The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-23
Mcclellan and Pendiese..

peats the old and much used saying tha,
coil and water will not mix" There are
facts equally true; there are antagonisms
equally fixed aud unalterable in the pe,
litical world. If party is the embodi.
ment of a principle, if it is based upon
any well defined measures of admiuistra
tive policy, it is guilty Of cheat and Z
fraud if, either in it's platform or ls can.
didatee, it assumes to be both for aud
against those principles and measures
Is this remark so manifest as to be trite!
This is just what the Copperhead Democ-
racy are doing, without blushing at the
grossness Of the attempted imposition up
on the American people.
Gen. Mcclellan and the Chicago plat.
form don't f, with dovetail exactness, nor
do the candidates for the Presidency and
the Vice Presidency go we'll together.
Gen. Mcclellan says "the Union must
be preserved at all hazards He offers
to the South what be is pleased to call
her Constitutional rights, as a condition
of peace but says that if that fails to bring
peace "lhe responsibility for ulteror con
sequences will fall upon those Who re-.
main in arms against the Union" Gen.
Mcclellan accepted and still holds mill.
tary position under Mr. Lincoln and was
the General-in-Chief of cur armies to pun.
ish the Rebels, and to put down insurrec
ton against the Government by force of
arms; and Gen. Mcclellan does not claim
that his views in reference to the war
have undergone any change. We have
heretofore shown the want of mutuality.
the sheer antagonism between Gen Me
Clellan and tho Ccpperhead platform.
Do Gen. Mcclellan and Mr.. Pendleton
agree any better?
Upon the 18th Of January, 1861, Mr.
Pendleton delivered speech in the House
of Representatives, at Washington upon
the Stale of the Union and in support of
the compromise propositions of MIR. Crit
tenden. Iu that speech Mr. Pendleton
scouts the idea of the righ, of the Gov
ernment to compel, by force. obedience
to the laws, or to preserve the Union by
the sword if the people OF State under.
take to destroy it. He says:
"To day. sir, four States of thi. Union
have, as far as their power extend. seced.
ed from it; they have resumed the pow.
ers delegated by the Constitution; they
have cancelled, as far as they could, every
limitation upon the full exercise of all
their sovereign rights; they do not claim
our protection; they ask no benefit from
our laws; they seek none OF the advanta-
ges OF the Constitution. On The other
hand, they repounce their allegiance;
they repudiate our authority over them;
and they assert that they have assumed.
some of them that they have resumed,
their position among the family Of Sow
ereignties, among the nations of the
earth.
"Sir, deal in no harsh epithets,
will denounce no State, no body Of men.
will not pause to inquire whether they
have done all this legally or wisely or mp
on sufficient cause. They have done it
aud recognize the fact. They have
done it With an unanimity of sentiment,
with coincidence of opinion among their
people. which is without parallel in the
history Of revolutions; aud the simple
quesuon presented to us 10 day 10 this
Whrther throughout the limits of those
States which thus formally. thus orderly,
thus by the eoActments OF representative
bodies OF highest capacity kuowa 10 the
civilized nations, conventions duly author
lied aud properly elected to consider this
very question, have declared themselve.
independent of US, we are prepared b,
force OF arms TO maintain our eupremsc,
and enforce our lswsy
' Sir, money, armies, bloot
will not maintain this, Union. -
What force of arms can compel State /,
do that which she has agreed 10 do
What force of arms can compel Stste t
refrain from doing that which her Stst,
government supported by the sentimeu
OF her people, Is determined 10 persist j,
doug? Sir, the whole scheme q
coercion is imPracacabiss Ii is contrar
10 tie genius and spirit Of the Consiitu
ton. The enforcement Of you
laws within seeding State in opposi
ton 10 its will, is coercion os that State
and coercion by armed force is wal =
My voice to-day is for Cancellation; m
voice is for compromise, and it Is but th
echo Of the voice of nay constituents.
beg you, gentlemen, 10 lear this voice
1t you will moi; if you find cobeiiatio
impossible; if your differences are 80 gre'
that you cannot or will nos recouci
theul. then, gentlemen, let the secedin
States depart in peace; let them estsblis
their government and empire, aud wor
out their destiny according to the wisdo,
which God has given tben."
An imbecie general, an unre pents,
secessionist, and Iove-for-rebels platform
are the obiecta of Counerhaaa