The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-30
LINCOLN AND DISUNION.
Preferences of the Rebels for
Lincoln.
"MCClellan the Far More Danger
Gus Man for U.s."
From the Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 5.

From the Richmond Enquirer, Sept. s.
The Democratic nominees in the United
States are Mcclellan for President and
Pendleton for Vice President. What con-
Germ have the people of these Confederate
States in the fate of these candidates at
the approaching election In our opinion,
the interest and hope of peace is not
greatly advanced by these nominations.
From Gen. Mcclellan our people can have
but little hope of peace, other than a re-
construction peace What hope
do his antecedents hold out that should
encourage our people to believe that he
would yield our nationality any sooner
than Mr. Lincoln? He is by far the more
dangerous man for US; had his policy
been persistently followed, and the war
conducted on the principles of civilized
warfare, he might have divided cur peo-
pie, and, perhaps, conquered our lib
critics. With consummate abilities,
he clearly foresaw that emancipation
might possibly free the negroes, but
could not unite the sections that con-
tiscation might enrich his soldiers, but
could not reconcile our people; hence,
with an earnest and honest love for the
Union, he avoided those fatal acts, and
conducted the war for the restoration of
the Union, rather than the destruction of
the South. His policy was the olive
branch in one hand and the sword in the
other, to conquer by power and conciliate
by kindness. 1t was a most dangerous
policy for us; for if the ameliorating hand
Of Federal kindness had softened the rig
ors of war, our people would not have been
subjected to those terrible fires of suffering
by which Mr.. Lincoln has hardened every
heart and steeled every sentiment against
our merciless foes. As a sincere seces-
sionist, preferring war and nationality to
peace and the Union, we looked upon the
fact of difference between Mr.. Lincoln
and Gen. Mcclellan as to the proper policy
OF conducting the war, as peculiarly fortu-
nate for our cause. We hailed the pro-
clamaticns of emancipation and confsca
ton, and the policy Of plumber and devas-
tation as sure pledges of our ultimate
triumph; they were terrible ordeals, but
they most effectually eradicated every
sentiment of Union, and arousing the pride
as we'll as the interest of our people, in
famed the patriotism of the whole, until
they would have accepted death as prefer
able to ultimate defeat.
Now, between Mcclellan and Lincoln
there are many points of difference-the
former is man of talents, of information,
of firmness, and great military experience
and ability-the latter is supple, plant,
easy fool. good but vulgar joker
While Mcclellan has the interest of the
Inc o. Al
tanatical object of freeing negroes for his
inspiration. Between "my plan," as Gen.
Grant has conducted it, and one by Gen.
Mcclellan, there could not have been the
same success that has already attended
our arms, for we lost more men fighting
the science of Mcclellan on the Peninsula
than we have in repelling the furious tut
i'll conducted assaults of Gen. Grant this
season.
Thus, whether we look at this nomina-
ton in the light of peace or war, we pre-
fer Lincoln to Mcclellan. We can make
better terms of peace with an anti-slavery
fanatic than with an earnest Unionist.
We can gain more military success in a
war conducted on my plan than one of
a real soldier like Mcclellan, and sooner
destroy the resources and strength of our:
enemy where they are managed and ma
nipulated by the light fingered gentry of
Messrs. Chase and Fessenden, than when
skillfully controlled by such man as
Guthrie. Our best hope is from the hon.
est fanatics of the United States, men
who believe in their hearts that slavery is
"the sum of all villainies, " and who really
and sincerely believe it to be their duty
to separate their country from this "relic
of barbarism." Such men, when they
find that their people are tired of the war,
will end it by peace that sacrifices terri
tory to freedom, and will let the South
ego, provided she carries slavery with her.
These men believe no less that the Just
powers of government are derived from
the consent of the governed, than " that
all men are created free and equal" The
two postulates are Of like Importance to an
aboiitionist. yIU. .n-e.. le
| Both the Abolitionist and the Democrat
Is our enemy-the one, because we have
| slaves the other, because we are dis