Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-13
I4PoRTANT ooRFIRMAToRY DISCLOSURES


IaPoRTANT ooHFIRMAToRY DISCLOSURES
In our number Of Monday last we called the par
tcuar attention of our readers to the extraordinary
revelation made by the Hon MONTGOMERY BLAIR,
the late Postmaster General, in his speech deliv-
cred in the city Of New York on the 9th ultimo.
In that speech, il will be remembered, Mr.. Blair
distinctly announced to the country that President
Lincoln, "holding Gen. AcCstlSan 10 b patriotic,
had concerted WiA Gen. Grant to bring him
McClellan] again into The field os his [Granps]
adjunct" if he [MoClellanl g would turn his back"
on the nomination Of the Chicago Convention.
This statement was deliberately made by
Mr.. Blair in public speech, and, having
bsen thus made on his authority, (than which
none could be better,) it stands before the
country to-day as an uncontradicted fact, which
needs no additional confirmation. The people Of
the United States are apprized BY man, whose
high personal character and whose late familiar
official relations with the President are sufficient
guarantee for the truth and the accuracy of his
statement, that Mr. Lincoln had " con certed" with
the Lieutenant General Of the armies Of the United
States to bring Gen. Mcclellan again into the
field as his "adjunct," provided the latter would
agree to decline nomination which, if accepted,
would necessarily bring him into competition with
the Presidential aspirations Of Mr.. Lincoln.
This fact being settled beyond doubt or dispute,
some curiosity was naturally excited as to the time
when and the circumstances under which this ar
rangement was g concerted between the President
and his Lieutenant General. As throwing some
light on this secondary branch Of the question, we
reproduced on Monday last certain disclosures made
by the Washington correspondent Of New York
journal early in the month Of August last, for the
purpose of ascertaining the origin and motive of
this attempted bargain which had for its object to
g buy Of" Gen. Mcclellan from the impending
Presidential contest, thus leaving an open field to
President Lincoln 1t will be remembered that
this correspondent traced to Mr.. francis P.
BLAIR, senior the responsibility of having brought
to the consideration of Gen. Mcclellan, in the
month Of July last the propriety Of refusing to be
candidate in opposition to Mr.. Lincoln Whether
in doing so he had acted on his own instance, or
at the suggestion of the President did not appear
We are glad to have it in our power to-day to
shed full light on the unexplained part Chat is,
the preliminary detals Of this extraordinary trans
action. We allude to communication, to DO found
in another column Of our paper to-day, from the pen
of the venerable Mr.. FRANCIS P. BLAIR, giving q
detailed account of the interview he had with Gen.
Mcclellan in the month Of July last. 1t will be
seen that the correspondent Of the New York jour
nal was in error with regard to the circumstances
under which, and the precise place in which, the
proposition was brought by Mr.. Blair to the notice
of Gen. Mcclellan. Instead of procuring access
to Gen. Mcclellan through member of his fami-
ly, as the correspondent had supposed, it was
through Mr. Barlow, an intimate friend Of the
General, that the meeting was arranged, and the
meeting, instead of being held in private Office
down town." was held, it appears, in the room Of
Mr.. Blair at the Astor House, to which, on his
invitation, Gen. Mcclellan had repaired, without
Of course knowing the object Of Mr.. Blair in sol-
citing the interview. The substance of the propo-
sition alleged by the correspondent to have been
made by Mr.. Blair to Gen. Mcclellan is entirely
confirmed by the more particular statement which
we are enabled to publish to-day in the commune
cation Of its author. In the public revelation
made by the Hon. Montgomery Blair in his speech
in New York, as coupled with the disclosures now
made by his father, the country has a consistent
and connected history Of this extraordinary trans
action.
It now appears that in the initial stages of this
strange negotiation Mr.. Francis P. Blair, senior,
acted on his own instance, without authority or
direction from the President, and that his inter-
view with Gen. Mcclellan was part and parcel Of
a general effort he made at the North in the month
Of July last for the purpose Of concilAting GER
tain political interests in favor Of Mr.. Lincoln.
This lifting Of the curtain is instructive as it is
curious, for the light it sheds the secret agencies
by which Heading men and leading organs Of
public opinion" in the North, after the most con-
tumacious expressions Of dissatisfaction with Mr..
Lincoln's candidacy, have been brought to yield
him their support in the pending canvass.
It appears from these condolences of Mr.. Blair
with the public that the editors Of the New York
Evening Post, most intelligent and influential
Republican Journal "fclt that they had good
ground Of discomfort" with Mr.. Lincoln, and we
now learn that Mr. Blair explained to Mr.. Bryant,
its edtorin-ohief " the attitude Of the President
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