Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-03-31
From the N. Y. Evening Post 18th inst.7
Comprehend Meeting at the CNoDar Tnstjtut


General McClellan's friends took the field
for him last evening. An assemblage was
held at the Cooper Institute, at which Mr..
Amos Kendall, formerly Postmaster General
of the United States, and now Chairman of
. the Conservative National Committee, pre-
sided. The meeting appears to have been
large, and to have cheered vigorously and
resolutely whenever the name of General
Mcclellan was mentioned. The president of
the meeting, it will be remembered, was the
officer under whose administration of
the postOtfice it was attempted to prevent the
circulation of periodicals and other publica-
lions suspected OF anti-slayery tendencies, by
encouraging deputy pOstmasters III DESTROYING
them, or refusing to deliver them to those
who subscribed for them.
The resolutions adopted at the meeting de-
nounce the war as fratracidal, as threatening
the permanent dismemberment of the Union,
and as so conducted by the administration of
Mr. Lincoln as to destroy all individual rights,
annihilatc the freedom of elections. bring up-
on the country interminable taxation and
financial rum " and swallow up the integri-
ty OF the states and the liberty of their citi-
zens in a fanatical despotism." To avoid
these dreadful consequences the resolutions
close with proposing that General Mcclellan
be made President of the United States To
read the resolutions one would suppose that
all the blame of the war rests upon the pre-
sent federal administration No censure is
bestowed upon the rebels. For aught that
appears on their face, the rebellion is the
most innocent thing in the world, and the
sole crimes for which the war has given occa-
sion are those committed by the federal gov
eminent and the men who act its name.
n other
blage of those who in this unhappy war take
part with the men who provoked it, and
against the government upon which it was
forced. We have taken more than one occa-
sion to show that there can be but two par
ties IN the country as long as the war lasts
those who are Tor their country and those
who are against it-those who are for putting
down the rebellion, and those who are foI
encouraging 1.-THE loyal party and the Cop.
perhead party. The meeting at the Coope1
Institute was of the latter class; Mr.. Sunset
Cox, of Ohio, the supporter of the traitor
| Nallandigham, was very properly invited tc
| it, and not being able to come, very naturally
expressed his regret that he whose whole DO
litical activity, as all know, is expended in g
series of efforts to thwart the measures taker
by the government to suppress the rebellion
could not unite with his New York friends If
| their proceedings.
We want, says Mr.. Kendall, to see the re
storatlon OF the Union effected " in the kind
est manner possible" The present admins
tratlon are altogether too harsh in Their
methods. They are assembling large armies
no very bad policy, Gen. Mcclellan woul,
say-but they are doing what is much worse
marching these armies against the enemy
They blockade his coast, beleaguer and bonn
bard his towns, subdue and hold his territory
make hostile incursions into his country
tearing up his railways and destroying hi
magazines they set free his bondmen, an
proclaim amnesty and pardon to all who vii
desert his cause and promise obedience t
the new order of universal liberty. This,
seems, does not suit Mr.. Kendall and tn
others. They do not want the rebellion pu
down by such means, nor the Union so re
stored; they wish to see it done in the kline
est manner" The kindest manner is sol