Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-23
What a Disguised Dc m era
thinks of McClellan's Letter.

RoCKAwAY.oN>THE SEA,
Sept. IL, 1864.
To Maj. Gen. G. B. Nc Clei'an, 0rang
New Jersey:
DEAR SIR-It is mean thing to lis
ten at the keyhole. II is meaner to ope
private letter. 1t is the meanest of a
to accept hospitality and abuse the hos
But these mean things are Christian vir
tues compared to the act of accepting tn
nomination of party in order to destro,
it. A platform is the party's sonl. a
candidate is the party's body. Separate
the body from the soul, and death ensues
1t is as difficult to sit between two stool
as 10 sleep with one eye open. You can
not worship God and Mammon. Hon
esty is not only the best policy, but the
only one for an honest man. To chea
in politics is as wicked as TO cheat in mo
ney. You know the Peace men control
led the Convention. They gave you the
platform that was neither fish, flesh, fowl
or mackerel. Yet you insist upon the
mackerel. Hence the Daily News, the
Metropolitan Record, Freeman's journal,
and Ohio Crisis fly off from you like
hoops from an efervescing barrel. Sin
gleton will follow Wood; Vallandigham
will fall in, and in two weeks Pendleton
will decline to be shipwrecked with the
rest. "Come out from under the bed"
said the indignant Wife to her undecided
husband Not" said he, $50 long as
have the spirit of man within me-
Mark my words, General--you will
not carry single state except New Jer-
sey, and you will sacrifice seven demo-
cratic members of congress out of ten.-
Look at Vermont. Maine will be the
same. Indiana will only lead the other
states by month.
You will find it as hard as the rebels
have to fight such democratic names as
Foot, Farragu., Porter and Dupont, on
the sea, or Grant, Meade, Burnside, Sick
les, Hancock, Thomas and Sherman, on
the land-all of whom are against you.
The late letters of Sherman and Grant
rattle through the democratic ranks like
ginning through a gooseberry bush. 1T
only costs two thousand dollars to get up
A Mcclellan meeting. Young Ketchum
said so. If the explosion of limited
quantity Of gas in Union Square killed
wo women and wounded several the 9TH |
,r night, what will be the disaster when
FOUR whole party bursts up in Novem-
yer?
james Buchanan said that he was no
onger j. b., but the Cincinnati platform
[ ou reverse it, and say that you are not
lie Chicago platform, but G. B. Mac
said Lord Byron in Don Juan,
The well known Hebrew word, lam, II
The English use to govern d-m.
But &c your letter. Bulwer said the
Pen was mightier than the sword. -
Then he had not made your acquaintance
General. Nominated on your record
yes. The Draft. The Proclamation
The Suspension of Habeas Corpus. The
arrest of Legislatures. Military at the !
POLLS, and disobedience of orders. Is
OF that your public record? Do you
lean, by abiding to your record, that
GU will do the same again?
Gentlemen-I have the honor to &C
the receip pit of your letter, in
'rming me Of my nomination of course,
ho else did you suppose it was n by the
Democratic National Convention, Tcer-
linly, it was not the Republican Ma
onal Committee, recently assembled at 1
hicago, that's so it did not assemble
! Cleveland or New York, as their can
date at the next election for president
the United States. Exactly; it was
OF for the last election.
1t is unnecessary for me 10 say to you
lat this nomination comes TO me IN
'ught. Why say it, then?1
Take the whole letter, paragraph By
iragraph, transpose it as | have this
and you will find it as weak as
shswater-undecided, inconsistent, un- F
'ammatical and egoiistical. The six al N
sions TO the Union remind one of the
ereotyped cry in the Fortunes of Nj
IL Watches, Clocks, Barnacles. The
be bright boy who cried barnacles. 1
atcbes, clocks, introduced new idea :.
to Scotland. G
If frank, earnest and persistent eff a
TT to obtain those objects should fail, N
e responsibility for Interior consequent 81
S will fall upon those who remain in Jc
ms against the Union. Is Is
Why not say war right out, not dodge A
Al
und corner this way. Don't forget 81
at old Cass killed himself with the a. a,
cholson letter. sa
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Believing that the views here exnress- 81