Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-15

of his own achievements, but on that OF
his antagonists! Suppose Burnside had
triumphed at Fredericksburg, taken Rlch-
moud, broken the rebel power, and rees-
| tablished the authority of the Union over
the south, does any man believe that Nc
Clellau would have been to-day q fOTmi-
dable competitor for the Presidency? Ditto
as to Hooker's Chancelloryille effort? Or
suppose Gen. Grant had routed Lees army
at Spottsylvauia, and run him thence at
beadIong speed into North Carolina, who
would to-day be taking stock in Gen. Nc
Clellau as a Presidential aspiraun Sup
pose it were now morally certain that the
rebellion would finally collapse in SePtem-
Der, who would give button tor McClel-
lan's chance of election in Novembert-
Who does not see that his fortunes rise as
the country sinks, and that his chances
would be frightened by his country's ruin.
We speak calmly, for we would provoke
reflection. We have not yet felt that we
could do our country any good by plungiug
headlong into a foamiUg Presidential can
Vass We have no choice that Gen. Nc
Clellau should or should not be nominated
for President at Chicago. 1t seems quite
probable that the choice will ultimately
lie between him and a more exceptionable
competitor; for, though probably the weak
est, he is by no means the worst of the
prominent aspirants for that distinction
But he is in the hands of worse men than
himself-meu who never sympathized with
their country in her resistance to slave
holding treason, even in the blind way
and to the small extent that he did, and
who too soou had him in their tolls, and
inhaming and playing upon his ambition,
made his military career the deplOrable
failure it was. These crafty politicians,
who were never for one moment enemies
of the Rebellion, who never sought nor
wished its overthrow otherwise than by
surreudering the whole country to its prin-
ciples and its essential aims, now own and
run him, and would if successful in their
scheme, make his whole Administration a
COPY of the last six sad months of Buchan-
ans. The Union they sigh for is just that
which Horatio Seymour contemplated when
be thought the whole trouble could be
composed by the loyal States one by one
creeping in at the back door of the South
ern Confederaey, and so inducing the
Southrons once more to tolerate our com
panionship by enabling them profoundly
to despise US.
There are a good many in favor of Nc
Clellsn for next President, for many di-
verse reasons; but not one for the reason
that he considers the Shareholders Rebel
llOu AhBLautlg "AOuBf anu "sHHN9 "a t-4'14 -
the White House who can and will put it
down. Among all the reasons for prefer
ring him, we never heard one like that.
To elect Mcclellan President is to sur
render at discretion to the COnfederacyr
asking its leaders to take US in and do for
US on their own terms. HIS supporters
shout for "The Constitution as it is" but
mean "the Constitution altered as the
Slave Power shall choose to have it,
Elect him President, and it will be re-
coguized misdemeanor, it not legally
punishable otfense to speak of slavery as
Washington, Lafayette and Jefferson hab-
itually did, much more to resist its diffu-
sion as jefferson fret taught us to do, with
Washiugtou's official ratif cation. There
are a good many unequivocal rebels in this
community who prefer a bOlder and more
pronounced partisan of the rebellion to
Mcclellan; but there is not one voter IN
the Free States who considers JEFF. Davis
patriot statesman fighting against injustice
and oppression who will not, should be
be nominated, give his voice and vote to
George B. Mcclellan.