The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-14
An Express Train Runs into
the Platform /!
OF CONSISTENCY WHAT A
JEWEL ART THOU

Geo. Francis Train writes Gen. Mcclellan another
1ettcr. He wakes bitter and bittercr. ROCKA-
wAT-oE -TuE-SEA, Sept n, 1sG4.-ro Major
General George B. Mcclellan, Orange, N. j.
Dear Sir 1T is mean thing 20 listen at the key
hole. 10 is meaner To open private letter. II is
the meanest OF ali 20 accept hospitality and abuse
the host But these mean things are Christian
virtues compared 10 the act of accepting the
nomination of party in order 20 destroy 10. a
platform Is the partys soul. A candidate is the
pariys body. Separate the body from the soul,
and death ensues. II rs as difficult 10 sit between
two stools as to sleep with one eve OPEN You
cannot worship God and mammon. Honesty is
not only the best policy, but the only one for an
honest man. To cheat in politics is as wicked as
to cheat in money 1ou know the Peace men
controlled the Convention They gave You q
platform that was neither fish, flesh, fowl nor
mackerel. Yet you insist upon the macGcrel.
Hence the Daily NclcS, the Metropolitan Record,
FfeemdH'S Journal and ohio Crisis tiv OIL from
you like hoops from an eilcrvesciug barrel. Sin
gleton viii follow Wood; Vullandigham will fall
in, and in two weeks Pend'etOn viii decline to be
shipwrecked with the rest. "Come out from
under the bed" said the indignant wife 60 her
undecided husband. "Not," said he, $50 lOug as
/ hare the spirit Of q man JrithiG me-"
Mark my words, General, you win not carry q
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 States
by a month";
You will find it as hard as the Rebels have to
fight such Democratic names as Foot, Fdrngut,
Porter and Dupont, on the sea, or Grant, Meade,
Burnside, Sickles, Hancock, Thomas and Sher-
man, on the land-all of whom are against you.
The late letters of Sherman and Grant rattle
through the Democratic ranks like Lightning
through gooseberry bush. II only costs two
thousand dollars to get up Mcclellan meeting
Young Ketchum said so. Ii the explosion of
limited quantity OF gas in Union Square killed
two womenand wounded several the other night
what win be the disaster when your whole party
hrrCf N in Inr
James Buchanan said that he was no Longer
]. b., but the Cincinnati platform. You reyers
it, and say that you are not the Chicago platform
but G.. b. Mac. said Lord Byron in "DOl
The well-known Hebrew word, am
We Eng lsh use TO govern d-m.
But to our letter. Bulwer sad the "Pen wa
mighher than the sword" Then he had not mad
your acquaintance, General. Nominated on you
record. Yes. The draft. The Proclamation. TIL
suspension of hdbedS corpus. The arrest Of Legt
latures. Military at the polls, and disobediencc
u orders. Is not that your public record? Do yC
mean, by alluding TO your record, that you vi
do the same again2
"Gentlcmen II have the honor to acllnowledl
the receipt of your letter, informing me Of II
nomination (of course who else did you suppC
it was) by the Democratic National Converts
(certainly twas not the Republican National Coz
mittee), recently assembled at Chicago (tha
so; il did not assemble at Cleveland or New York
as their candidate at the next election for {
President of the United States. (EXactly; it VI
at is unnecessary for me 10 say 10 yOu that III
nomination comes to me "unsought." (Why say
then2
Take the whole letter, paragraph by paragrap
dissect it as have this sentence, and you W
find it as weak as dish water; undecided inCO
sistent, ungrammatical and egotistical. The s.
illusions 10 the Union remind one Of the stcrc
typed cry in the Fortunes of Nigel" WatChe
Clocks Barnacles. The bright boy who cri,
barnaces, watches, clocks, introduced new d
into Scotland.
'Tfa frank, earnest and persistent effort to obtai
those objects should fail, the responsibility fC
Interior consequences will fall upon those who +
main in arms against the Union"
Why not say war right out, not dodge round
corner this way. Don't forget that old Cass llille
himself with the Nicholson letter.
believing that the views here expressed al
those of the Convention and the people you repr
sent, accept the nomination"
You don't believe anything of the kind. Yo
know better The Northwest were all peace. )
reads the platform. Five hundred delegates unan
mousy agree upon platform. Here it Isl
ReSolUed, To please you they have war.
ResOiUed, To please Pendleton, they have peac
ReSoiUed, To please all the outs, the war 20 q
till the peace is signed.
Remember that the Royal George, in Brist
Channel, went down with all on board, the resu
of trimming.
Walter Savage Lander wrote on the Georges :
"George the First recloned vile
Viler George the Second,
And what mortal ever heard
Any good OF George the IhlrdF
When from earth the Fourth aseonded,
God be praised, the Georges ended"
I condonse your letter in two lines -
Gentlemen: - accept the nomination, b
acknowledge myself totally unfit for the po
ton.
mean nothing unl,ind in this, General, but "
know that now you are fair mark, not lar
one, for all to shoot at. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.