Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-08-25
THE PRESIDENCY,

THE PRESIDENCY.
But little moro than two months re-
mains of time before the Presidential
election there is therefore a necessity that
popular attention be turned TO this sub
ject, that the people may form their .iudg-
ment in the premises, deliberately and
maturely. True, but one name yet ap-
pears formally before the people for the
Presidency, but the signs of the times
indicate that the period is not far distant
when The opposition will announce com
petitor to the present incumbent We
have said but ono name appears ./o,pcdty
by this we do not mean to ignore the fact
that the name of JOIN G. Fremont has
) been announced in this connection, but
.jt-has not been done in the accustomed
forms, and is fact of such insgniiicance
Z in itself, as not to demand being placed
in the ring"
The name of ABRAHAM MwooLN has
been formally, by the Union party, placed
before the country for reelection to tho
high office he now holds We think the
lsigns of the times indicate with sufficient
clearness, that the Copperheads-no mat
ter as to the cpgnomea they may choose
to assume-intcnd to announce as the op-
posing candidate the name of GEORGE b.
McCLELLAN as thor candidate. The
question may be asked, can or will man
who has fought as McCLELLAN has in this
war, now suffer himself to be placed in
the attitude of opposition thereto? We
have no doubt he will, incredible as such
an event may appear to many of his adj
.mirers. We give the following as part
Of tho reasons and causes which govern
him in this course He, like JoHN G.
Fremont, is one of LrNcoLN's disqusted
Major Generals" He feels also the goad-
Jugs of revenge for the apparent disgrace
of being shelved he is prompted by am
bition as well as revenge TO defeat LIN
COLIN, and to place himself before the peo-
pie on higher pitch of fame or notoricty
than he held in the campaign to the Pc
ninsula or in the battle of Antictam
He has also manifested Iris Willingness
that no ono else shall do what he failed
or neglected to do in crushing this rebel
lion, by his letter endorsing JUpoE WooD-
. WARD against ANDY CURTIN for Governor
of Pennsylvania last fall, than whom no
man living has done so much for the sue
cess of the war, in Strengthening the
hands of the Administration. We're
there no other facts to sustain our belief
as to the course of MCCLELLAN, these are
sufficiently indicative of his whereabouts
His Copperhcad friends know and feel
that he is their strongest card, and that
in the event Of his election, nc must
play in accordance with their dictation,
{ for they are tho only party he has who
can act, and can dictate, and even though
lie might be willing to maintain the Union
and fulfill his official oath, they know him
to be powerless in their hands, without
party to sustain him in any policy other
than their own. n
g The choice of candidates by the people
then, no matter what tie name of the
man muy be, is the choice between Union
and Disunion, Peace or War, up with
Rebellion or down with Rebellion, Such
is the is the issue the people are called on
to decide in November next, because tho
Union convention have placed before the
people LINCOLN, ON the platform of Res
toration Of the Union by the prosecution
nof the war; and the authors and begetters
of the Chicago convention e.displayed
that platform of treason impudcntly dur
ing the whole war. No one who has Kept
pace with the prominent events of the
last three years can be ignorant of the
position md schemes of Voorhees, and
yallandigham, the Woodses, the Coxes,
the Longs, and Harrises. and others Of
i that same ilk, who have been preaching
peace aud treason all the time past, and
who are the makers of the Chicago con-
vcntion and the platform that is to be
placed under the feet of MCCLELLAN AS
their Presidential candidate In this
case by The ...frut yc shall hmop the tree"
Tie prophetic traitor and would-bc
Democratic high-priest, as well as martyr,
in speech made at Dayton, on the 18th
Instant, has reiterated his mnny-times told
treason as the platform which by the
k siausee Of God" he /" expects speedily to
5dftolamnuIgate from Chicago as the Demo-
cratic, peace party. secession, treason plat
|srn. In that same cgotistieal speech
llter portraying the mighty labOrs. as ho
! rlsesed to style them. Of the democratic
IN. a,ld the sudden destruction Of our
zrcst National fabric when Breckenridge