Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-10-14
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snAmEFuL ApuLATaoN.

I n
the Dsld0ore Gazette pours out its sllmy I
praise on Mcclellan I
Young and ardent, Jealous and fearless as 1
he is, and although aattered by those who I
now oppose him as never man was hattered e,
before, with the wealth of a nation laid at
his feet, he has never been accused OF COM
mitting a wrong and is to-day purer and {
better man than ever. He has all the stern
qualities that best adorn the noblest warriors
and safest statesmen with the meekness OF
a true follower Of Christ. 1t is true he
has been censured by his political enemies
for uniting with the church ana asking
prayers for the safety of his noble army. I
but in all this he resembles the greatest and /
best Of American heroes, the Father OF his
country. No man except Washington ever
held so powerfully the confidence and love
of his soldiers and their commanders. The
sons of Kings and Princes who fought under
him, exto his virtues abroad, while his
comrades are loud iu his praise at home.
Think of that. Can baretaced and
fawning sycophancy go further? He "hss
never been accused of committing
wrong when in the very Convention that
nominated him for the Presidency Mr.
Harris, member of Congress from Mary
land and delegate of the Convention,
rose and said ~ claim it as o right to
state that ONE OF THE MEN WHOM You
HAVE NOMINATED Is a TYRANT Why, |
Mr.. President, how long do you suppose
that these sons and Representatives of
Maryland were imprisoned in the bastiles |
of the United Statesg For sixteen
months they were separated from their
families, torn from their homes, kept from
their business and when at last their bars
and bonds were loose, it was in spite of
the acts of him by whom they were placed
there, of him, that devil Mcclellan |"
"Well, sir, look upon it that it not
only struck at the liberties of Maryland
and the freedom of the people, but at the
existence Of the Legislature Of our State,
and all the charges can make against
Lincoln and the Administration, can
make against this man Mcclellan p
"Those things that we have charged SO
frequently against Abraham Lincoln, he,
George B. Mcclellan has been guilty of
himselfl" But says the Gazette, she has
never been accused of committing a
wrong"
This immaculate saint not only stands
unaccused, but according to the Gazette,
"he has all the stern qualities that best
adorn the noblest warriors and safest
statesmen" In this Chicago Convention
delegate said "Why as a military
man he has been defeated everywhere.
In him as a military leader you have
nothing whatever to brag Of while you
have combined with military incapacity
the fact that he has interfered with and
destroyed the civil rights of the people,
Yet the Gazette says che has oil the
stern qualities of the noblest warriors and
safest statesmen p
The pious cant Of the rest of the extrac
above i'll accords with the known false
hood with which it is introduced. TIL,
piety, the uniting with the church Of thi
candidate is paraded as if it were under
stood to be an excellent card and may well
give occasion for the suspicion that tina
public profession of religion might hav
been the cunning act of cunning man
But what shall we say of the religion Q
the man who could beg brother Gene
raj to save his army by attacking the ene
my, and then when that General (Gc;.ner,
John Pope) had nobly dc,.e ii. coul
leave him alone to 6Otn't the very arm
that had defeat ed and almsst destroy,
plm' Keep with devilish cunning 5000
men from his help while he knew that h
countrymen were being slaughtered fl
want of them, and at the end deliberat
ly propose ''to leave Pope to get out
his scFape." Pope had helped McCle
Ian, by making diversion in his fav,
and at his request, and after fighting tt
enemy for seventeen days and defeatiI
them often, this pious Mcclellan, delibt
ately makes sure his defeat and actual
has the unparalleled meanness to propo
to the President to 'leave" him III
man is. held up as full of the "meekne
of true and faithful follower of Christ
and his piety and religious profession
are used as political capital; and what
almost as bad, he-this defeated, unsr
cessfnl, disobedient, incapable Gener
covered with the decay of $4,000 mouI
ering corpses on the Chicahominy, wi
the gore of thousands of uselessly slaug
tered heroes, slaughtered because
wanted Che army of the Potomac to e'f
back into his arms' as his friends said
this man is said to resemble "the great
and best of American heroes, the fail
of his country.' Making political ca
tai of his piety and likening him to Wa
ington ! 1t is characteristic and cons
tent.
FRIENDS OF THE SOLDIERS remember q
George Fl. Pendleton, while in Congrt