The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-09-20
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN
THE NORTH.

To show the spirit in which the Presidential
campaign is conducted, we make some extracts
from late Northern papers. The Washington
Chronicle Q4ncoln's organ) of September 4th says:
The trouble in the ranks of the Vallandigham
Democracy is, that it is composed Of two violently
antagonistic sections; the one clamorous for war,
and the other clamorous for peace; and, between
the two, poor General Mcclellan is suffering sadly.
Thus, the war men hate Pendleton, who as
the peace candidate for Vice President; and the
peace men hate Mcclellan, because he is the war
candidate for President. Result: Indifference eve
rywhere, discomfort everywhere, apathy every
where.
The same paper has the following:
1t is one Of the novel features of the present po-
liticaf campaign that the party whose candidate
runs upon purely military record depends chiefly
for its success upon the defeat of armies in the
feld.-Prevaricate deny it they may, the
leaders of the Vallandigham Democracy can never
elect their candidate for the Presidency if our ar
mics in the field are victorious. What spectacle
is this? That great organization, heretofore con-
trolling the political power Of the country, with all
its traditions and prejudces in favor of waging
war upon other nations-in fact rel ying more upon
this theme than anything ese-shoud be in
the field with its candidates for the two highest
offices in the gift Of the American people, depend
ent upon its success only in the hope that our ar
mics are to be defeated in the field
The New York Daily News thus defines the po-
litica status of Mr.. Pendeton, the Democratic
candidate for the Vce-Presidency:
George Fl. Pendeton is, in the words of the Tri-
bunc, ''apti-war Copperhead of the most intense
shade and his votes in Congress have rarely differ
ed from those Of Vaandigham and Benjamin
Harris" Precisely SO; aud, as such, stands upon
the Democratic ticket a worthy representative of
that glorious phaianx which stood up in the Con-
gress of the United States denounce, in the face
of raving madness a war which has devasted the
country, burdened our productive industry with a
crushing debt, and murdered aye, murdered -
at the bidding of tanatcal Abolition, hundreds of
thousands of our sons and brothers.
George H. Pendleton, it is true, protested
against the destructive passions OF fanaticism,
standing in his place in Congress beside Vallan-
digham aud Harris. The editor Of the Daily News,
who looks forward with deepening pride to the
memory of SO glorious fellowship, bear wit
ness that that same George FL. Pendleton has
dared with the fearless and few who did not
shrink from breastng the waves of ianaticism
when the Abolition Thugs threatened to silence
opposition by violent death. The leader, now, of
that phalanx of patriotism, he has always proved
himself we1thy OF his following; aud We hail his
name upon onr ticket, regardless of the consdera-
tion of the triumph it presents to lcag and pa
tient labor in good cause as one full Of heart
swelling hope to our afflicted country.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, in
journeyng to Chicago with many members OF the
Democratic Convention, was much impressed with
their conversation He says:
But the saddest thing in all this political talk
was the evideEt delight at our military failures
do not write the words willingly: for, realizing pro-
foundly that this rebellion can be put down by no
party and by no effort that stops short of embra-
cllg the people of the North, l know how fully it
is admitting that the end Of these troublous times
is not yet in sight But there could be no nis'a-
king the tone of exultation in which the invasion
of the North and the siege of the capital in the
fourth year of the war were paraded, and Grants
ankiug operations were laughed at, and the abiii-
ty of JEFF. Davis was exultantly eulogized.