North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-09-28
BcathIng Review of Mr.. LincoIn's Admins
trati0n.
THE HOPE OF THE Ma
%. tion
WY SENATOR Johnson OPPosED5 LINcoLN's
ELECTION IN 1860,AND WHY HE OPPOSES
IN 1864
WE MUST SWAP HORSES.
WHAr:THE UNION HAS SUFFERED ERoM THE
~ PRESENT ADMINISTRATION.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.
HON. REvERDY JOHNSON FOR MCCLELLAN.
Washington was electrified to day by the
publication of the following letter from Sen
ator Revcrdy johnson, of Maryland, who was
elected by his state Legislature opposed TO
the Democratic party, and who in the Senate
acted not unfrequently with the Republican
portion of that body. Let him speaklor him
self, as the oldest Senator in Congress
SARATOGA SPRINGS. September II
GENTLEMEN Your invitation to the meet
ing to be held in Washington on the 18th inst
to ratify The Nomination of Mcclellan and
fendetOn is but just received.
1t will be out of my power to be with you
my stay mere for some days longer being un-
avoidabIe. Opposed as was to the original
election of Nj. Lincoln to the station he now
occupies from a conviction of his being une-
quail TO its duties, the manner in which he has
met them has but confirmed me IL that opn
ion. With more than two millions of SOL
ders placed in his hands and an unlimited
amount of treasure, his policy and his man
ner ofuslng his power, instead of putting the
rebellion down and bringing to our ranks the
thousands of Union men who were then
each OF The seeded states, and who, in some,
are believed to culnumber the rebels, have
but served the double purpose of uniting
them against us and of dividing the pubic
opinion Of the loyal states. The effect, of
course, is that notwIth standing the gallan,
deeds of our army and navy, and the manifest
Justice Of our cause The Union is even more
effrctnay broken now than it was when his
administration commenced. Whatever Of
honesty of purpose may belong to him, and
am willing to admit taa he has had it, his
vascillation, his policy now Conservative, now
radical his selection Of military officers gross
ly Incompetent, hIs treatment o. those who
were evidently competent, his yielding in this
TO what he bas himself been often heard TO
say as an excuse, was, "outside pressure" his
having not only not punished, but as far as
the pubIc know, unrebuked the yandal cX-
cesseS Of military officers Of his special selec-
tlon, shocking the sentiment Of the world,a
disgracing US in the view Of Chrlstendom by
the burning of private dwellings, and depIiv-
ing their often exclusively female occupants
of home and mean OF livelihood all demon
strate that he 1Ssgrossly Incompetent to gov
ern the country in this crisis of its fate,
How can an honorable man believe that
one who has 50 signally failed for almost four
entire years, can be successful if another four
wears be granted him ? No one in Congress,
certainly Not twenty members believe him
equal or at all equal to the mighty task. He
has been tried and found wanting. Let US
have a change, none, if loyal, can be for the
worse 1t is not that we wish to use his own
classic figure TO swap horses in the midst OF
stream but that when we are on journey
and safety depends on making our destina~
ton at the earliest moment, we should cast
aside a spawned and thin horse, and secure
a sound and active one.
In General Mcclellan we arc furnished-in
the history hf his life, in the purity of his
character, his refinement, his attainments,
civil and military and, above all in his per-
feet loyalty-every assurance that. under his
executive guidance, the war, now so exhaus
tive of treasure and blood, will be soon
brought to a triumphant termination, and
this Union which sat at all hazards" he will
never agree to surrender, will be restored.
With regard,
Your obedient serv rant,
ri t REvERDY JOHNSON.