Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-09-16

makes one for himself A fraudulent sale If
not binding in law" And further ave
did not feel like writing until we obtained
McCleIlan's letter of acceptance, as We felt
very certain that he would reject the plat
form adopted at Chicago. He has done So
even impudently, and sets up ooe Tor
himself"
The Freeman's Journal, before the letter OF
acceptance appeared, which will of course
greatly intensity its wrath. discoursed as fol-
lows
"We pass in silence over the secrets of the
workings of the leading men at Chicago. lis
work for the present is done. Mcclellan is
nominated. If he cordially and without res
ervation, accepts the platform Of PrinclPtes-
poor as it is, on which he has been nominated,
we must as Democrats, or ra ther as citizens
seeking the best interests of our several States,
give him what support We can. Such was the
advice and results of deliberative councils sit
ting in Chicago during the Convention, of
those who have opposed this war in all its
phases and in all its Instruments.
Let no mistakes be made as 10 facts. Nc
Clellan's nomination fell on the West like
cold equnoctial storm. On the eve OF his
nomination, when it became certain that he
would be the candidate, thousands of Western
men left Chicago IN disgust. They have yet
to be re-nssured. or no political manipulation
will secure their support or that of the multi
tude they represent. There was no intelligent
observer at Chicago who did not see and know
that the crowds there assembled were determ-
ined on peace and no more fighting with
Southern States, The peace candidate is the
only one thar can win in the coming contest" :"
The New York Daily News gives ills rea-
sons at length for refusing to support McClel-
Ian in consequence of the sentiments contained
in his letter, having previously avOwed its de-
termination to acquiesce in the nomination.
1t says:
"Geo. B. Mcclellan was nominated upon
platform that promises an immediate cessation
of hostilities, and a Convention of all the
States. Does he stand upon that platforms
to-day He does not. He has renouuced
the platform in his letter accepting the nom
ination. Il is as if the bridegroom should ac-
cept the brides property, but not her person.
-
party will not consent to have their principle
betrayed, and then do homage to the betrayer.
They demand all that is nominated in the
bond. Gen. Mcclellan having rejected the
proposition for a cessation of bostilities and
Convention of all the States, declined the
Chicago nomination, and stands before the
people selfnominated on a platform of his
own creation. The Democracy must seek
candidate who qUW stand upon the platform,
for they cannot consistently support man who
is in collision with the Convention that ten
dered him the nomination"
The Editor of the Metropolitan Record,
who had also svowed bis purpose to sup
port the nomination, withdraws that avow-
al in advance Of the appearance of his own
paper, in a card published in the Daily News
from which card we make brief extract:
Gen. Mcclellan says: Il am happy to
know that when the nomination was made the
record of my public life was kept in views"
but he certainly cannot be ignorant of the
fact that the record" of his ''public life" was
the great obstacle TO his nomination iD the
minds of the Peace Democracy, and that it
was only upon the assurance that he was in
favor of the immediate cessation of hostilities
that they withdrew their objection to him as a
candidate. 1t was their wish that his "recOrd"
should be kept out of view and they believed
that he himself was not desirous of giving it
more extended publicity than it had already
obtained; but they never supposed that he
would refer to it as a matter of pride or satis-
faction. Are we to understand by this i'll
timed reference to his record" that he re-
CARDS his arrest of the Maryland Legislature
as justifaSle act, aud that if elected he will
continue the system of arbitrary arrests in
augurated by Abe Lincoln, aud 50 willingly
carried into execution by himeelf This ''rec-
ord" tells US that he is the enemy of habeaS
corpus, and it also Informs Us in regard to ac-
other very unpleasant particularly un
pleasant to the industrial class-that he was
the first to urge and press npon the President
that most despotic of all despo,ic measures of
the present Administration, the odious con-
scriplion.