South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1888-05-11

Was leader In the var for the Ia
ion who maintained his allegiance 20
the dem ocratic party, AMI vel sithin
the las: four months. all hough be
bad been dishonorsbly dismissed and
bad been restored by the action OF
the democratic party and it's mem-
bers Who bad been members OF the
he whites that his heart
was always with them. although q,
one time his head aud his hand were
against them that even at the time
when his head and his hand were
lending their succor To that com.
man der whom the Senator f.om In.
diana characterizes with somewhat
redundant and elaborate sffiuepce of
di cuou as q vain, pretentious, spe-
c'ous, boas,ing and vaingIorious
preiende:--tbat even then, when bis
head and bis hand were engaged In
that task. his hear: was, as il had al.
ways been. and has ever since been,
with them
MIR. President, Mnjor-General
George Is. Mcclellan vas born In
Pennsylyania, educated a, West
foint, and went Immediately to New
Orleans, where he became the init.
mate business and political friend of
SesureGaid and allied himself &C.
lively with The schemes for tue ex.
tension and perpe'uation OF human
slavery by the acquisition OF Cuba
anu Ills associates in that enterprise
were Albert Sidney Johnston. Gus.
tavus w. Smith, Mansfield Lowell
and j. x. Duncan lie began his
military career by disobeying the or
ders of Gen. Scott; lie abandoned
Rope to the mercies OF bis foes at
Centreville; he failed to put the reb-
els to the sword at Anlietam he
refused to obey the orders of the
President Of the United States to
follow them to Winchester he fatal.
iy controlled the destiny OF the ar.
my until the battle OF Fredericks-
burg, and he was the intimate friend.
associate and companioo of Major.
General Fitz John Porter
'Geu' Hooker declared 10 his les.
timony before the committee on the
conduct Of the war that the failure
oil the campaign on the peninsula
was directly referable to The military
incapacity Of Major G eneral George
Is. Mcclellan. History has pro.
nounced it's verdict upon him as
soldier. and the Senator from lodi
ana will not be able TO place him ia
the same category with Napoleon
and Hannibal and Caesar
Il deal with him as politician. I
say that no man can read the letter
that he wrote TO President Lincoln
after the disastrous seven days upon
the peninsula and before Richmond
without coming to the conclusion
that he was not fully and actively in
sympathy with the forces and the i.
IDEAS and the sentiments that were
then controlling the American peo
pie. W II quote few lines from
that letter. July Z, 1862, (wriuen
af'er seventy thousand men OF the
most thoroughly equipped and in
comparable army that ever left the
capital had been left in the swamns
OF the Chickahominy) he sets him.
SELF down and addresses n letter TO
the President of The United States
from which quote: The war shal
De conducted on the highest princi
Piles known to Christian civilization.
IL should not be a war looking 20 the
subJugatloD OF the people Of apy
State; In any event, neither confisea.
ton OF property, political execution
OF persone, territorial organization OF
states, nor the forcible abolition of
slavery should be contemplated fur
moment. Unless the princinlss
governing the future conduct Of onr
struggle shalI be made known and
approved, the effort to obtain reoui-
site forces will be almost hopeless
declaration of radical views, espe.
cially upon slavery, Will rapidly dis.
integrate our present armies
MT. President. / am now deslioo
With Mcclellan as a democratic noIi.
tician and as candidate for Iba
presidency. In 1864 be accepted the
presidential nomination from that
party upon a platform that exoress.
ly declared that the war was a fail.
ure.'
The nomination OF George r
Mcclellan as a candidate for presi-
dent was received by the newspapers
OF The Confederacy aud prominent
Southern men with enthusiasm.
Mr.. President, the election oc.
CURED in November of that vesr ord
the people OF the United States oass.
ed upon the preteDtious Major Gen.
eral George b. Mcclellan. He 70.
Geived three votes ftom the State NJ
Delaware. eleven votes from the
State of Kentucky and two from the
State Of New jersey, and when Mr..
Lincoln was elected lie resigned his
commission and passed into history
Major General Winfield Scott
Hancock vas also born in Pennsvl.
yania and educated at West Point.
tie was also one Of the military lead.
ers that we're tue to the demooranv
and his martial career 10 one of the
imperishable beritsges Of American
glory. Tie marched and nc triumph.
ed. he filed the abyss Of fame win
names That will he eternally lum;n-
ous-the peninsula, Antieiam. Get,
tysburg, Chancellprsville, Cold Har-
Dor and Petersburg. Had he been
soldier under Napoleon lie WouId
have been prince and n marshal
under the emDiyp TTnIo,u,f