The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-21
AFTER McCLELLAN'S SCALP.
Judge Kelley Will Reply to General McClel
lan's Insults Upon Stanton and Lincoln,

Judge Kelley Will Reply to General McClel-
lan's Insults Upon Stanton and Lincoln.
Philadelphia Special.
''The real reason Of McClellan's failure was
d. Kelley, when seen this afternoon at his resi-
dence in this city. For once rumor was correct,
he admitted. He had returned from Washing
ton where he had been in search of official docu-
ments and data to prepare rejoinder to General
McClellan's recent paper on 1.-THE Peninsular
Campaign" The assaults upon President Lin
coin and Secretary Stanton called for vengeance,
like C@sar's wounds, and Judge Kelley has the
intent to rise in defense of the dead 'This
Century article is misleading, illogical
and malicious" continued the Congress
his Cabinet who served with Stanton were
Dead that Sumner, Ben Wade, Henry Wilson,
Caleb Cushing and others are gone, he probably
about his career from July, 1861, to July 1862
we're out of the way General Mcclellan is mis-
taken, am alive. His statements against the
dead shall not pass unchallenged AS must be
evident to you, it would be unwise to outline
my article now, because it,woud destroy it's force
as magazine speech. I want to reach the
same class of readers that the General has adj
dressed. However severely may speak of Nc
Clellan, must insist that there is no personal
feeling toward him. / entertained the kindest
July 1861 He was a Philadelphian the son of
one of my most distinguished friends, and a
nephew of an intimate acquaintance. He was
bright, clever and had the advantages of travel
and fine education. But he played at war on
the Peninsula, and he knows it."
''What has made you indignant, Judgew
"His malice toward Stanton and the slur indi-
rectly put upon President Lincoln, the most re-
markabe man for power of thought and sound
ness of judgment, with ali his roughness of man
ner, that this country has produced. Why, in
that article Stanton is branded with the most in
famous crime ever laid to the charge of human
being-nothng less than sacrificing thousands of
men the peninsula, in 1862, because of his bit
ter personal hatred to Mcclellan. But the writ
er of that Indictment fails to offer any testimony
to establish the fact of such ennity or to supply
any motive for its existence. We are asked to
credit the story that man of Stanton's calibre
and attained prominence was devoting his entire
time to thwarting the purposes of a young officer
who never by any possibility could be his rival
Stanton's career was completed before McClel-
lan's began. He was lawyer of national repu-
tation. He had served in Mr.. Buchanan's Cabi-
net He had no time to pursue Mcclellan. But
/ must not argue here"
SWELL then, how about Lincoln?"
1.-THE SANDER by innuendo is that Lincoln was
mere putty in Stanton's hands. That is the
sheerest nonsense. 1t is no reflection upon the
men about Lincoln to say that he was easily
first among them ALL But this is side issue. I
shall devote myself gallantly to this young Ma
poleon and shall accept battle in the position he
has himself assumed. He is very careless about
his dates. Observe how he mixes up things on
page 139 Stanton was not made Secretary I'M
til more than six months after Mcclellan came
to Washington, on July 26, 1861. Yet the i'm
preston is conveyed that they arrived at the
same time"
what do you think Of the opening sentence
in the second paragraph in the articlea" was
asked.
What does Rosecrans thinklr retorted Judge
Kelley HE must have been savage when he
read that. Everybody knows that he, not Nc
Clellan, planned the West Virginia campaign,
Clelan's own error 1t is not my business He
can settle that with old Rosey,' and the latter is
no SLOUGH in scrape of that kind