The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-09-28
letter fr3m me Hon. Beyertls
JOhusOn Of MaryIand.s

he OOmmlt66e On AkfanBcMSuts iVt suo
W. Y0fk meeting on the 18th inst. II is
nore upinted than his letter to the Wash.
neton COMMITTEES:
SSAaAToaA SPRINGS, Sept. l6, 1864.
Gsnttsmen:-Your Invitation TO the meet
mo- tomorrow of tho Democratic and Con-
,erystiye organizations Of, your city, Gust
received IN this place. toratify the recent
Chicago nominations, I would cheerfully
accept, If it was in my power. =.
In the early dsys Of Mr.. Hncoln's admin
stration, I lost almost all hope Of a successes
ful termination of the rebellion, while he
wssat the head of the government; and
this, the merest hope, 10 now wholly ex'
tingnished. His infifmity bf purpose, his
ans readiness in any policy, his once ex.
pressed dislike to radicalism-his subse-
auent adoption Of its worst fsatures-his
ignorant and mischievous interference with
our military campaigns-his appointment,
often against advice, Of high military OH
GERS of notorious incompetehcy-his fre>
auent and nearly fatal changes of comman<
ders-his abandonment of the before uni
form practice of his predecessors of Cabinet
consultations-his permission of dishonor-
ing discussions among its members, display
ing itself constantly, to his knowledge, be-
fore others, and often, as it is known, in his
presence, in personal abuse of each other
his obstinate and reckless disregard of the
wishes of his political friends, communica
ted to him on one occasion in the solemn
form of committee, representing, as he wa
aware, nine-tenths, if not every friend he
had in Congress; and again, and recently,
expressed in terms not to be mistaken, in
in one of the resolutions Of the convention
which nominated him for reelection
his permitting military interference with
elections, virtually subjecting the ballot to
the control Of the bayonet-his justifying
arrests without specifications Of charges,
though over and over again demanded, and
long continued Imprisonment; and after re-
lease, without trial or explanation, his toll
Grating trial, by military commission, Of
lenses made cognizabIe exclusively by acts
of Congress passsd since the rebellion, by
the civil courts, and the virtual confisca>
ton of private property, without even re-
sort to any mode of trial, and other matters
of like illegality and outrage, too many to
detail in letter, while they demonstrate
the utter unfitness for the Presidency, give
no promise of successful result of the con-
test while he is the commander-in-chief of
the army and navy, and entrusted by the
power he yields with the shaping Of our
peace and war policy. This must be ar
rested, or in my opinion the country will
be ruined.
This fatal career can and would be stop
ped by the election of almost any loyal man
in his stead and the result is certain if G ,n-
eral Mcclellan becomes the successor. His
perfect devotion to the Union and his ex.
pressed determination to make Its restoi a.
ton the Zone condition of peace."-the pu
rity of his character, his demonstrated abb
lily, and his military Observation-Disclosures
guarantees that in his hands the Executive
power will not be abused, but be directed
in strict subordination to the Constitution,
to the sole end of restoring the Union,
which is our inheritance, and causing it
again to shed it's blessings over now sore
" troubled and bleeding nation. Wild,
insane and RECKLESS, partisans may assail
him with every opprobrious epithet -men
who have tasted OF that insane root, the
obtaining of high, Office at home or abroad,
may tell US, to the disgust Of all patriotic
men, that ut it is not too much to say
that it would be far better that Robt Z.
Lee should enter Washington at the head of
his army, as conqueror, than that George
B. Mcclellan should enter it as President"
"a ludicrously inconsistent and even illog.
ical Premier, the half Of whose official pa
pers and speeches answer the other halt,
may threaten treachery on the part Of the
Administration, on the happening of Mr..
Lincoln's defeat in November, by declaring
himself unable ia that contingency, to
"vouch for the safety of the country against
the rebels during the interval which must
elapse before the new Administration can
constitutionally come into power" and the
canvass may be continued as, with some
honorable exceptions, it bas begun, by the
billingsgate abuse and calumnioas charges
against our candidates and their friends;
yet from from all these causes we have
nothing to fear. Success is in our hands, if
We are true to duty.
Under the protection Of Divine Provi'
dence We can achieve for our country vic
tory greater in its results than any present
military success. We can elect Mcclellan
and Pendleton in spite of officeholders, con.
tractors. and administrative influence and
pswer; and that done, in short time there
after State after State will be found return
ing to allegiance, until, at date not re,
mote. the Union will be restored, frater-
nal affections revived, and peace and plenty
and happiness, and national character and
power, be substituted for division, hatred
war, restitution, wretcbedness, national
1ishonor and comparative weakness.
With regard, your obsdient servant,
REvERDY JOHNSON.
Messrs. Matthewson, Eichof, McAlear