The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-07-15
Democratic Friendship for Re.
bells.

George N. Sanders, a man who has made
more noise in the world than any other we
know of considering his small modicum of
brains, did one thing, however, for which the
democracy of the North owe him ,tesr thanks.
After reesiQnes-a Emission fr.osJes Davis
last summer, to 20 to C.nada, and thence,
through agents and PERSONAL efforts to "mani-
pulate the Democracy # the United States
into the interests OF the. South aud -"con-
.rol the Chicego Corvch'ion' he had the
honesty, has; fall, to write Davis long letter,
0! which cory has finally got into the
public prints. in which he indirectly but fully
vi,dicaies what be calls the Mcclellan
Democracy" and tEey embrace at least 90
lOOths of the whole party, from the charge so
current with the republicans, that the Chicago
! Convention was in alliance, or at least on
| friendly terms, with the rebel lea ders in Can.
! ada. Sanders says, on the contrary, that he
found the "war democracy" at Chicago wholly
impracticable, and ''evincing so unfriendy a
/ disposition towards the south" that he came
to the conclusion heaould accomplish more
by making direct move, thr, ugh Horace
| Greeley and others, upon President Lincoln.
He details the negotiations conducted by
Holcomb, Clay, Greeley, &c, and then as
cribes even their failure TO the hostile and
aggressive spirit of the Mcclellan democracy.
He says Of them:
''They thought McClellen's nomination as
rood as an election By their unwarranted
confidence and false promises: they seduced
our friends at Chicago and, with resolutions
meaning nothing, pleasing no one. they
nominated General Mcclellan, who gave the
finishing blow TO any possible success by has
arrogant war splitting letter OF acceptance
In hert, Sanders report to his master
jeff. breathes throughout the deepest disgust
for Mcclellan democracy, and assures DAVIS
that he has more to hope from Seward and
Lincoln than from Mcclellan ami Seymore.
He says finally
In answer to Secretary Stewards
speech at Auburn, last autumn, at
lacking me for my interference in Federal
policies, | said TO him that in the event of
Lincoln defeat, you would at once treat !
with him upon the largest American basis; and /
the idea pleased him much. And although |
Lincoln reelection has made negotiation /
with him more difficult, yet It will be impos- |
sibie for him to long resist any practicable !
plan of reconstruction known to be accept
able to the South. /
The publication of this letter last fall would
have elected Mcclellan.
Nothing contributed so much to his defeat
as the efforts of such men as Sanders, Sing
eton, Long, Harris, DC, to get the cont. oil
and guidance of the democracy.
They were repudiated on all prominent oc-
:asions. yet by constantly obtruding their
advance and suggestions upon prominent
gentlemen of that party, who could feel no
with them. and hartily desired
% lie rid of their impertinent interference,
some small ground was made for the sus-
picion that the Democratic leaders were
really in correspondence with the rebels and
wiling to advance their plans. This was
most skilf.lly and persisently used the BY Re-
uhiican Speakers and organs and undoubt
lily had lis effect.
One good cffec, OF he war he's been 10 XIII
of politically class OF Southern men and
northern svmpatll~ers who had brought
odium upon the Democracy. They will new
er be trusted again, nor can they, or similar
Jena rogues, ever hereafter thru, themselves
Ipon the coniid nee Of the masses who toler-
tied them in the past.