Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-20

tney are willing to make him. as well as those who hold
MN 10 durance the victim Of their policy. advocate the
e. pan OF saving both and ministerng to their
prosperity and TO their elevation in their respective spheres
| 70 power and greatness as people"
But, while just allowance is made for diversi-
ties OF sentiment in the Republican party, it has
been the policy of the Republican press and ora
tors throughout the canvass to identify the great
mass of Gen. McClellan's supporters, and Gen.
Mcclellan himself, with that incousiderable and
uninfuential fragment of his disaected supporters
popularity known and denounced as "the Woods
and the Vallandighams." 1t is admitted on all
hands that the great mass of Gen. McClellan's
friends, equally with Gen. Mcclellan himself, has
no sympathy with the peculiar views of this GLASS;
and yet In prints which have hitherto been capa-
bic of doing justice to their political opponents we
have seen little in the way of argument, but much
in the way of popular adjuratou addressed to this
form of political prejudice, as unjust in its appl-
cation to the party attacked as it is derogatory to
the intelligence of the party which is reduced to
such iguoble resorts.
No newspaper has more teemed with this cheap
invective than the New York Tribune, and yet
the conductor of that journal, in letter published
under his own signature in the New York Inde-
pendent of the 18th ultimo, held the following
language
The nation IS stronger to day for its struggle 0ih
armed treason than ,oould hape been had Gen. Nc Cion
quietly accepted the Chicago platform. Whether he has
treated the disciples OF quite fairly other
WISE question which not required to decide
Suffice 1t for the present that whatever its faults and
whatever may be its influence the huctuatinQ fortunes
of party the Generals letter Of acceptance destined 10
eject taooraby the moenous issue Of great struggle
for freedom and our country"
To like effect that ardent Republican paper,
the Cincinnati Commercial, in commenting on
Gen. McClelan's letter of acceptance Immediately
after its appearance, was frank enough to say
Simple Justice to Gen. Mcclellan requires recognition
OF the fact that he has done the country substantial
vice in the letter in which he accepts the nomination
ferred upon him by the Chicago Convention Good ct-
gems may exchange congratulations that after all the ap
prehensons felt as to the dangers arising from the
renee of Presidential election in this crisis Of civil
war; the candidate of the Opposition expresses the
mens we had the satisfaction of reading yesterday We
shall not join in the search for hidden and treacherous
meanings to Gen. McCellans sentences, coming to as
they DO somewhat manRed by transmission the wires
on night unavorable for elegraphng is clear enough
that he is not a disunion peace man"
And yet, in the face of such admissions, which
every body knows to be true, the Republican press
from day to day, and large portion of the so-caed
religious press in its weekly issues have sought to
obscure the nature Of the issues before the country
as respectively illustrated by the candidates. of
Gen. Mcclellan and Mr.. Lincoln 1t has been
attempted to impress the popular mind with the
conviction that Gen. Mcclellan was something
less than loyal to the Union which he was pledged
to maintain "at all hazards" and the simu-
lated fear ha, been affected that extreme men,
with whose views he has as little sympathy as
with those of their natural compliments on the
Republican party, were the men who would give
color and direction to his policy should he be
called to the administration Of the Government
1t remains to be seen what effect such unjust re-
presentations will have on the popular mind, but
that they are unjust will in any event be admitted
by the candid and the upright of all parties