Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-13

ons."
The Cincinnati Enquirer says
He stands ON the platform erected
by the Convention, as far as II goes, and
adds another plank TO please himself
Our readers know that we do not believe /
in that plank, but we shall not quarrel /
with Gen. Mcclellan regarding itwith IA
yor simply because, W'1dv lbs administration, |
Il tcOala aeper be rericed for use,
And last, but not least. the Hon. Fer
nando Wood says;
at is an error TO suppose that Gen.
Mcclellan and the peace men so widely
differ. IL is true that he does not use
the precise language OF the platform
adopted at Chicago-he says nothing OF
of an armistice-of cessation or hos
tilities, nor National Convention-but
he says nothing against them, but does
most explicitly declare q sentiment, or,
If you please, dogma, which covers
the ground" And, continues the Hon
orable Fernando, "HE Is OUR AGENT,
AND THE CREATURE OF OUR VOICE"
So much at present for McClellan's
position. As to where the other "demo-
cratic candidate, Peudleton, stands,
there is no mystery whatever He stands
precisely where he did in 1861, when he
said in Congress, (January lsth);
voice is for compromise.
If your differences are so great that you
cannot and will not reconcile them, then
gentlemen, let the seeding states DE-
PART IN PEACE; let them establish tier gOp-
| eyRg,ent and empire, and ,cork out their destt-
ny according to the tctsdom God has gieen
| Hem.n
| But there is still another, and the con-
trolling portion of the old democracy,
whose position has not been alluded to.
1t is the portion which inaugurated
causeless and wicked rebellion and war
against the Union, during the last DEM
ocratic administration, and under the
leadership Of the democrat JEFF. Davis.
Where this portion of the democracy
new stands, there is alse no doubt.
As such members Of the old democra-
cy as Dickinson, Dix, Mccall and Sick
les cannot support the Chicago candi-
dates, and do support the Union nomi-
nees, they have of course excluded them.
selves from the latter-day democratic
ranks Partisan democracy has there
fore become reduced to the rebels, who
are trying to secure the election of the
Chicago candidates by their bullets, and
their northern sympathizers who will
work to the same end with their ballots
1t has also as an ally abroad that por
, ton of the British and French press and
aristocracy which has from the begin
ming of the rebellion eXulted over it as
, promising the destruction of the Ameri-
can Union; which has been the noisy
champion of the rebels and aided them
by all means IN its power; and which is
the bitter enemy of free, popular govern
ment and of true democracy the world
over Mcclellan is the candidate of such
! hackers. Perhaps this fact sufficiently
t clears up what we said was the politica,
mystery of the day, and discloses, after
all, just exactly where the hero of tht
Chicahominy himself now stands.
GEN. SHERMAN.---It is intimated tina
Gen. Sherman has begun another cam
paign, his army having had a resting
spell of full month. The Louisville
Journal says: ....--
cit is believed that Sherman's army'i
in motion, and the movement ultimate
ly will COMPEL Forrest speedily to with
draw from Tennessee Sherman, as We
understand it, is not detaching forct
to look after his rear, but has concen
trated his entire command for bold ad
vance and an eagle-hke swoop down
upon the army under Food. The blow
. will be marked with dispatch, and, it is
believed, will prove decisive. We shall
be much surprised if the news of'anothel
glorious victory is not flashed over the
wires"
GEN. LoGAN-A Mcclellan Committee
wrote to Gen. Logan, at Atlanta, beg
ging him to endorse the Chicago plat
form. He took his pencil and for an
| aver wrote on the back Of his last order