The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-26
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1907.
.sLittle Macs" Boys To Go To
Washington.

..LittIe Macs" Boys To Go To
Washington.
y Governor Stokes has signed Senate
bill No. 141. This law provides for the
attendance at the ceremonies incident
to the unwilling and dedication OF the
statue to the memory OF MAJOR Genera
George Brinton Mcclellan, Army ofthe
Potomac, of the officers and men now
living in New Jersey, who served III o.
CARNATIONS from this State, under the
immediate command of General McClel-
Ian between July II, 1861 and NoVem'
Der 9, 1862.
The ceremony will take place at
Washington, D. c., on Thursday, May
9. 1907. at 2 p. m, 1t is impossible for
the governor, acting as commandments
chief. to send personal invitations to these
veterans in the State. Accordingly.
through the newspapers he extends a
cordial invitation to all the officers ana
men who were in thisacommand during
the period specified to attend the cere-
monies at Washington. Under the pra-
visions of the act, applications should
he made to the adjutant general OF New
Jersey. Trenton, n. j., and If approved
TRANSPORTATION will be furnished by the
mater master general. Such applica-
tions should specify the company and
reoiment from this State in which the
APPLICANT served, with their present ad-
dress. The governor urges hat all who
wish to take advantage of this invitation
to forward their applications without
delay
A BIT OF HISTORY.
While a big time will be had over"Litte
Macn in Washington on Mayo, it might
be interesting to recall that a treason
able conspiracy of the leading politicians
in LiIcOln's cabinet caused his
failure as a commanding general, pro-
longed the war and caused an unneces-
sary loss of a quarter of a million lives
besides millions of dollars. Had he
been given the support of McDowell's
so, 900 men which he expected in the
Peninsula campaign, he would have
captured Richmond and probably ended
the war. But it would have never done
for a Democrat to haye received such
military prominence. (See McClellan's
Own Story.)
After he had been relieved of the
command worse disaster befell the army
at Fredericksburg. Chancellorville,
Second Bull Run. He was recalled to
command at Antietam to stop a northern
ir7asion by the Conferates. So great
was the inspiration of his name on the
soldiers that at the battle of Gettysburg
it was circulated among the soldiers
that Mcclellan was in command This
statement is not in histories but can be
verified by a captain living to-day.
Mcclellan was more beloved by his
soldiers, whom he did not believe in
~butchering as was done under Grants
command, and more trusted by the
people than any other general since
Napolean Bonaparte, but the conspiracy
of politicians hindered his success be-
cause he could not be made a tool of
the administration party. -
After the cowardly removal of Nc
Clellan from the command of the Army
of the Potomac, when the men of
"Little Mac's'' command marched on
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington,
shouting hoarsely, "Give us back our
Little Mac" Sep Winner, the famous
song and music writer heardi it and COM
posed a song called,
"Give Us Back Our Old Commander,
Little Mac, the peoples pride,
Let the army and the nation
In their choice be satisfied"
1t crystalized the national feeling,
and within a week $4,000 copies of the
ballad were sold. On the march and
around the camp-fres it was sung 10
the dismay of the POLITICAL leaders i'll
Lincoln's cabinet who had treachously
betrayed Mcclellan and his soldiers.
While it was only a protest, Secretary
Edwin Stanton, who acted the base
hypocrit to Mcclellan, issued an order
making both the circulation and singing
of the ballad reasonable offenses and
had Sep Winner arrested by military
authority and threatened to put him in
prison, but for his agreeing to discOn-
tinue the sale of the song. While coer-
cion stopped the sale, the singing con-
tinued from the heart.
"Little Mac" is to be given back in
bronze on MAY 2, but what will ever re-
pay the treachery of the politicians in
L~incoln's cabinet, who sacrificed thou
sands of lives to hinder McClellan's sue
cess. After one has read the inner work
ings of the "black hands" in Lincoln's
administration he will not be prone to
make a demi-god OF Lincoln fit to equal
Christ as a topic for a sermon, nor class
him as a Christian when he never made
a public confession, nor the greatest NOR
al hero when he did not sign the emanci-
patton proclamation as a high moral act,
because he resisted all the opportunities
of the abolitionists. He signed it as a
political measurer to be enforced by mill
tary power, with the object of making
voters Of the slaves, not for love, nor re-
spect nor that they were qualified for citi-
zenship, but to make voters for the per-
manent ascendency of their party.