The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-10-07
Vote the Union State

George Fr sncls Train writes MoCiel-
nhS AZ nther Loiter-.He Wakes Better
l., OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, September
a 1859 ITO Major General George
D. Mc' Aellan, Orange, n. j.
~ ,ar Sir lit Is o mean thing to
list en- at the key-hole, 1t is meaner
70, open private letter 1t is the
5heonest Of all to accept hospitality
and abuse the host. But these mean
things are Christian virtues compared
TO the act Of accepting the nomina-
tion of party In order TO destroy it.
A platform is the party's soul. A
candidate is the party's body. Sep.
arato the body from the soul, and
death ensues. 1t is as difficult to sit
between two stools as to sleep with
one eye open. You cannot Worship
God and mammon. Honesty is not
only the best policy, but the only one
for an honest man. To cheat in pol
itics is as wicked as to cheat in mon
ey. You know the peace men con
trolled the Convention. They gave
you platform that was neither fish,
flesh, fowl nor mackerel. Hence the
Daily News, the Metropolitan Record,
Freemans Journal and Ohio Crisis
fly or from you like hoops from mn
efferyescing barrel. Singleton will
follow Wood; Vallandigham will fall
in, and in two weeks Pendleton will
decline to be shipwrccked with the
rest. "Come out from under the
bed" said the indIgnunt wife to her
undecided husband. "Not," said he
$50 long as l have the spirit of a man
within mc!'
Mark my words, General, you will
not carry a single State except New
Jersey, and you will sacrifice seven
members Of Congress out of ten =
Look at Vermont. Main will he the.
same. Indiana will only lead the
other States by month.
You will find it us hard rs the reb-
els have to fight such Democratic,
names as Foot, Farragut, Porter and
Dupont on the sea or Grant, Meade,
Burnside, Sickles, Hancock, Thomas
and Sherman on the land---all of
whom are against you. The late lot
ters OF Sherman and Grant rattle
through the Democratic ranks like
ligh thing through gooseberry bush
1t only costs two thousand dollars to
get up Mcclellan meeting. Young
Ketchum said so. If the explosion
of limited quantity of gas in Union
square the other night killed two wo
men and wounded several others,
what will the disaster when your
whole party bursts up in November.
James Buchanan said he was no
longer j. Il. but the Cincinnati plat.
form. You reverse it and say that
you are not the Chicago platform, but
G. B. Mac. Said Lord Byron in Don
Juan;
''The well known Hebrew word am,
We English used tu govern d--m."
But to our letter. Bulwer said, "the
pen was mightier than the sword. -
Then he had not made your acquain-
tancc, General. Nominated on your
record. Yes. The draft. The proc
lamation. The suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus. The arrest of
Legislatures. Military at the polls,
and disobcdioncc Of orders? :? Do you
mean, by alluding to your record,
that You will do the same again
"Gehtlemen IL have the honor to-
acknowledge the receipt of your let
ter, informing me of my nomination,
(of course, who else did you suppose
it was p by the Democratic National
Convention, Certainly it was not the
Republican National Convention, re-
Gently assembled at Chicago, CHATS
so; it did not assemble at Cleveland
or New York, as their candidate at
the next election for the President of
the United States. Exactly; it was
not for the last election.
"It IL unnecessary for me to say to
you that this nomination comes to me
nnsought." (Why say it, then p
Take the whole letter, paragraph
by paragraph. dissect it MS have this
sentence. and you will find it as weak
as dish water; undecided, inconsist-
ent, ungrammatical and egotistical. -
The six illusions to the Union remind
one of the stereotyped cry in the
'Fortuncs of Nigel, Watches, Clocks,
Barnacles. The bright boy who cried
barnacles, watches, clocks, introdu.
eed new idea into Scotland.
"If frank, earnest and persistent
effort to obtain those objects should
fail, the responsibility for ulterior
consequences will fall upon those who
remain in arms against the Union"
Why not say war right out, not
dodge round corner this way
Don't forget that old Cass killed him
self with the Nicholson letter.
believing that the views have
expressed are those of the Convention
and the people YOU represent, | ac
cept the nomination"
You don't believe anything of the
kind. You know better. The North
West were all peace. So reads the
platform. Five hundred delegates
unanimously agree upon a platform.
Here it is
Resolved, Toplcasc You, they have
war.
Resolved, To please Pendleton,
they have peace.
Resolved, To please all the outs
the war go on till peace is signed,