Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-04

of the Philadelphia Press, that we copy
his comments, conveying, as they do, a
clear idea of the insincerity of the party
who bring forward Mcclellan as sol
diers' candidate:
General Mcclellan is put forward as
Presidential candidate, in the coming
election, solely On the score of his mill
tary achievemP hts, solely because he led
some hundred, thousand of his country
men in battle; and yet the chiefs and
managers of this movement everywhere
lin the Press, in the Courts, and in the
Legislatures-oppose the right of the
soldiers to vote in the elections, and
when an attempt is made to give this
right the sanction of law, they resist 1t
with bitter and persistent hate Now
call this something of an anomaly. Kun
hero for office, and deny to his own
troops the pleasure of voting for him
We have had some odd performances
within the last three years, but nothing
equal to this We have seen the De
mocracy turned into an anti-war party.
We have seen the old leaders turning their
backs upon a betrayed ,debauched and de-
filed organization, and their places filled
by men who had been eutlawed by their
own party, or who had lost individuality
with the death of temporary combinations.
But that military character should be
made Presidential candidate only be-
cause he was military character, and
that those making him a candidate should
sternly refuse the soldiers who fought
l. al Il
this novelty was reserved for the pres
ent stage of the rebellion. The good
General, himself, is not little to blame
for the sad fate which has befallen his
1 managers When he was charged,
more than two years ago, with certain
tender yearnings towards the pro-slavery
: aristocracy, whether of Richmond, New
, York, Philadelphia, or Charleston, espe
: cially that branch of this efete patrican
J. school who fed from the army and navy
= and Joined the rebel hosts, there was a
deal of very angry deniai and torrent
) of objurgation. 1t was to insult brave
y and tried soldier to say So But as
events unfolded themselves, and the ex.
b cellent General allowed himself to be-
come the benefciGre of some and the
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It the sympathizers, these early charges
n looked more real than rash. And when,
n at last, he took strong and eloquent
i ground in favor of Judge Wood
r ward, the most offensive of the verdigrii
e Copperheads, who haughtily refused, as
o Supreme Judge of Pennsylvania, to
a allow Gen. McClellan's soldiers to vote
n for Governor when George B. McClel
IS Ian wanted this person elected Chic
a Magistrate of our good old State, no
% body wondered that his sincere feelings
y on that side should have cropped out 81
n early in the war. But it will be an outr,
is show, of a General running for Presi
N dent, without the votes of his own sol
Ie diers-not only without them, but in tht
: name of his friends, refusing them. Blu
m it is probable that Gen. Mcclellan is II
TO be put up on other than military grounds
r Here, indeed, he might be most formida
g BILE. In the present troublous condition
n Of public concerns, why should he no
st be TRANSMISSION of all civic greatness
I'd and Inspirations statesman, diplomat
p fnancier and philosopher combined
ct Why not Wonders will never cease
a. and this would not be half so marvellou
he as running General for President an,
IL refusing his own soldiers chance t,
H. vote for himi OCCASIONAL.