The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-24
MISCELLANY.
What Disguised Democrat Thinks Of Gen.
McOlellan's Letter.


What Disguised Democrat Thinks Of Gen.
McOlellan's Letter.
George Francis Train writes Gen. McClel-
Ian another letter. Shutting Mr.. Train out Of
the Convention was losing game to the Cop
perhead party. He wakes bitter and hstterer:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sept. II, lSo4'
To Gen. G.. d. Mcclellan, Orange, N y;
DEAR SHIT is mean thing to listen ~
the key hole. 1t is meaner to open =, 80
letter. 1t is the meanest OF an 70 aeeSp nan
pitality aud abuse the host. out sneSo - az
ar 81 accan,;na sha nomination OF party In
orisr m dnsrroV il. A platform Is the party
sonl A candidate is the party's body. Sep
srsra tha body from the soul, and death en-
snas r. i as difficult 10 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 Tor an honest man. To cheat in pol
itics is as wicked as to cheat in money. You
know The Peace men controlled the conyen-
ton. fhey gave you platform that was.
neither tsh, flesh, fowl or mackerel. let you
Insist upon the mackerel. Hence the Daily
News, the Metropolitan Record, FAeeman's
Journal and Ohio Crisis, fiy off from you like
hoo,s from an eifervescing barrel. Singleton
WIN follow Wood; Vallandigham will fal in,
aad 10 two Weeks Pendleton will decline to De
shipwrecked with the rest. "Come uut from
under the bed" said the indignant wife to her
undecided husband. Not" said he. 80 long
as haze the spirit Of man tcitttn me-
Marx my words, Generai-you VIII hos Car
~ single ) ale except New Jersey, auu you
will sacritcs seVea Dem )cratic m7moers OF
Congress out OF ten. Look at vermont
Maine will be the same. lhuiaua VIII ohly
lead the other States by month.
You will had it as hard as the rebels have 10
fisht such Dsmocratic names as Foot, Farra-
quo. Porter and Dupont, on the sea, or Gran,
Meade Burnside, Sickles, Hancock, Thomas
and Sherman, on The and-ail of whom al e
against. Thelate letters of Sherman and Grant
rattle through the Democratic ranks like light
ming through goosebery bush. IL only costs
tho thousand dollars to get up McCteltan
meeting. Young Ketchum said so. Ii 1.-THE ex
position OF limited quanty OF gas la Union
square killed two women and wounded sever
al the other night, what will be the disaster
when your whole party bursts up In Novem-
Der?
James Buchanan said that he was no longer
] b., but the Cincinnati platform. You re
verse it. aud say that you are not the Chicago
pl,ttorm, bas u. 3. Mac. Said Lord Byron III
Don Juan:
Tae well known Hebrew word lam,
We English uss TO govern d-m.
But to your letter. Buiwer said the g Pen
lods natghtter than the sDord." Then he had
not Inade your acquaintance, General, Nom
inaIed on your record. Yes. the Draft
Tue Proclamation. The Suspension OF Habe.
as Corpus. The Arrest OF Legislatures. Mill
tary at the Polls, aud disobedlencs of orders.
Is not that your public record? Do you mean,
by abiding TO your record, that you will do
the same again?
GENTLEMEN: | have the honor to acknowl-
edgs Tho Receipt OF your letter, informing ms
oil my nomination tof course, who else did you
suppose 1t wa 2 10y the Democratic Nation
al Conversion, lcertainly, it was not ths Re-
publican National Comnitteel recently as
sembled at Chicago. That's so; it did not as
seInbIe at Cieayeland or New York I as their
candidate at the next election for President OF
the United States. EXACTLY; it was not for
the last election t 0
1t is unnecessary for me to say to you that
this nomination comes to me unsought. why
say it, then?I
Take the whole letter, paragraph by para
graph, transpose it as have this sentence land
you will had it as weak as acknowledgements
cidsdA tuconsisientu ngramm teal and ego i,ti-
cal fna six illusions to tue Union remind
one of the stereotyped cry in thes Fortunes of
Nizal Watches, Clocks, Barnacles. The
bright boy who cried barnacles, watches clocks,
introduced new idea into Scotland.
Ii frank. earnest, persistent effort, to OBJ
tain those objects should fall, the responsible
ty for Interior 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 himself with the Nicholson letter.
Believing that the views here expressed are
those Of the Convention and the people you
represent, accept the nomination. IN
You don't believe anything of the kind
peaee. So reads the platform. Five hundred
dele Sstes unanimously agree upon platform
II re 1t is:
Resolved, To please you, they have war.
solved, To please Pendeton, they have
peace.
Resolved, to please all the outs, the war GO
on till the peace Is signed.
Remember that the Royal George in 3ris-
toll Channel went down with all on board, the
result of trimming.
Walter Savage Lander wrote on the Geor-
ges:
itGeotge the IRIS. reckoned vile.
Vile George the Second; 4t+
And wha mortal ever heard
Any rood Of George the Third,
When from b he Fourth ascended, ! tl
God De praised the Georges ended
condense your letter in two lines: 70
"Genilemen: accept the nomination, but
.. acknowledge myself totally unfit for the posi-
ton"
mean nothing unkind 10 this, Genei al, but
you know that now you are fair mark mot
large one, for all to shoot st.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, Ct