The Portland daily press., 1862-10-20

terms.
At the late Democratic State Convention in
Mass, Gen. James S. Whitney was one of the
leading speakers. Whitney was elected as a
Douglas man to the Charleston Convention,
but, by the sop of the Boston Collectorship,
he became the plant tool of Buchanan Cobb,
& Co.. went to Charleston, and there, proving
treaeherous to the men to whom he was in
debted for his credentials to that body, be-
came one of the leading conspiritors in that
Convention, and in its continuation at Balt-
more was one of the boilers that nominated
the traitor Breckenridge, and he has stuck to
his integrity with wonderful pertinacity. In
his speech at Worcester, the other day, he
elaborated the idea of compromise" with the
rebels sat the proper time"-which means the
time when the most party capital can be made
out of it-and no part of his speech elected
more enthusiastic applause than the portion in
which he proposed to ''invite our brothers to
sit down and talk over this quarrel with u.s.;
those brothersl!l whose fraternal feelings are
so Faithfully described in the speech of the
gallant Gen. Prentiss, who has just returned
from a rebel prison, and whose speech has
already been giyenn our Geographic columns;
those brothers who were so fraternal with the
gallant Corcoran. and who have betrayed
ierocity and barbarity that would cause
blush in conclave of demons.
Now it is the schemes, and the disloyal
views of such men as we have quoted, that
certain politicians would make Gen. McCle-
Ian endorse. He who needs, to be successful,
the fullest measure of confidence reposed in
him, is put forth as sympathizer in such d.
abolical schemes. Surely, he may exclaim,
'Save me from such friendsr'
But to show precisely tchat kind Of rie,cs
were enunciated by the recent New York
meeting, which the Advertiser says were "en-
dorsed" by Gen. Mcclellan, We have only to
refer to two facts
1st.-In that very meeting John Van Buren,
was leading speaker He took the distinct
and emphatic ground that the war should be
prosecuted no further than the capture of
Richmond; that then we should compromise
with the rebels in arms, either by amending
the Constitution to suit them, or by letting The
South go out Of the Union!
This was one OF the "views there enunciated'
by leading spirit in the meeting, cheered and
applauded to the echo, and it is such "view"
that the Advertiser says Gen. Mcclellan cen
dorses"
2d.-In that meeting was produced an old
letter of Gen. Scott's written forty days be-
fore the fail Of Sumter, which was read by
Mr.. Van Buren,, which was chcered and re-
ceived with all the usual marks Of appreciation,
and which was sent over the country by tele-
graph as part Of the proceedings. BY the
mode of its introduction, its reception and its
transmission to the country, that letter is
shown to have been endorsed by the meeting,
to have been adopted as its own expression,
and thus it becomes a portion of the "views
there enunciated," and which Gen. Mcclellan
is said to endorse"
Now ,chat says that letter. 1t recommends
four ways, one Of which the writer would
have the President adopt, as the only means of
securing peace, and averting a war. The first
contemplated compromise, and in default Of
this, the Gen. predicted condition of things
in sixty days which has not yet TRANSFERRED -
the secession OF all the slave states, and the
consequent inclusion of the federal capital in
foreign country" I'd. The collection of du-
ties outside the seeded ports, or their block
ade-which latter alternative has long since
been done, but without closing the war as
Scott supposed it would at the time of writing
his letter. Sd. Conquest of the South at vast
sacrifice of blood and treasure, without doing
any good, but only to devastate fifteen pro-
vinces," to be held only by heavy garrsons at
vast expense, +" followed by Protector or EN-
peror."
Here are three of Gen. SCOTS propositions,
neither of which the New York meeting was
silly enough to suppose practicable now -
neither of which, in the light of history, could
they suppose were ever practicable. What
was the fourth proposition? We give it with
out abridgement:-
". Say to the Seeded States, Way
WARD SISTERS, DEPART In PEACE
Here in these brief ten words, is wrapped
up the germ which John Van Buren, and his
coadjutors in Cooper Institute, were trying to
warm and nourish and develope into a vigor-
GUS plant. Peace and sepdration-peace and
disunion, as an alternative, is the view.
the great "view enunciated there" in that
Immense" meeting, and it was this view'
that called forth the plaudits of that throng,
and caused the alcoyes to return their echoes
responsive TO the cheers which rent the trea-
sonable atmosphere Of the place; and it is
such view" of which the Portland Adver-
tiser makes Gen. Mcclellan the endorser =
Surely, the commanding General, should he
learn the facts, may exclaim, "Save me from
such friend"'
But this article is already unnecessarily long,
and we must stop. We do SO by protesting
against the injustice done to the Commander
OF the Potomac. We do not believe he is a
partizan politician. We do not believe he en-
dorses treason: and disunion is treason. We
don't believe he favors separation of the
States. Did he endorse the views enuncat-
ed by the meeting referred to, he would be I'M
worthy the confidence now reposed in him, for
he would be no more nor less than a disunion-
list, and us such would be unsuited to lead the
armies Of the Union. Again we protest against
this objectionable abuse of Gen. Mcclellan.
The 18th Maine i'm Motion.
We have received information from an Off
Ger in the 18th Maine that in obedience to or