Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-09-20
What Disgusted Democrat Thinks OF
Gen. MOClellan's Letter,


Gen. MoClellan's Letter.
George Francis Train writes Gen Mcclellan
another letter. Shutting Mr.. Train out of the
convention was a losing game 10 the Copper
head party. He Waxes bitter aud bitterer
RocKAwAY.oN THE-SEA, Sept. IL, 1864.
TO Major General o. b. Mcclellan, Grunge, " j.:
DFAR siR: 1t is mean thing to listen Ut
the keyhole IL is meaner to open II private
letter Il IS the meanest Of all 10 accept hospi-
tRhiy ani abuse the host lnt these mean
things are Christian virtues compared TO the act
of accepting the nomination ot party in order
to destroy 1t. A platform is the party's soul
a candidate is the pariy's body. Separate tho
body from the soul, aud death onsues. Il is as
difficult to SIT between two stools to sleep with
one eye open. You cannot worship 0Id aud
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
You know the peace men controlled the cOnven-
ton They gave you platform that was neither
fish, flesh. fowl nor markerel. Yet you insist
upon the mackerrl. Hence the Duty Netps, the
.hetr0pOhiIR Record, ErfemahS JouradL mud
Ohio Crisis ly oH from you like hoops from an
eilervescing barrel. Singleton will follow Wood !;
Nallaudigham will fall in, aud in two weeks
Pendleton will decline to be shipwrecked with
the rest. "COmo out from under the bed" said
the indignant wife to her undecided husband
/ W. rAlu NV ep tuHY ne 4 NNtt tNt IuN uI a
man Wi'hin me-"
Mark my words, General YOU will not carry
n single State except New Jersey, aud 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 month.
You will find il AS hard aa the rebels have TO
fight such Democratic names as Foote, Farragui
Porter, and Dupont, on the sea, or Grant,
Meade, Burnside, Sickles, Hancock, Thomas,
aud Sherman, on the land, all OF whom are
against you. The late letters Of Sherman and
Grant rattle through the Democratic ranks like
lightning through u gcoseberry bush. n only
costs teo thousand d0idTs 10 get up d Mcclellan
meeting. Young hetehum saa 80. II the explo-
sion Of limited quantity Of gas in Union
Square killed two women aud wounded several
the other night what will be the disaster when
your whole purity bursts up in Novemberi
james Buchanan said that he was no longer
j. b., but the Cincinnati platform. You reverse
II and say that you arc not the Chicago plat
form, but G. b. Mac, Said Lord Byron in
"Don JUAN"
"lhe well known Hebrew word, am,
We Eaglish use to govern d-n."
But to your letter. Buwer said the .pen wa
mightier than the sword" Then he had no
made your acquaintance, General. Nominate,
on your record. Yes. The draft. The proc
lamation, The suspension Of the haJeas corpus
The arrest of legislatures. Military at the polls
/ and dsObedence of orders. Is not that you
public record Do you mean, by Hlluding 1
your record, that you will do the same again?
"GENTLEMga | have the honor 10 acknow
ledge the receipt OF your letter, informing m
. OF ny nomination Of course, who else did yo
suppose It was by the Democratic Nationu
= Convention, certainly it was not the Republi
can National Committee, recently assembled u
Chicago, That's SO; 1t did not assemble q
Cleveland or New York, rs their candidate 0
a tue next election for President of the Unite
Smtes. Exactly it was not Tor the lust elec
~ ton,
y "lt is unnecessary for me to say that tn
n nomination comes TO me unsought, (Why 80
a it, then "
Take the whole letter, paragraph by pari
: graph, ttanspose II as have this SENTENCE, au
T. you will hnd it Rs weak as dish watcr-unl,
II oided, iucOnsi tent, uugrammatical, and cgoti
y teal The six illusions to the luton Ieniu
= one Of tho Atereoiypcd cry in the "Furtunes
h Nlge.'- Watches, Clocks Barnocles. The brig
10 boy VINO cried harnaclcs, watches, clocks, inlr
- duced new idea iuto Scotland
"lt fIauk earnest and persistent effort
l. obtain those objects should iall, the respou
gn biiiy Tor ulleriur consequences will hll up
,p those who remain in arms against the Union
h. Why not say war right out, not dodge roui
"a corner tuis way? Doni forget thai old Ca
N. killed himself with tho Nicholson letter
n. "B,heviug that the views here expressed a
those OF the convention and the people you re
he resent, accept the nomination "
M You don't believe anything of the kind Y
ct know better. The Northwest were all peace
ID So reads the platform. Five hundred deegat
o. unanimously agree upon platform Here It
Ia ResOiUsd, TO please you, they have war
ng ReOiUed, 10 please Penileton, they hi
me peace.
ia Resolped. To please all the outs, tho war
H. nn till The pence is signed.
nd Remember that the Royal George in Brs
nd Channel went down with all Oh board, The re,
,,i Of trimming
.ir Waltar Savage Landor wrote on the Georg,
ln' 'George the First was reckonel vile,
,u- Niler George the Second,
bel Aud what mortal ever heard
lst Any good of George tho Third?
en- When from earth the Fourth ascendel
hls God be praised, the Georges ended"
nj cOndense your letter in two lines /;
Gentlemen oecrpt the nomination, but
- knowledye myself totdiy unfit for Tie position.
lb- l mean nothing uukind in this, aeneral,
ir- you know that now you are II fair mark, NJ
rhe large one, for all to shoot at.