Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-09-14
UNION COUNTY TICKET.
McCIeHan,s-L Letter of Accept

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Mcclellan has signifed his acceptance
of the Chicago nomination for the Presi-
rdency. His letter, which we publish else
where, is a singular document, and like
the. resolutions adopted at Chicago, may
mean something, or nothing, just as per-
sons may choose to construe it. The letter
of a~cceptanceis more remarkable for what
is omitted than what is said. 1t was to
be expected that he would allude to the
q platform of principles erected for him 10
stand upon, but he ignores the patch
work of the Chicago Swans as not. worthy
of ever a passing allusion. Instead of
Il recognizing his nomination as a tribute
paid to his championship of principles
avowed in the platform, he. cody assumes
f that the record of his public life was the
Fl cynosure that guided the Convention to
p their choice. When it is borne in mind
that previous to his connection with the
much abhorred abolition Wars the
q copperheads style our present struggle
Il Gen. Mcclellan did not stand more con-
spicuously before the public than tens of
thousands of citizens, and that about all
the public record he has made, of any
moment; has been as a military chief in
the present war, it viii be difficult for a
sincere copperhead to discover any good
reason why he should support Mcclellan.
Sach men claim 10 want a peace candi-
date, but Mcclellan says the Union
must be preserved at all hazards" In
asmuch as JEFF. Davis declares the South
will have independence at all hazards,
and wll not be satisfied with any thing
short of that, Mcclellan virtually pledges
himself &c: an..indefnite ~proIongation of
the war. rs
But says the McClellanite, our candi-
date is in favor of Cancellation" Who
would he conciliate7 Traitors in arms ?
What means does he suggest to mollify
their ~irascibility2 Is it in this that he
would try to save the Union and Slavery
teeetherf President Lincoln tried that
for two years and found that the 9uack-
: cry was, only aiding the disease TO kill the
patient. He said if he could save the
Union without destroying slavery he
would do so. But he finally discovered
that Slavery was the cause and life OF
Secession and Rebellion, and that to save
the union the malady that vas preying on
its vitals must be eradicated But Nc
Clellan, in Difference to the pro-slavery
sympathies of those who nominated him,
humors them with the intimatien that he
would not modest the institution of slave
~. That is al the salve he has for the
.laccerated peace men. Slavery he would
preserve intact. And that is the only
thing Mcclellan makes any:pledge to do,
and it is in fact the very thing he would
find it quite impossible to perform.
Men will deceive themselves with the
absurd idea that because Freedom and
Slavery have lived side by side in the
Union for three-quarters of a century, it
is fair to presume The came relation could
be maintained for. ever. A man may live
for years with a foul ANGER fastened up
on him, but if it is allowed to remain it
will some day eat out his life. A repub-
lican government may endure for a time
with the forrign and vicious element of
Slavery infused through it, but sooner or
later a crisis must come involving the
mastery of oneor the other of the antago-
-nistie theories. That period has arrived
in our nations history, and the question
for the american people TO determine is
whether they viii continue applying the
vigorous and efficient remedy of war to
eradicate the evil that besets us, or re
sort TO a change Of treatment that pro
poses, t. nurture that evil and impart to
it new fife and increased capacity for com
hitting injury and outrage.
In this contest the Union can only be
saved by destroyingits mortal foe, Slavery.
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