Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-09-14
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E.Hurrah for Mcclellan
The Dayton Empire, moved by asudden
burst of enthusiasm for the Chicago
nominee, Incontinently gushes in this
strain:
''Hurrah for George B. Mcclellan! He
is the choice of the assembled Democracy.
Heis the Representative of law and order.
He is the champion of State Rights. He
is the friend of Constitution as il is, and
the Union as it was We give him our
hearty, unqualified, unreserved support.
Down with Abe Lincolnl Down with mob
rnlel Down with war powers and military
necessities! Down with Despotism"
Precisely. But before youthrow up your
cap again, iG might be well enough to
know now you are to get down war
powers and military necessities by elect
ing a Major General to the Presidency
We understand why you give General
Mcclellan your "hearty, unqualified, un-
served support" Had JEFF Davis, or the
devil been nominated, and the nomina-
ton made unanimous on motion of Mr..
Vallandingham, the spotaniety of your
adherence would have been quite as
unqualified and unseryed. Please answer:
1st. Do you hurrah for General Mcclellan
as the champion Of State rights? Mr..
Long says, Mcclellan Is guilty of the
arrest of the Legislature of sovereign
State. He has suspended the writ of
ha6eas corpus, and helped to enforce the
odious Emancipation Proclamation of
Lincoln-the willing instrument of a cor
rupt and tyrannical Administration"
the testimony of Mr.. Harris, of Maryland
who, in his person, as citizen of the State
felt the iron hand of the military chieftain
for whom the Empire hurrahs, is even
more emphatic than Mr.. Longs. Did
he fail to sustain all that he asserted by
official evidence? In his confidential
order to Major General Banks, dated Sep
ember r., 1861, Mcclellan writes: ear
rest the whole party, that is, the Legisla-
ture of sovereign State, )and be sure
that none escape. Is the Empire quite
sure that, with such antecedents it has
in General Mcclellan champion who
will not, on occasion, put the Federal
grip on State sovereignty, and strangle
. State Rights as cheerfully as Hercules
the Neamean lion? Laying such stress as
it does upon the absolute inviolability
of State sovereignty, docs it not become
the Empire and kindred prints to make
more than morally certain what the
views of their champion are before they
gush enthusiastically over him?
I'd Does the Empire hurrah for Nc
Clellan because he will do away with wal
powers and military necessitiesI Our
cause, writes Mcclellan to President
! Lincoln, from Harrison's Landing, "must
never be abandoned. ~ The Con
stitution and the Union must be preserved
whatever the cost in time, treasure, oil
blood" And in order that it should moi
be abandoned for the want of blood. just
q month after the battle of Bull Run, he
wrote the following-the first man in the
nation to recommend positive and un
conditional demand Tor draft)for men.
"WAsBINGroS, Aug. 20. 1861.
'SIR: l have just received the enclosed
dispatch in cipher. Colonel Marcy knows
what he says, and is of the coolest judg
ment. recommend that the Secretary
of War ascertain at once by telegram how
the enrolment proceeds in New York
and elsewhere, and that if it is not pro
ceeding with great rapidity, drafts to b
made al once. We must have men with.
out delay.
Respectfully your obedient servant.
a.. os.- GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.
.4 l, "Msjor General, q. s. A.
The following is a copy Of the urgen
note of General Marcy, his father-in-laV
and chief of staff: H.. .f. ,.
| -.s....-. "NEw YORK, August 20 1854.
81 urge upon you to make positive an
unconditional demand for an immediat
draft of the additional troops you require
Men will not volunteer now, and draft
] ing is the only successful plan. ThepeopI
/ .oH applaud such a course, rely upon it.
will be in Washington to morrow.
- So - R. B. MARCY"
If there is as much need of men to-day
if there should be as much need of then
the day Mcclellan goes into Office, as i'm
mediately after the battle of Bull Run
/ To preserye the Constitution ana tn
Union, is the Empire quite certain tbs
| the odius conscription, over which 1T ha
made so protracted howl, and the en-
forcement of which indirectly urged tn
Ineople to resist, would not be resorte'
; to by the man who was first to recon
mend it ..a
Sd. Does the Empire hurrah for Nj
Clellan because ne Is lOf terminating Va
, war at all hazards, and at any price
al am confident" says Mcclellan at LAX
George, only few weeks ago, that 20
will never willingly consent to be cit
Gems of divided and degraded nation
, but that you will so support the actor
of YOUR fellow countrymen in the mel
Iby drafts to be made at once" by :
positive and unconditional demand IL
, an immediate draft" probably that "
: shall be victorious, and again have peac
and a reunited country" Does that rea
as though Mcclellan believed that tn
, road to peace is not across battle heiC
4 and at the mouth Of slaughtering car
non2 Does the Empire detect any d.
vor of peace at any price, or by eomprt
mise with traitors, in that sentimentI
4th. Does the Empire huIrah for M
Clellan because he believes this to be a
abolition war, incited by Abolitionist
and carried on by Abolitionistsf TO
face the insult offered our flag" said Nc
4 Clellan at West Point; "to save oursely'
from thesfate of the divided republics
Italy and South America, to preserve OF
I Government from destruction, to enfort
iss Just power and laws, to maintain o'