The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-08-19

er did get there III fact, and he did
not Try to get there, although he had
full corps.
General Mcclellan was ordered time
and again to press him forward, and
he gave his orders to Franklin in such
way that Franklin could cnnstruA
| them to 90 or not to 90, and hr did
not go Dunng the day of thu bait le
of the 29ih Of August at o'cI"cl.
after Mcclellan had been ordered time
and again to send Franklin to the
support of Pope. desire to read you
a telegram that he sent to the Presi
dent of the United States. | do not
suppose very many of you have read
this telegram; at any rate it has not
been generally known:
Headquarters ARMY OF THE
Potomac, 29th August-2:45 p. III. !
That was after the battle had been
raging for six hours. Now mark the
language:
"The last news | received from the
direction Of Manassas was from strag-
glers to the effect that the enemy were
evacuating Centreville and retiring
toward Thoronghfare Gap"
They had evacuated CaatFeville on
the night of the 9th and gone TO
Sudley Springs raiiroad-c cut and form
ed the line of battle, which commence
ed on the morning of the 29th. and
General Mcclellan, when h. was in
telegraphic communication with that
army as close as that. ought to have
known at least the time the Confed-
crate forces evacuated Centreville. He
says:
''This is by no means reliable. L
am clear that one Of two courses
should be adopted. First, to concen-
trate all our available forces to open
communications with Pope
He had been ordered time and again
to send Franklin to Pope.
Second, to leave Pope to get out
of his scrape and at once use all our
means to make the capital perfectly
safe. No middle course will now an
swer. Tell me what you wish me to
do and | will do all in my power to
accomplish it. | wish to know what
my orders and authority are. ] ask
for nothing, but will obey whatever
orders you give. | only ask prompt
decision that l may at once give the
necessary orders. 1t will not do to de-
| lay longer. GEO. B. MCCLELLAN,
''Major General.
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President ~
| Was not that beautiful dispatch
for him to send to the President of
the United States on the 29th Of Au-
gust, when the battle had been going
| on for six hours, and he had been or
dered for two days to send support to
Pope, and he says the first thing to do
is to open communication with Pope.
There is the manner in which that
man Pope was treated, and am justi-
fed in saying that there was a con-
spiracy against him not to allow him
to win a battle, and Fitz-John Porter
was party to it. It was not intend
ed that Pope should win battle. You
may take the letters of Porter, the
dispatches of Mcclellan, the move
ments of Franklin, and all conspire
together to prove the fact that Pope
was sacrificed by a conspiracy in
which this man Porter was, in my
1uQS0lSDE. CuleI movers
There are a good many other things
that will come out later, not perhaps
in this direction, but in relation to
the war. that are not now known,
which will convince this country af-
ter awhile that there were men in our
camps who were not in earnest.
Mr.. President, | have but little
more to say in reference to this ques-
tion. This is the fourth time [ have
discussed it in the Senate. [ have al
ways discussed it more fully than |
have to-day, for the reason that I
have heretofore gone through all the
orders and read the reports, and the
Senate has heard them over and over
again. | haye omitted everything to-
day except to state a few points with
reference to two orders and in refer
ence to the disobedience of those Or
ders.
I do not expect to be heard again
ON this question or to have anything
further to say about it, but | want to
say in the presence Of the Senate that
when insinuations are made against
men who have tried to do their duty
in seeing that this man shall not dis
grace the army by being restored to
it, in seeing that our army shall be
kept as pure as possible, and as much
above reproach as possible, they are
made by men with no appreciation of
our motives. | have a pride in that
little army; | have pride in the hon
or of this country and in the glory
that is to come to it in the future, [
feel as every one ought to feel, that
men who failed in the time of trial
and of peril in sustaining their coun-
try, when they were placed on the
side of their Government, should not
be loaded with honors now. And if
men are so constituted that they can
not help allowing their preiudices to
override their Judgment so as to cause
them to unfaithfully perform their
duty On account of some particular
antipathy toward another individual,
they ought not to accept duty on any
side.
Our army should be taught that in |
this and all other countries armies are
made to obey Armies are made to be
subject to the law the same as indi-
viduals. Armies are made to be SUBJ
ject to the courts, to be subject to tri-
al, to be subject to punishment, and
all that is imposed upon any cit
izen may be imposed or inflicted upon
them.
I say to you now, if this man had
been tried by civil court no one
would ever have come before the Con-
gress of the United States and asked
that the judgment Of the court should
be disturbed for one moment in viola
ton of the Constitution, as | believe
it is. It is not only that the disgrace
is attempted to be wiped out so far as
bo Ic oonoor,,od tbat +I;e 10 tl, Lo do,o