The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-03

ernment, and this the merest lppe, is now wholly
extinguished. His infrmity - purpose; his un-
stcadiness in any poliey his e1lce expressed dislike
e as % IL worst
with our military campaigns; disappointment often
against advice, Of high military scers Of notorious
incompeteney his frequent and neariy fatal change
Of commanders; his abandefnent Of the before
uniform practice of his predeccs6rs Of Cabinet con-
sultations; his permission Of dishonorabe iissen.
sions among its members, displaying itself constantly
to his knowledge, before others, and ofen as 1t Is
known, in his presence, in personal abuse of each
other; his obstinate and reckless disregard Of the
wishes Of his political friends, communicated to him
on one occasion in the solemn form OF committee,
representing he aware nine-tenths fnot every
friend he had in Congress- and again, and recently
expressed in terms not to be MISTAKEN in of the
resolutions of the convention wAieh nominated him
Tor re-electon his permitting military interference
with elections virtually subeetne the ballot to the
control OF the bayonet his juskying arrests with
out specifications of charges, though over and over
again demanded, and long-contmned imprisonment,
and, after release without trial or explanation his
tolerating trial. by military commission, Of offences
made cognizabie exclusively, BY acts of Congress
passed since the rebellion, by the civil courts and
the virtual conseation Of private property without
even resort to any mode Of trial, aud other mat
ers of like illegality and outrage, too many to de-
tail in letter, while they demonstrate his utter un-
fitness for the Presidency, give no promise Of sue
n-chief Of the army aud navy and intrusted by the
power he wields with the shaping OF our peace and
war policy. This must be arrested, or, in my opin-
ion, the country will be ruined.
This fatal career can be- and would be, stopped by
the election OF almost any loyal man in his stead,
and the result is certain If General Mcclellan be-
Union and his expressed determination to make its
restoration the Zone condition of peaee"--the pu-
rity OF his character, his demonstrated ability, and
his military attainments-fuInish guarantees that
in his hands the executive power win not be abused,
but be directed in strict subordination to the con-
stituton, to the sole end of restoring the Union,
which is our inheritance, snd causing it again to
shed its blessings over a sorely- troubled and
bleeding nation.
Wild, insane and reckless partisans may assail him
with every opprobrious epithet-men who have
tasted Of that insane root, the obtaining of high Of
flee at home or abroad, may tell us, to the disgust
OF all patriotic men, that sit is not too much to
say that it would be far better that Robert F. Lee
should enter Washington at the head Of his army,
as its conqueror, than that George B. Mcclellan
should enter it as President" ;" ludicrously in
consistent and even illogical premier, the half of
whose official papers and speeches the other
half may threaten treachery oil the part of the Ad-
minstration ON the happening of Mr.. Lincon's
defeat i'll November, by declaring himself unable in
that contingency to "youch for the safety Of the
country against the rebels during the interval which
must elapse before the new administration con-
stitutionally come into power,'' and the canvass
may be continued as, with some honorable excep-
tons, it has begun, by the billingsgate abuse
aud calumnious charges against our candi-
dates and their friends; yet, from all these causes
we have nothing to fear. Success is in our hands
if We true to duty. Under the protection of Di-
vine Providence We can achieve for country
victory greater in its results than any present mill
tary success We can elect Mcclellan and Pendle
ton in spite OF ottce-hoders, contractors and ad-
ministrative influence and power; and that done,
III short time thereafter State after State will be
found returning to allegiance, until at date not
remote, the Union will be restored, iraternai atfec
tions revived, and peace and plenty and happiness
and national character and power be substituted for
dvision hatred, war, destitutioi, wretchedness,
tional dlshonor and comparative weakness.
With regard, your obedient servant,
REyERDY JOHNSON.
RABID SPIRIT OF THE YANKEE PRESS ON THF PREsI-
DENTAL QUESTION.
The Herald has a long articif upon the bitter
spirit existing at the North upon the subject of the
Presidential election and the ferceness of the de-
nunciations of the party press Wecopy portion
of the editorial:
The manner i'll which the rival claims Of Mr. Lin
coin and General Mcclellan ars being pressed is Il
disgrace to the enlightenment of our country and
source of serious peril to the public peace The
Lincoln papers assail the character of General
Mcclellan with every epithet of obloquy. He is de-
nounced as "gunboat general" coward" Il trai-
tor" &c, while all the many thousand loyal and
gallant men who support him come i'll for a liberal
spiinkling OF the same abolition dirty water The
Mcclellan papers are not behind in the same un-
wholesome and disgracetlii activity. Not content
with challenging the personal honesty of ma
through their daily and weekly organs, put forth
insnuations to the diseredit of Mr. Ineoin's wife,
charging her. III one instance with accepting bribes
and i'll another with some paltry peculation III
crockery bill
Unless these abominable practices Of the partisan
press checked in time, wesshall most essuredly
have Of violence before the ides OF next No
veinber. This is revolutionary period, and the
minds OF men are intamed by GnWonted passions
AS to the attacks upon Mrs Lincoln, they only i'll
luTe, and that seriously. the side from which they
I
modest courtesy and gentleness, the ISLANDERS with
which secession sympathizers at Washington as
sailed her on her advent to the White House. Let
us Eight it out as men," says General Sherman in
his recent pithy and characteristic letter to General
Hood and will say all decent citizens in refer
ence to these attacks upon the matron and wife,
who is, by national comfy, the first lady Of our
land. We feel confident that General Mcclellan
must disapprove this style of warfare in his behalf
and however reluctant he may be to interfere in
such matters, would suggest to him the proprety of
giving his parsans hint to improve their manners.
As TO the attacks upon General Mcclellan, made
by the Lincoln organs, they are foul and disgrace
ful beyond any parallel in partisan warfare. Is it
really the wish OF the Lincoln papers to persuade
the American people and the world at large that
every citizen who supports General McCiellan's
claims to the Presidency is at heart traitor desir-
ing the disruption OF our Union and the success of
the jeff Davis conspiracy! Or how long do the
chief organs Of this Lincoln faction believe that they
can with impunity pursue the work of yillifying
General Mcclellan as "cOward, "poltroon,"
| 50 iOitu3 III cily WHICH Deyouu
any peradventure cast from sixty to eighty thou
sand votes III his favor at the neSt election!
In the present intiamed and revolutionary conJi-
ton Of the public mind, any spark may serve to
kindle eontasratlon that will not be extinguished
without bioodshed There will, we fear be attacks
upon the offices of the newspapers engaged III these
scurilous outpourings and We shall have the mis-
fortune to see the editor of Lincoln organ
pended on lamp-post at his own corner, while the
editor Of another Lincoln organ keeps him company
ON the lamp-post opposite. Every act of violence
thus committed in the democratic metropolis will
be retalated in some or other of those rural
districts in which the Lincoln men strong, and
the upshot of the whole scandalous quarrel, the
loyal States will be plunged into riot anarchy and
indlscTiminate lynching These consequences we
regard as inevitable unless greater moderation OF
tone be Immediately evinced by the partisan writers
Of the Lincoln and Mcclellan press.
4 DEMOCRATIC MEETING BROKEN Up LINcoLS's
SOLDIERS
The Cincinnati GaSstfe, an abolition sheet, de-
seribes how Democratic meeting was broken up by
some soldiers Oh the oath. 1t says
The place selected for holding the meeting was
near where a.McClellan pole had been raised lew
days before About eight o'clock III the evening the
meeting organized by calling James u. Arnold,
Esq, to the chair, and appointing James Gray Sc
cretary Robert Richardson, Esq, first addressed
the meeting He spoke very briefly, and retired af
Mr.. Pugh was evidently in very bad humor-or,
We might suggest something ese-Judging from the
company who escorted him to the meeting. He
started out by declaring that our victories were mere
teegraphic lies, used to keep spirit and courage up
among the Aboliti0nsts. He stated that Kentucky