The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-29

nittee on the Conduct of the War, ha
Il j been examined BY that COMMITTEES
! loud and long cries Of heal
hear and defeanine cheers) An VI
I right and exemplary citizeD--Rnac
plished and judicious soldier--true I
his men as he was true to his flag
(hear, hear, hear -indefatigable as h
was serupulous in his work-earnes
and fearless--( hear, hear hearS-noth
ing, repeat, can with any serious fore
j be justly averred against him personall
i'm derogation of his clairns TO tn
Presidency. Enthusiastic cheering ant
cries of we'll don" Meagher. - Yeti
would be absurd-well. knowing, as w
all do, how inexorably public men. ar
governed in their policy and action B,
the party TO whom they owe their ele
walton to Office, and how painfully diff
cult it is, if it be not utterly impracti
cable, for them to shake off the politi
cal obligations they contract, howeve
independent they desire, and pant, anC
strive to be7(hear hear, hear -it WoulC
| be absurd, | say, for US TO disassociatC
General Mcclellan from the Convention
which nominated him, and the parties
who have heterogeneousiy coalesced Il
carry him, with a confusion of tongues
to the White House loud laughter
cries Of "hear, hear, and great cheer
ing) toI 1r- iIg
To argue that General Mcclellan viii
act Independently of that coalition
in the event of his success on the Sth
of November-is to predict for him q
miraculous exemption from the con.
troll which every servant. aud repre-
sentative of the people has the affiic.
ton more OF less gallingly to experience
at the hands of the remorseless men
whose defamation and ballots lift him
tOpower. { Loud cheering and laughter. J
To this prediction cannot assent, (hear,
hear, for with all my esteem and friend
ship for General Mcclellan, / cannot
bring myself to say that he has the nerve
to strike out in political life boldly
for himself, (heaT, heat and escape,
into a spheresof original freedom, from
the damaged and deleteFious politicians
who are sure to haunt and hamper him
Loud cries of hear, hear, and great APP
plause) That the curious collection of
antithetical factions, Daughter known
to the world as She Chicago Contention,
(rene8ed laughter,l will leave him to
himself and abdicate the time-honored
prerogative of all such Conventions to
dictate TO their successful champion the
map and programme OF his administers
tion, (hear, hear, hear this would De to
credit political party-a party of pro-
miscuous origin and perplexing COM
plexion--(renewed cries Of hear, hear,
and r0srs of laughter, this would be
to credit this party with disinterested-
ness and tolerance which it would VIC
lently strain the most expansive mag
nation to conceive. (Renewed laugh
ter and immense cheering. ssa q lla
General Mcclellan, indeed, may in
sist upon the war being prosecuted with
relentless energy, and TO the utmost,
with all the financial and military force
of the loyal States, until the rebellion
is broken and succumbs. Such do / be-
lieve TO be his individual purpose,
should he succeed to the Presidency.
(Hear, hear, hear But will Mr.. Val
iandigham, the eOntrabsnd from Can.
ada,-(roa of laughter,) who positive
ly asserts that General Mcclellan con
ours with him in his Gospel of Peace,
or else he would not.Support him (hear,
hear, hear, or viii Mr. Fernando Wood
(hisses,) VINO concurs with Mr. Yallan.
bingham, (hear, hear, hear, or will Mr.
Gunther, the beaming and Yivacious
Mayor OF New York, cloud laughter,)
who with 50 agile a zeal sastains the
General, though-mark you The
refuses to illuminate the City ia
honor of the victories FISHERMAN, Sher-
idan, and Farragut-(yehement cries
of hear, hear" and enthusiastic cheer
ing for Sherman will any of these
gentlemen, incorrigible apostles Of
peace, Acknowledgement, degradation
and ruin, as they are-(h hear, hear, hear,
and renewed cheering)-Will any of
them permit their nominee to contra
dict their Interpretation of his accep-
lance, and Illustrate in Washington
their completely with the treason Of
the South cloud and long continued
ciies of hear, hear" and that's so. y
Then again there is Mr. Pendleton-
(groans and Kisses There is Mr.. PEN
dleton, say, the candidate for the Vice
Presidency, who, from the first hour of
the rebellion has been in confirmed
sympathy with it, (bear, hear, hear,
and who, by his votes and speeches in
Congress- to say nothing Of his displays
of rhetoric outside the House Of Rep
has pilloried himself with
tie brayest efrontery, as the lnhexible
Of every measure submitted
to Congress in favor Of the army IRE
newed and reiterated cries of hear,
hear. Than this exquisite evangelist
OF an execrable peace, Cloud laughter
and bursts Of applause), the loyal soi-
der has no one enemy more implaca~
bic and bitteF--(hear, hear, hear )--noi
not even in the fierce legions Of Hood
and Lee-(repeated cries Of hear
hear" NOR do believe that in ali the
South a more 'enyehomed hateF Of the
democratic equality and liberalism of
the north could be found, even if my
Lords, Slidell and Mason, at home, in
stead of swelling It abroad and being
wide at sea (Roars Of laughtef and
immense eheeringf A grateful army
will, no doubt, vote unanimously for
their laYish benefactOr, (deFisiVe shouts
Of laughterI whilst the democracy, out /
side the camps, will cordially sustain !
the pert and pertinacious apologist and
auxiliary Of the nobility Of the rice
swamps and cottOn-bales (Enthusias>
tic cheers, and cries Of bravo Meagher)
Dismissing from our consideration the
that in the course Of human
events, this important gentleman, whose
ability 10 do mischief Is all the more
positive, that his mind is highly inform
ed, whilst his address 3 elegantly fash
.oned (bcar, hear dismissing from our
the possibility, that in the
course Of human events, this impOrtaut /
Gentleman may occupy the Presidential
chair, (hear, hear, hear, and that, IN
his event, the party, Of which he has
been the most shining ornament and /
he sturdiest pillar, will acquire an i'm
,erious ascendency--( hear, hear, hear /
IN ascendancy essentially involving the
humiliation Of the North and the pre-
dominance Of the South renewed
ries Of hear, hear, hear,) Is it at all
that his influence as Vice Pres
dent with Gen. Mcclellan as Presi
dent, viii be set at nought, and that
Ie will fail 50 20 modify the var policy
o which the latter il pledged, that the
'eacs plank Of the Chicago Platform
light as vel never have been inserted
Loud and long Continued cries Of hear,