Show gen mcdowell on mcclellan it IS is a SID singular gular face that nearly all the eulogists of AcCella ii 7 S generalship generals Ilip are arc civilians and enemies enc illies odthe of the union among all liis his lieuten lieutenants ants we ve can think of but two who since the peninsula campaign have havea expressed any confidence in his capacity for the command of a large army army these are arc buell and fitzjohn porter buell admits that from the moment the administration adopted the he policy of conducting the w war ar in in earnest his sympathy was with the while porter has been disgraced by a court martial and kicked out of the army charity abode having interposed to save him from sterner punishment to offset the opinions of these two officers we have the direct testimony Generals of 0 egener a Is sunnier Su niner heintzelman hooker keyes bernard burnside Burnsi dp meiggs and gasey casey that tha mcclellan was a mere supernumerary in the peninsula and subsequent 1 maryland campaigns and the plain inference is left that had he been out of the way and and the army under udder charge of a almost anybody else we should have captured richmond and ended the alie war in the summer of 1862 it is also well known that G general Je kearney arney before his d eath death often expressed in conversation and it once in iii writing wi r 1 tlc ti alc e most contemptuous opinions of capacity and courage and we ob observe 0 r v 0 by the virginia city papers that to all this 0 accumulated testimony against 0 hirn him manjor general mcdowell one 0 of f the alie eldist and ablest officers of the old regular 0 army adds the weight 17 of liis his opinion general mcdowell cDowell is reported by one of our virginia co contemporaries temporaries to have made a short on oil the occasion of liis his recent reception in that city in the course of which he said if this rebellion is to be put down the reelection election re of mr mi lincoln has become a political i necessity there are arc those who seek to mislead you by representing that the war could be better carried on by sonic some other person than lie who now lias has it in liand hand 11 here some oric one mentioned ac mcclellan no said general mcdowell 11 Alc Clellan is vol not the nian man to put down this tin s rebellion ho he who when at harpers Ilar pers ferry was ivas ordered to advance and fight the enemy declared that he could not move inove and support his army thirty miles from the terminus of the railroad a point from winch which sheridan has marched his army vic victoriously more than one hundred and thirty miles is not the man inan to conduct tin this s war var 11 aliis this is general C Dowells McDo ALIc opinion of macic lians generalship and history will sustain him toward the conclusion I 1 of his speech the general paid the following tri tribute bite to grant the armies of the united states are now all under general grant he abo when lie landed his army below vicksburg packed his food on n liis his back and marched and fed his forces nearly three weeks wl ia le bd but two days rations cantil capturing ring I 1 the lie rest from L t t im ta the oll only and 1110 fought foti 0 lit and con the enemy bellemy instead J 0 of r standing 11 still and a asking the gova ornnie nt for things j A unnecessary 1 for tale occasion you have your 1 cl lice bAN Veen ceci the t ano W 11 we jve know ve vey very y nv well e 11 wili which 11 of r taff davis davi and lee cloose choose to lead our armies ag them tile the change from grant 4 to eIlan would be worth half a million of soldiers to them thein it would be fatal to to the union tho fact is the young ing napoleon lias has been about the most worthless of all our generals lie he liaa has shown neither capacity courage courado co 0 or patriotism nor an all aptness at anything but Is as chief of police to return runaway ne 0 roes to their traitor masters 1 and 1 ild a prudent pruden fc care for his personal safety ex |