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Tbr gaaIIa gaalla Statesman.
FRIDAY EVENING, sEPTR 9, 1864.

FRIDAY EVENING" SEPTR y, 1864.
THE CHICAGO NoM1NEEs.-George B. Mcclellan
and George H. Pendleton are the nominees of
the Chicago Convention for President and Vice
President. Gen. Mcclellan will undoubtedly
receive larger vote for President than any man
that might have been nominated in his stead.
He commands alike the respect of citizens and
soldiers, and the confidence of the great mass
of the Democratic party 1t is true that some
of the extreme ultras of the democratic party
will find fault with Mcclellan, but that is only
what might be expected, and will rather enhance
the prospect of his election than Otherwise
Harris, of Maryland, who has usually been re-
garded as more of a secessionst than a demo-
ctsS objected in the Convention to Mcclellan
being the nominee, principally, it appears, upon
the ground that he had arrested some of the
members of the Maryland Legislature. In JUS
tifcation of the arrest, it has been stated that
a majority of the members of that legislature
had conspired to pass secession ordinance and
thus throw the State in favor of the Southern
Confederacy That conspiracy movement was
thwarted by the prompt action of Gen. McClel-
Ian, and the State thereby saved to the Union.
1t is we'll known fact that nearly all the South
ern States were carried into rebellion by their
State legislatures passing secession ordinances
in opposition to the votes and wishes Of a ma
jority of the people of their respective States.
1t was consummated mostly by bribery, and by
threats at the instigation of persons in the Sc
cession interest. The people of those States,
then, were Union men and opposed to seccs-
sion and it follows, that if there had been sufi-
cent forces in each of the States at the time the
legislatures adopted their secession ordinances,
to have arrested the conspiring members, the
States could not have seeded, and the majority
of the people in those States would have been
protected in their rights to live in the Union
under the protecting agis of the old Consttu-
ton and, in that event, rebellion could never
have assumed formidable proportions, We are
of the opinion that Mcclellan did his whole du-
ty when he caused the arrest of the Maryland
legislature, and we have sufficient reason to
believe, judging from Mr.. Harris speeches and
general course in Congress, that had he been in
McClellan's place he would have let the legis-
lature pass an ordinance of secession, while he
would have stood by and approved the act, and
that, too, in the face of protesting majority OF
the Union people of Maryland. In short, we
think Mcclellan did exactly right and that Har-
ris would have done exactly wrong.
Our readers will bear in mind that we have
stood by General Mcclellan through 'thick and
thin" !" from the commencementofh of his campaigns
at the head of the Army of the Potomac up to
the present time. We have always regarded
him as being the ablest military man that this
war has produced and that he is patriot,
a statesman and gentleman, we have every rea-
son to believe and not the slightest reason to
doubt. But we did not expect that he would be
nominated by the Chicago Convention for Pres
ident of the United States Because Of this
fact, however, we do not propose to desert him.
As we have thought well of him in the past, we
shall continue to think well of him in the fu-
ture-at least so long as he pursues a consist
ent upright and patriotic course And if he
is elected President we shall rejoice in the fact,
earnestly believing, that of the candidates in
the field, he is the best calculated in every re-
spect to fill the position of Chief Magistrate of
the United States, and to guide the Ship-of-
State safely through our national troubles and
secure an honorable and lasting peace; with the
States now wandering in rebellion restored to
the Union, and the Constitution preserved to
spread the inestimable blessings it guarantees,
throughout the entire length and breadth of the
land
OF Mr.. Pendleton, the candidate for Vice
President, we know that he is regarded as one
of the ablest of Ohio's sons, and is considered
one of the readiest debaters in Congress-of
which he is a member. He is well versed in
Constitutional law and is thoroughly democrat
ic from principles Of course, he stands op-
posed to all the arbitrary acts which have been
instituted by the present Administration. He
believes in common with the most of his party,
that the government was formed upon a white
basis, for the benefit of white men, and that
it ought to be administered in the future, as in
times past, to protect the rights and liberties
of the citizen We have no fault to find with
him. We feel confident that if the Chicago
are elected, peace will be restored and
the Union saved, while on the other hand, if
Lincoln or Fremont shall triumph, we can see
in advance but dark and gloomy fu-
ture With Mcclellan and Pendleton elected,
neither of whom are guided by narrow, sec
tional views, there is strong grounds to hope
for a united country and glorious future. So
feeling, so believing we do not hesitate to ex-
press ourselves in favor of the Chicago nomi-
nees We do this through no partisan feeling,
but simply through an earnest desire to see our
country again united and at peace
A VALID REAsoN.-The friends of Lincoln
have about exhausted themselves in giving their
reasons why Lincoln ought to be elected next
President, and now probably the friends of
Mcclellan will take up the subject and show
why he must be the next President. In order
TO be among the first to present a reason in fa-
Tor of little Mac, and also to offset the last
appeal in favor Of big Abe, we urge that Nc
Clellan should be our next President because
MS name is "George," and the Georges make
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