, 1864-08-12

HUMLIATNG.-The eastern dispatches state
that Mr.. Raymond and other leading Republi-
cans are at Washington urging the President to
put Gen. Mcclellan in command of the defences
of that city. 1t must be humiliating for those
prominent Republicans, after having brought
every conceivable thing to bear against McClel-
lan's loyalty, generalship, etc, etc, to drop up
on him as the first best man to ensure the safety
of the Federal Capital from threatened destruc-
ton. Impelled by instincts of fear and self
preservation, McClellan's enemys and traducers
when they find themselves in what they believe
to be a dangerous predicament, forget their per-
sonal hatred of the man, forget their political
tactics, forget everything but their own safety
and the safety of the Capital and all at once dis
cover with perception quiekened by impend-
ing disaster, that he is the only General able
to defend Washington. But the first question
with the President in disposing of the "situa-
ton" will naturally be to ask how such an ap-
pointment would effect his (Lincolns) Presiden-
tial "status?' If such a move would be likely
to turn the tide of events in favor of Mcclellan
the Chicago Convention, "honest Abe" would
very naturally appoint some other man, even at
great risk. Our worthy President never lets
an opportunity pass whereby with little polit-
ical maneuvering and subtle STRATEGY" he
may increase his own prospects for future
Presidential honors and power. This fact is
sufficiently proven by all of his past measures
bearing upon the Presidential election. His
policy with regard tc obtaining the electoral
votes of the rebellious Substituting out
all chance of any votes being obtained except
those for the abolition party,-his policy, with
the sanction and cooperation of his partisan
friends in Congress, in regulating affairs for
Republican Territories that have scarcely popu-
lation enough to run an ordinary quartz mill,
so that they may form State governments and
vote for President, is abundant evidence of the
truth of this position. Every man of prom
inence, spoken of in connection with the
Presidential nomination by the opponents of
Lincoln, whether generals in the field or citizens
in private life, have been pounced upon by the
party in power with vindictiveness that knew
no bounds; and all this solely because there
was prospect however remote, of thse men be-
ing candidates for the Presidency in opposition
to ''honest Abe" Now, if Mcclellan has not
been set aside by the Democrats who will COM
pose the Chicago Convention, as not to be
thought of as its nominee, we venture to say
that he will command no Washington defenses
by Presidential appointment, or assigned TO any
other important command But if the Presi-
dent has faith, as big as a mountain, that Nc
Clellan will not get the Chicago nomination,
he will no doubt give him the most important
command within his power to bestow. In the
meantime it is interesting-or would be if it
were not such serious matter-to notice the
prominent Administrationsts humbling them
selves at the feet of Mcclellan, whom they spat
upon and reviled less than one year ago. Be-
tween their "pet" candidates political pros
poets and their own safety and the nations life,
lies a question of patty Ill5ii llluy puzzle
irrepressble and Strategic" brains of host
of Abolitionists.