The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-03
Run Re-Begun !--oId Battle
Cries Un-"B ottied."--Fizz Por'
ter Versus Logan Low
Wines!


Readers who do not see the biz North
ern dailies are probably not ofthe
bitter quarrel which cater raging for
| twenty years. gained new intensity re-
Gently from Gen. Grants confession
that he, and the Government. had
wron.ed Gen. Fitz-John Porter Sena-
for John \. Logan, Of Illinois, prompt
L. ,sued nm auswcr to Grant. and the
TWO Observation-Disclosures and Pope
it...1-at once ranged themselves be-
hind the two leaders. The question has
uo.y been transferred from print to
".ind.,' by the presentation OF a bill In
c,n,rass TO pay Gen. Porter for the
1,.,. v,aIs salary. OF which he was
9, a..cd ~ the c~ourt-martal which
g., ,.r,. l..:i.
;.c....ts You Would ike to understand
\ d. caused all this fuss among the
Loyal Heroes.
1T BEGUN.
Twenty Years ago, in the spring of
lsG2. Gen. Geo. Is. Mcclellan, a young
m;.n,-i CAPITA II in the regular army
won Il few skirmishes amid the noun
tans of West Virginia. and as the
Yankee newspapers were sadly in need
eli synething To offset the shameful de-
ic 4. at b. Bethel. Blu. Run. Lees
bur-. etc. these ~sklrInishes were mag
niiiod into great BATTLES and Nc
Clcilan became famous as The Little
& ant" the ~ Oung Napoleon" ct
ccterd Then there came a clamor for
ayoun. ma to -ucceed "Old Fuss and
F,atLcrs"-Winfi~ld Scott; 20 McClel-
Ian was made commander of the Army
ol the Potomac" Of course tbs rapid
promotion aroused iielCe jealousy, es-
peclally among the Isepubllcans.-for
G.. Is. was II Democrat. In July carnc
rae battles IN the Chlcka! ominy,-and
ut the end Of the "Sevcn DAYS. OF
iightine,-the "Grandcst Army on the
Planet" was smashed, and driven 10
miles away TO the bank OF Ia hes river,
under shelter OF a feet OF gunboats.
Instantly all the enemies OF tie young
General began to rave for his blood I.
Abe Lincoln WAS friendly to Mcclellan
and wrote hi" two or three times a day,
-hcgging him to q, something to
change the tide. 40 that he could have
some ex use for retaining him in COM
maud. But Mcclellan knew that lie
was whipped, and thai any further fight
iug would be simply an useless slauLlI-
ter of his men. Grant would have
thrown away twenty or thirty thousand
more of lives. and kept him.elf IN pow
cr. Not satisfied with acting humancly,
Mcclellan sat down and wrote the most
extraordinary letter that ever dropped
from the pen OF a defeated general. In
stead of writing bitterly AGAINST the
South, rs would have been natural UNI
der the circumstances, he argued that
the South was honest in her intentions,
though mistaken as to her supposed
right to leave the Union and that the
war must be prosecuted to force her
back into the Union. and not to crush,
ROB. or hum fate her. He declared
TIA. this was not IN ABOLITION war. to
as>ail slavery or the slavchollers-hut
a fer the Ulioa,"-to BRING back
the South. &c.
AN ABOLITION HOWL!
z. il -. . -. - -. l,y,,- IN
furiatci the 'anatics who dill not ARE a
snap tur the Union. or the Constitution
and whose whole heart was set upon
robhing, crushing. and hunll.atinS the
South, Thousands of letters. tele-
grtns. &c. were showcred upon Lin
coin demanding McClelian's removal
The result was that a young braggart
from the West. john Pope. usually
termed Bully Pope,'-was brought Il
Virginia, aud anew army formed on til,
Rappahanock river. Mcclellan was or
derci to send his army up the Potomac
L. join Pope. The disgraced genera
be.Lcl hard for-"ju st IL NOR,
chanee,.'-but his day was gone, anC
Pope became the Idol OF the Hour
NJ -lellan's div sion generals, -Fitz
John Porter. Burnside. and others
svmpathioed with him aud were natur
aily Disguised at the idea of being made
to serve under a young stranger from
the West, who was as a raw recruit
compared with themselves. There was
moreover, frequent changes in orders
and so much confusion, owing to TIN
half a dozen Managers" at Washing
ton. that no one could be sure to-da'
that his orders would not be reverse,
tomorrow, Fitz-John Porter took hi
division to Manassas, but found every
thing in disorder, and alarm. Stone
wall Jackson had surprised Banks a
Cedar Run. and having smashed hi.
corps, was edging around Pope
right flank to hit him a bitf behind tn
ear. Pope was evidently democrat
lzed. He had begun by issuing an orde
declaring that all he could ever get t
see OF the Rebsls Were their flying Goa
tails and that hereafter the Headqua
tiers of the Army would be-''In ii
Saddle,-meaning that he proposed
gallop over Lee, and Right on
BIchmOnd!' In two months time h
army had been knocked into a cooke
hat'-three cOruered, you knox,-aI
his own coat-tsils were iluttering in Il
breeze,-or would have been if they hs
not been captured by Stuarts caval