The Portland daily press., 1864-08-12
Rebel Respect for Gen. Mcclellan,

A Mr.. Norton recently made speech be-
fore Mcclellan Club in New York, report
ed at length in the World, in which he said
I'll we elect President who says to the
people OF the South that they shall enjoy all
the rights of American citizens guaranteed
by compact that shall be considered sacred,
restoration will be easy. Yet he will say to
them that if their politicians an6 ambitious
military men persist in their attempt TO build
foreign government under a foreign flag, he
will be compelled 10 fight them. tGreat
cheering.) That we never will permit anoth-
er flag to float where the star-spangled ban-
ner has waved. Our duty is to
elect for President one who stands before tho
American people with spotless character,
whose military genius is transcendent, and
who would WELD the sword only against mil
itary organizations, not against ciIizens, and
for the maintenance of the institutions of the
country. president of that description
woult restore the Union. He had lived
among the Southern people and he knew them
lie knew that the people of the South, state
by state, would return TO the glorious galaxy
OF the Union If George b. Mcclellan was ell
ected President.
This is one side of the Mcclellan picture /;
the copperhead side; viewed from the stand
point of northern disloyalty by those who
would crawl on their bellies to curry favor
with armed rebels, who would use them while
despising them. But there is another view
of this picture, and we make single extract
from the Richmond Dispatch to show how
this ''transcendent military genius is regard
ed by the men whom the copperheads think
TO wheedle by the use of bis name. Referring
to McClellan,s Report-the stoek-in-trade of
his political friends-the Dispatch says:
ITO cover one o { the most shameful as well
as complete defeats recorded in history, Nc
Clellan's vanity prompted him TO indulge in
system OF deliberate Ialsehood which Justly
brought upon him the derision Of the civilized
world. But il did him no manner of service
His employers seen through his devices.
his.opponents have already done from the be-
ginning. No man-least OF all Mcclellan
Observation-Disclosures a word of what he writes.
lie has found bis proper level, aud all the ly-
ing reports which he Cen manufacture be.
tween this and dooms day cannot raise him
above il. He came here TO take the city OF
Richmond. He had, frst and-from Fortress
Monroe TO observation-disclosures documents fur
nished TO the committee of enquiry by the war
Office. substantiated by the assistant Secretary
OF War, prove beyond all douht-l5S 900 men.
DE was beaten In every battle from William
burg to Malvern, Lincoln found him at West
over or Shirley with but $1,000 men. What
had become OF all the rest? Had they sunk
or melted into the air? They had sunk into
the earth, victims TO the bsyonets aud shots
OF the confederate troops, or TO the disease
of the climate, aggravated by exposure and
unremitting toll in ditching his way TO Rich.
mond At last, only because it was necessary
to withdraw our troops to repel invasion from
another quarter, he was permitted to stink
away with The miserable remnant Of his troops.
cowed, broken-spirited, and etiectuaily
brought down from the lofty tone of bragga-
docio with which they commenced the siege
of Richmond. A more entire failure is no.
where recorded, and more thorough charla-
tan never lived -