Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-09-13
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Tuesday Morning & Friday Afternoon
Mcclellan tries TO play BIondin.


The voters who are 10 cloose the uex
President aud Vice President, are iLfexi
bly, divided 10 sentiment. The great ina
jori,y believe that the Rebel leaders mu,
be SO overcome and punished as to secure
Union and Liberty on a firm foundation
The minority believe 10 practically yield
ing to the Rebels, by an "armistice'
which will prevent US from realizing any
advantage from all our effyr's in the field
give time for the Rebels to recuperate-
ard invite their recognition BY foreign
powers.
The friends Of Lincoln, at Baltimore,
believed the first named course, on the
whole, the surest and safest, for the pres.
ent and for the future. The friends 0.
Mcclellan, at Chicago, chose the latter
course, as the follo~ing plank in their
platform clearly proves:
The Chicago Platform reads
ID, That this Convention does explicit
iy declare, a. the sense IF the Amen can
people, that, after four years of failure TO
restore the Union by the experiment OF
war, during which, under the preteuss Of
military necessity or war power higher
than the Constitution, the Consttu'icn
itself has been disregarded in every part,
and public liberty and private right alike
Srcaden down, and the material prosperity
of the country essentially impaired, jus
,ice, humanity, liberty, and the public
welfare, demand that immediate otflrt- be
made for a cessation OF hystilities, with q
view to al ultimate convention Of all the
States, or other peaceabie means TO the
end that al the earliest practicable mo-
ment peace NAV be restored on tie basis
Of the Federal uuion Of the States.
Mcclellan, however. in his two years
warfare, and in bis West Point speech,
clearly com mi,ted himself 10 War policy,
and his hackers know that the American
people would never submit 10 the disgrace
Of their flag before the Rebel rag. 10
the face of their craven platform, a Gen
eral, who had acquired all his fame by hi.
participation in this War, was required to
,rak The uire ooer The 4Ni,gara aJ puJiic
opinion. Aided By all the skilful of his
party, be has, one week after the nomina.
tion, accepted it, in letter in which he
thus Indirectly yet decisisely rejects the
Peace plank 10 the platform:
Gen. Mcclellan says:
The existence of more than one govern
mept over the region which once owned
cur flag, is Incompatible with the peace,
the power aud the happiness Of the people.
50 soon SIS it is clear, or even probable,
tba, our present adversaries are ready for
peace upon the basis Of the onion, We
should exhibi, all the Resources Of states
manship practiced by civilized nations aud
taught by the traditions of the American
people, consistent with the honor and in
terests of the country, to secure such
peace, re-establish the Union and guaran.
tee for the future the Constitutional rights
of every State The Union is the one
condition of peace, and We ak no more.
l could not look in the face my gailau,
comrades of the army and navy, who have
survived SO many bloody battles, and tell
them that their lsbors and the sacrifice of
80 many of our slain and wounded breth-
rem bad been in vain-tbs. We bad aban-
doned that Union for which We had per-
lied our lives.
No peace can be permanent without
Union.
When it is remembered that every
Rebel, from jeff Davis down, says that
be will not even listen to any terms of
''Peace" except upon the basis of Disu.
niou, and that they will consent to no
'armistice" unless we first withdraw our
armies and fleets, it will be seen that
Mcclellan is radically hostile to the chief
article OF the Chicago creed, and tens of
thousands Of honest Peace men will at
'uce repudiate him. His proviso about
'the constitutional rights of the States"
will deceive DO earnest Rebel-Rill con-
:iliste no radical Peace man.
This accepting the nomination, yet
splitting on the plat'5rm," was found to
70 an unsuccessful game BY much greater
nan {Gen. Sco.D than Mcclellan. 1t
'ill have a good effect 10 showing the +
Rebel leaders that they can not elect a
Peace man for our President, for-with .
roper effort on the part of the friends Of
he Administration-ihis further division
" the minority ouly ensures the cODtinua-
ION OF the War policy. We are, there
ore, glad that Mcclellan has come out so
nearly right aud only regret that be and
fremont should no, both decline in favor
of the undOubied preference of the loyal
people, and thus ensure the more early
bloodless, aud complete success of the
Union.