East Saginaw courier., 1865-08-16
From the New York World.
Review of the Generals.

I
That we have beaten down the ar
mics of the rebellion is priceless,
blessing. IL is blessing for which j
becomes us to be hardly less Thankful
that these armies have been beater
down, not by men who regarded the
rebellion as great political opportu.
nifty, but by men who looked upon il
as a fearful misfortune, and were
above all things anxious TO see it wei
and happily over. 1t is something
more than an accident that the favor.
ties and favorers of fanaticism, the po.
litical intriguers, and the military pol.
iticians, who seized upon so many OF
the high places Of command at the
outset of the war, have, without a sim
gle exception proved their incapacity
in the fell. Not as question be-
tween volunteer officers and West
Pointers mt all-for we have had con.
spicuous examples of military con-
duct and ability among officers taken
from civil life, and examples not less
conspicuous of disastrous imbecility
among academic soldiers but IL
lustrating the vital contention be-
tween real professional efficiency
the great personal qualities of modes
ty and modulation, this striking fact
cannot be too earnestly impressed up
on popular attention.
A roll Of our broken and discredit-
cd and commanders reads like cata-
logue of members Of Loyal League.
Schenck, the victim of Viena Butler,
the victim of Big Bethel and Fort
Fisher; Mcdowell, the victim of the
First Bull Run Pope, the victim of
second (; Burnside, the victim of Fred
oricksburg ard the Petersburg Mine !;
Hooker, the victim Of Chancellorville;
Milroy, tho victim of Winchester !;
Fremont, the victim alike of the East
and the West; Banks, tho victim of
the Potomac and the Red River ;
Siegol, Carl Schurz, Lew. Wallace,
David Hunter the list, were it less
instructive, would be as tedious as the
signatures of Union Square meeting
under tho patronage of General Pros
per Nj. Wetmore. Some Of these men
were trained soldiers from West Point,
others of them were adventures from
civil life; but all of them stand
marked in the history of the war as
the advocates of ruthless and savage
t,nEox, foxyo ri tbo ra,oltoJ Ctotoa -
the darlings of the extreme fanaticism
of the North, and as violators, in
their relations, with tho civil order,
of the rights of loyal citizens,
and the principles of free govern
ment in tho loyal States. Conspic-
uous in the machinery by which
constitutional opposition has been
sought to bo confounded with disloy-
atty, they have led loyal democratic
soldiers TO useless slaughter in the
field, while they turned tho bayonets
of the republic against loyal demo-
cratic voters at the polls. Had such
men received any hold upon public by
success in war, they would have be-
come permanent and dangerous ene-
mics of the commonwealth on the re-
turn of peace. 1t is not the least, we
repeat, of the blessings attendant upon
our final victory that it consigns such
men, with the whole class to which
they belong, to wholesome obscuri-
ty of comtemptuous oblivion.
On the other hand we have McClel-
an, who organized our raw levies into
a great army, carried the soldiers of
the Potomac through the first great
against Richmond, and raj
lied them, when broken and dispirited
by the folly of the Cabinet and the
imbecility of Pope, TO save the repub-
lie and turn back the victorious adj
vance of the rebellion at Antietam
Mead, who saved the repablic sec
ond time at Get ysburg and triumphed
with it under Grant before Richmond;
Thomas, who third time saved the
nations cause at Chickamauga, and
gave the southwestern army of the re-
bellion its death blow before Nash
vile; Farragut, the conquerer of the
Mississippi and the Gulf; Sheridan,
who cleared tho Shenandoah, and
drove Lee helplessly forward into the
closing foils of Grant Sherman, who
smote the Confederacy in twain, from
the Alleganies to the Atlantic; Grant,
the consummate Captain, whose name
is Victory. We do not claim that
these great soldiers have saved the
nation because thoy wero democrats
but we do claim that the temper and
the evidence. of thought which make
such men democrats are the temper
and the tendencies which have fitted
them to save the nation.