Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-06
SARATOGA SpRtNGs. Sent. If

Republican portion of that body. let him
speak for himself, as the oldest Senator in
Congress
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Sept. II.
GENTLEMEN Your invitation to the
meeting to be held at Washington on the
18th inst, to ratiiy the nomination Of Nc
Clellan and Pcndlcton is but just received.
1T will be out Of my power to be with you,
my stay here for some days longer being
unavoidable. Opposed as | was to the
original election Of Mr.. Lincoln to the sta
ton he now occupies, from conviction Of
his being unequal to its duties the manner
in which he has met them, has but confirm
ed me in that opinion. With more than
two millions of soldiers placed in his hands
and an unlimited amount of treasure, his
policy and his manner of using his power,
instead Of putting the rebellion down and
bringing to our ranks the thousands of I'm
ion men who were then in each of the sece-
dcd states, and who, in some, are believed
to outnumber the rebels, have but served
the double purpose Of uniting them against
us and of dividing the public opinion of the
loyal states. The effect, of course, is that
notwithstanding the gallant deeds of our
army and navy, and the manifest justice of
our cause, the Union is even more cflectu-
/ any DIOhCu uON IIltlI IL NdS WllCu HIS
ministration commenced. Whatever of
honesty of purpose may belong to him, and
| am willing to admit that he has had it, his
vacillation, his policy now conservative. now
RADICAL his selection of military officers
grossly incompetent, his treatment of those
who were evidently competent. his yielding
in this to what he has himself been Otter
heard to say as an excuse, was, "outsidC
pressure" his having not only not punish
ed, but as far as the public know, unrcbu
kcd the vandal cXcesses of military officer
of his special selection, shocking the senti
mcnt of the world, and disgracing us in tn,
view of Chrstendom by the burning of pri
vate dwellings,, and depriving their Otter
exclusively female occupants of home an,
means of livelihood-all demonstrate tha
he is grossly incompetent to govern tn
country in this crisis of its fate.
How can an honorable man believe tha
one who has so signally failed for four en-
tire years. can be successful if another fou
years be granted him? No one in Congress
certainly. Not twenty members believe hin
competent or at all equal to the mighty task
He has been tried and found wanting. lie
us have a change, none, if loyal, can be 70
the worse. 1t is not that we wish to us
his own classic figure to swap horses in tn
midst of the stream, but that when we ar
on journey and safety depends on maxim
3 our destination at the earliest moment, W
should cast aside spawned and thin horse
and secure sound and active one.
In General Mcclellan we are furnished
III the history Of his life, in the purity Of hi
F.. character, his refinement, his attainment:
civil and military, and, above all in his pei
feet loyalty-every assurance that undo
his executive guidance, the war, now so e.
Oh haustive of treasure and blood, will be SOC
this Union which dat all hazards" he W
never agree to surrender, will be restored.
With regard,
Your obedient servant,
REVERDY JOHNSON.