The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-03

We have been told 10y persons
whose veracity we cannot doubt, re-
marks the Montgomery Appeal, that
there is such thing as the submits
sionist still remaining in the South or
IN other words, that there are those
who are opposed to giving any further
aid to the Government for the con
tinned prosecution of the war They
desire the war stopped at once They
seem to think that they have only to
withhold men and means, and that
thereby peace viii return.
They are prompted to this course,
no doubt, by the fact that we shall fail
in the end, and the hope that in conse-
quence Of this position thus taken,
they viii receive favor at the hands Of
our conquerors
These admissions by a rabid secession
paper, are of the highest importance.
There are submissionists-- UniOn men
lin the South; and they are prompted
by the fact7-mark, the Appeal adj
mits that it is fact" that the rebels
will fail in the end. Who in the loyal
States is mean enough to say the war
is a.failure, and that Lincoln can never
restore the Union
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Henry Winter Davis made great
speech in Philadelphia last Saturday
the speech of statesman. One of the
sparkling passages in it was this
The question is not whether Mr. Linz
coin has done the best that any mind
could conceive, nor even the best that
he himself could have done, nor Wheth-
or what he has done was absolutely
right, or absolutely IN accordance with
law; but the question is whether his
opponent would do better Gle has y
says a distinguished Senator of Mary
land, in a most elaborate and able
speech in Brooklyn the other day, in
behalf of Mcclellan, appointed weak
and incompetent men to command his
armies. say yes, Mcclellan at the
head of them. Great applause. They
say that he has punished and excluded
from Office and position men, merely
because they were the friends of Geo
B. Mcclellan. ! say yes, and Fitz John
Porter was one of them Great ap-
plause. They say that the war has
not been conducted with that energy
with which it ought to have been con
Quoted, and which ought long since to
have stamped out the Rebellion say
yes, and the greatest of all failures was
the failure of Gen George b. McClel>
Ian, who wasted the largest army the
Republic has ever assembled in idle
ness, in and around the city of Wash
ington, for nearly eight months, when
not one-third his number of enemies
were within thirty five miles in his
front, and he did not dare TO feel them
with asquadron of cavalry to ascertain
their number Applause Yes, OPP
portunlties have been lost There was
no opportunity equa! to the opportunity
of George B. Mcclellan in the fall of
1861 and the spring of 1862. "Lost op-
portunitiesl Aye, a greater one, when
" DlOhSH anu 1luB army Will VAST
river in its rear, was allowed to escape
without pursuit, and that was by Geo
B. Mcclellan after Antietam. APP
pianse 1t may be that tie war has
been badly conducted lt is certain
that the worst parts of its conduct have
been those parts which have been at
tributed to George B. Mcclellan. It's
certain That there have been failures.
There have been no failures so disas.
trous, so continued, so inexcusable, as
the failure of the Peninsular campaign.
applause There have been failures
There has been no failure that rested
on the good faith of any officer, ex-
cepting Buelrs in Kentucky, and Nc
Clellan's and Fitz John Porters failure
at. the second Bull Run battle. [Great
applause Concede that the conduct
OF the war has been weak; agree to
everything that our antagonists cay
the fact that the war has continued for
four years without the rebellion being
broken, is because George b. McClel-
Ian, with the uncontrolled disposition
Of all the armies of the United States
for nearly year, left it as it is, IN
broken. Applause.