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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
Additional from the North. We take from our latest Northern files some additional items concerning affairs in the United States: General M'Clellan's friends Deserting him. A telegram from Washington, dated the 6th, says the pressure on Lincoln to restore General McClelland to command, and put him in charge of the army and defences of Washington, is constantly increasing, and adds: Leading and influential Republicans are constantly urging, personally and by letter, the necessity of something of the kind being done. The President, it is understood, is disposed to yield, at least so far as to authorize him to raise at once fifty thousand men for the special service. indicated; but a leading member of the Cabinet opposes it. There is a very lively row going on about this matter, and its importance is by no means underestimated by either the friends or enemies of McClellan. The result is yet uncertain; but if the opposition of the individual referred to were overcome,