Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-09-17
The New York Herald on M'Clellan's
Nomination.
MCCLELLAN MUST REPTDIATE THE PLAT
FORM, Oh HE is LOST.
The COpperhead Conspiracy to Inaugurate a
Revolt In the North.

Inc New YORK k7efGtcy the most WloeIy
circulated, and the most influential Demo
cratic newspaper in the United States, thus
speaks of the Chicago peace platform, the
nomination of Gen. Mcclellan, and the Cop
perhead conspiracy to inaugurate an insur-
rection in the North. The force of the ar
ticle is not diminished by the fact that the
Herald is violent opponent of the Admins
tration and for some tine past has been advo-
eating an armistice. But the proposition for
an immediate cessation of hostilities" is a
step beyond where it is willing to go:
THE PRESIDENTIAL oUEsTIoN-sHALL WE HAVE
AN RESURRECTION AT THE NORTH?
We have not the slightest doubt that there
is mutual understanding 6etsceet Tie SeygHouFS,
tie Woods, Vattandigb0na and tie rebels. This
understanding is shown in the secession plat
form adopted By the Chicago COnve7stton, and IN
the nomination of 1nT. Pelsdleton, of 0hio-who
is practical SeceSSiOniSt-for Vice President.
We have now driven the rebels completely
to the wall. Gen. Grant has the best OF them
at Richmond, and General Sherman has sue
ceeded in capturing Atlanta. This is not the
time, then, that any reasonable man would be
talking about /" an immediate cessation of
hostihties." We are in favor of an arms
tice, like that between Prussia and Denmark,
where both sides hold their ground and are
ready to begin the conflict at any moment,
but there is vast deal of difference between
such an armistice and the immediate cessa-
ton OF hostilities" which the Chicago plat
form requires. Nothing can explain such
platform except the hypothesis that 1t tCas
dictated By JET. DaviS TO tie peace Democrats,
and that these peace men foiSted It upon the CHI
eago ConUe1ltOna as the price of their endorsement
| of General McClellan's nomination.
For three years past the Herald has sustain
ed and defended the hero OF Antietam. We
have done full justice to his generalship, his
craftsmanship, his honesty and his patriotism.
But when Mcclellan takes his stand upon
c0s0drdty peace platform, we are at loss how
to follow him and defend him. This the Gen.
eral has not yet done, and we hope that he
will never be foolish enough to do it. We
advise and urge him to come cut boldly and
declare that his only platform is his past re-
cord as Union General and that his senti-
ments are those expressed in his letter from
Harrison's Landing and his Grafton at West
, Point. If he heslGates to do this he is lost
There must be no prevarication nor equivoca-
| ton. The rotten Chicago platform must be
kicked to pieces, and McCIellans own platform
substituted. He had better a thousand fold
ii Zine tie nomltGtion than to accept it upon
such conditions as those imposed by the Con-
vention. The Chicago platform invites defeat,
and it must be broken up, either by McClel-
| Ian himself or by the voice of the people at
| the polls.
We candidly and sincerely believe that the
| peace eopperheads at the North do not de-
sire the election of Mcclellan any more than
| the Southern secessionists desired the cleo
/ t;o Of nauntaS or RraaEan in
| They bitterly opposed Mcclellan at Chicago,
| and openly denounced him as tyrant and a
usurper. Finally they accepted him upon
| condition that they should have the platform
| and the Vice President. But even now the
| copperheads are not earnest in his support.
| There is no saying but that Mr. Lincoln may
be elected by a small majority, and in that
| event the COpperheads intend TO raise a reyo-
luton at the NORTH. This they can very readi-
| ly do if the people do not beware of the
| trap. Suppose the election to be decided by
| only few Thousand votes, then the Demo
| cratic minority will be nearly as strong as
the Republican majority. In fact, the MINOR
| ity will be stronger /; for the Democrats will
| fight, while the Abolitionists will not. What
| then, is to hinder a revolution Is it the ar
my? The moment the army is Withdrawn to
| put down an insurrectiOn here the rebels will
come out of their intrenchments and capture
Washington. This, as we understand it, is
part of the Copperhead plan, and if success
| tul il will put an end to the Government of
the country.
| That this idea of vast northern conspira-
| cy between the copperheads and the rebels
| is no mere bugbear, is evident from the fact
that the Chicago Convention, instead of adj
journing sine dae, as conventions usually do,
adjourned to meet again at Tie call of tie E1ec-
utlye Committee This Is equivalent 70 tie organ-
ization of a revolutionary body. Our merchants
and capitalists so consider it; for they are
closing up business, shipping their goods back
to Europe, turning their property into gold,
sending their property across the water, and
in every way preparing TO leave the country
as soon as the revolution begins. These
movements are not to be lightly considered.
| They mean mischief and show that trouble is
| brewing. Gen. Mcclellan can avert that
trouble and restore public confidence if he
have the pluck and sagacity to ignore the
| Chicago platform and come out boldly as
jackson Democrat on the platform of his past
record Then he will have a fair chance of
| election, because he will not be bound 10 a
| cowardly policy if he be elected. But what
| could Washington himself do If he were
| pledged to negotiate Tor " an immediate ces-
sation of hostlllties?" The Chicago platform
and, as things stand at present, the Peace
| COpperheads have promised them one of two
| things: either the election OF Mr.. Lincoln
| and Northern insuIrecGion-in which case
the rebels will have the upper hand of us !;
or, in the event of McClellan's election, IAN
immediate cessation of hostilities," in which
case the rebels will have everything their own
way. General Mcclellan can destroy these
schemes by framing his own platform out of
sound Union timber and being elected upon
it. Then a northern insurrection will be i'm
possible and, if the people do their duty in
the meantime, there will be no rebellion left
to make terms with, and no JEFF. Davis in ex-
istence to receive an offer for " an immedi-
ate cessation of hostiliJies." This is as great
crisis as that at HarrIsons Landing or at
Antietam. Let Little Mac reflect deeply and
act wisely
WHAT THE REBELS EXPECT FROM THE Cor
PERHEADs.-The editor of the British AmeYi-
can, of Kingston, G. w., who was recently at
Halifax, reports a conversation which he had
there with the first officer of the rebel pirate
Tallahassee. The rebel pirate stated as fol-
lows:
"That the opinion was universal among
his people that the present campaign was the
final one of the war-the South only requir-
ing to hold their own during the Presidential
canvass at the North, which Uould ensure lie