The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-11-17

tue rcDeI army. ana crush our the re-
bcllioH. He was bound by many
strong ties TO Jefferson Davis. who was
his early patron, and who gave to him
aud - Beauregard their only titles to
distinctiOn--thcir mission TO the seat Of
European war. .
With this explanation. their letters
give the opinion which / then enter
tained, and still entertain, Of Gen. Nc
Clellan. lie gained victory at Ante.
tam, but satisfied himself with repnEs
ing, without pursuing The enemy.
Had Grant, or Sherman won that We
tary, the rebels wonId not have crossed
the Potomac as they did. quietly and
at their leisure, with their armament
and their plunder.
lie fought battles on the Peninsula;
but tb6Prince dc JDinviie. who was
in his military firmly. friendly Oh.
server, says in substance that he suffer
cd his movements to be clicked by oh.
staclcs not Rsvperdile. and that ho ras
not in as great hGsic t0 get Is l., maJL:
harc 61ae ....
Taxing him apart lroH his party as
sociations, the man merely. rs be has
shown himself in the discharge Of l;s
official functions. who wish for pe1c
and thioa, and IL ihisstrugzlv have no
wish beyond, dare not trust him. We
have the public dccIarations Of the
COnfedcratcIra1ers, bond 4 reiterated.
that the CDipn j. dissolved Ggrerer
Why talk to them Of Pe.tce and rcstor-
alton Of the Union they aver they will
not entertain the proposition. If We
will lay down our arms, give them Ma.
son and DiX0n'S line, and the Ohio Riv-
er as boundary. they will negotiate
for Peace, but no Union. Gen. McClell.
an is for peace and the Union. Ifhe
were President, and al his officials trne
to the proposition, we must begin by
Withdrawing or disbanding our armies
as apreliminarymeasurc to negotiation
end here no question can be entertain
cd but that Of boundary and terms Of
separation.
1t would be absurd to thiul; or talk
Of ofrc-union. Gen. Mcclellan old pat
ron, jeff Davis. would laugh athim or
rebuke him, if he were foolish enough
to hint al such thing as Union,
We could have no reunion. Could
we have peace, oar large armies would
no longer naeet to fight battles under
Generals in the field. but the robber
bands-the Sons Of Liberty. the
Knights of the Golden Circle, the sons
of ravagc, every where, by whatso-
ever named called, would rise up in
swarms and infest the land. McCicll-
an must be their President. Without
their aid he cannot be elected and, at
least he will look with lenieney on the
acts and purposes Of bis constituents
and supporters.
But docs any one doubt that Mr..
Buchanan, when elected President, and
during his Presidency, was a friend Of
the Union, and wished to preserve it?
/ never doubted il for a moment; and
thought him much safer to be trusted.
with all his inauspicious surroundings.
than ! now think Mcclellan. Both in
my Judgment, lack force of character
and firmncss and Mcclellan, if lie be.
comes President, will be surrounded by
a more dangerous class OF men than
the rebels,in thought and purpose, that
surrounded Buchanan, and he wosld
be completely in their hands.
The large mass of his supporters are
those who rejoice when the Union
armies meet reverse, and are down
cast at the news of victory-t tiosc who
promised to raise & arm one hundred
thousand men in Indiana. Illinois and
Missouri, to aid Price in his recent raid
on Missouri, in which he was checked
at Pilot Knob, and from which he has
been driven in disgrace. lie could not
remain long enough to enable his SYM
pathizcrs-thc Sons of Liberty, and
Knights Of the Golden Circle, and all
those who love rapine and violence
better than order-to join him; bu'
they are at homo to cast q vote and to
n man they vote for him; and il he he
elected President, they are the peopl'
whom he will especially represent.
Wecan havcno Union unless We CON
duer it, and without Union, the hopt
or pretensc Of peace were mockery.
Without it, we can have no stable
State Governments. Cast offthe Union,
and our only protection for life and
property will lie in military despot
ism; or, to speak more in accordance
with the taste Of the times, Il strong
Government; and this, after many II
painful struggle, will follow disunion.
Europe in the middle ages, Italy,
down to our own times, Mexico and the
South American States, are our proto,
types, after our triumph of disunion.
five want peace, il We want Union,
we must win them as the price Of vic
tory, We must negotiate with arms
in ours hands, and with Il conquered
foe. | have been one of those who
went farthest in favor Of cOnciIiaton.
kindness, concossion-evcrything that
could be done to restore mutual conf
dencc and harmony IN the Union, but
nothing out Of it. Nor would | now
promise to concede anything to the
usurped Confederate Government or
any of the bands of robbers and mur-
dercrs, organized and without organih-
ton, who act, or profess to act, under
its countenance and authority, and