Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-03-12
From the New Yort Independent.
Gen. mcCIellsn-Thc Presidenoy.
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ed-contrary TO my wishes and hopes
and the attention Of our people will ere
long be measurably drawn 10 the strife
We shall be listening for returns from Con.
neticut and Pennsylvania with as deep
an interest as for bulletins from Georgia
or Alabama. This is unfortunate, but not
uDmixed evil. Those who solicit the PEG
ple's sutfrages will be required to state
what they propose to do. 1t will no lon.
ger suffice 10 declare that they don't like
this, or object to that, or think the other
might have been different. Those who
propose 10 assume the government of our
country for the next four eventful years,
must say distinctly what they propose to
do with 1t, aud how they Intend to deal
with the rebellion and its exciting cause
More than ever, It is manifest must Prin.
ciplc control the vote Of the great msjori.
ty, irrespective of personal considerations.
The Opposition foresee end fear this
They want to glide siuuously into power
and place through concealmeuts and equi.
yocations. Hence they will, almost iuev.
itably, unite on George b. Mcclellan as
their candidate for president He is their
true representative, the embodiment of
their lack of principle. Are you for the
War? oh yes; he has led our main army
in the War, and has been General In Cheif
of the Union armies. Are you against the
War2 lie has always been favorite with
the "peace" men, especially with Yallaud.
igham and the Philadelphia Copperheads,
who are exceeded by none other 10 boldness
or venom. The Daily News-owned and
edited by representative in Congress,
who truthfully boasts that he never voted
a man nor dollar for the warts now
printing by ips,alments his long exculpa-
tory Report. The Rebels have always
proclaimed him onr best General-they
never had the heart to speck i'll Of him
True, they have charged that he sought
command in their service before be found
one in ours; and the following extract
from KNOXVILLE letter to The Cincingatt
Cazette, describing conference between
the hostile outposts under flag of TRUCE,
proves that be has pot forfeited their good
opinion:
After the business for which the flag had
been sent out was attended to, the whole party
sat down by the side of the railroad and in
dulged 10 familiar Interchange Of thought
The rebels treated to Apple jack and the Yam
KEGS to Bourbon.
Who are you going to elect for uext pres
identf
Old Abe has the inside track.
Oh, Godl then the war will never end; but
what change will Mcclellan stand.
Not the least.
Sorry to here it, he is the best nlaa you hap.
1t is qsual for belgerents- especially
those as raucorQus and desperate as the
Rebels notoriously are-to warn their ad.
sdversaries of past mistakes in the choice
Of leaders and tell them bow to oavoid them
iu futuref Have the amenities of War ever
been carried SO far till now7
Gen. McClelleD, We will presume, is not
a traitor to bis country. He does not wish
to see her divided and humiliated. What
is it, then. that impels the Rebels SO uuan.
imously to wish him made our leader in
our struggle for the overthrow? Why
does every maa in the loyal States who
holds that the War for the Union is wrong,
aud ought forthwith 10 be given up.
shout Justify for Mcclellan? Sound any
one Tor ten) of this class whom you hap
pen to know. and you will be satisfied that
such is the fact. What is its explanatory
Do not these men knoac " hat they want,
and why they want il?
Geu. Mcclellan wants the Union with
Slavery; and we want it without: The
Rebels don't want it at ALL Why do they
prefer hem to us, save that they know
right we'll that reconstruction on ogr pta4 Is
possible, whae on his it is impossible? We
defy any FRIEND of Mcclellan to give an.
other reason for the Rebels notorops
preference so respectful! to him as these.
But Gen. Mcclellan is popular with his
soldiers. So he is. No General eyer need
be otherwise: one who expects to run for
President will pretty surely p9t be. Cour-
teous, plausible, and meyer oEermarchlyg
or wantonly exposing them, Gen. N.
doubtless ingratiated himself with those
be led; aud the faluts and blunders. the
misfortunes and inePpacity of other Gener.
ais haye been happy accidents for him
Some Of these Generals seem to have com.
manded to no other end than to rebnrnish
his faded reputation. Among the blind
the oneeyed is king, says the French prov.
erb; and inefficienoy, halt heartedness, and
general incspacity, seem to haye long ruled
in our camps on the Potomac as if On pur-
pois to prove that, bad as McClellans gen.
eralship was, there can be even worse,
Let us not, then, commit the common
error of undertaking the strength of the
foe. Gen. Mcclellan is to be the Pro.
Slavery candidate for next PRESIDENT OF the
United States. and he will prove more
formidable in the CANVASS than in the field.
He is essentially not soldier, but Rolii'
clan. aud bis fighting and writing have
alike been intended to train him for the
Presidential race. There is not in oil the
loyal States syMpathizer with the Slave
holders Rebellion who will not support him
with despeSste energy-not man who, Ike
Gov. Price, of New Jersey, grayelY propos'
ed that bis own State should bacome q
sstrspy Of Jeff Davis slave empire. or who,
like our Gov. Seymour, wanted the Uuiou
reconstructed with New England left out,
who is not natural McClellanite. Add
to every remaining devoted of the Slave
Power the soldiers and others who VIII
vote for him as fayorite General. aud
he becomes q candidate hard to bs
beaten. Only by digging down TO the 6ee
rock Of Principle, and imbnlng the masses
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