Young Napolean to the rescue? Sharpsburg citizens fleeing the rebel army
Just save the American republic and millions yet to be born
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch September 16, 1862:
The young Napoleon Redivivus.
McClellan, like the straw to the drawing man, is again important at the North. The Herald, of Thursday, has four articles, occupying as many columns, on the renewed lustre of this star. In one of them it says:
Now is the time for him to prove himself not only a great General, but a statesman worthy of the occasion and of the responsibility which he has assumed. The safety of the country is entrusted to him. He is bound to see that no insidious enemy lurks behind about his base of operations. His own security and the security of his army are involved, and the fate of the republic itself is at stake. He is master of the situation. He is the only man in whom the troops and the country have confidence as a General for-the chief command of the army in the field. He has a right to demand indemnity for the past and security for the future, and he ought not to rest satisfied till he is assured by facts, not mere promises, that his plans shall not be interfered with hereafter. The game is now in his hands, and unless he plays his best trump and disposes effectually of the radicals, as he has the power to do, they will soon dispose of him by striking him down in the very crisis of the campaign now opened in Maryland, on which hang the destinies of the American republic and of millions of the human race yet unborn.
