Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-11

Poor Tray and His Rad Company.
1t was not hastily adopted sphorism
which declares that a man is known by the
company he keeps. Whatever he may say
to the contrary, his strongest affiliations,
his sympathies and tastes lie in the direc-
ton CT his daily associates. 1t is so with
thst aspirant to political honors, Mcclellan.
Efforts may be msde to redeem his chsrac-
ter from the vile associations by which he
is surrounded, but so long as he "trains in
that company, so long is he himself to be
suspected; so long indeed is he perfectly
known. Now we know from personal OBJ
servation at Chicago, that the attempt to
put Mcclellan on a war platform and of
devotion to the Union at all hazards, Is an
out-and-out swindie. There was nothing
either in the proceedings within or without
the Convention, that smacked of a desire for
anything like a warfare for the restoration
Of the Union. Indeed, the one ceaseless
cry that resounded all the while, both
in the speeches outside the Convention
and in the proceedings within, was that of
Peace, Peace, Peace, No conditions
precedent were demanded either by leaders
or speakers. Peace was the cry from
morn to night. If any speaker had at
tempted to express even so much of the
belligerent as does Mcclellan in his letter
of acceptance, he would have been grosned
out of the convention. Denuncistions of
the Administration and wailings for Peace
constituted the material Of ali speeches
made, either to the people or within the
convention. Not cheer went up from
beginning to end for Grant or Sherman or
DIX. They were rather the recipients of
groans. As for General Butler, he had
heaped upon his head as foul vituperstions
as ever fell from rebel pens in Richmond.
Even granting, therefore, that Mcclellan
is not Of the same specie, as Wood or Val
landighsm, yet he is responsible for the com
pany he keeps, and must be controlled by
1t to large extent. Who are some Of the
companions Of this poor Tray2 In the
first place, comes Belmont the reputed
son of the Rothschilds, their agent in this
country, and the man who by his money
rules the Democratic part. His snobbish
imitation Of the rotten aristocraey of Eur
Ope is well known. a man riding in
sumptuous chariot, drawn by four horses,
and with all his sympathies in favor of
European royalty, Is the first companion
Of this Tray Mcclellan, who is supposed
by his admirers to be both man of the
people and a warlike general Vsllandig-
ham comes next, an outlawed traitor, and
one repeatedly convicted of being at the
head of traitorous secret organization in
the West tn overthrow the Government
and annex the Western States to JEFF.
Davis's dominion. This man, repudiated
by over one hundred thousand majority
In Ohio, who wrote the Chicago
platform, and who now declares that Nc
CleIlan is all right, is the man who, in case
OF Democratic success, becomes a leader in
the new Administration. Fourteen times
this trsitorous son of Ohio addressed the
people from the Sherman House in Chica-
go, wailing Peace Peace He is recog-
nizsd all over the rebel States as their fel-
loW-lsborer, and would to-day he heartily
welcomed at Richmond. He is the man
VINO boasted that his dead body would be
in the way of an invasion Of the South
the man who attended Breckinridge and
followed him in his infamous speech at
Baltimore; the man who prides himself in
never having voted dollar or a man to
carry on an "unholy war" !" q man so well
known in this State that be has become a
losthsome by-word. And yet Tray Nc
Clellsn pretends to stand upon platform
written by Vallandigham, and strains in
his company"
But Charles A Wickliffe of Kentucky is
another Of McClellan's companions, who
at Chicago was chiefly distinguished for
his garrulity and his lamentations about the
aLincoln despotism" in Kentucky. In
1s4l he was post master general under Ty-
ler, and an implacable enemy of Clay af-
forwards. At the beginning of the re-
beIlion, he was elected as a Union man to
Congress, but soon advocated peace at
any price rather than a war Of coercion.
Another champion of Little Mac. is that
shoulder hitter and whisky guzzler, Ryn-
ders of New York City, man who for
years has been leader of the mob element
Seymour of New York City is the
friend of Mcclellan; Seymour, who
thought the Montgomery Constitution bot
ter than our own, who called the mob in
New York City his friends; who has obstruc-
ted the Government from the beginning and
made It necessary ohave an armed force IN
New York much Of the time; who was
the preference at Chicago of the Copper
head fraternity, but who has confessed the
defeat of Mcclellan by accepting the nom
ination for Governor of New York. This
Seymour, who owes his elevation to