The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-10-15
CHE Gmpuria 9ews.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1864.
TRAIN ON MCCLELLAN.

Train out of the convention was losing
game to the Copperhead party. He WAKES
bitter and bittereE
RocKAwAY-oE-THE-SEA Sept. II, 1864.
To Maj Gen. q. B. Nc CYellan, Orange, vi
DEAR SIR: 1t is mean thing to listen at
the key-hole. It is meaner to open private
letter. 1t is the 1meanest of all to accept
hospitality and abuse the host. But these
mean things are Christian virtues compared
to the act of accepting the nomination of a
party in order to destroy it. A platform is
the party's soul. A candidate Is the party's
body Separate the body from the soul,
and death ensues. II is az difficult to sit
between two stools as to sleep with one eye
open. You cannot worship God and Nam
mon Honesty is not only the best policy,
but the only one for an honest man. To
cheat in politics is as wicked as to cheat in
money. You know the peace men controll
ed the convention. They gave you plat
form that was neither fish, flesh, fowl or
mackeral. Yet you insist upon the mack
erel. Hence the Daily News, the Metro
politan Record, Freeman's Journal and
Ohio Crisis fly off from you like hoops from
an efFeIvescing barrel. Singleton will fol-
low Wood; Vallandigham will fall in, and
In two weeks, Pendleton will decline, to be
shpwrecked with the rest. "Come out
from under the bed,' said the Indignant
wife to her undecided husband. 'Not,"
said he, $50 long as 1 have the spirit Of a
man within me-"
Mark my words, Geueral-you will not
carry single State except New Jersey, and
YOU will sacrifice seven Democratic mem
bers of Congress out of ten. Look at Yer
mont Maine will be the same. Indiana
will only lead the other States by month.
You will find it as hard as the rebels have
to fight such Democratic names as Foote,
Farragut, Porter and Dupont, on the sea,
or Grant, Meade, Burnside, Sickles, Han
cock, Thomas and Sherman, on the land
all of whom are against you. The late let
tiers of Sherman and Grant rattle through
the Democrats ranks like lightning through
a pooseberry bush. 1t only costs two thou
sand dollars TO get up Mcclellan meeting.
Young Ketchum said SO. If the explosion
of limited quantity of gas in Union
Square killed two women and wounded sew
eral the other night, what will be the disas-
ter when your whole party bursts up in
November?
James Buchanan said he was no longer ].
B., but the Cincinnati platform. You reverse
it, and say that you are not the Chicago
platform, but G. B. Mac. Said Lord BY
ron in Don Juan
"The well-known Hebrew word, I am,
We English use to govern d-m."
But to your letter. Bulwer said the open
was mghtier than the sword" Then he
had not made your acquaintance, General.
Nominated on your record. Yes. The
draft. The proclamation. The suspension
of habeas corpus. The arrest of Legisla
lures. Military at the polls, and disobedi
ence Of orders. Is not that your public
record? Do you mean, by abiding to your
record, that you will do the same again?
GENTLEMEN: l have the honor to &C
knowledge the receipt of your letter, inform
ing me of my nomination (of course, who
else did you suppose it was by the Dem
ocratic National Convention Certainly, it
was not the Republican National Commit
tee, J recently assembled at Chicago CHATS
30, it did not assemble at Cleveland or New
York; as their candidate at the next cleo
ton for President of the United States.
Exactly, it was not for the last election. }
1t is unnecessary for me to say to you
that the nomination comes to me unsought.
(Why say it, then?)
Take the whole letter, paragraph by par
graph, trauspose it as have done this SEN
tence, and you will find it as weak as dish
water-undecided inconsistent, ungram-
NAUTICAL, egotistical. The six illusions to
the Union remind one of the stereotyped
CRY in the Fortunes of Nigel-Watches,
Clocks, Barnaces. The bright boy who
cried barnacles, watches, clocks, introduced
a new idea into Scotland.
If a frank, earnest and persistent effort to
obtain these objects should fail, the respon-
sibility for Interior consequences will fall
upon those who remain in arms against the
Union.
Why not say war right out, not dodge
round corner this way. Don't forget
that old Cass killed himself with the Mich
olson letter.
Believing that the views here expressed
are those of the Convention and the people
you represent 1 accept the nomination.
You don't believe anything of the kind.
You know better. The Northwest were al
peace. So reads the platform. Five hun
dred delegates unanimously agree upon g
platform. Here it Is:
Resolved To please you, they have war.
RESOLVED, To please Pendleton, they have
peace.
ResolUed, To please all the outs, the wal
go on till the peace is signed.
Remember that the George in Bristol
Channel went down with all on board, the
result of trimming.
Walter Savage Lander wrote on the
Georges:
George the First was reekoned vile,
Viler George the Second.
And what mortal ever heard
Any good of George the Third
When from earth the Fourth descended,
God be praised, the Georges ended
coudense your letter in two lines: