapidan
and what must be the dreams of the Pres
ident, who could, amidst the groans OF
the dying, that lay upon the CORY field Of
Antietam, call for the singing of ribald
song? '.~. "- ........
In times like these, we want some 9th
er than the weak and vaeilating Presi
dent, who assured Mr.. GrttendeD aud
the patriots who accompanied hun from
Kentucky, that they might 20 home aud
inform. their friends that be would moi
violate their rights and interests by any
proclamation of emancipation. Before
these assurances could be transmitted to
the people Of Kentucky, bis promises had
been broken, and just such proclama'
ton, violating all these pledges, was is
sued. T.. a-.-.,
If any State has done nobly, aud earned
distinction for pure patriotism under the
most trying, dreadful sufferings Of this
war, in which whole people have been
despoiled, families cmbittcred against fam-
lilies, and members of the same family
against each other, to that extent that
harmony can never again prevail, it is the
State Of Kentucky; aud ii there was any
one,State that should have had ihfiuon &c
with the Administration, it was that State
But her voice, amidst the din aud blood
of battle, has never been heard; or, if
heard for the moment, il was soon lost
under the influence of Massachusetts, aid
ed by the demon yells Of radical men,
who cried ont determination, and in the
same breath proclaimed a higher law than
the Constitution, which they only de-
nounced as covenant with hell,
The people of the South arc members
of the same national family wi US; they
must be brought back by continued force
if they will not come back by CONSENT
But we must respect their rights, whatever