The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-22

mate ls coming, just IN time, SO will bid
you good night, sir, -Io, 2ailii
| Good night :" 1'+l 2 f-<og-DS -utqg.
And Returned to my lodgings sadder
and a more thoughtful, if not wiser man.
What Distinguished Democrat Thinks d
!; Gen. Mcclellan Letter. oai "a
| George Francis Train writes Gen. Nc
\ Clellan- another letter. Shutting MIR. Train
i out of the convention was losing game to
the Copperhead party. He wakes bitter
and bitterer: 3IH8j
t17l &, RooKAwAY-oN Hz7SEA, Sept. II,
To Major+ Gen. Geo. B. 4lfeCgelleas b Orange,
II ~ j. a. -..s.,.... .....,,..'...-. i. III,
4 DEAR SHIFT is a mean; thing to listen
/ at the ,keyhole. -. It is meaner to open 9
private letter. It is the meanest' Of all to
accept hospitality and abusb the host But
these mean things are Christian virtues conf
pared to the act of accepting the nomina-
ton of a party in order to destroy it, A
platform is the party SOUL 81 A candidate is
the party's body Separate the body from,
the sole, and death ensues. It is as difficult
n to sit between two stools as to sleep with
one eye open You can not worship GOD and
Mammon Honesty is not only the best
IpoliCy, but the only one for an honest man.
4 10 cheat in politics is as wicked as to cheat
In money. b, You know the Peace men con-
trolled the convention. They gave you a
platform that was neither fish, flesh. fowl
nor mackereL Yet you insist upon the
J, mackerelo. Hence the Daily, Nsaqs, the, Net
ropoLGtqn p Record, Frem@R's, JIouraaqs1I and
Ohio CRISIS fly off from you like hops from
an efervescing barrel. Singleton will fol-
low Wood eVallandighan will fall in, and
in two weeks Pendleton will decline to be
shipwrecked with the rest. "Conle out
from under the bed said the indignant
wife to her undecided husband ''.Not, !"
said he $50 long as | have the spirit of a
man within me- r g.gvy p. IT.. ,..#t
Mark my words, General-you will not
carry single State except New Jersey, and
you will sacrifice seven Democratic members
of Congress out of ten. Look at Vermont
| Maine will be the same Indiana will only
lead the other Statesyby month. .e.., ....
You will find it as hard as the rebels have
| to fight such Democratic names as Foote,
Farragut Porter and Dupont on the seas or
Grant, Meade, Burnside, Sickles, Hancock,
Thomas and Sherman, on the land
all of them are against you. d The late let
tiers of Sherman and Grant rattle through
the democratic ranks like Aghtning through
a gooseberry bush. 1t only; costs two thou
sand dollars to get up a Mcclellan meeting.
Young Ketchurn said so; If the explosion
of a limited quantity of gas. in Union square
killed two women and wounded several the
other night, what will be the disaster when
your whole party bursts up in r! November?
James Buchanan said that he was nc lon
ger j. B.. but the Cincinnati platform. You
reverse it, and say that yon aie not the
Chicago platform, BUTTS. aBJ Mac. Said
Lord Byron in Don Juan, ,..,,...r.. n.u.
,- The well known Hebrew word am, ..f 5
pun We English use to govern DIM. u g.. 4
But to your letter. Bulwer said the '.pen
qOas miqhfiog, than tte saoord," Then he had
not made your acquaintance, General Nom.
mated in your record. Yes. The Draft
The Proclamation The Suspension of
Habeas Corpus The Arrest of Legislatures.
Military at the Polls, and }isobedience of or
ders, Is not that your public record? Do
you mean, by abiding to your record, that |
you will do the same again? H
Gentlemen have the honor to acknowl |
edge the receipt of your letter, informing me
of my nomination [of course, who else did
you suppose it was n by the Democratic
National Convention, certainly it was not
the Republican National Convention, recent
ly assembled at Chicago, That's so; it
did not assemble at Cleveland or New York, III
as their candidate at the next election for
President of the United States. Exactly;
it was not for the last election
1t is unnecessary for me to say to you
that this nomination comes to me unsought
[Why say it then?l .s-ir1- 9
Take the whole letter. paragraph by par
agraph, transpose it as have this sentence,
and you will find it as weak as dishwater-
undecided inconsistent ungrammatical and
egotisticaI The six illusions to the Union
remind one Of the sterotyped cry in the For
tunes of Nigel-Watches, Clocks, Barnacles.
The bright boy who cried barnacles, watch
es clocks, introduced new idea into Scot
land. olive -'s.-
If frank, earnest and persistent effort
to obtain those objects should fail the re-
sponsibility for uIterier consequences will
fall upon those who remain in arms against
the Union. 10 If sT.-
Why not say war right out, not dodge
round a corner this way, Don't forget that
old Cass killed himself with the Nicholson
letter. uao sHs eas ......
Believing that the views here expressed
are those of the convention and the people
you represent. accept the nomination.
You don't believe anything Of the kind. {
You know better The Northweft were all {
peace So reads the platform. Five hun
1red delegates unanimously agree upon
platform Here it is: ."'a.' 10 ~
Resolved, To please YOU they have war
ResoIped, To please Pendleton, they have
peace.
RssozDed, To please all the outs the war
20 on till the peace is signsd at .'..
Remember that the Royal George in the |
British Channel went down with all on board {
he result Of trimming.
Walter Savage Lander worte on the
Georges: a..
George the First was reckoned vile,
Viler George the Second,
And " hat mortal ever heard .....
Any good from George the third .
I' When from earth the Fourth assembled,
God be praised, the Georges ended" IL
dondense your letter in two lines: s
Gentlemen: accept tie nomination, bnt '
myseIf totally unfit for the posi-
ton." ..... .... r.......rt.,. 81. .-i..r.r.- 7
| mean nothing unkind in this, General i
,ut you know that now you are a fair mark q
not large one) for all to shoot at. c
GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. /
ONLY A QUESTION OR Two.-We might
SIX some plain questions which it would be
,erhaps disagreeabIe though not difficult, q
or Democrats to answer to wit: Of the tf- t.
cen States that voted against Mr.. Lincoln ?
n 1850, which one of their Governors is not
r has not been traitor? Another question; y
low many OF those fifteen Democratic =
tates rose in arms against the Government! n
'erily, this is Democratic war against the .
principles OF the Mon Ist IL bn
orne in mind that this same traitorous par II
v assembled in Convention at Chicago to n
oninate candidate for the Presidency, -