Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-09-23
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10 M.j Gen. G.BM Clellan, Orange, NJ
DEAR SIR: tits a mean thing to lis
ten st the keyhole. 1t is meauer to opel
aprivste letter. 1t is the meane.t of al
to accept hospitality and abuse the host
But these mean things ore Christian vir
tues compared to the act of accepting tn
"oms"afion Of party in order to des,ro!
IT, A platform is the party's soul. A
candidate is the party's body. Separate
the body from the soul, and death ensues
IL 10 as difficult to 81. between two stool.
- to sleep with one eye open. You car
not worship cd and Mammon. Honesty
10 not only the best policy, but the only
one for an honest man. To cheat 10 pol
itics is as wicked as to cheat in money.
You know the peace mep controlled the
Convention. They gave you a platform
that was neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor
mackerel. Yet you insist upon the mack
erel. Hence, the Daily News, the Metro
politsn Record, Freoman's Journal, and
Ohio Crisis fy off from you like hoops
from an efervescing barrel. Singleton
will follow Wood; Vallandigham will fall
in, aud in two weeks Peudlston will de.
cline to be shipwrecked with the rest.
"Come out from under the bed" said the
indignant wife to her undecided husband.
"Nos," said be, $50 long as I have the
spirit Of 4 man within me-"
Mark my words, General you will
not carry q single State except New Jer-
sey, and you will sacrifice seven Demo
cratic members Of Congress out of ten.
Look at Vermont. Maine will be the
same. Indiana will only lead the other
States BY q month.
You will find it as hard as the rebels
have to 6ght such Democratic names Is
Foot, Fsrragut, Porter, and Dupont, on
the ses, or Grant, Meade, Burnside, Sick
les, Hancock, Thomas, and 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 gooseberry bush. 1t
only costs two thousand dollars to get up
Mcclellan meeting. Young Ketchum
said 90. If the explosion of a limited
quantity of gas in Union square killed
two women and wounded several the other
night, what will be tie disaster when
your whole party bursts up 10 November ?
james Buchanan said that be was no
longer J. B., but the Cincinnati platform
You reverse it, and say you are not the
Chicago platform, but G. b. Mac.
Bu!wer said the 'pen was mightier {
than the sword" Then be had not made I
your acquaintance, General. Nominated r
on your Eecord? Yes. The draft. The +
proclamation. The suspension of the la.
bsas corpus. The arrest Of Legislatures. !
Military ct the polls srd disobedience of I
orders. Is not that your public record ? I
20 you mean, By alludiOg to your record,
Ihst you will do the same again
"Gentlemen | haze the honor to &C. c
knowledge the receipt Of your letter, iD- S
forming me of my nomination (of course, r
Who else did yca suppose it Was p by the j
Democratic National Convention, (eer- I
lainly it was not the Republican National =
recently assembled at Chica- " y
70, Chats SO; it did not assemble at :,
or New York, as their candl- h
late ct the next election for the President 4
" the United States. (Exactly; it was D
not for the last eleciiop.) 1t is unLeces Ia
ary Tor me to say tha, this nomination T
ZONES to me unsOusht." (Why say it, Il
hen7) y
Take the whole letter, paragraph by "
paragraph, transpose it as l have this il
'ensence, and you will Gud it as weak as j,
lishwater-undecided, Inconsistent, un- to
and egotistical. The SIX al
usions to the Union remind one Of the !, !,
cry in the Fortunes Of N,ge! %
-"watches, clocks, barnacles." The (
right boy who cried "barnacles, watches,
'lccks," introduced new idea into Scot.
and.
"If afrank, earnest, and persistent effort \
o obtain those objects should fail, the re- \
for ulterior Consequences will \
oil upon those who remain in arms against \
he Union. (Why not say war right out,
lot dodge rouRd a corner this way Don't
orget that old Cass killed himself with
be Nicholson letter.) Believing that the
Jews here expressed are those of the r,
and the people you represent, y
accept the nomination" You don't ~
elieve anything of the kind. You know y
etter. The Northwest we're all peace. y
10 reads the Platform. Jf
Five hundred delegates unanimously Jf
gree upon q platform. Here it is: il
Resolved, To please you, ,bey have war. in
Resolved, To please PeDdle.ou, they
ave peace.
Resolved, To please all the outs, the war =
. on till the peace is signed. y
Remember that the Royal George in m. me
British Channel went down with all nm