Marshall County Republican., 1864-09-15
THE REPUBLICAN.
THE NEW fORk HERALD on
MeCLELLAN'S NOMINATION.
Mcclellan Must Repudiate the Plat
form, or He Is Lost.
The Copperhead Conspiracy to Inaugu-
rate Revolt in the North

The New York Xerald, the most widely
circulated, and the most influential Demo
cratic paper in the United States, thus
speaks of the Chicago peace platform, the
nomination of Gen. Mcclellan. and the
COpperhead conspiracy to inaugulate an
in>urrection in the North:
rnE PRESIDENTIAL oUEsT0y-sHALL VIZ
HIVE AN INsURREcTIoS Al THE NORTH?
We have not the slightest doubt that
there is a n.nt,tol uhdey.stenaing Eti,seeh tle
SeyDOuTs, the Hoods. I'aliaadiqhom and
tte rebels. This understanding is shown
IN the secession Platform adopted BIZ tie
ehirGgo Contention, and ia tie nomination
or -ur. Pea3leton. Of Ohio-who is
practical SeceSsjoniSt--for Vice President
We have now driven the rebels completely
to the wall. General Grant has the best
OF them at Richmond, aud General Sher-
man has succeeded in capturing Atlanta
This is not the time, then, that any
reasonable man would be talking about
Ian immediate cessation cf hostilities. -
We are in favorof an armistice. like that
between Prussia and Denmark, where both
sides hol5 their ground and are ready to
begin the conflict at any moment, but there
Is vast deal of difference between such
an armistice and the immediate cessation
OF hostilit;cs,' which the Chicago plat
forn requires. Nothing can explain such
a platform except the hypothesis that Il
r1s ditoted by JcG. Daris 10 the peace
Democrats, and thm these peace men foistel
"a upon tie Chicago ConUeafjon as tie price
ef tier endorsement 81 General McC lei
LAM > nomination.
Fog three years past the Herald has
sustained AMI defended the nero of
Autietam. We have done full Justice to
his gencrslship. his statesmanship, his
honesty and hi, patriotism. But when
Mcclellan takes lis stand upon corardly
peqre playorm, we are at a loss how to
follow him and defend him. This the
General has not yet done. and we hope
that he will never be foolish enough to do
1t. We advise anil urge him to come out
boldly and declare that his only platform
Is his past record as a Union general, and
that his sentiments are these expressed in
his letter from Harrison'S Landing and
his ora,ion at West Point. If he hestates
10 do this he IS LOST There must be no
prevarication nor equivOcation. The rot
ten Chic0go i,ialf0rm nlRst be kicked to
pieces anil McClellan's own platform
substituted. lie hal better a thousand
fold decline TIE nOaiaaiion than to accept
itupon such conditions as those imposed
by the Convention. The Chicago plat
form iarites deffat. and it must be broken
up. either by Nee lellan himself or by the
voice of the people at the polls.
We canlidly and sincerely believe that
the peace copperheads at the North do not
desire the election Of Mcclellan any more
than the Southern secessionists desired the
election Of Douglas or Breckinridge in
1861. They bitterly opposed Mcclellan
at Chicago, and openly denounced him as
tyrant and usurper. Finally they
accepted him upon condition that they
should have the platform and the Vice
President. But even now the copperheads
ere not earnestin his support. There is
no saying but that Mr.. Lincoln may be
elected by g small majority, and in that
event the Copperheads intend to raise a
rerolution al tie Worth. This they can
very readily do ii the people do not beware
0fthe trap. Suppose the election to be
decided by only few thousand votes. then
the Democratic minority will be nearly as
strong as the Republican majority In
fact the minoriey will be stronger; for
the Democrats will fight, while the
Abolitionists will not. What, then is
20 hinder revolution? Is it the army?
The moment the army is withdrawn
10 put down an insurrection here the
rebels Will come out of their intrench-
.aents aud capture Washington. This, as
we understand it is part of the Copper
heal plan, and if successful it will put an
end to the Government of the country.
That this idea Of a vast Northern con-
spiracy between the eopperheads and the
rebels is no mere bugbear, isevident from
the fact that the Chicago Convention. in.
stead OF adjourning sine die, SIS conventions
usually do, adjourned to meet again at the
call ofMe Erecutipe Committee. This is
equivalent to tie organization of a reroLu-
1fondry body. Our merchants and
capitalists so consider it; for they are
closing up business, shipping their goods
back to Europe. turning their property
into gold, sending their property across
the water, and in every way preparing to
leave the country as soon as the revolution
begins. These movements are not to be
lightly considered. They mean mischief,
and show.that trouble is brewing. Gen
Mcclellan can avert that trouble and res
tore public conf hience il he have the pluck
and sagacity to ignore the Chicago plat
form and come ont boldly as Jackson
Democrat on the platform of his past
record. Then he will have a fair chance
Of election, because he will not be bound
to cowardly policy if he be elected But
what could Washing ston himselfdo il he
were pledged to negotiate for "an immedi-
ate cessatiop ofhostilities?" The Chicago
platform ariH encoargge tie rebels 10 hold
oua until election. and. as things stand at
present, the Peace Copperheals have
promised them one Of two things: either
the reelection of Lincoln and Northern
insUrrection-in which case the rebels Will
have the upperhand Of US; or. in the event
of Mc(tlallap's elacfion can Immediate