The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-15
BEN WADE.
nc Makes n ForcibIe comparison.


Senator Wade delivered characteristic speech
In Cincinnati on the 1Gth inst, IL was his
maiden speech Of the campaign. hFd was unusu-
ally bitter and pungent We make the follo wing
extracls:-
SCOTT MCCLELLAN, HOOKER, GRANT.
Now, sir, | occupied n position during The war
in Cor gress, and / made II my duty to be more
than oroIpatily obseryant OF what passed in the
military line. was on that committee called
the Committee ON the Conduct of the War. |
endeavored to watch the actions of every military
man as well as | coud. need not tell you, sir,
that everything seemed TO go entirely wrong for
a great while. We ttied Mcclellan, and | now
beg to say, Tor ! may have SAID uuintentouaily,
that he never did auJ thing right, because he
has aW0rded generalslip TO General Grant, and
! was afraid he had not the honesty or the
shrewdness 10 do That; but | give htm the
credit OF that.
Now, sir, I have watched General Grant.
Your Affairs all went wrong uudl GeOeral Grant
was made Geneial-n-Chief. | wish had time
to 60 sep by step, along with the management
of our general officers from toe time of Generals
Scott and Mcclellan and Hooker and all the rest
untiltt came into the hands OF General Grant:
but Twill only sum up by saying what you alt
know, tbat up TO that time everything went so
adverse that the Democrat c party triumphed
every tine we met with disaster and defeat
They went finally to Chicago 10 select their
candidatg. and there they openly declared, in
the face OF the enemy, triumphant so far that
we never could conquer them, that four years
4 OF failure j al shown that we could not conquer
. the South.
GRANr AND MCI ELAN As GENERALS.
And then General Grant was placed at the
head of aneirs, and rom the time that he took
the helm military affairs are shown to have
stTaie htencd up in every department of that
great and priible conflict, involving the action
of mOie tnan million of men, sc altered from
the Cuff t. the Potomac aud from The Indian
country to the atlantic Ocean, covering q terri
tory OF sCcursed enemies wider spread and
more malignant and determined than ever was
overrun aod conquered by Napoleon B ma
parte or by julius Caesar. General Grant took
4 the helms he seemed to comprehend the
whole field. Your armies were put in the right
place.; theg had their orders to cooperate. He
straiR hteued out your army in all its parts, the
Il brave boys lben under his command seconding
. with u bravery and courage never eXceled, nor
even eqUaed, by any other sOliierg on Gods
earth, enabling that great commander by degrees
to gather in upon all quarters of the enemy,
u moving upon their works Untll he conquered
Band crushed the bones OF his giant.
l have not the hardhood to say Mcclellan
was not q general: he was general; he was a
kind Of co ical general from the start. First
II of all he hadn't courage or capacity nor hal he
+. the will. He was their can lidate for tho Presl-
dency as soOL az he showed his hard. Men do
not like o k Ill their constituents (laughter) -
and he held off aud did just nothing at all,
keeping All army of two hundred thousand men
on the banks of the Potomac eleven lone
months, suffered your capital to be beleaguered
approached by the enemy, aud your communi-
cations 10 be all cut OF but one during thai
time, and that by foe not numbering forts
thousand men.