Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-20
The Election Of Gen. Mcclellan
Certain.
The following special dispatch appears in
the AZ Y LernH of Snturdav.

| The following special dispatch appears IN
the ~ y Uerald Of Saturday:
WASHINGTON, Oct. IA 1864.
! Since the result of the Pennsylvania cleo
| ion has been announced the democratic
managers claim positively for Mcclellan the
following States Maryland, Delaware.
| Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Con
nccticut kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Cali,
tornia and Oregon, making an aggregate of
and sixteen being necessary to elect.
In order to verify these calculations, we
must remit none of the efforts our gallant
ccshave exhibited in the recent cncoun-
tcrs. Now that the smoke Of battle has
clcaredaway and we are enabled to take a
calm survey of the field, we can readily see
how by the most untiring and sleepless en-
ergy we can secure the election Of General
Mcclellan and in his triumph preserve the
Union from the otherwise certain doom that
awaits the country Let every man buckle
on his armor anew and never lay it aside
till the sun shall sink in the heavens on the
day Of election. From this time till the
eighth of November, every lover Of the
Union as our fathers made it, every man
who holds revercntly the memory of Wash
ington and Jefferson, must work with will
and u courage that will never despair or
fi,lter. Early and late-irom ''early morn
till dewy cve," We must labor necessarily
and pcrsistently. Every voter must be
reached, his patriotism appealed to, and his
active 60 operation secured. Strange as it
may appear, in a contest ike this, wherein
the life and death of the nation seem about
evenly balanced in the scales, there are men
who are either Indifferent or careless Of the
result. And yet these men have homes,
wives and children, they value liberty, re-
shrink with as much horror rs the most hu
name from the scenes of bloody revolu-
ton in our own street, and would when the
hour approaches do their utmost to prevent
such calamity. Yet now they are as pas
sive as lambs, as iudolent as grazing herds
who brief while hence may be led to slaugh,
ter. These men, and there are many such,
must bc reused to the danger that hangs
| uNci tilohl, h""hNhCu diu VAIN clc ~ III
too late. Speaking of the recent elections
the On. Enqurer well rcmarks;--
Whatever may be the result of the state
elections in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania
yesterday, there can be nothing in I'll, m that
should siacken in the least the efforts of the
friends of General Mcclellan In every
state he is tcs of thousands of votes stron
ger than the local and state organizations
Although we may have taltered in man,
localities, yet in those localities it is not d
vote against him by any means. There are
myriads of persons who have made up then
minds to support him and oppose Lincoln,
who have nevertheless from old party asso-
citation and personal friendship voted
against the Democracy at the state election.
1t was in vain to talk to them of the effects
of their votes how they would be claimed.
They did not sec them in that light, and
hence the apparent inconsistency of their
poccal action. When November comes,
and the direct issue is represented of the ro-
election of Lincoln or change to man
! like Mcclellan, We shall see how the majori-
" will increase from tho side of the latter
Well, would the Lincolnites believe that
their chief is as strong as the Republican
organization, but unfortunately for them il
Is not 30. lie is immensely weaker, as
General Mcclellan is immensely stronger
AS General Harrison in lS40 carried Penn
sylvan!a, while his party was beaten in Oc.
tober, and as General Cass carried Ohio in
November when we were defeated in Octo-
ber, lsiS, SO will General Mcclellan succeed
In states whore the Democracy have been
worsted IN the preliminary contests.