Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-09-08
A Rebel View of McCIcIIap.

Col. Dunham, lato a New York Demo
crat, now Colonel in the Rebel army under
Early on the Potomac, in his letter ef the
18th inst, from near Winchester, Va, to
his friend Bishop, in Brooklyn, (which let
ter was among those captured in a Rebel
mail near Shephsrdstown, Va, on the 10th,
after boasting that he is still a Unionist,
expecting, with thousands like him, in the
Rebel army, to see this country again uni.
ted, though not under Lincoln or any of his
sort, thus advises his Democratic brethren
who still linger at the North:
Let me tell you, my dear boy, you may
pray for peace until He'll freezes over-that
is, peace with the restoration of the Union
and there will be no peace Mars is re-
lentless, and Concordia is deaf. There can
be no peace until Black Republicans and
| Abolitionists are sileHced and reduced to
an equality, or, at least, a level, with the
nlggers they claim as their equals. Let your
Chicago Conpe,tion nominate Mr.. Dauis
for the Presidency--dnd 1 kno,o majority
Of the delegates would rote for him If then
dared-dnd on his election you can and uHL
hare peace. Of course. you will not do this
The NEXT BEST THING YOU CAN DO Is TO
NOMINATE AND ELECT MCCLELLAN. The
South do mt regard him as military genius,
as the Northern press would make the peo-
pie believe they do, but they believe htn, to
be ,chat Ods once called q Northern man pith
Southern principles. His election, my dear
boy, would do much to pacify and conciliate
the South. We are satisfied that, if you
ELECT HIM, THE RIGHT OF SECESSION AND
INDEPENDENCE WOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGE
ED, and that terms Of reconstruction would
be offered, which we might with honor ac
cept. [ do MT say, however, that they ,could
be accepted.
Il is my opinion, as 1t is the opinion of
President Davis and the leading men of the
South, that the ,oar must continue until one
side or the other is sul5ugated. The MORE
ASSISTANCE YOU DEMOCRATS RENDER, IN
DIRECTLY, THE SOONER WE SHALL BE
ABLE TO vANQUIsH THE ABOLITION
HoRDEs, and restore peace and the Union.
1t may seem paradoxical, but assure you,
my boy, we arc fighting for Union-fghting
to place the old United States under one
Government; and we shall do it in such a
way that no Abolition baboon will ever again
get at the head of it. "
The Chicago Convention has done "Me
nert best thing 1T has nominated McClel-
Ian. Three-fourths of the delegates sub
stantially accord with Col. Dunham in prin-
ciple, and mean just what he does when
they talk Of Peace and Reunion-that is,
they mean the permanent and unquestioned
ascendancy of the Slave Power in our Ma
tional councils. Horatio Seymour meant
just this when he proposed, in the Spring
of 1861, that New York should adopt the
Montgomery Constitution, and creep into
the Jeff. Davis Confederacy Geo. B. Nc
Clellan meant just this when he wilfully
paralyzed the neblest army ever assembled
on this or any other continent, remaining
for months virtually besieged in and around
Washington, with 100000 to 100000 men,
while the enemy, who thus ceoped him up,
closing the Potomac below and the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad above him, had at
no time ever $4,000. THE well.informed
London Quarterly says they for the most
part had but s0,O0O) And Franklin Pierce
was only little more frank when he assured
Rebel friend, that but for his wife's fail
ing health, he too would be fighting in the
ranks of the Rebel armies.