The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-09-22
Geo. Francis Train ON GcneraI
Mcclellan.

Az Ni0iiao ieeief, wherein ne nerceIv
criticizes and sarcastically denounces the
small warriors letter of acceptance of the
Chicago nomination. It is the richest
thing of the season. Read -
RoCKAwAY-oN-THE-SEA Sept. IL, 1864.
TO MdJ0r- General George B. II CleLlon, Orange,
Ne,O Jersey:
DEAR SIR: 1t IS mean thing to listen
at the keyho!e. 1t is peaner to open q
private letter. 1t is meanest of all TO ac-
cept hospitality and abuse the host. But
these mean things are Christian virtues
compared to the act of accepting the NOM
inatlon of party in order to DESTROY it.
A platform is the pareyss soul. A candi-
date is the party's body. Separate the
body from the soul, and death ensues. Il
Is as diiflcult to sit between two stools as
to sleep with one eye open You cannot
worship God and Mammon. Honesty is
not only the best policy, but the only ono
for an honest man. To cheat in politics
IS as wicked as to cheat in money. You
know the Peace men controlled the Con-
Ventlon. They gave you platform tn at
was neither fish, flesh, fowl nor mackerel.
ct you insist upon the mackerel. Hence
the DAILY Ne,cs, the Metropolitan Record.
Freeman's Journal, and Ohio Crisis f]y
Oil from you like hoops :rem an effer-
vescing barrel. Singleton will follow
Wood; Vailandigham will fall in. and in
two weeks Pendeton will decline TO he
shlpwTecked with the rest. "Come ont
from under the bed" said the Indignant
wife to her undecided husband. "NotU
said he, $50 long as I haze tie spirit of a
man ,cithia me :" -
Mark my Words, General, you will no.
carry single State except New JERSEY.
and you will sacrifice seven Democrats
members of Congress out of ten. Log
at Vermont Maine will be the same--
Indiana will only lead the other States b
"A month. - loss
You viii find it as hard as the rebel
have to fight such Democratic names a.
Foote, Farragut, Porter and Dupont, on
the sea, or Grant, Meade, Burnside,
Slckles, Hancock, Thomas and Sherman,
on the land-all of whom are against YOU.
The late letters of Sherman and Grant
rattle through the Democratic ranks like
lightning through gooscberry bush. 1t
onl y costs two thousand dollars to get up
a Mcclellan Meeting. Young Ketchum
said so. IL the explosion of limited
quantity of gas in Union Square killed
two women and wounded several the other
nlght, what will be the disaster when your
whole party bursts up in November.
james Buchanan said that he was no
longer j. b., but the Cincinnati platform.
You reverse it, and say that you are not
the Chicago platform, but G. B. Mac
Said Lord Byron in Don juan
The well known Hebrew word, 1 am,
We English used to govern d-m
But to our letter. Bulver said, the
"Pen was mightier than the sword"-
Then ne had not made your acquaintance,
General Nominated on your record
Yes. The draft The Proclamation.
The suspension of haGeos corpus. The
arrest of Legislatures. Military at the
polls, and disobcdience of orders. Is not
that your public record? Do you mean,
by alluding to your record, that you will
do the same AGAIN.
"Gentlemen Il have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter,
informing me of my nomination (of course,
who else did you suppose it wasY by the
Democratic National Convention Certain
ly. it was not the Republican National
Committee,) recently assembled at Chi
cago CHATS SO; It did not assemble at
Cleveland or New York, as their candi-
date at the next election tor the President
of the United States. Exactly; it was
not for the last election.)
cit is unnecessary for me to say to you
that this nomination comes to me un-
sought" (Why say it, then p "a 4
Take the whole letter, paragraph BY
paragraph, disseet it as / have this SEN
tence, and you will find it as weak as dish
water; undecided, inconsistent, ungram-
matical and egotistical. The six illusions
to the Union remind one of the stereoty-
ped cry in the Fortunes of Nigel"
Watches, Clocks, Barnacles. The bright
boy who cried Barnaces, Watches, Clocks,
Introduced new idea into Scotland.
off frank, earnest and persistent eff
fort to obtain those objects should fail,
the responsibility for ulterior consequences
will fall upon those who remain in arms
against the Union"
Why not say war right out, not dodge
round corner this way. Don't forget
that old Cass killed himself with the
Nicholson letter
believing that the views here express.
.ed are those Of the Convention and the