Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-10-13
Mcclellan Privately to the British.

NlCnOuI closing his testimony the Com
mission adjourned to 2 P. NJ, Monday.
Mcclellan Privately to the British.
The secret conferences between our COP
perhead leaders and British gentlemen of the
blockade-running and Republic-squelching
persuasion, which were held at our principal
watering places last summer, seem to have
been as full of holes as a skinner. Through
one of these private interviews at Saratoga,
the real politics of MCCLELLAN, as shaped in
New York and accepted in Richmond, have
leaked out. Unquestionably MCCLELLAN is in
favor OF an Armistice-to take the North off
the Rebellion and let it get on it's feet again ;
and in favor of a convention of the States, in
which the North would be outvoted, the war
smothered, and the South again made domi-
nant. But to this English report of McCLEL-
LANs politics, which we take from the Sara
toga Springs correspondence of the London
Post, dated August 28th:
"The Mcclellan party is undoubtedly very
strong, and it is the only party which has, and
has had for some time, a thorough organiza-
ton, and his friends think that there are few
men who can carry so much personal infu-
ence. There is strong feeling in his favor
through the country. He is regarded as an
injured man, and the people are anxious that
justice should be done him. He must poll a
larger army vote than any other man, and
were he a candidate, Government could not
so successfully control the ballot box by the
bayonet, as it has done in different parts of
the country at former elections
AS for his principles, it is difficult to say
what they are. A0oacedZy, Mcclellan Is
Onioaist. Openly, he processes to be willing
to give the South every necessary guarantee,
provided the Southern States consent to re-
turn into the Union ; privately he assures those
friends who discourage the prosecution of tne
war, that he desires peace, and that he ogW ad-
v0cate an Grnaistce Gnda Congention of the States
should he receive the nomination at Chicago.
He urges, as reason for not openly avowing
these sentiments, that the people are not yet
ready to indorse taem, and considers it i'm
polite TO take any step too decidedly in ad-
vance Of the popular feeling. He feels as
sured, however, that the triumph of the
Democratic party must end in peace, for he
says that if even it wished to carry on the
war there would be no army of any magnitude
left at the disposal of the Government by the
18th day of March next. What these opinions
and professions are worth it is hard to say.
There are not few who distrust Mcclellan,
and who fail to place confidence in the as
suranCes Of man who was one of the first in
the commencement of this revolution to set
the example of the violation of personal lib
erty, as he did by the arrest OF the members
of the Maryland Legislature who has made
all the reputation he has as war man by the
prosecution Of the war and who Is still draw
ing pay from the Republican Government as
an officer of the army now engaged in carry
ing on a war which he 'pretends to regard as
ruinous to the country"
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM AND CANDIDATE IN
a NUTsHELL.-At the great Union meeting at
Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Wednesday last,
Senator SUMNER summed up Copperhead
principles as follows:
vote for Copperhead principles will be,
first and toremost,a vote for slavery at time
when this crime has plunged the country into
the sorrows and waste Of war.
It will be a vote for the rebellion at a mo
ment when the rebellion is about to fall
1t will be a vote for disunion at moment
when the Union is about to be restored.
But disunion, when once started, cannot
be stopped, so that vote for Mcclellan Will
be vote to break this Union in pieces, and
to set each State spinning in space.
It viii be vote for chronic war among
fellow citizens, which will be ever beginning
and never ending, until the fate OF Mexico be
ours
1t will be a vote for the reputation OF the
national debt, involving the destruction OF
property and the overthrow OF business.
1t will be vote for anarchy and chaos at
home. -.
1t will be vote for national degradation
abroad.
1t will be vote against civilization itself
It will be vote for the kingdom of Satan
on earth.
It is as important in guarding the secrets of
YOUR bosom as in protecting your treasure, to
keep your chest locked.
Whilst ordering the arrangements in front of
YOUR house, don't forget that man is often
Judged by his gait.
A quiet and witty man combines the quail
ties of two kinds of champagne-stlu and
sparkling.
A Young man married girl rather than be
shot by her brother-faneying that miss
was better than hit.
On most occasions the importance of calm
mss is in exact proportion to its difficulty.