The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-22

voting for AeClellanss
What is it to vote for McClel,
are some people who proposes t
him who would not do SO If ths
preciated what they were vot T.
him. They like him, resps Ii sN
faith in him. They prefer hs5 \
i'll many respects, to Mr.. ! a.
man of respectable abilities, 0f pare fifes u
patriotic impulses. They think, perhaps,
that he has been abused by the Govern
ment. There are various circumstances
that attract them to him, or that drive them
away from his rival. We find no fault
with their personal preferences; they have
Acknowledgements differ. We prefer Mr..
Lincoln personally. We believe him to be
much better fitted, by his natural capaci-
ties and aptitudes, bv his education and ex-
perience, and by his sympathy with the
people and devotion to universal freedom.
for President OF the United States than
GeIks Mcclellan. But here is not the gronnd
o. Inference. II the influences around
sen. Mcclellan were unexceptionable, if
his policy Was sound, if the meE with
whom he associated were As good AZ he, if
the democratic party were devoted to the
vindication Of the honor OF the country, by
the destruction Of the rebellion and its
over his election.
But vote cannot be given for Gen. Nc
Clellan without giving one at thesame time
for some men and some things that every
true man and patriot should vote against.
A man who votes for Mcclellan votes for
the perpetaation Of slavery. There is moth
ing more perfectly demonstrable than that
the democratic party, with which General
Mcclellan has identitied himself, is deter
mined on the perpetuation Of slavery. The
democrats in Congress, at the last session,
voted almost to q man against submitting
to the yea and nay OF the people Of the Uni
ted States the question whether there sho'd
be an amendment Of the constitution pro-
hibiting slavery. They were not called
they refused to permit the people to decide
1t. We do not know Of a democrat who
proposes to vote for Mcclellan, and who,
at the same time, approves the emancipa-
ton proclamation Of the President, or who
looks upon the abolition or destruction OF
slavery as any proper part OF the policy OF
the war. The sy mpathy. with the slave
cratic party and always has been. It seems
to be well nigh ineradicable. It is not even
pretended, by democrats in any quarter,
that the destruction Of slavery by the mat
ural course and result Of the war is desir-
able thing. Their grand cry against the
administration is that it has an all-subor-
dinating love OF the ''nigger." They have
not rejOiced in the progress which freedom
has already made by the natural course Of
the war. A man who votes for Mcclellan
votes to perpetuate that curse which has
been the fruitful mother of all the horrors
of this war.
Again, a vote for Mcclellan is con-
demnatiOn Of the war in toto. It is to rem
der an individual verdict against the poll
oft tho oyof in h0 OF vlf n
maintain its honor, to perpetuate its unity,
10 punish treason, to defend its property,
to protect its capital. and to maintain its
position among the nations Of the world
Gen. McClellan's sentiments on this SUBJ
ject are right enough on paper: but who
are these who vote for him, believing that
they can control him and lead him? Who
are those who have so far received "private
assurances that they are now laboring for
his election with zeal and enthusiasm
Clement l.. Vallandigham Tor one-a con-
victed and banished traitor, the discovered
head of secret organization having tor
it's end the overthrow OF the government,
a man who has always been against the
war. Geo. PendletOn for another, General
McClellan's associate on the national ticket
"a man so blatan. and rampant in his op-
position to the war, that his friends will
not permit him to write q letter accepting
his nomination, for fear Of its effect upon
the people. The whole brood OF unclean
beasts that spawned the Chicago platform
which, with not one word for the govern
nlent, and not one word against treason in
it, il charged to the brim with cowardice
and dishonOr, are voted for with McClel-
Ian. It is simple childishness to say that
he does not indorse the platform. Those
who built the platform are at work for
him, and they know why they are doing
it. They intend and expect to have their
own way with him.
the contamination Of the wishes Of Jetier-
son Davis and his associate and subordin-
ate rebels. The rebels were at first JUDI
liant with the prospect of his election. In
deed, through the little iunta at Niagara
Falls, they engineered the convention
which nominated him. They expected TO
win independence through his nomination
and election, or such terms Of union as
would leave them unsnorn Of power. They
long for his election. They would do and
give much to secure it. This fact, and it is
notorious in the army, II it Is not here,
should be enough to drive every patriot
from his support. The favorite candidate
Of the rebels should not be the favOrite cam
didate OF loyal men. Ii they love McClel-
Ian more than they do Lincoln, they have
good reason for 1t, and a selfish reason
for it. They believe they can accomplish
their purposes better with him at the head
Of the government than they can with Mr..
Lincoln at tho head Of it. This is the long
and short of it; and now, if men prefer Nc
Clellan to Lincoln, let them, before voting,
make sure that they love what goes with
cClellan, for he walks hand in hand with
slavery. with national dish0nor, and with
the wishes Of the rebels. .-SprinQfetd Re-
publican.
The Democraaic Dogma Of the
Right Of Secession.
The New York Nes0s says:
"The right of secession flows from that
time-honored dogma ofthe Democracy, the
doctrine of States Rights"
1.-THE right Of secession is in fact the real
question now remaining und~ the arbitra-
ment Of the sword"
The Cincinnati Enquirer also maintains,
with many words, that the only way to re-
store the Union is to establish and recog-
nize the right of secession.
The Democratic doctrine Of States Rights
never meant anything else than the right
of accession but the party never dared so