The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-09-20

ara albs ugi requirel by enacsmanis
eouailaa9aaily made. Should Be aeitbee
dcmaBieA agr received
Bot even then be was ready 10 s0e.
esst scheme by which tnapuuiss.oo
me1t Ne Effected 10 any STATE aDd
had na $ farforsottaa DIS agiy 10 tie
Government bm wha, Sc could write
for ne encouragement 81 the Presi.
ders whom Dc feared might C. dis.
uuxed b 81. oaa disaster ana The
slsmof of those who were soon to Be
81 friends
Len neither military disaster, 30.
Hteal faction. nor foreign war shake
your settled parpose 10 enforce The
equal operation II Ibe laws 81 he
United Siales upon tie people Of e.
~ State"
Gen. Mcclellan next appeared be-
core BE people =. a politician, in hi.
letter fayorug The election Of Judge
woolaarl as Governor Of Pennsyl-
yauia. Tie was then more than defeat.
~ he was adiscar5ed general Having
realized Bis worst fears ii losing alike
ne confidence 81 Tie people and the
Government, be- was willing 10 be
known as a member of the party 10
which be Lad made bis first advances
AZ IIarrisous Landing. In that letter
he gave his reason why be should, lfI
a citizen Of Pennsylvania, cast h!s vote
for Woodward:
II understand him TO be Of The opin.
ion hat while the war is waged with
all possible decision AMI energy. the |
policy directing il should be in conso- /
nance with the principles Of humanity |
ard civilization, working no injury 10
private rights and property not de-
manded by military necessity and rec.
ognized by military law among civil
lied nations
II the organization of free States
out Of Texas and Virginia, the arrest
Of persons where any general thinks
he has "good reason" to believe them
engaged in giving aid and comfort to
the enemyand the thrusting Of whole
Legislature into military prison
come under the exception of military
necessity" il Is difficult to see what the
Government had done TO entitle Gen.
Mcclellan to charge il by necessary
implication with carrying on war in
a manner not consonant W tn human-
ny and civilization, and TO lead one
then under its pay, for that reason TO
give his name and influence TO the OPP
position.
But even in that letter Gen. Nc.
Clellan was careful 10 affirm of the
candidate Of his choice
Il understand Judge Woodward TO +,
be in favor Of the prosecution of the
war with ri the means at the com
mand Of the loyal States until the mil /
itary power Of the rebellion is destroy f
cd
And in his report written about the i
same time he said f
~ 6elicre that necessary prelimi- {
nary % NE re.eSfabHshmem ofhe u.
ion i he entire detem Or ritual de- !
.traction ofHe organized military poic-
y of The coatederates." a
Gen. Mcclellan next appears in bis f
etter accepting the nomination of the ii
Chicago Convention. He has taken d
! long step forward since October, Il
1868. lie evidently no longer con- ?
,iders ihe'destruclion Of the rebel ar q
mics necessary preliminary" to ne. i
,otiations for peace, for a resolution q
4 the platform OF that Convention de- a
ares that "after four years Of failure 81
. restore the Union by the expert Il
lent Of war;" "the public welfare de. I
hands that immediate efforts be made {
or cessation OF hosiilities." And in al
is letter q acceptance, the man who v
} October, 1868, was in favor of the Il
OF the war with all the is
leans at the command of the LOYAL "
tates until the military power Of the Sc
ebellion is destroyed" now speaks of
Cancellation and compromise" as nee it
-sary TO restore Tie Uuion. II the hi
.ther Of arbitrary arrests and The adj e
ocade o The draft, who as late as The as
~ Of 1868 declared that the "entire Of
eleal Or virtual destruction" Of the ",
sbei armies was necessary prclim:- all
AIRY TO the re-establisbBent of The
uion, can in the fall ST 1864 accept
ominauon on platform which de-
ares thal after -four years Of failure
restore The Union by the expert
cnt Of war there must be a cessation
hossilhies to bring about peace in :
&c spirit q Cancellation and compro-