The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-27
stnnfon W.. Mcclellan.

stnufon W.. HcCieltnn.
The National IRteiiigeHcer, in reply tC
some ill-natured remarks of the New
York Citi-en, says:
Mr.. Stanton has gone North, perhaps
on his way to Europe. He may be vel.
coined in the foreign land of the "Snob,
as it il inimitably described 10y PHRch =;
| but he has certainly not been decently
treated in the way of public demon
/ Strations by the partiSanS who have
grown fiat and sleek by the boUndless
patronage that his hands have bestowed
upon thousands of men who constitute
vulgar ShOddy element of the other
wise respectable society of the North.
lie followed Mcclellan with pitiless
fcrocity, and finally disposSessed him of
command when his army, by an amazing
skill, had possessed the upper Passes of
! the Blue Ridge, and was a days march
in advance of Lees main column,
which was pushing frantically towards
the lower passes of the Blue Ridge to
save Richmond. This occupation in
advance of him by McClellan's troops,
SO as to put him i'll a bad position of
fighting the latter at amazing odds,
was the deep anxiety of Lees mind.
The soldiers ofour army, like those of
the unapproached and unapproachable
Bonaparte, had become so familiariZed
with movements and battles that they
knew that they had Lee at a vantage,
and that in the great battle that was
inevitable, unless Lee should retreat
further up the valley and leave Rich
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feated. This was the general opinion
here in Washington, where the posi-.
tions of the two armies were well
known. And when our people were ca
gerly and confidently awaiting tidings
of victory, they were shocked and ap-
palled by news of the black and trai
torous order removing General McClel-
Ian from command. Let those who
would refresh their minds as TO the
frantic rage of the army read Carpen-
ter's war correspondence, at the time,
in the New York Herald, and especially
that which narrates the scenes when
Mcclellan took leave ofhis companions
in arms, who under him, not Stanton,
had saved Washington after they had
been driven in disorder To its entrench
ments through the incompetency of the
braggaTt and blustere, General Pope.
Depressed, demOralized, and almost mu
tinOus as was that army, borne down
by the fatigue and Inconvenience fol-
lowing transportation from Yorktown,
and but partially armed, equipped or
clothed, they rallied as one nan from
the depths of despair when the word
flashed aioug the broken columns that
Mcclellan was restored to command.
All hearts bounded with joy in Wash
ingtOn, as the brave, worn battered,
aud ragged soldiers marched through
the city cheering and cheered Oh every
hand. Yet the reunited and enthusias-
tic army were scarcely outside of wash
ingtOn before Stanton and Halleck,
who knew nothing practically of strategy
or tactics in the persence of a formida-
ble enemy, were embarrassing him by
their orders. No sooner had our ad-
vance driven the enemy in force from
his strong position upon Sharp's noun
tain, than the old tone of abuse of
Mcclellan by Radicals, was again rals-
ed. The defeat of Lee at Astietam, at so
much bloody cost on both sides, was re-
ceived by the same class with sorrow,
since that their transports of fear for
themselves and this city had abated.
On this latter point it were well to say
that the Government had steamship
all ready at the navy yard, upon which
its principal functiOnaries were to en-
bark in view of the apprehended cap
ture of Washington.
1t was the power and influence OF the
War Office, in conjunction with that OF
Congressman, who are now the tail of
the kite of that Presidential aspirant,
who at the beginning of the war said,
'.if Mcclellan teOk Richmond, the Re
publican party would be pnt back
twenty years." that jeoparded Washing
ton by preventing the junction of Nc
DOwell with Mcclellan; that appointed
the incompetent Pope, and caused the
loss of(wo great battles on the line of the
Rappahannock, by eleyating such gen
eral as Burnside and Hooker over Gen
erals Mcclellan. After the defeat of the
former at Fredericksburg, the same
power and influence dictated the selec-
ton of Hooker, though Mr.. Lincoln
demonstrated, saying, Gentlemen,
Mcclellan is the best General in the