, 1864-09-26
GEN. RNSWDRTH STUMP.
ING IN NEW JERSEY.
Great Union Meeting In Newark.

Gen. Farnsworth is stumping New Jersey
for the Republican Union ticket, and ad-
dressing large crowds every afternoon aud
evening" On the 18th inst. he spoke In Lib.
eztJ Hsu, Newark, t. nearly 5000 persons,
with great acceptance. We cops,the folio r.
Ing report Of the meeting from the DaTy
Adoe7iser Of that city:
The principal speaker was Gen. Farns-
worth, OF Illinois, q most substantial repre-
eentative Of the great West, whose dong ac-
qpalntance with the President at homo, t.
mlfat1ty with the proceedings Of Congress.
and services in the battle fields, qua1ifed him
well for the yerT full and instructive expo.
elton he made OF the great questions Of the
hoor, and. the ceEracters Of the candidates
row before the people. With remarkable
freedom from declarnAtory appeal, or IN
named rhetoric, his speech Nae gfowinclv
eloquent and convincing In the simple logic
Of we'll condensed facts, and held the audi
ence IN, Wrspt attention for an hour. He
as conceived and begun By Southern con-
splrators, Findicated the character Of the
President, whose heart, he said. beats
with: love for his country Id every
impulse, snd finally discussed that Of Gen.
Mcclellan, under whom be had served in the
army. He traced him from subordinate
positisn on an Illinois raiIroad to The head
Of the army4spoke of the hopa his promo
tion inspired; The efforts on tue part Of tie
Administration, the people and the army to
make him the hero We all were looking for;
the Instituted supply Of all the men and
Of the most splendid army the sun ever shoue
upon; yet with all that protusion Of sympa-
thy and aid, this "nttle Napoleonn COM
pletelv faf1sd! His campaig1 In Virginia
.Was sketched With master hand, showing
that When decisive conflicts were fought be
mil aen- ~
dutics, and that Richmond might have been
taken repeatedly BY other Generals; but, for
gome reason they could not understand,
they were always checked By his command
while on the ova Of the'condtct.
Gen. FaInswoIth, who vas commander I
Ecathipg review Of Gen McClellan's militar,
career, exposing all his tailures. In Western
Virginia he had the reputation Of ginning
Euccess, although was reported that Rose.
Grams and Lander did the fighting. After the
battle Of Bu}l Bun he was called to the
1861, to March, 1853, he had everything be
asked for but Eade no movement until Ma
raesas r. az evacuated and the rebsls carried
everything off From thence the army pro-
ceeded to the Peninsula, entrench+d before |
Yorktown, fought the battlesof Williams.
suffered It's fearful decimation BY disease in |
the swamps there, the campaign closing with |
disaster. Col. F. charged RON his own per-
sonal Know ledge that there VAS never any
FtgoT or energy manifested, and had McClel-
i'm possessed one 1.-THE Of the alacrity which
3 commander Of the army should have, and
been in the front, as was Sumner, kearney,
Eeintzelman and Hooker, Instead Of always I
in tha rtar, and miles away doing quarter
n,sster'a duty, Richniond might have been
taken, after either the battle Of Williams
burgh OF Fair Oaks or Malvern Hill
but although these gallant generals were
chafng to follow up successes no orders
wasted, and Instead flaming dispatches Of