Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-09-23
The Great Eesitator,

General McClellan's Report, and of that
on the .'Conduct of the War" and at what
page or chapter of these yoluminous docu
mcnt any loyal, wide-awake, earnest, and
honest man, can find matter to incline him
to fall III love with the Great Hestator,we
have failed to learn. There is nothing be-
tokening ability to lead men to do daring
deeds, or to lead them against equal num-
berS, or to infjse into loyal lue,jacbet a
spirit of determined resistance to rebels in
arms, that We can find. The former lead
CT of the Union armies, is the present lead-
or &C. their natural enemies at home. From
bei,,. hv an continent and universal con-
sent. the rrcat CaP:ain of the Nations
fighting miliions,-eai est ara honest men
as they are and always have po"n-he "aS
become the leader of the party OF inc
Woods of New York, the standard bearer
of all that have been and are now dis!oyal,
the champion of those in Maine who vote
Noon proposition to let the soldiers vote,
and the hope and pride of the men who
say and do all they can to prevent more
men being raised to save the Union. Ry
association, then, if not by direct act and
word, G encral Nee lellan,-thc Great Hest
tator of the age, is identified with the men
who have always sympathized with rebels
in arms. Now, at this time. he may be
only rafting, as he always waits, to be
driven from his position of nominal
Union man, to that of a positive and bitter
opponent of the war. The men who
nominated him are peace at any price men,
The platform is of this stamp. The Vice
President belongs in the same category
The men who will vote for him.-ninetecn
twentieths of them, believe in the platform
and in the Vice President Mcclellan is
made of that kind of dust which is remark
ably plastic and easy to he changed, if the
change is for the worse. He can't be
raised up, but he can be easily given long
push forward in downward course, when
the grade is easy. The President and the
Nation endeavored to pull him up out of
his intrenchments before Washington in
1861 and '62 for six months, and he could
not be started an inch. He couldn't be
coaxcd nor driven forward to assist Gcner-
al Pope, in July 1862 because this work
was enc contrary to his genius, and the
grade was an up hill one. But Lee could
Sc I'd him down the Chickahominy swamps
for six days running when, if he had had
General Grants pluck, and genius t, r
..m0yng on the enemy" or moving in tie
right direction, he would have been in
Richmond.
Rcaso ming by analogy, Mcclellan will
he a bn.d candidate for the peace democra-
cy. He has never yet succeeded, or has
not SUI, eeded since Ire became public
man in any thing. As politician writing
. .tters IL, The President and lecturing him,
o instrueting him IN his duties, he did not
ST 'cceed. As Il military man, his career,
w til the means and opportunity given him,
ha. been a miserable failure. He has fail
ed to satisfy she reasonable expectations of
a loyal people. lie has failed to meet the
Just expectation US Of all thinking men.-
But he has wonderful genius to conduct
retreats. He has no superior as fault
fndir g, and a Iuerrulous General. He
can see as many liens lying in the path Of
duty, as the most skepticaI and disbeleying
of men. "D9pbtins and Z" Hesitating''
are the two evH geniuses that have pre-
vented him froa succeeding. ITO doubt
say the divines his to be damned TIC
'hesitate'' is togive up all.
The public will admit that there is moth
ing particularly hard to get over in his mill
tary career fol his peace friends. He did
some fighting, when he could not help it,or
let his army do it. But the challenge has
been made for an instance to be named
wheI he has been under fire.
The report that Tailandingham will oppose
-