Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-01-06
TIE TsMAn's JOURNAL.
FIRST IN THE FIELD.

Gen. Mcclellan S political friends have
reversed his military policy by bringing him
| first into the field for the Presidency in 1864
/ True, he,has not been made candidate e
| ne,igh to hurt him or anybody else seriously:
| but he Is nevertheless in the field, favorably
mounted, with a hind-rider OF the most ap-
| proved conservative sort; and there may be
even two or three papers In the United
States sufficiently bold to espouse the cause
of the NJ ClelanC Campbell ticket.
Some weeks ago self-constituted Com
mittee, styling themselves Conservative u
nionists met in Cincinnati, we believe it was.
and like the two tailors of Tooley street, Lon
don, who resolved that we the people OF
England &c, they set about the business
of fixing up the disjointed affairs of the Ma
ton. They had sprinkling of broken-wn-
ded, spayened and heavey old political nags
from the skirts of all the old parties-men
who had in turn left almost every live polit-
ical organization tor said organization good,
and with solemnity becoming ameeting of
departed spirits. they resolved that the war
should never have begun that it should be
stopped fraternally that the conservative
element alone could save the government,
and finally that they were the conservatives.
They then called up spirit named Geo B.
VI Clellan that had entered the shades of
death with one Woodward, about the 18th
of October last, and declared him their can
didate for the Presidency This done, they
pronounced thelrwork good, and rested from
their labors. True, a Vice President is to
be elected with President in 1864 but the
herculean task Of getting out one spirit as a
Presidential candidate so taxed their ener-
gies that they adjourned to meet again in
the city of Brotherly love. inthe meantime
the papers notified that they had sat, talked,
and nominated candidate but as nobody
favored the nomination, it was too stupid
for joke, and too Liliputian, viewed from
every standpoint, to be treated as a serious
III after.
On Thursday, oath December the spirits
met again IN Philadelphia at the Continen-
tai Hotel. Hon. Amos Kendall bereav-
ed and wandering spirit ever since the retire
ment of Van Buren, was chosen 10 preside.
and around him sat fully a score OF sober
political ghosts, all neyed for the task of
producing a candidate for Vice President
They reviewed their work done at Cimcinna-
II, and seemed content. Nobody had de-
clared for their nomination. and nobody had
taken the trouble to declare against it, there
fore they were satisfied that their work had
been well done They then resolved to add
the name ofWm. b. Campbell, OF Tennes-
see, to their ticket for Vice President This
was a judicious ghostly act He has been
Congressman, twice Governor; has been for
the Union, then for the rebels. and now a
gain for the Union since the Uniomists hold
Tennessee; and he is Of course eminently
conservative, and will become more so at any
time if the rebels should happen to get a
good hand again. Being rather variable
spirit with changing hues, from conserva-
tive Union to very conservative Rebel, his
nomination fifty crowned the stupendous
work of getting out pair of political ghosts
for the Presidential race ofIS64 The tick
ct of the Departed is therefore in the field
and but for the fact that it has no organs, no
electoral tickets, no stumpers, no suppor-
ters, save among the dead, it might figure
respeetablyin the scattering at the next
election. As it Is it must be content with
fulfilling the scriptural phrase that tie first
shall be last. = CE@DsJer$Jurg Ropostory