The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-23
SUNDAY. OCTOBER %, 1864.
MeOleIlan Must be EIected.

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Mcclellan Must be Elected.
Occasionally, when it became ap-
parent that LINCOLN would be elected
president, the rebel papers would affect
10 be delighted and declare that they
preferred him TO any one else But
these expressions we're studied, and ut
tered for puIpose-merely to cover
their chagrin. They were like the ne.
gro, who worked half day to get a
rabbit out OF its burrow, and then let
it escape; "go den; he's poor dry meat,
and me no want him in de fust place
Whenever, however, therei is anything
to give the McClellanites encourage
ment the rebels rejoice, and tender them
all the aid in their power. The Rich
mond Enquirer Of the l4th says
At present all the indications that
usually precede such elections, point to
the election Of Mr.. Lincoln. The Penn
sylvauia elections which took place on
Tuesd9y last, the nth of the month,
have not yet been heard from, For
twenty years as the October elections
in Pennsylvania have gone, SO has the
Presidential election If the present
state Of public affairs has not entirely
dismembered parties, we may, in day
or 90 hear from that election, and be
able 10 form an opinion as TO. the result
in November -..s
Events must take place between now
and the Presidential election which
viii greatly affect the result Pennsyl
vania may have gone for the RepubliS
cans on last Tuesday by an oyerwhelm
ing majority, and yet disaster to the
Federal armies in Georgia and Virginia
would change the aspect of affairs in
the United States 50 completely as TO
utterly defeat Lincoln.
The uncertainty which hangs over
the fate of Sherman, has not been per-
mitted 10 be known 10 the people of
the United States the authorities at
Washington keep from the public the
fact chat sherman is shut dp in Atlanta,
with an army between him and Chatta-
nooga They publish bulletins to show
that Forrest has broken the telegraph
and railroads, and prevented dispatches
from Atlanta from being received
they relieve public anxiety by war ga
zettes from Stanton, that Thomas and
Morgan and Rousseau have cornered
Forrest, and driven him off; that the
telegraph would be repaired to Altoona
that evening; that Sherman was be
lieved about .oinAiot some terrible blow
upon Hood All such stuff is mere
whistling TO keep their courage up; the
Washington authorities are waiting for
something to turn up that may help
them oat Should the present situa-
ton in Georgia become critical, and
greater disasters befsil Sherman than
those reported already in RichmOnd
should Sheridan be Withdrawn from the
Valley by the necessities of Grant;
should Grant assault and be repulsed at
Richmond ANY or all OF these disas-
tiers are possible-the result Of the Pres
idential election would place Mcclellan
in the White House
IL is not diffiiculg, after reading the
above, 10 ascertain, not only who is the
favored candidate, with the Enquirer,
but also that it is deeply interested in
the result
The languagerof the Enquirer can be
readily interpreted; elect Mcclellan,
and the Richmond government viii be
recognized elect Lincoln, and all is
lost
Lee Longstreet, and Hood, are all
elechoneering for Mcclellan, while
Grant Sheridan, and sherman are work
ing for Lincoln. The success of the
Chicago ticket depends upon rebel vic
tories that nominated at Baltimore
VIZ be elected. # Tao Union arms are
triumphant i1 u5 ls
Norris the Enquiries. alone. The Pc
tersbhrg Express, on the day after the
eleetion, published the following items
OF intelligence, which will be news, in
deed, both 10 the army, and among
loyal citizens That Journal learned
from a perfectly reliable source that
at vote taken in the Fifth (Warrens)
and the Ninth Bnrnlide 81 corps Of the
Yankee army on Tuesday last, the pro
portion in favor Of lhe Mcclellan 10
that Of the Lincoln candidates was as
ten to one
The voting in these corps was alto
geiher by the troops rom Pennsylya-
mia, Indiana and Ohio, in which an
election for State officers and members
Of Congress was held on Tuesday.
On that day also the, question of the
adoption or rejection of the new. con-
stltuiion OF the State OF Maryland was
submitted to the troops from that STATE
in the Army Of the Potomac. We
could only hear from two regiments
whose vote was almost unanimous
against its adoption. ahe main feature
of tbs new constitution is the extine.
ton OF slavery.
The Express would hardly have in
dulged ia so monstrons aud glaring a
falsehcod, had II not been one which
delighted il, The zen 70 one, as all
know, was the other wa1s Jor the Union
candidates. and the Maryland soldiers
came up solid for the new constitution,
and the aboliiion Of slavery
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