Year: 1863

Cabinet.


In this moment of painful anxiety, when the
nation has lost confidence in the general at the
head of the Army of the Potomac, and the army
ITSELF If il ever believed in him, has faith in him
no more, and when the army and the people
look to the restoration of General Mcclellan to
the command as the main hope Of safety, it is
the duty Of the military authorities at Washing
tom to publish McClellan's nnal report of his
operations, in which he disposes of the ISLANDERS
Of Wade, Chandler and the other radical men,
bers of the Committee on the Conduct of the
War. This is Q necessary act of justice, and 1t
will be at the same time sound policy, in view
Of recent and coming events, which may COM
pei the government in few days, II not in
few hours, to fall back upon the general whom,
in its profound wisdom, it so unceromoniOusly
rejected in the height Of his success. Like
soldier and hero, he has heretofore borne his
wrongs in silence rather than injure the cause
Of the Union by discussing them in public, and
the last we hear of him is that he is quietly
assisting Governor Seymour to organize the
militia whom the emergency demands from this





Lincoln to vindicate his character and his mill
tary reputation, and to expose the frauds and
Vaccinations by which the President was misled
into the false step of removing him from his COM
mand. If Halleck and Stanton will not make
the an,ende honorable, the legal and constitu-
has the power to compel them, under pain of re-
moving them from Office. Indeed, their removal
would be the very best thing Mr. Lincoln could
do under the circumstances; for experience has
already shown that they would not only not
work in harmony with Mcclellan, but that they
would be likely to obstruct him as far as they
could and mar all his prospects of success.
His report of his campaigns would prove this
if permitted to see the light.


The popular heart beats high in General Nc
Clellan's favor, and the popular voice, which
has already spoken for him all over the country,
will soon give louder utterances. The Common
Council of Philadelphia, whose proceedings we
publish elsewhere, has but faint glimmering Of
the truth, and by no means comprehends the
magnitude of the occasion, when one Of its
members proposes resolution that the Gov
ernor be requested to send for Mcclellan and
put him at the head Of the Pennsylvania militia;
and postponement of the question is carried,
instead of an amendment asking the President
to give him command of the Army of the Poto-
mac But the discussion, as far as it goes, is
strong testimony in his favor, and the only weak
point in it is mistaken notion about embarrass-
ing Messrs. Stanton & Co. at moment when
the life Of the republic is at stake. By
telegraphic despatch which we pub
lished yesterday it appears that General
Cameron, at meeting held ct Harris
burg, not only denounced the government at
Washington for its conduct Of the war, and it's
neglect Of the defence Of Pennsylvania, but
called upon Governor Curtin to appoint Gene
raj Mcclellan to take command of the forces of
that State in order to repel the Southern inva-
ders. Mr.. Cameron, no doubt, was we'll aware
that Mcclellan, while a major general in the
United States Army, could not perform that
role unless ordered to assume it by the Presi-
dent or the Secretary of War. But he is an old
political stager, and he thought he would throw
tub to the popular whale. He knows how
the people in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and in
every city and town Of Pennsylvania feel TO-
wards their distinguished fellow citizen, the
hero of Antietam, who saved them from inva-
sion before. He knows that they are satisfied,
if Mcclellan were even now, at the eleventh
hour, placed at the head of the Army of the
Potomac, all would be we'll. But why does mol
|. Cameron demand that this be done, instead oil
suggesting that McClelan's talents should be
misused by putting him over raw levies of State
militia, which could be as well commanded by
other men, and placing him in humiliating
| position, in which he must play second
| fiddle to General Couch, formerly one o
| his own division commanders. II appears
from another despatch from Washington II
yesterday y HERALD that even Forney has ad
vised the speedy removal Of Hooker ant
the substitution of Mcclellan. Forney is vel
aware that this is almost the unanimous senti
mcnt of the people of Pennsylvania; and this
together with the imminent peril which threat
ems his own State, induces him to give way tc
the popular will.


Il is remarkable, too that the radica
journals, in the presence of invasion, n,
longer assail Mcclellan, as was their Gus
tom, nor make any objection to the propo
sition to give him command Of the Arm,
of the Potomac. On the contrary, the,
indirectly prepare the way for such
step ON the part Of the governmen


by sighting the capacity of Hooker in thi
trying emergency. The Tribune of yesterday
for instance, Says" Lees present advance ha


been marked with great skill and is initiate,


with decided vigor. 1t was well known on on


side that he was up to some spirited dash; bu


that either General Halleck or General Hooke


knew precisely what, We do not believe


they had, would Generals Milroy and Reynold


have been left to struggle against overwhelm


ing odds, and to be hurled from their strong


iu,nortsnt nositions with losse Would IN