The New York herald., 1864-09-30

Pennsylvania. thus showing tha. they consider
it certain for Mcclellan, seems to us as admit
ting The election OF the hero of Antietau.
The Basxmors ana chicago Uonvsa-
ttons and Their Impudcnt Pretcncss.
Of all the swindling impostures Of the pres
ent day that Of gathering of irresponsible
politicians, in assuming TO speak the will OF the
people and TO dictate the future policy OF the
government is the most impudent and intolera-
bic. 10 this category we place the Baltimore
Sboddy Convention, which nominated Presi-
dent Lincoln. and the Chicago Mosaic Shens-
persistent Convention, which proclaimed Gene
raj Mcclellan its candidate for the succession.
A brief examination Of the pretensions Of each
Of these delectable assemblages Of political
adventurers and interiopers will serve TO dis
close their real value Asfpsa
The ruling spirits of the Baltimore Shoddy
Convention were the leaders or agents Of the
radical abolition faction, whose uitimatum OF
peace is the extirpation Of African slavery by
FIRE and sword, Union or no Union. These re-
morseless fanatics had in many things been the
great stumbling block to President Lincoln in
his prosecution of the war; but in some import
had thus incurred the wrath and the direst
threats of vengeance from Senator Pomeroy, OF
Kansas; Ron Ben Wade, Of Ohio; Hon. Winter
Davis, of Maryland; Greeley, Of the New York
Tribune; the poets Of the Epeeing Post
and all the shoddy radicals adbcring to
Secretary Chase, together with the
German red republicans adhering to
General Fremont All these diverse radical
elements were in harmony upon one thing
the overthrow of President Lincoln. They had
failed absolutely to rule him, and they would
turn him out. But they failed again The
prevailing sentiment of the republican party
was too much for them, and SO at Baltimore
they were constrained to yield to the nomina-
ton Of MIR. Lincoln.
But If they could not control the Convention
in regard to the candidate they might still die
tate his platform. They were allowed to do
So What has followed? Mr.. Lincoln has
accepted the Baltimore nomination, but has
clearly given the defeated radicals to under
stand that he considers their platform a mere
matter of moonshine, or that at best it will be
accepted or rejected, as circumstances may
require. He substantially. says, "to whom it
may concern" that the Baltimore resolutions
must be construed according to Abraham Lin
coin, and that he will not be tied down to that
platform. He has mastered the radicals.
They have surrendered Fremont, Bon
Wade, Winter Davis, Greeley, Bryant and all
the rest--and their Baltimore platform goes for
nothing but shoddy.
The same explanation will apply to the plat
form of the Democratic, Mosaic, Shent-per-
Shent Convention. The copperhead peace-at-
any-price managers Of that concern had re-
solved that General Mcclellan should not be
the candidate Of the democratic party. But
the prevailing sentiment of the party was too
strong for them. They were thus compelled to
adopt Mcclellan. Like the abolition war
faction at Baltimore therefore, the cop
perhead peace faction we're constrained
to fall back from the candidate to the
platform. They would bind the candidate
to their purposes by set Of resolutions
enforced in advance OF his nomination, and, a.
an additional security, they would yoke him
with man Of their own stripe. This was
done. But in casting aside this peace faction
and their platform, and in declaring his plat.
form to be the Union at all hazards, General
Mcclellan washes his hands Of tho degrading
capitulation to JEFF Davis demanded by the
shentper-sheot Chicago peace politicians Yet
vallandgh CHAM puts foryerd the impudent
manifesto that the resolutions Of a set Of ire
sponsible interlopers bind Mcclellan and the
democratic party. Ia other words, Vallan.
digham supports Mcclellan upon the presump-
tion that he will perjure himself to meet the
acquisitions Of tie Chicago platform. We
know that be will do nothing of the kind
that he will stick to. his pledges to the country
and that upon this ground he is supported by
the masses Of the democratic party.
The issue is between President Lincoln and
General Mcclellan, and not between the BalH
more and Chicago platforms, each Of which IA
the work of conclavo Of irresponsible baf-
ned and defeated fanatical politicians. Lin
coins nomination has upset the abolition-dis-
union war faction, and McClellan's acceptance
has upset the copperhead-disunion peace fac
ton. The only real difficulty with Mcclellan
| is his associate candidate, Psndleton, and the
terms upon which he accepts the Chicago nomi
nation. What are theys That is the question
THE WAR AND PoLIrIcs-The people ex.
hibit curious apathy in regard to politics
They do not talk politics or read the political
SANDERS in the partisan papers. They think
only of the war, and know that the fate Of the
country rests, not with the politicians, but
with such generals as Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan, and such sea kings as Farragut
Platforms and parties cannot make peace