The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-10-18
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The New York World, commenting
upon the dedication of the Cemetery at
Antietam, clearly shows that both that
destructive battle and the still more
bloody one at Gettysburg, were the re-
suit of the hatred Of Stanton to McCleI-
Ian, and the selection of utterly inc0m-
petent men to fill the position from
which he was removed on account of
political reasons and mean jealousy.
The World sayS:
1t was in consequence of setting up
General Pope as a rival to General Nc
Clellan in Virginia, that those great dis
asters befell our troops under the COM
mand of Pope, which enabled the victor
! iOus rebels to cross the Potomac in full
force, and compelled the frightened au-
! thOrities to reinstate General Mcclellan
in command tosave the national capital.
1t was by thegreat victory of Antietam
! that he broke the strength of General
| Lee, and compelled him to stink away
! in the night and recrOss the Potomac.
| AS soon as the Washington authorities
were thus relieved from their terror, pO-
! litical jealousy of Gen. Mcclellan reviV-
! ed in Hits venom. With the laurelS ola
recent victory thick upon his brow, this
! able commander, the idol and admira-
! ton of his soldiers, was driven from the
army never to return. y succession of
hi hn ar
of his removal, enabled the rebels to
recover more than they had lost in
| their first invasion, to send cOnSterna-
ton through the whole North by its
repetition, and to give occasion for the
hardly-cOntested field Of Gettysburg,
on which more depended than on any
other battle of the war. Had General
Mcclellan been properly supported,
there would have been no second bull
Run, and consequently no Antietam.
Had General Mcclellan been continued
in command after his victory at Antie-
tam, there would have been no Ered-
ericksburg, no charlottesville, and
consequently no Gettysburg. Antietam
and Gettysburg were fought to repair
hideOuS disasters, to recover lost ground,
to repel invaSiOns which became posi-
bic only by the profigate and unhal-
lowed mismanagement of the authori-
ties at Washington. Monuments on
those great athistoricspotsar cOmmenda-
bic and becomingaS tributes by CRATE
ful country to the memory of the brave
citizens who there fell in its defence,
but what is the relation of those mOnu-
ments to the scores Of thousands of e.
qually brave citizens whose blood cries
from the ground against official imbe-
cility and blundering, in the vast slaugh-
ter-pens on the soil of Virginia? If
their lives, sacrificed in vain, had been
spared, there would have been no occa-
sion for those great cemeteries on North
ern soil.
"And the angel said unto me,
Write. And l said, What shall l
write ,"
When History asks Arithmetic to be
her amanuensis, she will dedicate this
sum in addition: Set down the num-
bers who fell in the disastrous Virginia
battles under Pope; beneath this place
the number who were uselessly sdcri-
fled in Burnside's slaughter-pen at
Fredericksburg; then the enormous
losses under Hooker at ChancellOrS-
Vile; then the heroic multitudes who
fell in the two rebel invasiOns; add up
the fearful sum, and the amount will
be the hideOus cost in human life Of
Stanton's injustice to General McClel-
Ian.