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isadvantage. If worthy of their position at all, they have a right to manage their prescribed campaigns in accordance with their own judgment. No man, however competent, it away from the actual field of operations, intelligently order them when and how to give battle — infinitely such man as now presume to direct in Washington. We say, then, to those Generals, insist upon a carte blanche in respect to field operations, and, when it is once given. If it is infringed resign on the spot. McClellan did well in requiring such a permit; but he did not do well in suffering it to be constantly overridden. Burnside, in like manner, did well in exacting the same column pledge before he took command; but he did not do well in quietly submitting when, two days afterwards, its systematic violation began. Our commanding Generals cannot act too resolutely or too promptly under such high handed breaches of faith. Let them henceforth be true to themselves. The people know that they have a mil
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
ts side by side, and let the world judge the people by their representative men. Another of the remarkable and suggestive contrasts of the times is that furnished by the recent battles before Richmond and Fredericksburg. The Yankees, under the leadership of a General whose forte is clicking and digging, sat down before Richmond in tremendous force, and for two whole months were engaged in constructing a chain of fortifications, the most powerful and complete known in modern warfare. McClellan, with the resources of a nation and a world at his back, and the most unlimited supply of men and means, taxed his engineering skill to the utmost to construct works about Richmond which should be perfectly impregnable, and should make a sure thing of the "doomed city." Everything was at stake; the fate of his country, and his own reputation, which was to him even more valuable. He believed in fortifications, and had deliberately selected that mode of capturing Richmond in preference to a