gandista thdriligitca.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER' 6, 1864
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tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi
dence."—Omstitution of Pennsylvania.
FOR PRESIDENT :
MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN,
OF NEW JERSEY
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
GEORGE 11. PENDLETON,
OF OHIO.
ELECTORS AT LARGE.
ROBERT L. JoliessoN, of Cambria.
RICHARD VAux, of Philadelphia.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
Ist Wm. Loughlin, 13th. Paul Leidy,
2d. E. R. Helmbold, 14th. Rob'tSwineford,
3d. Ew'd P. Dunn, 15th. John Ahl,
4th. T. M'Cullough, 10th. George A. Smith,
sth. Edward T. Hess, 17th. Thaddeus Banks,
6th. Philip S. Gerhard, 18th. H. Montgomery,
7th. Geo. G. Lepier, 19th. John M. Irvine,
Bth. Michael Seltzer, 20th. J. M. Thompson,
9th. Patrick M'Evoy, 21st. Rasseias Brown,
10th. T. H. Walker, 2rd. Jas. P. Barr,
11th. 0. S. Dimmick, Zird. Wm. J. Kountz,
12th. A. B. Dunning, 24th. W. Montgomery
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
FOR CONGRESS.
HUGH M. NORTH, Columbia
ASSEMBLY.
WILLIAM S. DAVIS, Colerain.
DR. HENRY B. DUNLAP, Mount Joy
ABRAM SHACK, (An - .
WILLIAM U. CUSTER, Earl.
ASSOCIATE LAW JUDGE.
DAVID G. ESHLEMAN, City
COr:•.:TY COMMISSIONER.
W ILLIAM CARPENTER, City
PRISON INSPECTORS.
GEORGE W. BOYER, Elizabethtown
BENJ. WORKMAN, Manhelm twp.
DIRECTORS UP TIE E POOR.
CHRISTIAN 11. ARLES, Manor
JOHN HESS, Conestoga.
AT' n 'Ton.
CYRUS REAM, East Owala,
Keep Stevens' Record Before the People.
KEEP IT BEFORE THEPEOP E,
that the practical amalgamationist,
Thad. Stevens, deliberately declared, in
a carefully prepared and written address
which he read before the Convention
which nominated him,
In=lll
EQUAL UNDER THE LAW
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
that this same man, who has been a
Disunionist for years, boldly declares
THE UNION AS IT WAS, UNDER
THE CONSTITUTION AS IT IS,
GOD FORBID IT!
KEEP IT U: THE pEOPLE,
that no Republican paper in Lancaster
county has dared to deny, in the face of
Thad. Stevens' avowal of his own doc
trines, that he is IN FAVOR OF
MAKING THE NE( 112.0 TI I E
EQUAL OF THE WHITE MAN.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
that no Republiean paper in this coun
ty dares deny, that Stevens is OPPOS
ED TO A RESTORATION OF THE
UNION EXCEPT ON CONDITION
THAT THE NEGRO IS MADE THE
EQUAL OF' IHE WHITE MAN EN
DER THE LAW.
Letter from Gen. Nagle(
We Would respectfully but mast earn
estly request every man into whose
hands this paper. May filll to read the
letter of General Naglee, published in
another column. it stanips the seal
condemnation indellilily upon Mr. Lin
coln, and shows such entire unfitness
in him for the high office he holds as
ought to be sufficient to convince any
reasouble man that it would li courting
national disaster itod dishonor to re
elect him. On the plain and veracious
report of the whole matter by Geller:II
Naglee, we charge the responsibility of
the failure of the Peninsula campaign,
in 18(32., on Mr. Lincoln and his Seere
tary of War. But for their disloyal and
malignant interference with the mili
tary programme to which they both
pledged their support, McClellan and
hls noble army would have taken Rich
mond two years ago, and the war, that
has since cost the nation billions of
debt, increasing taxation, and the lives
of hundreds of thousands of brave and
devoted men, would have been coiled
on the basis of a restored Union. Gen.
McClellan, his army, and the country,
were sacrificed together, at that tine ;
and the people, in November next, will
no doubt avenge the treason of Aboli
tionism.
The Republican Meeting.
The Republicans turned out to their
meeting yesterday in numbers suf
ficient to show that, Whatever may be
the opinion of a majority of the sort burn
people, there are still many deluded men
who think that Mr. LiNcot.x is worthy
of their suffrages. The aflitir is doubt
less regarded as a success by our Repub
lican friends, and as we are in a very
good humor over it, we will not offend
them with a contradiction. They are
likely to feel less happy a week hence
than they do to-day, and we are not dis
posed to mar their present enjoyment
by depreciatory remarks about their
meeting.
One remarkable feature of this gath
ering is the large number of females.—
They swell the crowd and add to the
gayety, but when the cote., are c o unt e d,
they are not there. Another remark
able feature is the absence of b;unu
with mottoes affirmative of principle.—
There is no lack of flaunting flags and
other devices to catch the eye, whilst
music enchants the car, hut there is
very little that appeals to the mason of
the spectator.
We noticed a party of threshers usim ,
the flail on one of the wagons in pro
cession, and on another a couple of
blacksmiths were hammering out imag
inary horseshoes. This is very well.—
Our farmers will have to do a great deal
of threshing, and our blacksmiths kill
have to hammer as they never ham
mered before, ere the enormous debt
contracted by Abraham Lincoln shall
have been paid.
We have not time nor room for an ex
tended notice to-day, but will pay atten
tion to some of tho speeches hereafter.
Moccasin Tracks
FORNEY says in his letter to the Prcss
of Monday last, that " General tA:\ E
RON has made a thorough organization
of the State, and, after close examina
tion of the field, has so disposed his
forces that no single point of advantage
will be neglected."
Is FORNEY sure everything is right?
Are all the Winnebago warriors at their
proper posts on the war path ? Are
LEBO, MA:s.:EAn and WAGONSELLER
lying in ambush? Where is BROBST?
Zs PATTEnsoiv in position to fight it
through or swear it through, just as
circumstances may require? Has the
old chief been cured of his "disease of
the bowels " by the dose he got from
that "medicine man," Dr. BOYER ?
Have the braves of the Philadelphia
Union League had their carving knives
ground lately? Is there enough of
jerked government mule meat prepared
to feed the . warriors? Have the squaws
and papooses been sent to a place of
safety? What's the bounty on scalps?
If FORNEY will make true answers
to the foregoing questions, the public
will be able to form a more intelligent
opinion of the disposition of General
CAMERON'S forces.
S. T.-1860-01d Abe's Disunion Bitters.
,__Lnsrcomsr's election broke the Union.
What reason is there to suppose that his
re-election will mend it? The hair of
the dog is said to be good for his bite,
but who ever heard that a second bite
Would cure the itret ?
Llneolifs Efforts to Save Lee's Army.
Some days ago we charged Ann 4 Tr A At
LINCOLN with deliberately defeating
Gen. McCLELLAN's operatiOns against
Richmond, for the purpose of prolong-.
ing the war and enabling him to: hold
on to the Presidency for another term.
In support of that charge we cited facts
strong enough to lead any honest jury
to find LINCOLN guilty.
We now charge that after Gen. POPE'S
defeat and LEE'S invasion of Maryland,
when Gen. MCCLELLAN was restored
to the command of the army of the
Potomac, LINCOLN made active exer
tions to prevent Gem MCCLELLAN from
overtaking and fighting the rebel army.
In the streets of Washington, and in
the forts and fields around that city,
MCCLELLAN picked up the shattered
and scattered fragments of POPE'S de
feated army, and put them together.
No one could tell precisely where the
rebel army was, but the unerring mili
tary genius of Gen. McCLELLAIC pointed
out the north bank of the upper Poto
mac as the scene of their next opera
tions, and in that direction he headed
his columns.
He had scarcely gone a day's march,
before LINCOLN began using the same
arts to prevent him from overtaking the
enemy, that he had previously „used to
prevent him from taking Richmond.
He kept back troops that I\Iei'LELLAN
should have had, and retained and re
tarded the General's movements.
II ALLECK, it will be remembered, had
been made General-in-Chief, and had
settled down within call of LINCOLN
and STANTON at Washington. Soon
after McCLEI.I.,AN started in pursuit of
Let:, LINCOLN sent him the following
despatch through 11AI:1:ECK :
'• Until we Call get. I,at,r ads tees :10111
111.• numbers oftbe onetny at Drainsville •
think we must I,e very cautious :Wont
stripping too nitwit the forts on the Virginia
gide."
The shoddy organs of the meaner sort
accuse McChm. 1. AN of cowardice. The
few that retain some respect for their
own character, and do not wish to leave
the truth so far behind that it will never
overtake them, charge him with ex
cessi VC C:11111011.
Now, if MuLL.E.L.L.A.N was marching
too slowly and too cautiously, why did
Li Num.!: and 1-lAt.bruK send him a
despatch enjoining greater caution ? if
they wanted hint to harry on and over
take and defeat the rebel army, why
didn't they send him some of the troops
who were doing nothing in the forts op
posite Washington on the Virginia side,
and tell him to push on
As the despatch al awe given was not
a positive order to halt, MuCLELLAN
ntnced nil and Id NcoLN ,trrew more anx
ious ihr the safety of the rebel army,
aS there really seemed to he a strong
proliaiiility that MCI LELLAN 1011111
overtake it. He therefore caused 11.‘1.-
bEcK to send another despatch to Mi -
Cbt:m.AN, as follows:
" il you know mono certainly till'
1 . 4 WO' Slllllll the l'olonnw, you lin
wrong iu thu, uncoveringthe I:apital...
Put in plain English, this despatch
means goa rc 1,,r, fits/ (VIC,. 1/ u
ru my." It was almost ekluivalent to
au order to halt; hut still as it WaS not rut
uedo;,and:\ Pt' Lm.b. N moved on,though
probably not as fast as he NVOffid have
moved if LiNcubx had not sent these
despatches to hold him hack.
Finding they could not stophim with
their balderdash about danger to the
capital, they next tried to arrest Ids on
ward march by frightening him for his
own safety. LiNcobx, through his right
hand-man 1.1:\ LLECK, sent him this de
spatch:
Scouts ruporl a larg4• 161,a•
sitlc of tla• 1
pal aro pair 1,11 anti
This despatch was dated the 14th or
September. (ieneral N
°list inately rerused to he frightened, and
on that very evening he attacked the
enemy at South Ilot u ctain and drove
him across.
Failing to arrest his progress, first hy
attempting to alarm him for the safety
of the capital, and next by attempting
to excite his fears for the safety of his
own "left and rear," and finding that he
had actually come up with the enemy's
rear and engaged it successfully, I.IN-
Cl/LN and HALLEcK madeanothet•irea
sonaltle eflbrt to prevent AHCAELLAN
from destroying ',PA::: army. They
tried to to throw hint on a wrong scent,
and thus induce him to give up the
pursuit of LEE and marched hawk. to
warils - Washington, so as to leave the•
Cumberland Valley open to the ravages
of the foe, as it has been left since Mc-
CAPAA.AN's removal from command.
Here is Li NOOLN'S despatch, transmit
ted through 1 - lal.t,Lt•ic on the IGth of
Septemlier, the very day JIt•('LELLAN
closed up on LEE atAntietam and form
ed his line of 'tattle Mr the great strug
gle of the 17th :
think you Will rind that the whole Force
of the enemy in your trout has crossed the
river, 1 fear 11111 V Illt,ro than OVOr that they
will remiss at Ha per's 'Ferry, or below,
and turn your left, thuscuttinii; you upfront
Was,nim:ton."'
Thus persistently did A BRA
LINcoLN, from the beginning to the
end of :\lut'l.m.i.Ax's glorious march
in search of the foe, strive to arrest the
young War Eagle in his flight to save
Pennsylvania from invasion. hut Mc-
C't,ELLA N would not stop for anything
short of a positive order to lylt,and that
was more than \[r. I.lNcut7tx dared to
give, with all his anxiety to save the
rebel army and. prolong the war. He
we - Tit on aml fought; and that he won
the victory, is clearly proved by the
fact that the enemy went off' with their
dead unburied, and left him in posses
sion of the field.
If the truth comes to light—as it cer
tainly will not if the traitors at -Wash
ington can keep it in the dark—it will
he found that - MCCLELLAN was removed
from command and ordered to NOV
.terser, not hecause he did not fight
the battle of Antietam ut(// (Hough, but
just cu use h, it. No candid
man ran read the despatches sent, to
McCLELLAN from Washington, with
out coming to the conclusion that Lis - -
coLx wa.4ted to save LEE's army.
Plain Facts for Tax-Payers.,
The present war debt of the United
States, contracted by Lincoln's admin
ikration in three years and six months,
is, in round numbers, three thousand
live hundred milli ons of dollars, or about
011 Q hundred dollars for every nu m, wo
man and child, white and black in the
loyal states.
The expenses of the war for every sec
ond, of every hour, of every day in the
year, are forty-six dollars and seventeen
cents.
The expenses of the war for every
minute, of every hour, of every day in
the year, Sundays , ineluded, are two
thousand seven hundred and seventy
seven dollars.
The expenses of the war for every
hour, of every day in the year, Sunday
included, are one hundred and sixty-six
thousand two hundred dollars.
The interest on the present debt of the
United States, is one hundred and eighty
millions of dollars, or nine dollars for
every man, woman and child in the loy
al States.
Let it be remembered that this fear
ful debt is accumulating at the rate of
three millions a day, and that the daily
interest to be met is one hundred and
eighty thousand dollars.
EEO - Hon. 0. H. Browning, of Illi
nois, who was elected to the United
States Senate some years ago by the Re
publicans, recently made a speech at
Quincy, in which he eulogized General
McClellan, and favored his election.
Lincoln Offers to Give McClellan the
Highest Command In the Army!!!
Lincoln Offers to Give McClellan the
Best Civil Position in Ills Gift!!!
Lincoln Offers:to Support "McClellan for
the Presidency in 1868! ! I
Every new fact that comes : to light
only heightens t heeontem pt with which
every right-minded man in the country
regards the poor corner-grocery poli
tician who now defiles the chair once
adorned by Washington. Instead of ad
dressing himself earnestly to the great!
questions involved in the „struggle now
goingon, andseeking to.find a solution of
them that would pacify and re-unite the
country, Lincoln employs what little
shrewdness he acquired in his younger
days by swapping jack-knives and
whisky to plantation hands along the
Mississippi, in attempts to drive bar
gains by means of which lie hopes to
secure a re-el eel ion.
That lie succeeded in buying off Fre
mont has been known for some time.
That rte tried t 9 buy off Lien. McClellan
has now also come to light ! That he
failed will surprise no one but a shoddy
contractor.
The fact is so well est alflifthed that
successful contradiction is out of the
q uesti o n, that before the Meeting of the
Chicago Convention Lincoln sent Blair
to (ten. McClellan, with in , truetions
to make him tempting offers to induce
him to decline a nomination Mr the
Presidency. Lincoln Mil:v(1:
I. To give AleClellan any command
in the army that he InbAt see tit to
name ;—or,
2. Any civil otliee in the sift of the
President:—or,
'lO use the it 1101 e power and 1110u
ence of the Covernment to make him
President at the end of Lincoln's second
term.
Wlntt, doom. l',epuldiean friends thin':
of this? Their leaders are trying to
iJersuad.(• them that :\1(•('IcIlan is unfit
for high titilitary command, that Le is
"in syrni):Athy trith the rebellion,"
and that his ,!evation t the l'resi
deney of the railed Mates would
be as had as the acees-don of Jurfer,:on
I)ivis to the same position. If Lincoln
shares these opinions, he must he the
most toad-spotted traitor that ever
breathed the I n , of life, for in order
to get t 4.11. out or the way or
Iris IT-CleCtiMl, ha- idrt'lVll lit list` hill`
whole I . l(,\Ver ...r ..11,1ktrat ion to
make hint President in
AVltat the Republican Part} has ]lout
The .1 - 11,11. ( • 11:11 . 1,- :".11111111.•1', 1.111 .
trioll, Ill(' , a 1.1,12
is 011 tltc.lutul, fur Lilll . olll. Like
all tllO “I ii Il•puldiettil party,
\\ II "Illp,'U,•1'1,11 ill•
Lt a •plq.,!11111adt• ILL'', 011
last \VC1111(•-•tia . \ . 1.111.•
110111.. in 1111 . t•l• \ Car , hy the Iteptii,
lican party :
It is what hits the lie
publican party detie?
you Will see ever;wlic•re What it has
do:ie. It, Ili,terie: Slaver);
aiel the Lac, all ill Na
tional eupital ; interc!ieted in :ill the
national Ten•iirtri e , ; 'fay!: :intl
alit niieilas ilelepele;eill relnthlirs in the
plaeetl ureter the I t new
4;roat I;dt:tin;
pre,hi till fnaa
r,p1,11,t1 the rnietxolwlinp
the witioit:ll courts
:the:kited: :Ind slave, ,et tree iu the rebel
states Is Presidential ,n,•11
its seine of the Iritikwil, et - freedom, :,,•-
emnidi,hed mei,e• the er the lze
palolit.an learlc. lit is tie( ;tll. The
l'aeitie It:titre:et ,m 1 li/wjzo,l;
0,1142,-, hay,
lilt; 1.11 the plthii,• lank haVi .
/10 , 11 ,a 11.1,11 mall In .
polar:l2,li ;MI! Bat hovnntl all
these 111,1SlIrc , -- ems it ,111•1'
sVtalld has, W hale
It,V,lalaaaa,
With 11,11 d, has
on font (alt. ta . lit I:11'2,•••1
tliere is any :11:Ilientle1;eeerd ; li:ts equipped
IlaNy V :MIL ta11111.1,1,-
Or its pincer, With all """h"."
:Ht,:y
/ II the
WOrlt I.
'Chat How at• p.tt
with the price yon have lo . pay for the
lon'4 . list I,f zlvaillti,c, th,si , three
.vear , ,
have conf'errt,l upon the neuTo. All else
is :t nwre trifle. The Pneille railroad
eottld have been built \yitlinnt ever tilt
-1m:411_ ont'tent , /f tax, or expending wie
tlntp 1I I I tI. .\ II the itrt-5i1,11, 1 , 101,41,
Lind all lilt \ of the Ntlt I"i]
hate Iteell lati.lt i for the chlrryillg Mit
Of tile Itlllject , in:-.t enumerated, for the
benefit of the hero. The It Rite Illt•II of
this ( . 01111try11:1Ve been slain by hundreds
111 . the Nati'w almost
bankrupted: and yet Iteeortlin'z to Sena
tor tile t.ttl lititztges gained.
:ill that lit I t"T'ildienn pally has done,i.
enunterated , in theahott•hstofthtiraels.
A 111.1 re army ait,l tntv.y have been
ed to drain the 1,1,1/.1 :111tI rt . :l , tire oft lie
Nation dry ; ae,il nine _rear .tell have
been laktnt hy I 'nnalvssinnal,nactinenfs
and I'll2, , i(i,ntial l'rot.lantations toward
the elevation or [he neL"rt, to a level with
the white man. "That is (•sti
nt.what his p:irty ltas dune. Is it
not enotteTh to prey, its entire devotion
to the inte;re, it , Iv:int er tare for the
The Negro before the iuion
If there i- any' man in the land w h o
does not belle% e that the If epuldiciiii
leaders are resolved Hutt the war shall
he carried on 1, ir the henelit of the ne
gro he must I , l' NtlifUlly blind. The
oltolvinn extraet from the revolt speech
of Senator ;summer, delivered in Faneiul
iS,WO think, to convince
the most skeptieal. tic says, speaking
of i‘leClellan's- letter, Mid uOlll
hiSpOsitioll, ith that of Lincoln:
letier says: ' The Union
" is the 011, ruliditiOn of (54'
"no more.' The I candidate
44 May ask no .1001 c, hut (alien; do. I
"ask ou Abraham Lincoln asks
" morl . lie has asked it again and
" again. lie asked it in his proelant
" tion of the lst of January, 1511 d, when,
"as Commander-in-Chief of the army
" and navy of the United States, he or
" tiered and geciared that the slaves, in
" the rebel States ' are, and /e ffee for
" wrier/ ~ h a l l M. J and that. the Ex
" eeutive tovernment of the U. States,
" including'the military and naval au
thorities thereof', feil/ cogni:c and
" wain(nin Ihc . liTcdoht of ne " - Jew s.'
"And he asked it :(gain, when, in his
" letter "fo all whom it may concern,'
"he announced that all terms of peace
"must begin with ' the abandonment of
"slavery.' But in the face of these
" declarations the candidate of the
" Democrats mumbles forth, the Un
" ion is the one condition of peace— 'c
" ask no more.' "
In the face of the above extract, how
can any man for a moment longer re
fuse to believe that the Abolitionists are
resolved to make the causeof the Union
subservient to the interests of the ne
gro ?
Let the Farmers Wake Up
The eyes of many farmers have' been
shut against the true state of the coun
try, by the high prices they have been
getting for wheat, rye, corn, Se. They
will get them Opened before long. The
storm is not far otr. Its rumblings are
heard already. Flour has tumbled down
several dollars per barrel in the eastern
markets, and, of course, grain has fol
lowed. Another year will put them far
lower, at the same time that the taxes
will go far higher if LINCOLN should be
re-elected. With grain at a low price,
and the land it is raised on mortgaged
to pay LINCOLN'S debts, our farmers
will have to struggle hard to keep their
heads above water.
Are, lon Working?
Democrats, Conservative men of 1411 7 ,
ea ste:r county—you who have suffere&
forAnore than three long%weary years
such woes as rietrer;befot* cursed any
peoPle for a single act of .Political
are you working as you should be? Are
yotr bending every energy of your
tures to effect a change of Adininistrit
t ion in a peaceable and constitutional'
manner? The time for action is at
hand. But a single week remains in
which to accomplish the great work.
The result of the State election, on the
home vote, will decide the contest. If
we can show such a gain as will give us
a popular majority on the home vote
cast for Congress it will be amply suffi
cient to indicate the real sentiments of
the people, and will tell with tremen
dous moral power on:the corning PreSi
dential contest. Remember that every
vote lost to us in the State election is a
great injury done to the cause which is
so dear to every one of you—the cause
of Liberty, the cause of the Constitu
tion, and the cause of the union. See
to it that you do not neglect a single
opportunity by which a vote may be
influenced between this and next Tues
day. Be vigilant and active. Give your
time, your influence, and if need be
your money, to the cause of your coun
try. Four years more of such rule as
we have had will be a curse greater than
this people can bear. All that you hold
most dear is at stake. To work then
with all the might that is in you. See
your neighbor ; talk to him ; reason the
matter with . him. The people are not
all blind, nor are a majority of them
mad with fanaticism. The prospect is
very flattering. From all directions as
surancesof great democratic gains cheer
us. We shall carry this State by a
handsome majority on the popular vote
at the coming State election, but we
must 'make one grand united, individual
ettbrt to swell that majority to huge
proportions. It must be so unmistaka
bly large as to fall on the ears of the
corrupt crew in power like the crack of
doom. The office-holders, and those
who expect to he pecuniarily benefitted
by re-electing Lincoln, are spending the
money stolen from the people profusely,
and making it desperate elThrt to con
tinue themselves in power. Let the
people resolve that they will resume the
powers which their servants have so
much abused. Let every man, be his
influence much or little, labor unceas
ingly Mr a reform, for the change so
much needed, and the people will win
for themselves a glorious and complete
triumph. To work then as you never
worked in your life. Your rights and
lilmities, and all the interests of the
nation hangtrembling on the as yet un
decided balance of fate. Shall all lie lost
by your supineness. Forbid it, freemen.
Strike one manful blow in your own
behalf, and the reign of tyrannical rulers
\vil I he over; the cursed demon of fa
naticism will be dead; this horrible civil
war is the drinking up the best blood
of the nation will have a speedy (mil ;
and pure, smiling, blissful peace, on
the basis of a restored, Union will glad
den this land and cause the anxious
hearts of millions to leap with joy.
:‘lay God give the people wisdom to see
what is for their good.
Our Candidate for Congress
In the choice of a candidate for Con
gress, the Democraey of Lancaster
county are fortunate indeed. No roan
could have been nominated who is more
perfectly titled ti n • the position, who
would, if elected, more ably represent
tin , district. Mr. North, since he came
to this county, has made for himself a
reputation for ability ;Ai; a lawyer, for
high character as a gentleman, for• irre
proachable uprightness in public and
private life, and for political integrity
of which any man might he proud.
Though c(imparatively young, he ranks
as the e 90.1111 or any man at the bar in
this county. He is eminently a con
servative man in politics. While de
ploring the evil, and denouncing the
errors of secession, he stands ready at
all times to show the folly and the crim
inality of the course pursued Icy such
Wind as his opponent, Thad
deus i - ' , Levens. Mr. Stevens exhausts
ail his sympathies ilium the negro, :11 1( 1
baldly declares that he should he made
the equal of the white man. AI1•. North
believes in so such absurdity, and will
never consent thus to degrade his own
raCe. Mr. Stevens is an original Dis
unionist, and now boldly declares his
opposition to a restoration thereof, es
i•ept upon impossible conditions. Mr.
North is an unconditional Cnion man.
Mr. Stevens represents the interests of
the negro, Mr. North those of the white
men. The issue between them is made
up, and We cannot believe but that the
people of Lancaster county have sense
enough to make Liar , proper distinction.
Our Candidate for (bung Commissioner.
The candidate for County Commis
sioner, - William Carpenter, Esq., re
quires no introduction or reconnnen
dation from us. He has for many years
pursued the business of surveyor and
conveyancer with more success than any
other gentleman in the county. In the
course of his long and extensive prac
tice, he has faithfully earned and de
servedly enjoys the entire confidence of
this community. His popularity is de
monstrated by the fact that he wassome
years ago elected prothonotary on a dis
tinct Deinocratic ticket. He discharged
the duties of that office to the perfect
satisfaction of the public, but without
pecuniary advantage to himself, as the
fees did not compensate for its inter
ference with his private business. He
has also served as Alderman and Re
corder of the city of Lancaster. Ile
was a member of the Whig party in the
days of Henry Clay, but since the orga
nization of the present sectional Abo
lition faction has acted consistently
with the Democracy. No one will
question his eminent fitness for the
post of Commissioner; and at this time,
when corporate debts are rolled up by
the million, we need intelligence and
nerve in the management of county
affairs.
THE ARREST OF THE MARYLAND
LEG ISLATURE.—The arrest and impri
sonment of the Maryland Legislature
has been charged to Gen. McClellan ;
and wrongfully it appears, so far as any
original jurisdiction of the case is con
cerned, as Secretary Seward claimed all
the honor of that act for himself, in a
speech at the Sanitary Fair in the Mary
land Legislature, April 28th last, in
which he said :
He had sent into a dungeon a Legisla
ture of Maryland that was treasonable,
but he had never uttered a word against
any Union aian because he did not agree
with him in all things.
The Way to Take Fort Sumpter
LINCOLN has been hammering away
at Fort Sumpter for three years and
hasn't taken it yet. Elect General MC
CLELLAN and the glorious old flag of
the Union will float over Fort Sumpter
before the nest 4th of July,
A Frivolous Objection.
The N. Y. World objects to " honest
Old Abe's" purchasing coats, hats and
silver buckles for his coachman and
footman, and charging them to the ac
count of "improvement of public
grounds." We don't think the objec
tion well taken. Certainly well-dressed
coachmen and footmen are improve
ments to the public grounds ; and they
are the more desirable as "honest Old
Abe" is not much in the way of orna
ment—or use. .
Who Pays for It All?
Abolitionists are making despe
tate efforts to carry the coming election.
Money is being expended bYthern with
aprofusion such asfwas,.neyer before
witnessed. It is evident that Simon
Caineron has been very . successful in
_raising material resources Oreenbacks,
it is 'true, are not worth very much, but
they will still pay for the gilded fetters
with which a fanatical despotism is
binding the limbs of its foblish dupes
and devotees. American men seem to
be willing to wear a collar which as
plainly marks them as slaves as ever
did the iron band that encircledthe neck
of a Saxon serf. Freedomweaxs a sickly
look, and bears a wan aspect even in
this her chosen and boasted home. Alen
court enslavement now as eagerly as our
forefathers dared all for liberty. Pa
geants are gotten up regardless of ex
pense to amuse a gaping and unthink
ing multitude, and the crowd in utter
thoughtlessness throw up their cap and
shout at the mention of the name of a
low-bred and ignorant man who, utter
ly imbecile as he is, would be a tyrant.
Who pays for all the cost of_the war,
for all the pomp and pageantry with
which it is expected to carry the election
for Lincoln ?
- .
Whopaid for the paradeof yclsterday?
Your wages, hard-working poor man.
The third or the half of the money out
of which you are defrauded in every
article which you purchase goes to fill
the pockets of ;Muddy contractors and
greedy iffileials who are compelled to
disgorge a certain quantity of their illy
gotten gains to carry on the political
campain. They can easily atffird to do
this. Many of them were mere vaga
bonds NO half-starved political mendi
cants before abolitionism triumphed.
They are rich now. Their purses, so
lean before, are now grown wonder
fully plethoric with greenbacks stolen
from the treasury. These fellows wear
fine linen and fire sumptuously every
clay; their cheeks are puffed up, and
their eyes stand out with fatness, while
the poor man toil , in vain to afford his
family comfortable food and decent
covering. You, sir, who toil arduously
from day to day are paying for the
enormous expenditure of this gigantic
civil war, for the pomp and pageantry
of every procession that moves to the
sound of music which ehants the praise
of the vulgar buffoon who sits in the
halls of the White House at Washing
ton, cracking smutty, jokes and telling
obscene stories, while
"1,,w-1w . 0w,1 ha...1a,: waft, porfainc
You are paying for fetters which ty
ranny is riveting on your and
preparing for the units of your poster
ity. Uf course a man lots a right to
vote to make himself a slave if lie
()hoses; he may abandon his own birth
right as an American freeman ; he may
sink himself to a level with the negro;
hut he has no right to hind his posterity
in chains and sink them to degradation
by his acts of folly. The people are
now paying for their folly, hut the
burthen resting on them at present is
hut light when compared to what it
will be if we are to have another tern;
of Abolition war, of Abolition plunder,
and Abolition mis-rule. It is for the
people to say whether it shall continue.
Out foi• Lincoln
While many papers, and very many
prominent men in the North are desert
ing Lincoln and the fanatical, disunion,
abolition, black-republiean party, the
leading secession organs or the South
unanimously favor his election.
`Phu following extracts attest the unity
of plan and the persistency of purpose
which conncets the conjoint ctlbrts of
the abolitionist and secessionists in their
united designs and desire to destroy the
Union :
The Rirlimond Disytt,h says:
•• If We :,111t1 co111111:111k1 :L uiiliiuu of volt,
brahant Idnvoln should havo the a 11.,.
The Eichniond r says
Ala . :111:1M has 111,11 a gt,CIII 01111/Vl'or 11,1'
tts ; 110 has SerVoll his tlit'll; his policy has
settlis!, established, :111,1 made inievocable
the separation of the old llition into na
tions essentially foreign, and we may Is•
almost sorry to part with Min.
:4:tys :
"To be plain, we feat; anti tlistrust fur
" natre these apparently Irientllv ativanet,
"of the Democrats than the 111 , 011 atrocity tii
" philanthropists hi' Alat,sachusetts. The
" Dentheratic party always was our \vtatst
"evenly; antl but roc its itttkononsentbratte,
"these states would have been cloth' of the
"unnatural [nicht tAvent\ - years ago.
The :\lobile Prgiste r says:
"The Dontocratio party i. not in powi.r
and we may thank t ;thl hir it.
Flank Movement
l l o ut Old Abe" tried to flank the
Democratic National Convention, by
settling Itl..vut to NeW Jersey to buv
N off the track. But he
found that the hero or Antietam was
not for sale at any pt ice.
"Honest Old Abe" fared no better in
a flank movement lie made aninst the
Treasury of the United States, in the
matter of some purchases made by
"Mrs. Covernment" in New York.
" Holiest Old Abe" otlbred to take the
responsibility if the Auditor would
commit a dishonest act, but the Auditor
could find no law of Congress which
authorized him to put in a substitute in
the event of his being sentenced to the
penitentiary. The i•tubhorn fellow
therefore declined to act the part of a
scoundrel to accommodate an "honest"
man, and " honest Old Abe" had to
shell out himself.
D. G. Eshleman, Esq
The nomination of this gentleman by
the Democratic County Convention for
the office of Associate Law Judge, is a
compliment well bestowed, and if our
party politics were divested of passion,
and the theory of our government car
ried out, that merit should receive its
proper rewau•d at the hands of the peo
ple, he would he triumphantly elected.
Modest and retiring in disposition, his
eminent qualifications for high judicial
position are best known and appreciated
by the Bar, whose daily business brings
its several members in contact with
him. Possessing a mind of great breadth
of comprehension, united to acuteness
of preception, Mr. E. is perhaps one of
the few lawyers who have the peculiar
requisites for making a first-class judge.
As a writer he is clear, terse and vigor
ous in style and one, whose judicial
opinions would stand the test of the
severest criticism. As a lawyer, well
read in the learning and practice of his
profession, lie stands in the front ranks
of this Bar, and possessing an integrity
of character which givesconfidence that
as a judge; the judicial ermine would
rest upon his shoulders without a stain.
Combining all these eminent qualifica
tions for the position for which he has
been nominated, it is to be hoped the
people of Lancaster county will, in the
selection of the Associate Law Judge,
lay aside party passion and party pre
judice, and vote for the man whom
they believe possesses the best qualifi
cations for the office. If they do we have
no doubt of the triumphant election of
David C. Eshleman.
The Difference
LINCOLN'S re-election means fo . ur
years more of war, four years more of
drafts, four years more of blood, three
thousand millions more of debt, and
taxes to eat up the produce of every
farm and the rent of every house in
the North.
ISicCLELL.A.N's electionmeansa peace
able settlement of our troubles, and re
storation of the Union upon honorable
terms, without further effusion of blood
or expenditure of money.
A Chapter from the Secret History of the
Letter from Gen. Nagleeto Judge Kelley
of Philadelphia.
PRILADELP.II.I2k, Sept. '27 , 1864.
My Dear Sir:—Our acquaintances andali
of the relations that have ever existed be
tween us are confined to two or three acci
dental meetings; at one of which yon were
pleased to refer to the lasting impression
made upon you when a poor boy, by the
kindnass of my father, who always took
you by the hand and gave you cheering,
friendly words of encouragement and ad
vice. You were pleased to acknowledge to
the son, the kind and valuable influences
received by you from the father, and to
,proffer your friendly services whenever
they would be acceptable.
Under the above circumstances, you pre
pared for me and my friends no ordinary
surprise when you deliberately composed,
delivered, and published in the - Dross, of the
:?-3d inst., a voluntary unprovoked attack
upon me, in the following words :
"It got out that the President was deter
mined to have the army moved, and it was
found that Gen. McClellan had no plan ; and
here I may state that we owe the Peninsular
campaign to those distinguished Senators,
Latham of California, and Rice of Minne
sota, and a Brigadier in the column of Jo
seph Booker. General Alcfllellan's plan
was concocted by others and put into his
hands_ It was submitted in the pretence of
Secretary Stanton. Stanton put them
through a strict course of exanination. One
Gwteral, Bleaker, owned that he did not
understand the plan, but would sustain it,
as he thought he had to obey the mandates
of his chief. lieiteral]..Naglee was one of
those present, and Stanton observed that he
had but one star. `Sir,' said )Er . Stanton,
`you have no right here!' ' I ant repre
senting, General • Hooker,' said he. It was
afterwards retina out that I:en.-cal Nagle°
was absent without leave, and that lighting
Joe Hooker knew nothing of the council. -
[Applause.]
Now my dear sir, this statement is slimily
false, and on the part of your friend, 111..
Edwin .M. Stanton, Secretary of \Vat.,
maliciously false.
The Peninsular campaign was not Mai
cated by "Senators I,itthani, of California,
and Rice, of :Minnesota, and a Brigadier in
the column of .Joseph Hooker, - as asserted
by you. I Idlkeral Naglee was at \Vashing
ton with proper leave, and with the full
knowledge of I:eller:a hooker, and was a
member of the council of v\ - as by direction
of General leneral McClellan, ti represent the divi
sion of the :11'111\' at 11,1dt1 1 ,-, Ferry, in the
ttii,tint.ti o r I it•nertii Hooker, who was too
nu• removed rtioni wil,llingtollt, he 1 , 11•SCIII.
A.llll, unfortunately for !lit' veracity of Mr.
Stanton, tilt' iulpertinont relliarkS which
pal ascribe to !dm 4,01,1 not have been
made [lir there were no officers of the cows'
cil of \ var entitled it that tittle minor,' than
one star.
Now, .lutl,e , you know, .I. ] Sholll4l kII,IW,
that the reptant ion ~f )1 r. Stannm ti,r 11'11)11
11.1111 Veracity is not SU:Th.IOII, and that
you natty well I,olicvoallythill'z that may be
said regarding his great incivility and rude
ness, tbr, not excepting yourself, I have
never seen or heard of .an. °Meer or civilian
who did not eondemn him I,l' the utter
want or :tit the relluisites or it gentleman.
'this is not the first time ill.. Stanton has
been guilty of the most deliberate, malici
ous 1111,1.1.11re5e111,111t,11, and till' your grati
fication I wi lt l'elati• all i!1,1:111c, that
red 1111011 tut arlll,ll in \Vashington, im
mediately alter theconclit , ion
it, the beginning of ./111', of
and when I wassurprised to learn that
during the continuance of that desparate
struggle. and darilis2:that tin, or tire:idiot
suSlllnse,- whilst nothing t . tiold 'ward of
general )Icciellan and his gallant artily,
Mr. Stanton had .\cl . \ vc hero d,uon need
lt•C;oliall a traitor to
as eontnianding a 1, , g11111•111. 1
11'11111'11 1111, 111,111 n 111101111 iir inontitor, of
who NVI , I, 16s11/111,11111 111111 eon
romp hitt, :nut who with pion einnoitysottglii
from 1110 sonle t \ planation of stall ,xtraor
clinnry conduit . I ‘,lllll render 1114.111 no
saLisfaction, but reported th 4, circumstances
to ] leneral McClellan, upon illy arrival at
his headquarters on the 1 1 ,11 1 1,0`A 11112; day, 1111 ,
"411 ~1 1 • 1 Illy. - 1 1 11; 5111111'1,41, •1 11,11Z1',
than ; withnul Mitering, a word, he
turned to his port took front it a letter
Wlll,ll 11, 1,1;1,141 1110.11.11,1 •• , 111,1 : 11 11.11111
that: 1 1 , ,,, , 1111-1 \,O it ri•tint Mr. Stan
ton.-
\\rill' his consent, 1 111,11111 a copy or the
[titter, anti, rolll r ningll, \ Vashington, placed
it ill the. luuuis Id . had 1a..ar41 the
dePtlia•lations of 1 Ir. stanton, a n al who had
advised 111 , 111. 'l l ll,'y 110511'12d 1. rend
it to 1110 Senalc , alai to publkh outrage
Will they tel,gruplied
to Gem - Tat Alct for his permission,
which he declined to give 1.111.111. fol
lowilia copy or Ow
\VAP.
Washington, P. l'., .1 1113. - , j
D,]]/,• ‘,]] had a talk with (;,•neral
Marcy, and meant to have written you by
him, hut am called to the country, \ellen.
Mrs. Staunton is with her 4-Itildren, to 'Si).
one of 1111111 die. I can, therefore, only say,
nm dear lellt`ral. in this brief moment,' hat
there is no rxuse in my heart or conduct
for the dotal that wicked 111111 hate raked
bet their own bust and selfish
purposes. No Mall 11,1,1 yea' a truer friend
than I have been to vlai, alai shall centime
to be. Yost aro seldom al,sellt 1 . 1,011 Ply
thoughts, awl I am ready to Pad:, ally
sarrilice to aid volt. Time allows It,e to say
110 lo lure than titan I pray .\.linighty (10(1
to deli ter you and
. 111,1111 artily Ilront all
peril. and lead you on to vietor \..
Your, truly, E. )1. St.\ N'lloN.
Now, Judge, II hat think you of this Mail,
111110, SocrClary Of War b 3 the request
and influence of I leneral McClellan, WaS
1111)1 :11)111..1111g 1111,1 11l1er11112; 1 1 a1S0-
1100,1.-, 111.1111111,1 111111, anti 111111 1,111,1 111 the
sail,. 111111' sit 11.'1\111 1111,1 (10111,er:11,1y write
stall a letter?
Volt llaeO referred to the council of war
livid in March or 1,62.
Every effort has been ma, le, in vain, to
bring the proceedings of that council 110101),
the 11uLli . ,t call 51115 Matti' 11,11 1111111 ill
1110 1,111,--r• 111111 tabfed
by the prty. .1 reiill,st \vas
Made by the rec,,rder or that t•tittneit, of M r.
Stanton, In allow hint i 0 111111' no. proco,l
illgs Marl, tip ill proper form, was refused
in a most rude and insulting manner, and
the pap,r, have utter I,l'll :111,,W.,1 to loavi.-
his possession sin c e.
w, litige, for your especial 1,1.'11,111, 1
\rill 1,1; 1 1 1 11 1 ,, history or that 11,11,,,1110.111
tIVI'III., that 3011 111)13, 11 1 you do itisti4.4•
to all conrfalled.
The rotulcil of war
Stiioncr, Mcl)owcil,
Porter, I .A.
Porter, ii. F. Barnard, Bletiker,
Naglee. Each entitled to but "one .star..'
It was .11110,1 together by order of leneral
MeClellan on the bight of .\ larcli 7111,
to convencal ten .M. on 1111 11 , 11 ,1 \lllg
(lay.
itmeral :\lci'1,!11111 cuilw into 11l 4,1111,11
11,11,111 111 1110 11,111' 111,1,,,1,1101, 1 , 1,1 , 1111_11
on the 111111. , a largo 111,111,,`Xplailli-,1 his 1,-
11(•11 1 111S111,11. , 1aIII1,111;!11, Wlll,lll, berm.,
this 1 11111. I llolio\\‘ to hal, [won known In
1 110 MI, 1111 , ,•11, ~N 1,1,1111L1 Ilea. Frank 1111
111111 1,1,1/..11,1y I. I IIZ .1. 'll , lll retir
ing, he 1,11 111),11 the table, ti).. the I.,,nsider
alillll of the council, the following in , lllii.-
jos :
I. it i , I Iy isa lib lit:11 ktso
or operations skt l
.1 Lo (•11:111g,i,
1111;livii`i ill
111`Ni
11. WllOillor it k holier to 111:11i0 ;in ad
v:inee to th, front I•efipre I•harpzingth, hase,
sh o uld wu.l l: , ,• h l in 2 , lii (toterunnod upon.
111. Whether a forward movement - , with
the object of destroying the river Itatteries
is advisable, and when it ean I,IIL
-1110111•1`,1, anti whether the naval niree, with
:1,:i••1'111 , •4. Hkit , .l"y, , : ut
111:11
After a scssi at of thr ,, e Lairs the C 0111,1•11
were SlAllllllolllla 1101 f )re Ilse Pres
ident. Ile advised them that he was quite
unwell and exceedingly nervous, that the
pressure had born intense against (tenor:if
McClellan. Ile expr.,,ed himself gratified
to have the opportunity loser and know the
officers of the army , and to be instructed Iry
,them in regard to finny matters, which were
to him very incomprehensible.
I informed him that, as recorder of the
council of war which had held its session by
order oft fen. McClellan, I. would advise him
of the result of it, proceedings , and then
read [bent to him. What, - said he, "have
the council decided by a Tote of eight to four
—two to ono- -ill filv , ,r of the Peninsular
Campaign?" Ile then asked many ques
tions in regard to the same, until Mr. Stan
ton ,111110 iu , and I proposed to read the pro
cceilin,gs [nu t. Ile replied, " give me the
papers, I'll read them myself, - and, after
reading them over and preparing his notes,
he, as you say, "put then' (the council)
through the strict course of examination "
which you refer to. This examination,
made for the purpose of I wutralizing the
effect of the decision of the council of war
on the mind of the President, and thus to
carry out the objects of thaw who had been
insisting upon the removal of Genend Mc-
Clellan, lasted four or Jive hours, during
which time it was fatly interrupted by an
occasional expression of the President, in
dicating his satisfaction and gratification at
the many explanations or military move
ments contemplated ; tind which he had not
before been able to comprehend.
It was now getting dark. Mr. Stanton's
questions indicated approaching exhaustion
and finding there was a silence which called
for a cessation of hostilities on his part for
the night, Mr. Lincoln expressed himself
highly gratified with the interview, said he
was impressed with the ernestness mid in
telligence of the officers present, and that he
had every confidence in than. lie was now
determined not to remove ieneral McClel
lan, as he had promised to do, but that he
should make his climpaign, as approved by
the Council of War; under restrictions,which
ho would make known on the following
morning at ten o'clock, when he desired the
presence of all the officers of the councils
and until after which time he desired that
none of them should leave the city.
Before leaving the President, the recorder
of the council approached the Secretary, and
said : " If you please, Mr. Stanton, permit
me to have the proceedings of the Council
of War that they may be Copied in a lair
hand, and Gen. Sumner, the President of
the Council, will sign them, the recorder
will sign them, and they willthenbe in pro
perform.' " I'm just as good a judge of the
forms as you are," was the reply of your
friend.
Other incivilities have been attempted by
Mr. Stanton toward me, the mamier and re
sult of which
and
has neither forgotten nor
forgiven, and which he may relate to you
Whenever he may feel so disposed.
On the following morning, at the appoint
ed hour, when all the officers-of the Council
of War had assembled, Mr. Lincoln said:
"I have slept better than for two weeks. I
feel relieved of an immense responsibility.
I have determined upon, the following pro
gramme"—which he submitted verbally,
and which was substantially as follows:
"I will permit General McClellan to carry
out his campaign. He shallleave sufficient
force to defend the works before Washing
ton. He shall defend the works before
Washington. He shall embark fifty thou
sand men from Annapolis, and then, unless
the batteries on the Potomac, which you as
sure me will necessarily be abandoned, are
withdrawn or silenced, I shall reserve my
authority to embark other . troops." lie
then said: "I have determined to divide
General McClellan's army into four corps,.
and I shall appoint the commanders of
them." And afterwards he promoted the
four officers who had opposed General Mc-
Clellan's campaign, three of whom he ap
pointed ttsthe command of corps, and, with
the exception of Generals Franklin and
Smith, who have been the subjects of con
stant annoyance and indignities since, the
others have all been dismissed from the
army.
Tlie Peninsular campaign was proposed
by Gen. McClellan whilst Commander-in-
Chief of the armies of the Vnited States,and
was intended to be made with the forces
then under his command in Eastern Vir
ginia, estimated at over two hundred thmt-
Sand MOIL It Wikiso acceptedly the Presi
dent, and the movement was C0111111v11,41
1111011 that basis, General McClellan had
scarcely left 'Washington to take the
when the Secretary of \W:u• relieved him of
all the armies not under his, Gen.
tan's, immediate command, and assumed
command himselt: 'file troops left in North
eastern Virginia were placed mulor the
commami of >lelktweit, Banks, Fremont
and Sigel, each being independent of the
other, and of General :11cClellan, mid :ill
subject to the order of Mr. Stanton. Whilst
the Move division of our ;Intik, vets tak
ing place, the Confederates concentrated
theirs until, on the 20th of June, ;eneral
McClellan found himself before 'n.lll'loll.l
with eighty-five thousand men (including
and was attacked by
the concentrated Confederate force of ono
hundred and seventy-five thousand at the
very moment when :McDowell, tauter pro
test, witluirew his assistance from .1\ loClol
lam by the orders of the President until Se
retary of War.
1'!I elunpaigh under (lon. irant did not
commenee until the 4th or Nay, Inl4l. That
of 1 liatieellorsville, in which the i•astialties
of that artily were estimated :it lto,ono II em
aunt Nvniell latt Mr the Providential
of Stonewall .1 acl;siiti I hal, he e l(4 :111-
1111111,011, 111,1,41 ity the President
alld 14.11. 111101:er, or to use the I'lst`Si,ll2lll . S
MN, (vorils, ".1 1)0 and I," or \vtli,d, the
I;en. I htllerk NVor,'
kept profiathilly ignorant, :mil was not
commenced until :\lay 2, Isatt; xvliilst that
or ow P•qiinsuia, rm. Nviiwit
I;,•ll.l\i,•cieilan \vas so much ceunured, (vas
commenced on 1.111.251.11 of .Nlarelt, Isl 2, l'orty
days in advance of the utlu•rs,
this linter enmity and perseetiliiiii
011 ~lnl, AI rl'lolhul, Noly 111 111, Iik•;41111111, of
Alarch (vas the President pressed to death
to remove hint oven before ho 11,1 111,11 ,
lies( trial in r.111111,1c1 of 010 Army iit the
Potiainte? Why dill ;I distinguished mem
ber of the Senate on lie 11l or ACurb vv rite
to ine: "Thy cry against is in
creasing; e\ cry .(l e er( in being mail: , 11l
crushhill' ?" What possible chance hail
lien. I\ li•Clellati to succeed, when his (111 11
liiiverninent did eeerythiug 111 their pov ler
ti, ,1116:111', , , 111,-; 11, \,1110111,, ;uul heist:
111111 (IIJ \VII? 011, \\,111,1 Ins(:
whim, without experience, after the firs',
disastrous rout at Bull Hllll, 110 1'001'g:11117,1
he armies of the Cilited States and was
preparing to light them Nvithout the addi
tional con victitai being !laved upon him in
ever\ step that his on ti liivertiment \vere
determined "t1).•5,,1
cuu :11111 I 1111.1 \cilliiu 1 , 11 II:1V,
tattles 1,00,r0 itichltllol.
You attitel:o,l(;moral McClellan with a hit -
i4•I'IIeSS 31111 1i.t•1i11 . 2: that ill 11,1•1,111,4 a
tian grill lemon. 1 thou heggi'd yi)11 11411
I,reak 10(1011:01 until
had given hint a lair trial, :111(1 until y , a,
hadfiatial a biter titan, and uhallongo,l
to name it letter ieneral. i 11" W 410 the
salute thing, and appeal to 1110 thy ,
past thirty months and to the risers of hi.d
that sin, to sustain \yhat I
asserted. 1 1, , r,•r ymi to the pininn , I .
Onivol'S artily by wllOlll 1 , 111,11
Le rutty sustained.
The preference of Ileneral 1\1,4101i:1n for
the Peninsular eamptti . um and the condem
nation of the President's plan have been
futile sustained. The families and friends
oldie 1:;0,1H10 11101110 st south of the It:mid:tit
smee the -Ith of May last proclaim it every
where. Mr. Stanton told the country, ;it
that time, he had a hundred thousand melt
more than he wanted, :cud now he tells pill
hi , wants a hundred thousand mon , i»en.
General Gram crossed the llapidan with
an artn - variously estimated front one•
liunch . ,l amd eighty thousarni to 120,(mul
Ile attcnvarits added Buti,r's fll.OOll
lie was rvinforeed -1.-OHIO
Making, esrhi.ty of Sigel'. man 205,1).0
I h Thel. t of Seplrmilr, tcrrt•
cxrlusict. (J 1
:1),01/1), :0.11111,
1;1 , 1.1,11,i, hail tin the art,
he hail viiiiecittritteil his artily .
Reny read ,jr rived himlli 1ili•11111 , ,Ilit
with Ili, i . iirt.c,friint the South, which,
with those hear
.
Breckinriilizt• brmiLflo lioro
..\ll,l Lec ri•infiirecil laudable 30,0,0
Alai:lug in nll
(n 1 1 hoist .IS,i,toinhor his for,
I t111:ttell, it Rirhn an ul , :lt •i::,11011
Exclusivoly Early'.
Showingthe disoharges 10,.. from
1i1 . 11711. If) be
'\.111.1 1 hat aI Illto bl
.Judge Kelley , were the recur of the
...outwit or \VIII', trill that " the `. , :t Vic! ('M'Se
of examinatittn Wade r. allloll,
iti
d]r•ating the very difficulties and dreadful
losses (loner:it (tram has lately sustain e d.
ecrr phlet'll 1/01 . 011' hint? And \vit . nol ?
And \via' is responsible for the hundred
thousand men unnecessarily and it'i , •l:4 , ll . v
sacrificed south of the Itapidan. in :lie
periruent ii• In Ill'f VI. that (
'tell:Ill and the councit of \Val* \V(.I. W1 , 11.2*,
and that the President's plan Mills right.
The army of the l'idted States, as con
Banal it at the commencement or this %%al',
NVa,-, 1 . .111110,Pd of
honorable, gallant set or mi , n, fully
to them; they had al
ways stinliously nv.oided all political con
nections--many .1 . th,“ hull
V4'lll'S in the service of their colnttry.:nnd
had never voted. Thor held their country
and rho honor and integrity of it het; we
every other consideration. I lad a rule
Lein adapted requiring that nn political
subject should be introduced let I,
but that all political rights should 14,
re
speeted, :Ind had army ollieers only been
held rr.sponsible tinr the conduct of the it :ir,
it would have torminiited long ago.
Why have McClellan, and Sedgetvielt,
and MePlierson, and Ilitt . m . 4l, and Fnuil:lin,
and Buell, awl Meade, and Averill, ittal
l'orter, and a score of of !ter general officers.
with hundreds, if not thousands, of officers
of 41.11 inferior
,grade, been ofrentled ;mil held
hack, and many of them dismissed from
the army without a word of explanatiim,
till arbitrary act unknottm in t ;rent Britain,
whilst 1.'4,p4,t, and Burnside, :Intl 11,.oker,
and Butler, and Hunter, :old and
Siege!, trill Sicl:l44s, and hundreds of others,
cei-taitidv no better than the have
144.4411 preferred? Wliv- was leiter:4l Stone,
than whom there is not a 1114/1, loyal 11l
and accomplished gentleman, and gallant.
soldier in the country, eonfined ill prison
for filleen months? .1 1141 \viten released by
an net of t'on_ress, tchy tvas it that neither
ho PreSitiVlll, 1101' 51,11.1111 . Y nor
5,.,.,,t ary o f St,t,. , or other persons :41
IVashington ‘voill4l assent to any knowledge
or ally parliCif /a11 , ,11 in the :wrest? Such
urtlruges lure Valtaflatell 10 brook 110W11 the
111/1101' sprit dr< corm of an army, till
all Ittivw looked on with disgust, and horror,
and pain :it the shameful injustice and out
rages that have been continually heaped
upon so many of their ',ld friends and vont
rades ht arms, whom they know illVarlal/11'
Of all ungeritlerniiiily, dishonorable, un
soldierly 4,1. disloyal let.
\Vlty did the ('(finntittee on the ('old tie] of
the War investigate and falsify such
nice 'prevision into the vonduct of Arc( lellan
and Ids friends, and overlook the volumes
of charges tiled up in the War Department
against Freinont and Sigel arirl Ihinter, iutd
others, and entirely overlook the immense
slaughter at Chancellorsville and I.'reder
icksburg, mat south cif the It:Titian? Witt.
did a secret political inquisition, with no,
other pretext; than they suspected hint of
political ainbition, sit over five Inualred
mid manufacture over seventeen hundred
pages against a young officer, a Christian
gentleman, an honest man, who, Heaven
only knows, never had lint one purpose,
and that to serve his country ;mot his nod ?
You know, Judge, that whilst in Wash
ington lien. McClellan studiously avoided
all political association, and to stall an ex
tent that many of his friends of both parties
were much offended.
The first knowledge that I ever had of
any political ambition on his part was after
he had been retired from active service :old
sent in disgrace to New Jersey, and this
was after his Illness for the succession had
been discovered by Mr. Lincoln, and the
people had signified their affection fin• him.
Ills letters and orders leave been called po
litical, but they were eminently proper,and
refer entirely to the military policy of the
country. But, Judge, suppose we admit
that Gen. McClellan had an ambition to be
President of the United States, was it not a
laudable ambition, and is their any impro
priety in it? Is the field not open to him as
well a .9 to Mr. Lincoln, or Mr. Fremont, or
Mr. Chase, or the litany others 'Minutely
his inferior?
So far as the objections to -his military
qualifications are concerned we have only
to remind you that, within the last sixty
days, a confidential friend of the President
was sent to offer him one of the most im
portant commands of the army. But this
proposition waa coupled with the most dis
honorable condition that he shoilld deeline
to be a candidate for the Presidehey. Gen
eral McClellan restrained his indignation
and replied-to the bearer of the message,
"Go back to Washington, and say to the
President ffir me, that when I receive my
official written orders he shall have my an
swer.'.
Beware, .Tudge, of intemperate abuse of
your political opponents, as proud and loyal
as you are, who would rather see the con
tinent of America sink into the ocean with
all that dwells upon it than see our na
tionality destroyed; who will not endure
this constant usurpation of authority
and encroachment upon their rights, and
whom you may drive into a dreadful con
flict, in which the Aholitionists and the
negro may thud themselves arrayed against
all who unitedly stand, hand in hand and
shoulder to shoulder to shoulder, in defence
of the Constitution and the fundamental
laws of the land. Very respectfullyv
HEN BY M. N At; I,E,
To lion. wm. D. ICE-rt.Ey. Philadelphia.
A BMW for Abolition Farmers to Gnaw
Stop a moment, honest 1 ,- 'recsoiler, we
want to reason with you. Let your
plow stand in the furrow, breathe your
horses, and put on your thinking-cap.
You believe in the Emancipation Pro
clamation? " Yes." YOU don't want
the President to bark out of it? " . ..No."
The war, then, must go on, so far:Ls your
Vote rail illituelive it, till the slaves are
all free.
Now, honest friend, have you ever
thought what this exlmeriment or freeing
all negroes is likely to cost purr ! Are
you Willing to mortgage your larm for
half its value for your share in defraying
the expenses? Why, dear man, it is
mortgaged to nearly that extent
and l•Vyry year the war is continued
pateimes this mortgage with another min
the bawl: or it. dive your :1(1011th/11 a
moment, and we will make this as plain
as the rail fence that divides your Carlo
front your neigh hors. You umust, mil
course, ~ t 'e that the pilluliedelbtisauutrl
gage on tile property of the wholecomin
try, Mr this property may he taken It.
law to pay it. ii were SO rich as to
own half of the property you would owe
half the debt ;if y o u own a i im ma m .,. ( lll,
or :I t housaudth part of t he proputy, you
would owe a hundredthor a thousandth
part or lie debt ; that
. is, poor
or the tlil t is just in proportion to ybur
share of the property. Now it so hap
pils that this is a thing that is easily
got ;so that if you will tell us the
value of yourfiron we will tell you what
part or it is already Mortgaged to the
(Incruuwnt :' \Ve are outgoing to lin
pose upon you by any statements which
we have cooked up to ',cry, a purpose ;
the figures we will use are taken from
doettinents prepared hy IZepuhlictutolli
eials;
mid as Mr the:tilt [llet iy, you are
llst as competent to verify our caletila
t hilts :is we are to make them. ;--4mm,`gimod
ktrnmr t :i•iimemliillar give heed !
I yiffi \til!l C:111 MI I hi' ii HOWL' , or
l'ongres • for your di,triet, or at :11ty
m.\\-sp:lper ((nice in your comity, you
van get an opportunity to examine a
prypared Ir. K canes, chief or
t hecenstisiaireati, containing thetigures
or thy census. Turn to page one hull
dren mei emery-lotir_and you kill lin,l
a table Hying the assessed that 01 . all
the real estate in every stile and terri
tory of the State , . Volt will ob
-erve by the Cooling:0 thy bottom oflhe
column that it amounts in all to
lityl Pi. I r you \vill then talc out and
add together thetigures reprt , enting the
real 1.-tali' or( lie slave state , , tieamount
\vill suhtr ac ti ng
this Cron] the whole you Will have left
its the ti , tal assessed valm(
or all the land and buildings in
the free states anti the territories ;
or which your Ihrm and the buildings
and imprlvetitelits upon it are,hart.
Now in finding . the ,/,/,/ which stands
:n2:tilist this property, (ye (till lead you
ou ground (Illicit you must regard :is
e,putlly salt+l. pool: up almost any In,
of ;.1 city uewspzipyl. t'or the month of
July last, and you will lied iu the li
n:mei:ll column an official statement of
the 'midi, debt as it existed ((ii the T(tli
or.htly, purporting to 1(e tal:ett front the
hook.s or the Treasury I)epartment, mut
signed by the acting ,eeretary of treas
ury. Aceording to this statement the
debt \vas•at that dale (- 4 1,79:2,567,it1u. A
rely days previous to the puhlication of
these figures, the,ecretztry made a semi
onleial statement that the dept was then
increasing at the rate ((f:- , 2.,.5(10,00(1 a (lay.
There have intervened since the:Alt or
.1 tip to till , '.2Gth (lay of September,
eighty-three days, whieh, at that rate,
would bring tot addition to the debt of
217,."(1111(1,01111 which added to theamotoit
on the . - 411 of July, makes the present
debt There are the best
rete , ons lot' supposing the debt to be
much larger, but )Ve fake, thvtheollicial
figures because they cannot expose us In
any suspicion or exaggeration.
these data, it is easy to deter
mine tilt. 11111011111 a mortgage \lllicit
rests on any particular farm hy retts(lll
of the public dcht. ! 1 the farm he worth
motgaged t, the goy
crionent for :-.bone; if it is worth
i; is mortgaged ; and in
the like prot,ortion f(nr any larger (.1.
smaller Halite. Nearly your farm
is already Irmo; four years mon , of war
would make ;he mortgage to the public
creditors:Wout could ton-assessed value.
Are smi wi/, , , , ,c/ to prosecute the experi
ment of t'recing the negroes at this cost '.'
I:y the tin., the experiment is complet
ed, voti \\lll hens much as a slave
negroes themselves. For in what doe,
slavery r..tiskt, hut in one nian's
lahorin,g and another having . a legal
title to the fruits of his 1:171.or'."I'lle slave
labors:lnd theinasterpocket hiscarning.
Vol lab o r , :Hut your earnings, all but a
small subsistence, will go to pay for the
luxury of the Emancipation proclama
tion. Are you so enamored of this
prospect that you will vote for Madding
the present heavy mortgage whieh the
h(dds on your farm? fonder
this thing \yell ill your own !Mild; tall:
it over with your neighhors ; and sec if
there is any way of get tiny rid of the
conclusion that I. proportionate share
the public deli! timrtgage on got , /
propert . 77,
Nlillard Fillmore out for hen. McClellan.
Fr.lll flip following correspondence it
will he ~ e en tlott ex-President Millard
Fillmore pronounced in favor of the
Demo•rati candidate for the Pre,i
denev :
liv.% 1: I'“iir lavor or the 2611 has
liumient c . " 1111• 111 hand, 111 which
n• 111 my p•rl.li,,ion 1) publish Illy It•ti.'l'
1,) yi/11"ith, 3111 instant.
'hlt letter, like all tellers 01' 111i11(•, teas
I', Le priVat , ; not 111,1,1115 P it 4'oll
- any sentiment AVIIII . II I WiSIW(I Iu
Sillndy 1)01111151 1 haul a gl , :11
11,, , 1' , 1011 la appearing in the lie \vsitaper,;
1,111 you 501111 to 111111 k as pultlication !night
11, ;110 \ ,i(il/,(• ill Wili , •ll
c•iefess e In
feel a ,urti (1,, r , intere st- -anil
as Iciv t ., .similar
ill ( ,)(111111.1i , ,11 front
ill 11,-i• 1 Ictwc rcl 11( . 1111111y er)1111( 10 Chu
i .,, 11,•1115i,,11 11, 1 10 111111 it In be pifidished.
The fact is, that 1 are no reasonable pros
n•st,n..tll,,, of this Union—the ob
ject neiirest illy heart a change of
the avowed pithy of this administration;
anil I sue cl (4 changing tliatpoliey
but I,y (•itallge 111 . 1111111illitil ration
11,11,,, I :on for :1 change, and I look I,j tni
ihe ideetii.ii of itsthe last
hope for i 4,11 Or 111(1 1 all
111 , 11111':111I0 I,i.(teii, .11,1 111051_4 . 11111y 1,121',(011-
al liberty; and ii it you tilay publish to the
Nvorlil as illy view. on Iht. 111 . 1111ing
Pita I shall enter into no algIll111•111 in sup
port of my upiniou , 11 , ,r (li, 1 intend here
after to depart. front that silence xvliich f
upon inyseff Irma :in unwillingness
to mingle, or scent to 11111Ig11', in party I,oli
-111, : I),i . 1 11,, 1101 rousislur up, self as below , -
nig to any party, :111(1 1 feel wholly
holith•rcll to any fairly success as such, and
ant only anxious for the honor and
of my beloved, I,ot 1)1( , (ling anti suffering
country.
uni, jn gyout haul, truly yours,
.N 1 11.1,A Rl ' ) Fl
BUFFALO, Sept. 5.
•
to accept.nty thanks
for the honor you have done me by inviting
me to he present at a ratification meeting
I , r lie held in Union Square on the Bth inst.,
and to address the meeting.
While I shall With
.great pleasure cast my
col , • for General McClellan and Mr. Pen
dleton, vet I regard myself a 8 wholly with
drawn 110tH party contests, and therefore 1
attend no political meetings, make no
speeches, and write no letters for publica.-
With toy best wishes for the suocess of
your ticket—for at, in my opinion, de
pendn the salvation of our country.
I am, gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
MIL LA R D FILLMORE.
Messrs. F. 11. Churchill, Henry W. Allen,
Samuel Boardman, John P. Angle, John
Bailey, Jr., John 11. Decker, Committee.
Lincoln's Defeat of McClellan.
The Abolitionists claim that LINCOLN
will defeat MCCLELLAN. As the signs
of the times do not indicate any such
result, we presume the A.,bontionists
must base their hopes upon the well
known fact that LINCOLN defeated Mc-
CLEILLAN two years ago. When "Little
Mac" was within sight of the steeples
of Richmond, LINCOLN took away fifty
eight thousand of his best troops, and
thus defeated his plans for the capture
of the rebel capital,