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NO. 8.
McClellan. His orders to
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: 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