Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-22


Samuel +. B Morss, Edwin Bartlett
Wilson G. Hunt Isaac Bell
Richard +. CHrmar, William G. Prime
Harry Hilton FLA Bo,le
William Chauncey, frederick l. Kirkland,
Anthony L Robertson Lorng Andrew
joseph w. Alsop.
Nathaniel Jarvs Jr. James M Austiu,
Martin l. Ketse john Healy
Il. Cox Alfred Moore
john Aiken, JT. BENJAMIN Sherman,
George Bickford, John Deese
William Meals William l.. Ely
SPEECH OF MIR. BELMONT.
The Hon. AU6UsTE BELMONT. on taking the chair was
greeted with cheers He addressed the slssmblsss AZ
follows
Feiow-citizens thank you for the honor which Won
confer Upon me- This enthusiastic uprising OF the De
mocracy OF The Empire City for the purpose of ratynq
The nomination Of Gen. Mcclellan and George Pends
ton Tor the Presidency AID Vice Presidency Of the United
States indication what New York intends to
do the Sth of November next [Cheers While AZ
Chicago delegate from state pledged New York
city TO roll up majority of 10000 e. SO we will - and
cheers) for our candidates. that did NOT
promise too much, and that you will redeem INV nladoa
We engaged in great aud noble contest Ii is not
only election OF favored candidate but il ia the saliva
ton a the Republic the restoration OF the Union and The
yindicaon Of the Constitution and the laws which will be
the rui Of our victory Four years ago, when had the
honor to preside at the last Democratic meeting held be-
fore the Presidential election, predicted that Mr. Lin
coins election would be the forerunner Of dissolution
the UnCn amidst and bloodshed How terribly have
events verified my fears The issue before the American
people just grave and momentous il was then
The electors throughout the Loyal States will have Il
choose between war and dlsnnon, which be
evtabe results OF Mr. Lnoons reelection or an early
honorable and lasting peace based upon the Union and
the Constitution which only be secured under the
conservative, Democratic, End national administration Of
Gen. Mcclellan.
Our candidate pledges himself and bis administration 10
such resut his able letter of acceptance and he
has proved to The American people that knows how
keep his promises Two years ago TO day he redeemed
his pledge 10 Washington the Northern stat,
rom the victorious army Of Lee on the bloody battle field
OF Antetsm. ICheers. Hardly week before the hero
m the Peninsula, the who had created the Army of
ne Potomac the General under whose wise aod
examinations Roanoke, Fort Doneisen and New Orleans
zen INTO our hsbds, had been left without the smmand ot
snes man. and had offered to his enemies In power 10
49,, i"e VI ns comrades az common soldier in the
thnaard =, ~ omon' IL was oniy when Lees forces
peloa ~ Inc gates OF Washington that Lincoln Sian
ton ana Aeck that siocus trio of militia re- scence ana
oeeu uPon the man whom they had 40 dlsa race
- ~ GOV ~ ~ mem The Capital they were willing
70 give up, Dat mcclellan knew the price of ws.hinto
once the hands of the rebels an immsa,,. 49, ,
of the Richmond usurper by the foreign ov.rnn,a "a
the inevitable Independence Of the south He tanl Co..
maDd of beaten, discouraged and shatte rcd ~
heroic followers knew their leader ana VIII" s
weeks from the day that he assumed command tba rn
nant Of Lees beaten army had 10 seek safety ia chr
And how Mcclellan rewarded for this brilliant can
palgn BY being again deprived of his command in ths
most unusn6able and arbitrary manner and by system
Of persecution from that day forward OF which hsor,
shows hardly more diseraceful example.
IL was my good fortune 70 seq Gen. Mcclellan shortly
AFTER ms last campaign and when pressed hum
s,onlshment that be consented again to take comman
WIN halleck and Stanton IN the War Department afce
~ ameiui manner with which they had ruined his plan
- .no rehnsaa, he replied TO me: 81 knew to wat
sApns myself, but the country was in danger, and
mao no nght 70 make ceodtons" And this IL the mar
VIZ, i0 % years past has been uoed and ylfed By
soy epupcan paper throughout the land and who hs,
Union sDd the Constitution and sv,Rpa.,h;s;y 49,
rebels at the South ps WIN ''s