Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-09-23
m,clLELAN,s LETTER OF AcoEpTANoE


General Mcclellan has written letter accept
ing the Chicago nomination. Since the adjourn
ment Of the Convention the action of the nominee
has been looked for by all parties with great inter
est Loyal Union Democrats earnestly hoped he
would decline the nomination, because Of the plat
form; sympathsers with treason, that he would
accept both the platform and the nomination. =
He has disappointed both, BY accepting the nom
ination and repudiating the platform.
And yet his rejection of the platform is not an
honest and fair and manly reputation, that men
feel they can rely upon, but an artful political
shuttle manifestly calculated to deceive one wing
or the other of his party. It IS evidently the
production Of some such old political gamester as
Horatio Seymour. 1t is trick Of political
thimble-rigger
He does not say that he rejects The platform.
On the contrary he would have you believe that
he accepts it. Believing that the views here ex-
pressed are those of the Convention and the peo-
| pie you represent, ! accept the nomination he
! pretends to approve the resolutions Of the Con-
vention Those resolutions declare that ''the er-
pertinent Of aoar has faaled and demand that
immediate effort be made fer cessatioR Of hosttt
ties. Mark it they do not say the policy Of
Enamel patton has failed, and that the war must
be carried on without any such policy but the
! Nor IS a tdilure aud mast cease
The letter Of acceptance says 'the existence
of more thar ore government over the region
that once waved our flag, is incompatablewith tho
peace, the power and the happiness of our peo-
pie Il could not look in the face my gallant
camrades of the army and many who have survi-
we'd so many bloody battles, and tell them that
their abors, and the sacrifice Of SO many of our
slain and wounded brethren, had been in vain,
that we had abandoned that Union for which We
had so often periled orr lives. The re-estab-
lishment of the Union, in all its integrity, is and
must continue to be, the indispensable condition
in any settlement"
Aud yet lie says, he believes these views to be
the views of the convention. Is this trNe2 Does
not General McClellrn hn0te that these views are
not the views of the Convention He is in fa-
vor of continuing the War for the Union the
Convention declares the war failure and demands
a cessation of hostihties.
i General Mcclellan should in justice 20 his rec
ord and bis views have spurned nomination OF
any platform that met the approval of Vallandig
5 ham and Long, and Harris and the W oods. Inc
patriotic sentiments of his letter mingle with The
resolutions of the Convention as oil does with
water stir them as you please there is no afini
t ty. IF he believes the views he expresses are
those of the Convention, he is most singular il
his belief no other man in the country is equal
D credulous. He is laboring under as great a mis-
take as last FALL when, in the eve of the guber
! national election in this State, he wrote for pub
' lIcation letter stating that Woodward's view
were the same as his. If he is 50 strangely cred
Q ulous he would be most utterly unfit for Presi
: dent. He might surround himself with Vallan
dgham, and Voorhees, and Wmr B. Reed an
! Fernando Wood for Cabinet officers and ''beliere
r their views were all right. He might even "bt
here that JEFF Davis was a Patriot worthy of hi
Q confidence and regard. The crisis demands
t chief magistrate of greater truthfulness or {
n better judgement.