Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-09-22
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TRAIN on MCCLELLAN.
CmcAGo, ILL.,, "SuERMAN HOUSE,"
Aug, 81, lse4.
Ma J. Gen. Geo. D. McC2eliaa, Orange, NJ;
DEAR SIR: First to sing your praises
In England; first 10 cheer for you on
my return | cannot enter the campaign
against you without giving my rea'
sons
l. Your election on the platform they
have placed you on is impossible:
2. You must accept or decline, The
revolutionary convention gives you no
power to modify. If you do not win,
revolution follows in the North. That
is what England hopes for. Three gears
more Of ltg0lized PIRACY, and she teiH o'eh the
commercial seas.
You are backed by two losing Ideas
/. The American party Of IA the
Fillmore Know Nothings of AS; the
Bell and Everett's of 80, through the
Amos Kendall organization hrst
to nominate you in Philadelphia last De-
cember. When the German and Irish
voters learn that their old enemy, the
Know Nothines, crop up again in your
nomination, they will be the last to sup
port you.
2.ssThe Albany Regency, that nego-
tiiveI the matter with Yalandigham
a,rd ,endleton, never yet succeeded in
All, .hing. They commenced killing Van
| Buren, in "A, and finished him in 48.
| They killed Marcy in 80. They opened
on Douglas In SO, and polished him off
at Charleston in 90. How then can
You, in their hands, expect to share
happier fate
| have done my best TO save the demo
| cratic party from ruin, as hundreds OF
| delegates will testify; but the blind con
fldence of the X. Ms, the strange inlat-
| uation of the A. r., and the rash eXpen-
diture of A. X, We're too much for its
salvation.
There is one way you can show your
self as patriot and help save the Union.
Retire in favor Of the coming man, and
| accept the position of secretary of war,
or Lieutenant General of the American
army. Otherwise you destroy yourself
forever and carry down with you the
largest load of passengers that ever in
trusted their fortunes on board OF one
ship. Yours most respectfully,
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
! RocxAwAY-oN-TuE-SE SEA, Sept. II, 1864
To Major Gen. GEO.. B. JlcClaA,aa, orange
n d..
DEAR SIR: 1t is mean thing to lis
ten ut q keyhole. It is meaner to open
o private letter. 1t the meanest Of all
to accept hospitality and abuse the host.
But these mean things are Christian yir-
tues compared to the act Of accepting
the nomination of party in order to
destroy it. A platform il the party's
soul. 4 candidate is the party's body
Separate the body from the soul anC
death ensues. 1t is as difficult to sit be
tween two stools as to sleep with one
eve open. You cannot worship God anC
Mammon. Honesty is not only the bes
policy, hnt siI0 only one for an iIoneo
man. To cheat in politics Is as wicked
as to cheat in money. You know thu
Peace men controlled the convention
They gave you platform that was mel
ther fish, flash, fowl or mackerel. Ye
you insist upon the mackerel Henc,
the Daily News, the Metropolitan Rec
ord, Freeman's Journal and Ohio Crisi
, fly off from you like hoops from an eff
fcrvescing barrel. Singleton will follow
Wood; Valandigham will fall in, anC
} in two weeks Pendletoa will decline K
be shipwrecked with the rest. "Com
out from under the bed" said the indig
nant wife to her undecided husband
"Not," said he, $50 long as I hare the pir'
of man .0ittin me-"
Mark my words, General-you viii
not carry a single State except New Jer
sey, and you will sacrifice seven Demo
cratic members of Congress out of ten
Look at Vermont. Maine will be tn
same. Indiana will only lead the othe
: states by month.
!, You will find it as hard as the rebels
have to fight such democratic names al
. Foot, Farragut, Porter and Dupont Oh
the sea- or Grant Meade, Burnside, Sick
les, Hancock, Thomas and Sherman, o.
the land-all of whom are against you
The late letters of Sherman and Gran
rattle through the democratic ranks lik
lightning through a gooseberry bush
II only costs two thousand dollars 10 get up
: BfoC2e!gqn meeting. Yong Ketcham said 81
If the explosion of limited quantity G
gas in Union square killed two Womel
and wounded several the other night
what will be the disaster when you
whole party bursts up in November :
i james Buchanan said that he was n
longer j. b., but the Cincinnati platform
You reverse it, and say that you are no
the Chicago platform, but q. u. Mac
Said Lord Byron in Don Juan,
The veil known HEBREW word, Tar,
We English use to govern d m
But to your letter. Bulwer said tn
9" Pen ,oa, ,nigAtscr than the spord.' The
!, he has not made your acquaintance
General Nominated on Your RECORD
, Yes. The Draft. The Proclamation. Th
4 Suspension of Habeas Corpus. The al
rest of Legislatures. Military at th
: polls. and disobeaience Of orders. Is no
4 that your public record Do you mea
/. by abiding to your record, that you wi
do the same again =?
2 GENTLEMEN have the honor to &C
: knowledge the receipt OF your letter, IN
, forming me of my nomination [of cours'
|, who else did you suppose it was T? b
!. the Democratic National Convention
r Jcertainly, it was not the Republica
| = \ al Il