Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-09-16
MCCLELLAN ACCEPTS THE NOMlNA.
TkDN, BUT lsEPUDlATES THE
PLATFORM~


MCCLELLAN ACCEPTS THE NOMINA.
TFON, BUT REGULATES T1uE
| PLATFORM
On first page We publish McClellan's ac
ceptance Of the nomination rendered him by
the Chicago Convention. 1t has raised big
row in the copperhcad camp, for It smashss
their peace platform all to hinters. The N
Y. Meus,, Ben. Woods paper, apparently, is
terribly wroth, and advises the Executive
Committee to reassemblc the Convention and
nominate candidate suited to the platform
or else make new platform suited to the
present candidate. We wish all our readers
would compare the principles set forth in
MeClellan's letter with those contained in
the peace platform, and see how diamctrical
ly opposed to each other they are. The plat.
form calls for an immediate cessation Of hos
tilites while Mcclellan in his letter opposes
an arm;slicc until the rebels are beaten into
submission. The platform is very severe on
arbitrary arrests, the draft, and the suspcn-
sion Of the writ Of habeas corpus. Mcclellan
refuses 10 endorse these planks, and says that
in the Constitution he should seek the rule
of his duty. This is a heavy blow on the
peace sneaks, for they cannot help remem.
boring that it was Little Mac" who arbitra-
rily arrested the Maryland Legislature, and
interfered with elections in that State that
he was the first man to propose draft, and
defend its, constitutionality; and that he BY.
military force suspended the writ of habeas
corpus while in command of the Army Of
the Potomac Yet the strangest part Of it
all is, that Mcclellan, protesting one set Of
principles, consents to stand on platform
expressing views exactly the opposite Of his
own. What shall we understand the posi-
ton of the party to be: Is it Mcclellan, an
avowed Union man, and the prosecution Of
the WARP or is it Pendleton, an openly de-
clared sceessionist, an armistice, and the dis
solution Of the Union2 All this has queer
look, but we are very much mistaken If it is
not part ola nice little plot we'll understood
by the leading spirits among the opposition.
McClellan's letter is bid for the votes of the
War Democrats, and other Union men op.
posed to the present administration while
the platform on which he stands is made to
suit the contemplate peacc-sneaks Of the
North, and the traitors in arms at the South.
And George B. Mcclellan so far forgets his
manhood, his honor, his duty as a,sworn de-
fender Of the Union, as to strike hands with
the enemies of the Government, and enter
into scheme to deceive the people, that
this unholy combination may succeed at the
coming Presidential election. But the trick
is too shallow, too transparent to deceive any
body with particle of sense. The people
have only to know who Little Macs back.
ers are to have their eyes opened. Pendle.
ton, Vallandigham, Seymour, the Woods,
August Belmont, and the political associates
of these traitorous demagogues, would never
support Mcclellan If he were a sincere Union
man. In an evil hour General Mcclellan
sold himself to the traitors Of the North, and
if he should be elected, which Heaven for
bid, they, and not the Union men Of the
country, would control his Administrations
The last hope of the rebels is in the success
of the party of which General Mcclellan is
the standard bearer. II the peace sneaks
JEFF. Davis & Co. will have it all
their own way. Read General Grants pa
triotic letter which we publish in another
column. He says all we want to insure the
Of the Union is determined SEN
timent in the North. The rebellion is on its
last legs; and should Abraham Lincoln be
re. elected it will totterf to its grave, and we
h We the peace we all so much long fora
honorable peace, which will re.
feet credit and not disgrace upon us. And
at this time, when victory is within our
grasp, when the military situation is highly
favorable for the Union cause, and when
treason is in its death throes, how mean, pit
iful, cowardly, appear the miserable peace
sneaks who ask US to ANONYMOUSLY surren-
der all, and accept such terms Of peace as
the arch traitor at Richmond may dictate
Worse than traitor is the dastardly north
ern wretch who would advocate an armistice |
md immediate cessation OF hostilities at the
present juncture of national affairs, for the
purpose Of compromise.
A CASE OF DROWNING AT Iowa FALLS
One day the latter part of last week four in