The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-10-18
Mcclellan the Rebels Candidate.

vi all the leauerS OF tnc ARMY Oh tne
Potomac, not one was so acceptable
to the rebels as Gen. NC Clellan. That
fact is beyond dispute. A similar par
tiality is displayed by the rebel journ-
ais toword Mcclellan as Presiden-
tial candidate The Chicago nomina-
ton suits them completely. 1t could
not have given them livelier gratifca-
ton, had the nominee been Vallandig-
ham himself. Even the rebel armies,
it is said cheered it when they heard it.
This feeling Of course does not
spring from any supposition that he has
any positive principles or traits that
would actively operate on their side.
1t was not that which made him their
military favorite, but his passive yield
ing nature. Just So, it is the assurance
that he is man who can be easily
adapted to any pacific policy that
makes him so acceptable politically.
The Richmond Examiner expresses it
clearly in an article Of the 9Th INST, in
which it says: every defeat OF Lin
coins forces, even holding them stead
lily at bay, inures to the advantage Of
Nc Clellan, or rather to that Of the deX-
trons manipulators in whose hauls he
is puppet, and accumulates for them
the much desired political capital"
and thereupon it adds, with perfect rea
son, ''the influence of the South, more
powerful in the shock of battles than
when throwing our minority vote in an
electoral college, will be east in favor
of Mcclellan" He is, to all intents
and purposes, the accepted candidate
of the South-as much so as if a ratifi-
cation meeting had been held in every
county within the rebel lines.
What gives the greater significance
to this rebel friendship for Mcclellan is
the fact that its indulgence does not in
terfere in the least with the most stub
born hostility TO any reconstruction of
the Union. Side by side with the ar
ticles that eyince the keenest anxiety
for McClellan's success are other arti-
cles that seek to inAame the people to
the last pitch Of resistance, and that
predict the inevitable success of the
Confedaracy. Most clearly it is not
because the repes desire peaceful re-
turn to the Union that they desiIe the
election of Mcclellan. Precisely the
contrary. 1t is because they have
their heart set OH independence, and
mean to carry the rebellion through to
its full consummation. /" other words
it is for The rebellion's sake, and not
for the Union'ssake that they are Nc
Clellan men.
Now we say that there could not
possibly be more damning fact
against any Presidential candidate.
Whatever his professions, or whatever
his personal character might be, the
single circumstance that all traitors
are anxious for his elevation to office
is proof positive that patriots ought
not to support him. is morally inn
possible that the sort of loyalty with
which treason finds such ready affinity
can.be trustworthy. 1t is Il glory to
Abraham Lincoln that from the begin
ming the rebels have made him the OBJ
ject Of their most rabid hate and foul
est blackguardism. 1t is decisive
testimony that he was exactly the op-
posite Of what they were; and that he
stood directly athwart all their plans.
There could be no better commenda-
ton to loyal men than this. And it is
precisely because Mcclellan has credit
with the rebels, and their best wishes
for his success, that no loyal man can
give him confdence.-[N. Y. Times.