Year: 1864




An official order from the War De-


partment announces that the resigna-


tian Of General Mcclellan was accept


ed ON the day it was received, and or


dered to date from the Sth of Noyem-
Der, on which it was written. All the


solicitude, therefore, of his friends lest


he should fight in q war to which he is


so much opposed was unnecessary. The
President was not anxious to go thro'
another such course of anxiety and
| trouble as General Mcclellan occasion
ed him. The latter had full oppOrtu-
/ nifty, and failed disastrOusly, dismally,


disgracefully. His career only served


to bring the military pretensions of the


republic into contempt while it lasted,


which even the magnificent victories az
the west and southwest could not OBJ
viate.


Simultaceously with the publication


of this order, a San Francesca paper


reaches US containing a report of a re-


markable speech delivered in that city,
pending the electoral canvass, BY Major
General Mcdowell, which contains at
least one strange revelation. 1t seems
that the President, worn out by the
long delay of the campaign in Virginia,
detected on account of the attacks up
on him in Congress and in the press,
and the low condition of our finances,
sent for Franklin and Mcdowell to say
to them that as Mcclellan was sick, he
wanted them to prepare some plan Of
action, and that something must be
done. They had three different inter-
views with the President in which each
General submitted a plan, McDOwelrs
being for an advance by the northern
route from Alexandria, and Frankhn's
along the York river peninsula


While these interviews were pending
the President and Secretary of State
each went separately to General Nc
Clellans headquarters to consult him,
but he pretended 10 be too sick to re-
eeive them, and they were sent away.
Yet McClellan's long report of his CAM
paien shows that on that very day he
wrote his dispatch to Burnside and
Mcdowell states, on authority which
he knows to be reliable, that Mcclellan
although he refused to see the President
or Secretary of State, did receive a
private gentleman, at the request Of the
reporter of the New York Herald.
Moreover, it appears that no member
Of the Medical Staff was ia attendance
on McClellan--that, in fact, far from
being dangerously sick, as was given
out at the time, he was not sick at all.


To appreciate properly this deliberate
insult to the Chief Magistrate and
Prime Minister of the republic, we
must bear in mind that both were, up
to that time, the warm and earnest ad-
mirers and friends of this upstart IL
was extremely difficult for any one to
get either President Lincoln or Secre-
tary Seward to do or say anything cal
cuiated to interfere with Mcclellan,
and il was owing to this very fact that
the Administration was suffering under
an intense dissatisfaction Of the public,
and especially among the Union men.
The whole responsibility of the long de-
lay rested not upon Mcclellan, but
upon the two men whom he slammed
sickness to escape seeing. IL is not
difficult 10 understand the reason Of
such extraordinary conduct McClel-
Ian had his eye upon the Presidency.
Well, he has secured a Democratic
DOuluatlOu duA HAS oecA bodbVh tcAll-
bly,


His public career in the army is
ended by his resignation. The passion
Of political preferment has entered his
soul, and he hopes TO get to the Senate
rom New Jersey. Should he succeed
IN doing so he will then sink down 10
MS natural level, for the bold debaters
1f that historical arena will 90 through
! dozen important man@uyres before
le will be able to make UP his mind
What TO do about any one Of them As
or keeping himself in the pasture ~
/ candidate for the Presidency during
he remainder Of his life, the trial be
ias already gone through is enough to
atisfy his Democratic friends that they
an make nothing 'of him.-PhiL "
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