Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-01

T. And if these are the personal attributes which
deservedly command for Gen, Mcclellan the. re-
speet and confidence of his cpuntrymen, ii is only
just to say that his political principles are such
commend themselves to the cordial acceptance Of
every lover and supporter Of the Union, based on
the Constitution and the laws made in pursuance
thereof He stands to-day as the representative
embodiment Of those principles which, at one time
in the history of this sad war; enabled the nation
to present an undivided front against the revolu-
tionary violence of armed sedition at the South
and the equally revolutionary exactons of political
radicalism at the North. If President Lincoln
had possessed the requisite steadfastness to pre-
serve the consistency Of his opnions-if he had not
yielded to "pre,sure" from which he asked
Others to relieve the country, without having the
strength of will to relieve himself from its growing
demapds-he might to-day have stood in the
same commanding attitude, and, 30 standing, might
have leaned on the support Of aloyal and q united
people But he has chosen to complicate his
position, and therefore the fortunes of the Union,
50 far as they are subject to his CONTROL with poll
ces lying not only outside of the Constitution, but
conceived in palpable contradiction with its letter
and spirit, as that instrument is construed and
interpreted by many, we believe by vast majority
OF the loyal people Of the United States. From
these embarrassments and complications Gen.
Mcclellan is free, and the vantage ground which
this consideration affords him is apparent to all,
and cannot but have its weight in determining the
preponderance of the popular judgment, it shall
incline to the candidacy of the one or Of the other
according to their comparative opportunities and
capacities for dealing with the questions involved
in restoration Of the Union. The hedges and
commitments which President Lincoln has assumed
by his extra-constitutional proclamations, and
which are re-afirmed by his late manifesto pre-
scribiDg the terms of peace, render it impossible
for US to expect any thing like paccn iom of our
troubles under his Administration and the success
of his military conduct does not offer to the most
sanguine any better hope that he will succeed in
discriminating the elements of dissatisfaction which
he is unable or unwilling to appease by concilis-
ton. Our only hope of Union and peace, as also
of return to the normal sway of the laws within
inc Loyai Ctdtes, Ii therefore reposeQ IN change
of men in tie administration of the Government,
to be followed by change of policy in the man.
agement of our affairs, and, SO thinking, we shall
not hesitate to give our cordial support to the
nomination of General Mcclellan.
We need not say that We shall in the future, as
in the past, observe towards those who differ from
as in opinion the. same Difference and candor we
seek hsbitually to practise towards our political
opponents, but, having come to this determination
under the strongest convictions of public duty, we
would beseech all our fellow citizens, without dis
tinction of party to approach the consideration of
the question presented for their decision under
deep and abiding sense of what is due to them
selves, to their country and to their God in this
day Of national tIbulation and peril And may
He who controls the hearts of the people SO guide
them in the choice they shall make in the impend.
ing election that, casting out passion and preju-
dice, they may choose for their chief ruler that
man who shall be owned and blessed of Heaven,
as one sent in mercy rather than in wrath to our
suffering nation