The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-24
WILL THE WAR RES TORE THE UNION
rs 1T 4 FAILUR9F.

is 1T 4 FAIIUREG:
From ne me-.
The black. hearted traitors and the pale hearted
poltroong who combined at Chicago to nominate
Mcclellan and Pcndleton the man who always
delayed the war, and the man who always op-
posed It, had styled the war failure, and called
for lis abandouu cnt. Few, if amy ot these crea.
ures bad ever participated in Il personally. Not
one Of them knew anything of what they affirmed
save as it was prompted to them In their own
coycrts, by either the bascst motives or the
meanest instincts. Precisely 50 did Judas ac-
count Christianity o failure Precisely so did
Benedict Arnold, in his letter which we printed
on Monday, declare the Revolutionary War
allure. The evidence Is a. worthless as It's origin
dotcstshc.
There are men Of better credit who can testify
on this point They are men who sprang to the
combat at the very first CALL and have lod the old
flag through the blaze of half a hundrel battles.
They are the men, Of all others, who should best
know the actual strength Of the Rebellion, for
they have been for three years in mortal grappe
with II. They are the men, too, whose estimate
of realities is unwarped by either pusilanimity
or reaChcry-who daily peril their lives for their
country--whosC every drop of blood singy CON
tans more Of real manhood, more Of those ee
ments which spring from the living soul instead
of the vile dust than all the hundreds who
gathered to do the work at Chicago. What say
4 these heroes to the COpperheld declaration that
the war is failure, and cannot restore the Union
Says Northumberland Grant
1.-THE end is not far distant, if we will only be
trpe TO ourselves. All we want now TO insure an
ea44y restoration of the Union is determined
unity Of sentiment North"
Says Ma aior- General Hooker r:-
"This Union must be preserved and there is no
way Of preserving it but by the power OF our
arms-by fighting the conspiracy TO death. This
Rebellion is tOttering while | speak; il is going
down and will tumblp intO rui
Says Major General Meade
"Dsmissing as now useless to discuss all
questions as TO the origin of this war, we have
daily and hourly evidences that it exists, and that
il can only be terminated by hard fighting, and
by determined efforts to overcome the armed
enemies of the Government"
Says Major General Burnside
"Would it not be cowardly for us to say that
\ this Rebellion cannot be crushed, and the autho.
rity of the Government sustained There is in
my mind no question Of il. There can b. no such
/ thing as laying down of arms, or cessation Of
hostlites, until the entire authority of the Gov
ernment is acknowledged by every citizen of our
country"
Says Major. General Logan:-
"The greatest victory of Ne Rebels, greater
than fifty Manassases, and their only one that
can give them particle of hope, will be to defeat
the war party at the incoming campaign"
IA Says Maor-Geueral Dix -
"My desire is to do all in my power to sustain
the Government in its efforts 10 put down the
4 Rebelhon-an object to be effected, in my judg-
Hcut, Dl hltdug anu uiiSNclNlllE pIONNNutlOh Vi
D the war
Says the old veteran, Major-General Wool -
"Nothing, for aught that can discover, will
\ save the Union and its Government, but the sue
cesses Of Grant, Sherman, Farragut and She
Tidan."
Probably there is not a single NJ Jor-General
in the army, Brigadicr, in active service,
who does not hold these same CONVICTIONS. In
1 deed, it may be said that the whole army, as a
! body, is possessed by an absolute assurance that
the only way to deal with this Rebellion is to con-
quer 1t, and that tins conquest Is alreauy nearly
accomplished.
IL is true that there has been a part Of this war
which was an absolute failure. 1t is that part OF
il which was under the charge OF George B:
" Mcclellan. 1t striking fact that this General
III should have held command of the mOstimpOrtant
department in the seat of war for fourteen
months and not gained from the Rebels during
n all that time the permanent possession OF one
I foot of soil, At the time when he was deprived
of his command, November 5, 1852, he actually
\ had less of Virginia within the loyal lines than
when he first assumed command OF the dePartt
ment. Norfolk left out OF the question, whicn
position was taken and held, not by him b2t Oy
the navy, there had been positive retrogres-
sion.
This could be said of no other Independent
i commander. General Grant had swept the bulb
of the enemys forces from Kentucky and froH
Middle Tennessee, and had established himsel
in Northern Mississippi General Mitchell haI
advanced lis lines TO Huntsville, IN Northern
Alabama Generals Curtis and Sigel had whipped
the Rebel armies out of Missouri and Wcsterl
Arkansas. Admiral Farragut mad conquered
New Orleans, and General Butler had plante'
the flag through lower Louisiana.
Generals Burnside and Foster had taken ever
y position of importance in Eastern North Carolina
u save Wilmington. Admiral Dupont and Genera
~ T. w. Sherman had effected important lodgment
a on the coast of South Carolina. Generals Gil
more had reduced Fort Pulaski, the deteuce q
" Savannah, and made advances into Floridt
II Everywhere was progress, save in the depart neI
under charge of Mcclellan.
There, in spite of the unsurpassed fighting b.
Il our ever. glorious rank and file, was morning bt
IL a complete failure in everything undertaken
SO far as George b. Mcclellan has had to d
with it, and only so far as he has had to do wit
ii il, may the war be called failure. And It
q precisely this which makes him supremely
IA nominee of the purity which has done, and il sti
doing its utmost to make the war an abortion.
1t Is not strange that the people prefer the test
- mony of those who have been willing aud able
~ fight, concerning the progress and the promise
a. the war, TO the bare assertions of those who a
kf too false.hearted or too faint hearted, to enga
II in the war or sustain it. The outspoken cOnvi
H ton of one General of the right stuff has ntiultc
II more weight with the loyal people than any pO
n sible extent of Copperhcad decrying and belyin
III The war instead of being failure, is the mO
II stupendous military success in history and wi
as nothing else could, consolidate he Foundation
- of this Republic as to tit it 10 endure for age