The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-10-03
A Shot al Mcclellan.


A Shot al Mcclellan.
That very curious and remarkable Yankee,
George Francis Train, is addressing series of
letters to- Mcclellan. In one of them he makes
the following centre. shot:
1t is a mean thing to listen at the keyhole
Il is meaner to open priVate.lett 1t is the
meanest ct all to accept hospitality and abuse
The, host. But these mean things are Christian
virtues compared to the act of accepting the
nomination of a party in order to destroy it. A
platform is the party's soul. A candidate is
tine party's body. Separate. the body from the
soul, and death ensues.
Mark my word, General, you will not carry
single State except New JERSEY, and yyou will
sacrifice seven Democratic members of Con-
gress out of ten. Look at Vermont Maine
will be the same. Indiana will only lead the
other States by month.
You will fud' it as hard as the rebels have
to fight such Democratic names as Foot Far
ragut, Porter and Dupont, on the sea, or Grant,
Meade, Burnside, Sickles, Hancock, Thomas
and Sherman, on the }and-all of Rbom are
against you James Buchanan. said that he
was no longer J. B, but the Cincinnati plat
form. You reverse it, and say that YOU are
not the Chicago platform, but 6. B. Mac.
But to our letter. aBuIwer said, the @Pen
was mighter than the sword.n Then he had
not made your acquaintance, General. Nom
mated or yoar record. Yes. The draft. The
Proclamation. The suspension of habeas cor
pus. The arrest of Legislatures. Military at
the polls, and disobedience of orders. Is, not
that your public record9 Do you mean, by
alluding to your record, that yoc will do the
same again? s
Take your whole letter, paragraph by para
) graph, dissect it as have this sentence, and
YOU will find it as weak as dish water; unde=
" cided, inconsistant ungrammatical and egotis-
teal. The six illusions to the Union remind
one of the stereotyped cry in the Fortunes Of
Nigel" Watches, Clocks, Barnaces. The
brighi boy who cried barnacles, watches,
clocks, introduced new idea into Scotland.
"If a frank, earnest and persistent effort to
obtain those obi ects shonldfall the response
bility for ulteror consequences will fall upon
thosetwho remain in arms against the Union" !"
Why not say war right out, not dodge round
a corner this wav. Don't forget that old Cass
killed himsef with the Nicholson letter.
Believing that the views here expressed are
those of the convention and the people your
present, accept the nomination"
You don't believe anything of the kind. You
know better. The Northwest were all peace.
condense your letter in two lines Z
Gentlemen-I accept the nomination, but
acknowledge myself totally unfit for the posi-
tion.
/ mean nothing unkind in this, General, but
you know that now you are fai2 mark, not q
large one, for all to shoot at.
We find the fOllowinginteresting paragraphs
in the latest European news.
The London Morning Herald reterates the
statement that Lindsay Withdrew his motion
for the recognition of the Confederate States, in
consequence Of secret understanding with
Lord Palmerston, chat gentleman promising
Lindsay he would support such amotion here
after. a
Lord BSougham remarked on the 18th uIt
that in tive months it would be expedient and
desirable for England and France to interpose
good officers to put an end to the war, etc.