The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-12

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"won't you buy splendid portrait Of General
Grant I" asked most intelligent peddler, six
months from EuglaLd, of country friend a.
ono Of our botels few days since. "No, sir; I
do not want h" "Ah then you will take this of
General Mcclellan Z" "No, no; wouldn't have
that any how" "Ah, sir" resumed the peddler.
waxing confidential IL sell more Of Mcclellan
now than do Of Grant; but if only had Gene
Iail Lee, could sell ten times as many of him as
can OF McClelan-and 90 the same men"
II we Were 70 say 70 an average Democrat
what We undoubtedly believe-that two thirds
OF those now uoisily for McC ellsn would
iather vote directly for Lee, he would probably
resist, n not resent the assertion; but no
candid MoClellanite will deny that Lees gene
Talsbip has ooue more for Mcclellan than McCel-
lAns own. We appeal TO every candid OBJ
server for the truth and periiuence of our aver
ment, that Union failures and Union discourage
ment ale the chief grounds of hope for McCiel-
lans success. Here is q Union general aspiring
be President of the Union, who is to be elected,
4, at all, not on the strength OF his achieve
Ipents, but on that of his antagonists. Suppose
tenrnsioe had triumphed at fredericksburg
ICien Richmond, broken the Rebel power, and
n established tic authority of the Union over the
= tn, oOes any man believe that Mcclellan
uld have hecn to-day formidable competitor
Il the Presidency Ditto as TO Hookers Chan
.iorsvillc eiiorti Or suppose General Grant
.Bd routed Lees army at SpOttsylvania and run
ma, who would to-day be taking stock in Gene
raj Mcclellan Presidential aspirantp Sup
pose 1t were now morally certain that the Rebel.
lion " ould finally collapse in September who
would give n hutton for McClellan's chance OF
election In November Who docs not see that
his fortunes rise as the country sinks and that
bis chances would be frightened by his countrys
ruin
We speak calmly, for we would provoke re.
Election. We bave not yet felt that we could do
our country any good by plungng hesdlong into
fosning Presidential canvass. We have no
choice that General Mcclellan should or should
not he nominsted for President at Chicago, Il
seems quito probable that the choice will ult-
nhtely lie between him and more exceptonable
competitor; for, though pronahly the weakest, he
B by no means the worst of the prominent aspi-
rants for that distinction. But he is in the hands
of worse men than himself-men who never SYM
pathized with their country in her resistance 70
slaveholding treason, even in the blind way and
20 the small extent that he did, and who too soon
had him In their tolls, and, infiamng aud play
ing upon his ambtio made his military career
the depora5e failure it was.
These crafty politicians, who were never for
one moment enemies of the Rebellion, who never
sought nor wished its overthrow otherwise than
by surrenderinR the whole country to its princi-
pies and its essential aims, nov own and run
him, and would, II successful In their scheme,
Imake his whole Administration copy of the
last six sad months of BuchanaR's. The Union
. they sigh for is just that which H0ratio Seymour
! contemplated when he thought the whole trouble
ICOulu Ue COMPOSED Dy tne loyal othteb one Dy
one creeping in at the open back door OF the
lSoutheIn Confcteracy, and so inducing the
Southrons once more 10 tolerate our companion
ship by enabling them profoundly TO despSe us.
There are good many in favor of Mcclellan for
next President, for many diverse reasons; but
not fer the that he considers the slave
holders Rebellion tagrantly wrong, and wants a
man in the White House who can and will put il
down. Among u the reasons for pretcrring him,
We never beard ore like that.
To eject Mcclellan President is 10 surrender at
discretion to the Confederacy, asking It's leaders
ITO take us in and do for US on their own terms
His supporters shout for "the Constitution as it
: il !" but mean 'the Constitution altered rs the
slave power shall choose TO have It." Elect him
President, and it will be recognized INSIDE
meanor, IL not legally punishable otiense, to
kspeak Of slavery as Washington, Lafayette, and
Jefferson habituslly did, much more to resist its
diffusion Jefferson first taught us to do, with
4 3Washngton's official ratification.
There are good many uueguivocIl Rebels in
Sthis coEmunity who prefer holder and more
pronounced partisan OF the Rebellion to McClel-
Ian; but there is not one voter in the free STATES
who considers JEFF. Davis q patriot statesman
fighting against /, ,iustice and oppression who vii
not, should he he nominated give his voice and
vote TO George u. Mcclellan.