The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-12
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scheme. Had he possessed sufficient dis
cernment-had he pro6ted BY the exps
rience of others, end obeyed the plaiu
dictates of common sense and ordinar,
prudence he would have spared himsel
the disgrace of failure. John T ler vas
BY an accident. President Of the Uoited
States. Always Democrat, on aocoun,
Of supposed grievances he quit that party
and assumed to act with tie Wings. and
n the same time he endeavored to pre-
serve his political consistency. The re-
suit of the endeavor was political damua-
ton. He became by-wo aud name
of reprosch in both parties. Little Mac
is ,rying similar policy. Formerly q
war man, the supreme leader of our ar.
mics to suppress the rebellion. and still
claiming to be war man. on account Of
di>atiection he goes over to the enems's
ranks and courts the support of party
VIII, are now and ever have been iuvete-
ra,ely and bitterly hostile to the ~r
which he once fought for and processes to
favor. And still. as We see in his letter
of acceptance, he wishes to maintain his
milis.ry consistency. He will fail, as he
deserves to fail, most signslly. seU
II his letter Of acceptance he says:
"Bn. the Union must be preserved al
all hazards.
81 could not look on the face of nv
gallant comrades of the army and navy
who have survived so many bloody bat.
ties and tell them that their labors and
the sacrifices Of SO many of our slain and
wounded brethren had been in vain, that
We had abandoned that cause for which
We have SO often periled our lives.'
Aud in the conclusion of his letter he
says: believing that the views here
expressed arc those of the Convention
and the people you represent, ! accept the
nomination"
Th assumption is altogether gra.uitous
on the part of Gen. Mcclellan. Where
does be find any correspondence between
the sentiments expressed above and the
sentimen,s Of the men composing the
Chicago Convention or the Copperhead
Democracy? He cannot find il. /. does
Not exist. He says, "the Union must be
preserved at ell hazards" He csuno,
fad any hing like that in the Chicas,
platform, and especially not in any OF the
speeches of The COpperhead leaders and
his particalar champions who spoke 10
his behalf during the session Of the Con.
vention.
He could not look upon the faces of his
former soldier comrades and the survivors
of their slain and wounded brethren and
tell them "that we had abandoned ,ba,
cause for which We have so often periled
our lives" And yet these views ale
those of the Chicago Convention and f
the Copperhead party?
This be says in the face of that plank
In the platform which declares the war
failure ands for the cessation of hos.
tilties. This in The face of those treason
able haransues. uniformly and villlinously
reasonable. from which we have lately
extracted SO largely for the ed e cation Of
our readers. Had be forgotten R,nders.
who said this war "would fail, as it ought
to fail, and who does not "cousider it a
shame to make peace with power who
have kept US at bay for three years -
Or Mr.. Whiting. who denounced this as
"sar OF invasion;" or Sunset Cox in
his, I'VE are for peace or Mem sters in
his, ''the war is an unholy fight" or
Mr.. Johnson, of Missouri, who looked for
q division Of the Union and the formation
of new Republics under which we would
have "peacs. harmony and self govern
meni;' or Mr. Ssnderson, of Pennsyl-
vsnia, who thought it "high time tha,
this internal VII was stopped?" Had he
forgotten all the speeches made during
the Convention at which he was no,si-
mated, for they were all Of one tenor and
purport2 Gen. Mcclellan forgets it all;
he stulti6es himself; is guilty of prevari.
cation and misrepresentation; he accepts
the nomination for the Presidency at the
hands Of party who are iuriously hostile
to the cause for which he profess.s love
And in his act of acceptance he miscon.
struss the platform upon which he 10 to
stand, aud perver,s the feelings and senti
ments OF nine-teutbs of the meubers OF
that party of which he is to be the stand
ard bearer.
what are the grounds upon which
Little Mao can claim Copperbead sup.
port? Hs has shed the blood of hi.
S'u'hern brethren. yet while hs mas
c mnauderin Chief, Vallaudioham the
great popular leader of The r,n. .l