VOL. 7. BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORN ING. FEB. < NO. 8. McClellan. His orders to o S—— SE TT a Emm 4 . TE er : fae” Mo a |Prance.’ Ifthe had ‘béen a Democrat, he | ter to run, they threw away their blankets | cked out of it;"the cowardly and tired sol- [and his face unblanched? My: colleague | troops without concentration, and required : 14 Tan ons. ~ |would have not: ‘been so fearfulof every |knapsacks, canteens, and finally muskets, | fers besmutelied with their cartridges in | gnoted that fight to Show that, a battle could |arms, transportation, and supplies, which Be y £ '¢ © movement abroad. Choate said: he loved cartridge boxes and evérything “else. ' |'battle—was eareering along like the devil | be fought and - won without, McClellan's | Gen. McClellan has strained every nerve to ined fos anna S oy tBoced (the old Pemosraey, because they had a| We called tothem.tried to tell them there '{ Laughter] in Milton where he 1s described | orders. and in.spite_of orders. That was afford. There has been no delay by amy ~~ BPEEGH OF = "oo (~ HON. §.°S. "COX, [OF "OHIO, IK VINDICATION OF GEN. MoCLLELAN, ; ©... | TFROM THE ATTACES OF = © CONGRESSIONAL WAR ORITICS: DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRE- 'SENTATIVES. JAN, 31,1862, rim, , NS ap Ak: T obtained the floor. oe terday to give 8 prompt answer to the iusind ak fade by my colleague (Mr. Gurley) on Gen. McOlellan,* T'was not un- aware that my colleague had thus prepared himself. It was bruited about that we were to have a dissertation on the conduct of this war which would annihilate its present mana agers. I wish that my colleague could plead the impulse of the moment for his speech ; bat I give more significance to his labored effort because it betokens a plan—and in which my colleague plays his role--to get rid of the gallant Major General, in whom repose the hopes and the confidence of the eople. If his speech had been made by a emocrat, it would have been said that it was an attempt to aid Secession ; to cripple our orécit at home and dur honorabroad to undermine the popular faith in the power of the Government to conquer peace and restore the Union. It would have deserved, ac cording ro the practice now ol solete, a pris: on in a sea bound castle, falas I do not understand, nor will I ig to analyze, the wotives of my colleague. If I were to judge of his intent by the effect of his speech. he would discharge the Army in their efforts, and the people in. their pay- ment of taxes. His speech will aid the res bellion, not so much because it was spoken by him as because it scems to be a part of a plan, outside and inside of this House, to beget distrust and sow discord. 1 do not know, sir, how much weight will be attrib uted to my colleague’s miiitary science. If his facts are no better than his conclusions— and I will demonstrate that neither are cor- | rect—his speech will only go for what it is worth—the scolding of an unmilitary Con~ gressman. My colleague began with the ery that generals are nothing; that if any general was incompetent, to take him away. fle read frown the Richmond Dispatch to show. the errors our generals had committed. The article read was go full of slander and false hood that he himself corrected a part of it. He charged the Commander in Chief with causelessly holding back our eager soldiers for months. ie charged him with denying to them the victory which was in their reach. He said that no man living was fit to com mand over three hundred thousand sol~ dicrs. Mr. GURLEY. sand. Mr. Cox. T have read the gentleman’s speech iu the Globe, and I am right. He further suid that it was not only anti-repub- lican and unwise, but alarming to the last degree. He found fault with his plan—as be claimed to know it—to attack the ene wy's whole line at once at all points. Fe said that this was unwise because it was impossible. He did not approve of the gen eral’s *‘nice and precise adjustment of mili- tary affairs’’ before the army moved. He wanted the army to overwhelm the encmy without waitirg for orders fiom Washing- ton city. He then undertook, by a state ment of facts as to the affairs at Romney, in Missouri, and Kentucky, to depreciate the character of that Commander-in-Chief. Ile demanded that the Army should move at all hazards, unrestrained by a single hand. He thought he saw in the accession of Mr, Stanton a streak of sunlight, for he (Mr. Stanton) was like brave Ben Wade, of Ohio: He thought, if we did not move. sgon. our reputation as a military people would about equal that of the Chinese ; ‘and then my colleague wound up his speech by the fig ure of the anaconda, in which he tried to be: humorous at the expense of General Scott, who originated the trope, and finally he was for stirring up the anaconda, even th'o, like the snakes from Tenedos in Virgil, they wound their toils around the most sacred of our hopes to ergh, them forever, This is | y colleague’s speech. the analy h. the most import- | 1 said six hundred thou- ysis of ‘On the very eve, sir, 0 ant-movements, and when, too, our Army in one section has already given earnest in car rying out successfully one part of General McClellan’s Shane i Jere this most in- opportune display of “impatience against General McClellan. ** T would ration: have beard it from any other than an Ohio mem ber. Ohio gave McClellan his first commis- sion, I remember to have seen him when he ¢ame with alacrity to her capital to ac- cept this mark of dur Governor's trust.— How well he repaid the confidence, Western Virginia can answer ; and if all his plans there had been carried out by subordinates witha vigor equal to their wisdom, we would bave had less trouble and more glory in that. campaign. Mf x War, Mr. Stanton, whem my colleague hails as a ‘‘streak of light” in the gloom, I-do not Deliexe that he will delight in such hailing, coupled, with such railing at his friend, the general. It is too much lke the * all hail!” of the witches to Macbeth. (Laughter, )— There lurks a sinister object in this con gratulation. lt was'intended as a depreci- ation of McClellan; as if the errors and:in- competency of the late «Secretary. of ‘war ought to be shared by the general. I, sir, as much and more sweercly, than my col~ longue welcome the new Secretary. His ad- vent is the harbinger of a better’ day, when the general’s energy can be seconded by the determination and intelligence of. an acorn: plished civilian and an honest man. 4 But my, colleague. would hurry the Army into a movement now *‘at all hazards,’’ he- auge foreign nations may. soon interfere. — do not understand this logic. He would . ‘ave us risk everything for ' fear of trouble from abroad. We may have: foreign war ; but this nation should not. hazard ‘its own existence from a servile fear of England or || “gay and festiv tion 1 As to the advent of the new Secretary of] {ders still in the woods, and nce of foreign dicta- -LoMr. GurLey. That is the party of which 1 was's member. eyiu Mr. Cox.. Then my colleague has been a renegade t) his ancient faith. I am sorry for it. “We would 'be unworthy of our fath- ‘ers and of bur land, did we fire ‘our ‘own that a neighbor will come some night. to de- SPOIL IY: Tr colleague objects to the ‘organization of anarmy with ‘one head. He wants a many-headed arrangement, with, E suppose, distracting counsels, Utterly unconscious of the absolute necessity of unity of move ment by our armies, under one direction, my colleague, to strike ‘at Gen. McClellan, would change the military system which has obtained from the time war began or armies were levied. My colleague has a military wisdom beyond all human comprehension. Because our Army is large we must, on this logic, dispense with its proper organization. There is the more need of one executive head to so vast an array as this Army of half a million. My colleague, in this attack upon the general in command, meant to attack also the President, or ‘he meant’ nothing. He knew that the President was General Me Clellan’s superior officer : that all that Me- Cl:llan had done or had not done was ap- proved by the President. He was however, gracious enough to siy that the President would not set up his ‘opinion in military matters in antagonism. to his general-in- chief; and he would, no doubt. for this, commend the good sense of Mr. Lincoln as Ldo: Butif the President in: thus acting was sensible. what sort.of sense is.it for a member of Congress, whose life has been passed, too, in thumping the pulpit desk, (laughter) and whose ‘thoughts have been less upon the eagle and more upon the dove, general in command ? If it were not bad sense, it would be nonsense. Why did not my colleague, 1f his olive was good, go to the President. and with his array of maps, telegraphs, facts of omission and commis sion, lay before the President his military conceptions 2 Why does he have them de livered here, before the nation 2 Was it to display his military erudition? Or was ‘it to gratify what he thinks was the popular prejudice and impatence, to which he would administer, regardless: of, consequences ?— Why did he not go to (fen. McClellan and verify his facts before he used them for the public disservice ¢ Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman had been a skillful commander, or had, like the gen- tleman from New York. (Mr. Roscoe Conk- ling) the humane mative for investigating the confessed blunder at Ball's Bluff, in which many brave men “vere lost, 1 could tolerate this mischievous line of debate. But. sir, my colleague compels me to ex amine into his merns as a military eritic particularly, and the propriety of military “movements’’ here in Congress and else- where by civilians, My colleague will ad- mit that he is not a military man by educa« tion. nor a soldier, like Falstaff. on instinct (Laughter) His profession was that of a gospeler. (Laughter.) His studies do not fit him to discuss martial snbjecis. We do not go to a blacksmith to have our watch repaired. nor to a watchmaker to have our horse shod. We do not go 10. Carolina for cheese, (laughter) nor.to the Western Re- serve for cotton. Tecan well imagine how a fine scholar, as is my cclleague, might, like Beaumont ’s Elder Brother,” sit in his stu~ dy. and mount upon the wings of .specula tion, and : “ hourly eonyerse | With kings a emperors, and weigh their coun- . sels, Rk Calling their victories, if unjustly. got, Unto a strict aceount, and iu his fancy Defaca their 111 placed statues.” : _ But, sir, criticism on the art of war. to be valuable now, must be backed by specific study and experience.’ What has been the experience and study of my colleague ? The country was thoroughly disgusted with the part Congressmen played at Bull Run. (Laughter in the galierics.) Tt may be remembered with jocund levity the House adjourned to go over to see our army march upon Rickmind. Not one of us ever got there, except my friend from New York, (laughter) who made his'exile 86 conspicu ously honorable in the use he made of it in behalf of his fellow: prisoners. . The House may remember that;1 opposed the adjourn- ment then on the ground that by going over the river, we would only get in the way o the soldiers. It turned out that the soldiers got in the way of the Congressmen. (Laugh- ter. ' Fit a letter written by a member of this house and published in an Ohio paper, which details, with graphic accuracy, the part displayed by trucalent Congressmen on that day. I will have it read at the Clerk’s table. iy : The Clerk read as follows : : . “Justas the’ dragoons turned back, a cry was raised. that the Black Horse, a for were part of them ) were charging. upon us, and it seem«d as if the very devil of panc officer, citizen and teamster. - No officer tried to rally the solliers, or. do anything, except to spring and run _ towards Cen- treville. There never was anything like it for eauseless, sheer, absolute. absurd c w- ardice, or rather panic. on this miserable earth before ! - {3 s18 ‘ Off they went, one and all ; off down, the pighway, over across fields towards the woods, anywhere, everywhere, to escape. — “Whether it communicated back to the ‘sol- on back tothe regiments who had just driven off the rebels, Edo not know, but think it did to 2 part of them, fora share of our army seems to have been demoralized, if not broken up. +Well, the further they van, the: more frightened thoy grew, and although we mov: ed on as rapidly as we could, the fugitives pagsed ue by scores. To enable them bets house over our heads because we, ‘may fear |, to set up his opinion against that of “the. midable body of rebel. cavalry, (and: these: and cowardice seized every mortal ‘soldier, was. no danger. called them to stop. implored them to.stand. ~ We called them’ eowards denounced them in the mest offensive terms. put out. our’ heavy revolvers, and threatened zy, mad, hopeless panie possessed them, and and rear, AL ¢.The heat was awful, although now about six ; the men were exhausted— their ened with the powder of the cartridges they had bitten off in the battle, their eyes start: mass of ghastly wretches. ing: baggage wagons, before and * behind, thundenng and erashing on. wa vere évery moment expoged to imminent dancer of be- ing upset, or crushed, or of breaking down: and for the first time on this strange day, 1 felt a little sinking of the heart. and doubt whether we could avoid destruction in the immense throng about us ; and nothing but the remarkable skill of onr driver. and thé strength of our carriage and enduranee of our horses saved ue. Another source of per- il beset us. As we passed the poor, dements ed, exhausted wretches who could not elimb into the high, close baggageswagons, they made {rontic-cflorts.toget on to and into one carriage. They grasped it everywhere, and got on to it, into iL, over it. and implored us in every way to take them on. We had to be rough with them, At first they loaded us down to almost a stand stiti-.and we had to push them off’ and throw them out. Fy: nally, Brown and I, with a pistol each. kept them out, although one poor devil got in in’ spite of us, and we lugged the infernal cow- ard two miles." I finally opened the door and he was tambled ou.” Mr. Cox, Now hear what these brave Congressmen actually did te stay the tide of retreat : f ¢‘ The other side of Centreville we had overtaken Senators Wade and Chandler, or saw them in the crowd, the Screeantat Arms of the Senate, and a Mr. Eaton, of much of the way afterwards. * Wade planted himself with a cocked * Maynard’ in the attitude of battle! (laugh ter.) Chandler with a revolver, near hime: and we planted ourselves —by them - wand all with loud veices commanded one and alk to halt, or have their brafis blowny outs Our action instantly choeked ahem «Many on horseback nudertook to dash by: and we compelled them to stop. 31 of + Seven wen: staying a erowd: maddened bold as an old lion 3 Chandler frantically commanding, entreating and threatening. = AS FOR ME, I Acrep Just As you kxow [ WOULD WHEN THOROUGHLY ROUSED. (laugh ter,) caring for nothing and nobody, and de termined, as we all were, that the men should stop there.” t Mr. Guriey, 1 wish to ask my colleague The CmatrmaN. Does the gentleman yield the floor to his colleague ? Mr. Cox. I.de not mean to convey the idea that my colleague wrote it. Itiis a scrap of history written by a Republican Congressman. Mr. GURLEY. author of it. Mr. Cox. Bat to the account piven in this letter. It is this Wapge, * firm and bold,” whom my colleague enlogized as so brave,” and who was heralded in the New York Tribune as likelyito succeed the I desire to say J am not the —who was urged by certain parties for the post. now held by. Secretary Stanton; and whose re-election to the Senate is so much desired now by a faction at home; and who is lugged into this debate to be glorified here that he may shinc at-home: Wape, with the aid of {maxpner, who *¢ cocked his pistol in the attjtude of bat- tle,” [langhter.] and helped, with the *‘calls stay the maddened (crowd of fugitives. — The people, who have been under the im pression that the crowd never. stopped: till they gotanto: Washington, will. now, he gran ified tv learn that the Congressmen won the Bull, Run battle against. our own: soldiers. [Laughter.| Lreferito this precious hit of history. to show how Congressmen fit themselves far military criticism, doi "My coileagug yesterday said that he was Sigel. He was asked then about the battle present. oT Mr,GurLey. © I did not say 1 was present at that battle. ‘ Mr, Cox. Very. well. He showed in answer to the’ gentlemen from [linois, ought that fight, that. he knew nothing about it. My colleague said he preferred military experience of my colleague, part has been as inglorious there as it was at Bull Run, [ submit that I must be careful, There wili be, Mr. Chairman, empyrics in medicine, pretenders in religion, pettifogers in law, mushrooms in vegetation, secession ists in Government, and snobs in society, ‘and we mast not be Surprised at wilitary wiseacres in Congress!” claims 4s a critic. , He admits to being at ‘Bull Run, His masterly activety on the re treat hs admits. fected T only Know from rumor, I have Seen 1t reported—and perhaps it is as apoehryphal as some of the facts upon which my colleague arraigns General MeCléllun —that my col- and’ having passed ‘that = poini. with the speed of Gilpin—and not having the henefit of a carriage like the Congressman who | A TAre; " i Yiu iin head, hands. wings, ‘or feet pursues his way d swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies © i communicated to everybody about in “front | to shoot them, but all in vain 3 a cruel, erg" mouths gaped, their lips cracked and bleek- for their 'stampedeing propensity, [laugh ing in frenzy ; mo mortal ever saw such a +t As, we ez me on, borne along with the | mass, unable to go nhead or panse or draw | out of it, withthe street blocked with flys | of my colleague. | noble ox, my constituent, 4nd to whom the Detroit, with whom we were in company: seized the bridie rex s of their Horses and iW aud desperate with fear 3 Wade firm and ‘excited. and the rest of our band struggling sick aud dying McClellan a few weeks since It is. this: of order” from the other Congressmen, to But, sir. disappointment” followed close on two, or |doned. meant 3 it is simply not true either of then have been “thos ‘derelict. “The facts are these 5 “ienerals Curtis, Seigel, and Ashboth nave been ordered towards Springfield to attack Price if it was thought best in their | asserts, held Beanregard and his army as in Judgement. cavalry reconnoisance,. and found that in detatigable.and able General Price in such force that they concluded to hold ‘a council of war, and decided that six additional re: giments were needed. On notifying Gen. Halleck, he at once ordered them from Gen. Pope's command. near Sedalia, to move on to the scene ofoperations. . Gen. Halleck’s opinion, in a letter. received by General McClellan only two days ago was that they would either beat Price or drive him ont of Missouri. Perhaps my colleague never got mg hig ‘campaign in Missouri unfinished, he as far as Spriugfield, and ke does not know flew from Fremont to Ohio, with the cer-| the almost matchless strategy. of Price. He has ventured to ap pear in force in south: western Missouri shut he takes care to be within convenient reach of the Boston moun- taing, where he can hide.in almost inaccess- ible locality, and where itis easier for him tn go than our generals to follow. 1s utterly unjust to Gen. MeClellan to “say that he has restrained the eager impctuosis ty of the Missouri soldiers. Gen y has received no oiders inconsistent with the ent parts of this grand army. He had. to most prompt movement in Missouri, When construct eutrenchments, and make the (Gen. Halliek took command of the army in {Army effective in many details. Missouri, he found mountains of difficulty-| has done. H to overcome —as Buell” did in Kentucky, as | he has accomplished what my colleague’s McClellan did here—in the organization [** brave Wade * could never have done, had and equipwent of the'troops. Gen. Halleck he studied tactics and war for a century, — 44: Blair's rhetoric.” Pgtarred fate Was perceived by my colleague, at Bull Run, and made as g od a retreat as| tf can find for mis. colle: (| of Fredericktown, in which lie said: he was | which is given of Job's war horse: ¢ Canst | paweth in the valley, and "strength. {re KELLOGG.) whose brave brother in law | not to go into * details.” I wanted the deter] The parallel fails only in ore rega‘d. tails, sir. I needed them to estumate {he If his | how I take his conclusions about McClellan. | i (in the Post Office Department. [Laughter] | paign in ‘Missouri: how much he perceived |[Laughter.]- - | Since my ‘colleague has hurled the glove at | McClellan, T have a right. to examine his, i Que'thing hie 'errects to day, and * we mast How that retreat was ef league, after his fatigoing race to Centreville | a% flying A Ber hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or itil luckily he met —what think you noble, cattle’ who were from my own beloyed dis. trict—Texas cattle, sir wintered in the ¢iota valley, and selected by their keener ter ;] when seizing upon the extreme rear of a noble ox, he was born from the field, hold- ing on with vigorous pretension to the tail of the animal ! Mr. GurLEY. took ‘place, My Cox. Yam glad to hear it., Mr. EpgertoN. Iriseto, a question of order. 1tisout of order for members of the Honse to applaud,” cheer, or laugh in the manner they have been doitg, [laughter] and T snbmit-—- “Mr. Cox. Does the gentlemen make that point on'me ? I have not applauded, cheer” ed. orlaughed. “Mr. EpGertoN. © 'T submit should ‘be preserved on the House. The CHAIRMAN. well taken, Mr EpdrrroN. enforce the ru'es. The OnaremaN. The Chair 1s satisfied that'&hen gentlemen consider the impro- priety of any disturbance, it will not occur avin. oa “Mr, Wickriree. T acknowledge a viola. tion ‘of order.” T'laughed : bat for my life's sake I coul@hiot help it. [Laughter] Mr. Cox. 1 will do justice to my col league, (Mr, GURLEY.) I. put this ‘as an apocryphal case, which T heard as a rumor. I'am glad to do justice to him and to that that order floor of the The point of order. is 1 hope the Chair will gentlemen should have apologized, if the story wore trie. I'was about to commend this strategy of my colleague 3 fir his’ ‘quick sense, of its commistaay advantages. drawing on that or any ‘expirtence at Bull | history of General McClellan. hispoint, if any. Now I happen to know | orders of Gen. that there was nothing in General McClel- | Halleck, as to Buell, have been to hurry lan’s orders to forbid that movement on | Fredericktown. it was fought by Colonel Ross. who was of the case ; and if gentlemen want the facts sent by General Grant, of Uairo, to follow | let them go to the headquarters and they after Jeff. Thompson. presentatives 2—a’ herd of ‘stampeded | unexpectedly, and fought well Grant approved aud complimented his action. [charge that he is informed, on authority some faith in Gen. McClellan. cording to him the fullest ¢: soul hiberty’’ m | thousand Confederate troops near Romney, religion, all, embracing in its comorehensive faith Jeff | thonsand, and that the capture so easy was Dayis, Jeff Thompson, Wigfall, and all that | not made, because an order came from head- | Great laughter.] [crowd of conspicuous sinners. (Laughter) [quarters herd not to advance. This is a That is a poetical sketch | Ile believes that Zollicoffer is now in glory : | charge as sweeping as it is irresponsible and It is a thing that pever | he can even see Humphrey Marshall entering | groundless. as my colleague from Cleaveland once said | I question it here, and now. of John Brown—+* the pearly gates of Para- dise’,—and that too without the enlargement of the gates or the lessening of Marshall's bulk. his universal benevolence, see the an Kentuckian, this mountain of secession | are. mummy squeeze through the celestial doors (langhter,) ang larding the golden pave ments of the New Jerusalam, (laughter ;) but he cannot exercise a little faith, just the size of a mustard seed, skili, young general, than another, it is that trast which we res pose in anotherin dark hours of trial and death. born, but faith inherits the blessing. son is apt to be fallible short-sighted. eager mpetuous, and impatient of contradiction ; while faith i3 gentle and docile, ever to listen to the voice, by which alone truth and wisdom can eflectuaily reach her.-— God has created two lights —the greater light to rule the busy day—reason; the les ger, to rale his contemplative ni ht —faith ; but faith shines only so long as she reflects something of the illumination of the brighter arb. light of reason. must exercise his | I deprecate his | people, unlike my colleagtie, have read the | his movements as fast as it was ‘safe and As § understood the case, | possible. [state these as the positive facts Ie overtook him [can have them. General Again, my colleague makes ‘the specific I wish that my colleague would cultivate | which he is not permitted to question—and I glory in ac | T suppose to quote —that some ten or fifteen : 3 y | ; iis creed includes the salvationof [were in the power of our army of forty T do care who is his authority, My colleague reads certain telegraphs which have strange- ly come into his possession, to show that Lander and Kelley dispatched that they could take the rebels, and all that was wan- ted was an order ; and ptesto ! here they We had a geod many such successes in anticipation, [I believe we had one at Piketon, Tt is said that General Lander tel- cgraphed and General Kelley sent a messen- ger to apprize each other of the absolute certainty of success. General Lander I ad mire for his caution and intrepidity ; but I will state the facts to which I suppose my colleague refers. [ state, them correctly,— General Lander went to relieve Gen. Kelley at Romney —Kellev being sick. He reached Hancook ou the 5th of January. Ie found the enemy, under General Jackson, on the other side of the river, in considerable strength—say fifteen or sixteen thousand. The enemy had driven a few of our troops across the river. When General Lande# reacied his post, the enemy were shelling, or about to shell. Hancock. Gen. Jackson summoned Gen. onder to surrender. Gen. Lander declined. Jackson shelled away at Hancock without effect. Lander sent for reinforcements. General McClellan sent one of Banks’s brigades, by forced marches at once. While there, (en- Lander sent two or three long dispatches, suggesting various movements to cut off Jackson. General Jackson had a shorter dis- tance to return to Winchester than General Ile can, with his eye of faith, and in Falstaffi~ in the prescience, and sagacity of our accomplished Oh! if there is one thing more beautiful oD 1t is said that reason was the first Rea~ ready Where a man has no faith he has vo Phere are some things in which a man | trust... The American | They koow | Run to read the'gifted MeUlellan and this | his military studies, his travel and obsers | Banks fad to march to cut off Jacksons re- Congress a homily on military affairs. The ancient warriors rode m their scythed char. ints 3 the warriors on the South Amelican pimpas dash'of with their 1asse” on “horse afek 5 "théilelerit Ge Fmans nt into tat” the as‘our Indin ie vells, and in‘paintéd horiol tht dashed 10 (th (afi 1iHy Ay : armor and vila down! PY uaa huinan ity arte modes of human, «arf both in afldfice and fetredt, but ncver. sir, ‘in the accounts of Xenophon or Marshal Saxe | trom the tite of Joshua to € i! "Taylor: in the contests of Achilles or Garibaldi, have we sq unique a performance as this’ sappo- sititious race of my constituent and my col. leagne on the fields from Ball Run. |, [Langh- ter.| ‘Does'he claim that this, if true, would ‘make him a wilitary expert? But my colleague was undaunled. As soon as Bull Run was over, and Congress adjourned, the telegraph thrilled. both 1n wire and pole to hear the tidings West, that ¢ Colonel GorLry. of Ohio,” was about to assume the post of aid to Gineral Frémont. Fremont was then'in the ascendant. Be- fore him Iay what seemed to be the enchant- ed chambérs of power. Tle had the ‘magic lamp. which made gold as common as the pebbles, and my colleague hastened to his side. Some men smiled. They thought it strange that a minister shonld forget the beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount for, the disquietndes of a Missouri camp. — [Lavghter'] They thought that the affluent experience of Bull Run was not of that kind to excite confidence that my colleague would shine m the new field of Marsto which his patriotism hurried him. But I, sir, knew | ‘my colleacwe better. I admired his patri. otism. Uthought of Peter the Hermit. — [Langhter.] T'saw in his hand the crozer aud the sword, and Bull Run did not obscure the sign inthe sky —in hoe signo vinees!— 1 had read in Ivanhoe of the priestly Kuight of Malta; and ! knew that this mew * son of Malta™ [laughter] would carve out snch a reputation that the mute of history would proudly §ftop from her Parnas ; say: expeetati un. “A “week— perhaps three —and Fremont lost hig magic lamp, — fle waned ander the consuming lens, of [Langhter.] His ill~ At this critical juncture the only parrellel ne 5 the description thou make him afraid as a gusshopper 2— The glory of his nostrils is tecrible. He rejoiceth in his Heswallowoth the ground with ficrceness aud rage: neither believeth he that itis the sonrd of the trumpet. He saith among ‘the trumpets, ha! ha! and Ae smelleth the battle afar aff.” [Great laugh While the war horse of Job was advancing, that of ‘my colleague was retreating. Leav- tainty, ee'erity, and security 2’ ef a star bid What hé learned in his bloodless cam of the palué of the fortifice ions around ' St. Lonis—in'cash, I'mean ; what estimate he wade of the strength of the Fremont horse ; what ‘martial achievements he witnessed in the anti chumber of the short-lived western satrap, he did not, and we cannot, tell.— deduct that from his military’ life] that he was fot at ‘the “battle of Prederiektown, thongh'T understood him yesterday to say he was thefe. Lut ‘his my colleague any actu- al experience? Fas he ever killed any one ? The attack of my colleague is like that of the * pigmy with a straw against agiant cased in adamant.” thing short of an advance at every hazard. He 1s not satisfied with the President, for he defers to McClellan ; not satisticd with any commander 1 chief, for no one can cpm- mand even three hundred thousand men ; not satisfied with what he hag satisfied with would discourage all our efforts, and make taxation weigh like a useless burdeh on an anxious and saddened people- Ic would disorganize the Army, and realize | his theology by making a hell on earth (Kaghter) without giving . us the satisfacs tion of a future state, wherg sec have its fit etcrnal doom. (Laughter.) criticism ? that Gen, Curtis was thousand men against Price was almost a certainly of Price's capture, when all at once an order came {roma gen eral officer, either there or here, which cal- led a halt, and nothing was dome. either my colleague meant that General Me 1 seat to} U Let itbe'so recorded.” * [Laughter.] and, delay. against Price to be § vation, his practical railroad life, his mode | treat, besides the river, which 1t would take of dealing with men and bodies of men, his prodéntial reserve, his unfailing patience, | ready means of crossing. patriotism. and confiflence in his own re Sources. would have heen glad to "have had him at the head of their own _ forces. 3 that he has never blundered 3 that he is safe if ot br anid’ cotnly ry genius; that his knowledge of topogra- phy, engineering, and’ field s‘rategy, his method and industry, and his quick appre- hension of military strength and weakness eminently fit’ him for this high command. — Knbwirig this and reasoning upon this. now that the night is npon us, they will keep their faith 1n him, and no hostile criticism of the gentleman here can shake that faith | forty eight hours to cross, as they had no General McUlels lan refused to trust a command to cross the river under those circumstances, with no chance of retreat provided. Gen, Lander ther sent another dispatch to Gen. Banks criticizing the President. General Banks, and others ; to which McClellan replied that General Lander was too *¢ suggestive and eritical.” 1 think here is the rub : MecClel- lan had scen enough of Ball's Bluft business —that affair which I do not refer to except to say that no one attaches the respons sibility to Gen. McClellan for that terrible disaster, He knew what the gentleman from New York depicted so graphically, that. to cross a river like the Potomac; in the face of an enemy, and with no means of retreat, was almost insanity. He did what a pru- dent general, having his'own plans matured, ought to have done ; and here [ distinctly say that General Banks wrotea letter, in which, from his stand-point, he éntirely commended the action of Gen. McClellan, — And now, and here, we have our general ar- raigned by my colleague on facts not au- thentic ;: and when, so far as we can see, my colleague’s military experience does not reach so far as to tell, by practice, the rear rank from the front. or the breach from the muzgle of the musket ! 1 have replied to these complaints in de- tail. Now for these general complaints of no movement, so glibly rehearsed by the gentleman, It 1s complained that Gen. McClellan bas’ not moved, that nothing has been done, and that nothing is about to be done ; that he does not let curious people know what he's’ about. If he is doing nothing ,as they ‘al- lege, he has nothing to divulge to these curi- ous gentlemen. If he is doing something; the very way to undo it is to let them know it, for'they are as leaky as the present ‘wea-*' ther, or Oregon, where it is said to’ vain 52 weeks in the year. sid 5 : But has he done anything? [ say ‘that he has done alt that he could safely. Mc Clellan has not merely perfected the defences of Washington and the Potomac : but, con- sidering the fact that the force and spirit” of the South are concentrated here on ‘the Po- tomac; and near our capital, and considering the untoward season, weather and roads, 1s tt nothing that he has, asa Richmond paper” They Know that the enemy | They know rant : that bis power to snrprise e are rare qualit:cs of his milita My colleagme is not salisfied with any- done’; not what .is to be done. = He His policy ssion may So much for the critic. Now whet is the Fist, hic carries us to, Missouri, and. says sent with, seme ten when there Now, lellan.or Gen. Halleck, hy their hesitation have allowed the campaign spended, if nat aban wre which general he I'do not a vice ; and that, too. when the enewy have all the advantage of an cqual army, ‘a rail- road for ‘eoncentration in the rear, and a power of combination impossible for our general ? : But he has delayed too long here ; and he is taken to task now because he does mot move his army to certain destraction, by ag-*: saulting an eneiny equal in’ number to his own, and that, too. in their entrenchments. My answer to this querralous questioning © is first that my colleague himself gives & reason why no movement could have been nade the past three weeks, because he'says that the artillery would go under the wud. - Very well 3 does he want that: done? Had: the roads been on the 21st of - July last ‘as they are now, wy colleague would not have been able to have escaped. the companion- ship of my friend from New York, : S¢cond. when. General MeClellan toog command here-—1 say it. without any desire to reflect on General Scokt—he found things disor- ganizel, and no combinations between differ: They sent forward a large But it Halleck This he; Indefatigable even unto sickness DU he-dver gee a min falled! 10 battle 2— [found 1t 3s trae, a fine paper organization. | Ana third, he never contemplated a moye Dit he Ever ipeak ta aman who saw a man | He has labored “with a statesman’s foresight | ment on the enemy's entrenchments, It is killed an “battle? whiz of deadly lead # Did he ‘ever’ hear the 'a publicist’s leariiing; and a “Soldier's skill [not ton much to sav here that he intended Was his heart brive'to bring fotind (CONCLUDED ON SECOND PAGE.) order ‘ont of chaos, le
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