Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-13
Trouble Among the Copporheads,

we mentioned yesterday that the New
York NslOs was out in denunciation of
McClellau's letter of acceptance. The fol-
lowing is the article from the NstOs refer
ed to in our dispatches:
1.-THE candidates and the platform cannot
exist apart. The platform is the soul-the
candidate is the body. The one may
change, decay, perish, the other is immu-
table and eternal, for it is principle. The
two are, therefore, iuseparable in their rel
alive positions, for if the man renounce the
principle, he ceases to be candidate of
the party that nominated him.
"Geo. B. Mcclellan was nominated upon
platform that promises an immediate
cessation of hostilities and convention of
all the States. Does he stand upon that
platform today He does not He has
renowned the platform in his letter ac-
cepIng the nomination. 1t is as if the
bridegroom should accept the brides prop
erty, but not her person. A bond like that
is null and void. The peace party win not
consent to have their principles betrayed
and then do homage to the betrayer. They
demand all that is nominated in the bond.
General Mcclellan, having rejected the
proposition for cessation of hostilities
and convention Of all the States, decli-
uGu bu6 .SnlCdkO nOA4lu0tlOAI oh0 SSoANo
before the people self nominated on plat
form of his own creation. The democracy
must seek a candidate who will stand upon
the platform, for they cannot consistently
support one in collision with the Con-
vention that rendered him the nomination.
If the platform accords not with the nom
inee's convictions of the right, due re-
spect for the opinions of the assemblage
that unanimously adopted it requires that
he should give back to the Convention
the standard of the Democracy. The Dem
ocratic National Convention is not dissol-
we'd. 1t is ready to convene at the call of
its Executive Committee. and, if General
Mcclellan cannot abide by the resolutions
through which the principles of the party
have been enunciated, let the Convention
reasonable, and either remodel their plat
form to suit their nominee, or nominate a
candidate that will suit the platform"
The editor of the Metropolitan Record,
however, in letter to the Daily NetOS, goes
a step farther. Here is his letter:
METROPOLITAN RECORD OFFICE,
New YORK, Sept. 8, 1861.
"To the Editor ofthe ". 7. NeOS:
"The undersigned takes ad vantage of
this, the earliest opportunity he has had
nary letter of acceptance, to state that he
has been compelled by strict sense of du-
ty as journalist, and in accordance with
his principles as peace democrat, to with
draw the support promised in the last num-
Der of the Metropolitan Record TO the momi-
nee of the Chicago Convention for Presi-
dent. That promise was made in the be-
lief that Gen. Mcclellan would accept the
platform upon which he was nominated,
and it was given on that condition alone
In his opinion, this so called Democratic
candidate has placed himself in a position
of direct antagonism with the principles of
the American constitution by declaring his
intention to continue the present infamous
war upon sovereign states, and which has
been SO prolific in evils. In the course he
has thought proper to adopt he ceases,
strictly speaking, to be a candidate, as the
candidate and the platform have hitherto
been regarded as inseparable. Gen. Nc
Clellan cannot say that he was ignorant of
the character of the platform before he was
nominated, as it was adopted the day be-
fore the nomination was made. If he could
not stand upon that platform, why did he
not inform his friends in Chicago by tele-
graph of that fact in time to prevent the
peace delegates from being misled2 Can
it be possible that this delay was simply a
settled purpose to entrap them Did he and
his advisers suppose that by waiting several
days after the Convention adjourned they
would put it out of the power of the peace
men to correct their mistake, and thns pre-
vent them from placing another candidate
before the public
General Mcclellan says / am happy to
know when the nomination was made the
record of my public life was kept in view;
but he certainly cannot be ignorant of the
fact that the record of his public life was
the great obstacle to his nomination in the
minds OF the Peace Democracy, and that
it was only upon the assurance that he
in favor of the immediate cessation of hos
tilities that they withdrew their objections
to him as a candidate. 1t was their wish
that his record should be kept out of
view, and they believed that he himself
was not DESTROYS of giving it more eXten
tended publicity than it had already OBJ
tanned, but they never supposed that he
would refer to it as matter of pride or
satisfaction. Are we to understand by this
i'll timed reference to his record that he
regards his arrest of the Maryland legis.
lature as justifable act, and that if
elected he will continue the system of ar.
bitrary arrests inagurated by Abraham
Lincoln and so willingly carried into execu-
ton by himself. This record tells us that
no is the enemy of hG6eaS corpus, and it
also informs US in regard to another very
unpleasant particularly unpleasant to
the industrial classes-that he was the
FIRST to urge and press upon the President
that most despotic of all despotlc measures
of the present administration, the odious
CONSUMPTION. AS he iutimates his iuten.
ton to carry on the war, the public should
understand what that means; that it means
renewed CONSUMPTION, that men shall be
forced by the strong arm of military pow
er from their homes to wage war of sub
jugation against people who claim the
right which we ourselves should be the last
to resign, the right of self government.
.r- "JoHN MULLALY,