Year: 1862

The Abolition BlOOdhounds after GeneraA


Mcclellan and the Ofncers ofthe Army.


The truculent and atrocious organ OF the
abolitionists pure and simple, and of the
radical revolutionary republicans who fra
ternize with them, came out on Monday and
Tuesday in several vile articles against
General Mcclellan because he has not yet
advanced upon Richmond, and perpetiated
another Bull run disaster, at the instigation OF
the fanatics whose clamors precpitated the
battle of the plains of Manassas on the 2lst OF
July. Finding that Mcclellan is too good
general to be moved from his purpose by its
insane rant, the sanguinary Tribune attempts to
get up a popular outcry against him for the
purpose of compelling his resignation. But we
are vastly mistaken about the stuff of which he
is made If he will either retire hom his post at
the dictation of an anti-slavery faction and its
organs, or move forward against the enemy an
hour before his preparation is complete.


In leader under the caption of 'The National
Finances" directed against the plans of the Sec
retary of the Treasury. the Tribune says:-"f
our armies are soon to advance and fight and
crush out the rebellion, we can stand almost
any temporary arrangement; five are to per-
sist in getting ready to fight at some indefinite
future period, it viii be very hard to preserve
our finances from serious dilspidation;" and
then it adds that Congress ought to ''wait to see
what is to be done before providing for another
fiscal year." The design of this is palpable. 1t
is to force Mcclellan to a premature advance
or cause the army to be crippled and even dis
banded for want of money. This blow is fol,
lowed up in another article on the same page
under the heading of Popular Impatience with
Regard to the Progress Of the War;" in which
''clamor for movement" is declared to be mot
unreasonable" )" for the following reasons:-That
''we have no less than 650,000 men under arms,
more good field artillery, more serviceable
muskets and rifles and more ammunition than
there is on the continent of America besides-at
least twice as much of each as ne rebels-that
in numbers, discipline, arms, clothing,
munitions, provisions and materid of all
kinds-in everything, in short, but rulers
and officers, we immeasurably surpass them"
Whether we have twice as much of ammunition
and arms as the rebels may well DE
doubted; and that in discipline our army Sim
measurably surpasses theirs" may be true, but,
according to Greeley, Is very far from proba-
BILE, inasmuch as it is to "oficers and rulers"
the discipline of an army is due. But he holds
that in "oficers and rulers" the rebels have the
advantage. He thus contradicts himself If
the Southern army is not better disciplined than
the Northern it certainly ought to be, for it is
far longer in, the field As for the disloyal at
tack upon the "rulers" of the country, and the
disparagement of General Mcclellan and the
other officers of the army, it is only in keeping
with the course of the Tribune from the beginning
of the war.
The Satanic abolition organ goes on to say
Our ornaments have cost the country not
less than one hundred and fifty millions, while
those of the rebels would be dear at fifty mil
lions. In tact so erensive and thorough haze
been our preparations thdt though zoe haze not ye
reached decisive bottle zee stand on the Uerge Of
national bankruptcy" In this last sentence
there is double stab-6rst, an imputation on
General McClellan's veracity in his declaring
that he is not yet fully prepared; and, second,
that the nation is on the verge of bankruptcy in
consequence Of the preparations already made
though no decisive battle has yet been fought
Thus, according to the military ideas of Field
Marshal Greeley, a decisive battle ought to be
first fought, and preparations made afterwards;
whereas all former generals of note have pre-.
pared first, and then fought their decisive battles
these being the ultimate object of all prepare
tions in war; Greeley's method marks new
era in military history. 1t received its first ex-
empli6cation on the banks of Bull run, though
General Greeley assures US that battle was
lost, not from the adoption of his great prin-
ciple of war, but from the opposite-from too
much preparation instead of too little. He
actually maintains that if there had been less
preparation, and if the battle had been fought
when our troops had been six weeks in training
instead of three months, they would have GER
tainly whipped the rebels; whereas the effect OF
three months training was that ''they went for.
ward without nerve or heart, and achieved a
signal defeat" This discovery in military
science is characteristic of the journal which, a
short time ago. published an editorial article
to show that American troops could never be
improved by military training, and that the less
they were subjected to it the better.


Greeley declares that he ''most undoubtingly
believes" the real secret of Mcclellan not ad-
vancing to be that "many officers in high posi-
ton in our armies dncluding, of course, the
Commander-in-ChieD do not mean that the
rebels shall be too severely whipped"-that
'what suits them best is war, all expense and
little or no fighting until the loyal States shall
be exhausted, discouraged, disgusted and ready
to buy peace of JEFF. Davis by almost any
possible surrender"


Such is the vile charge brought against Gene
raj Mcclellan and the officers of the army by a
journal which, more than year ago, declared in
favor of the right of South Carolina to secede


and maintained that the Confederate States had
the same right to revolt and form an indepen.