authority of which it was despoiled by an impious treason.
Such is not only its right, but its vital necessity.
To take up with anything less would be suicide.
The loyal people of the land understand this, and will uphold their Government in fighting for it to any extremity.
No issue can be simpler or plainer.
No sophistry or fabrication can deceive the people in regard to it, or divert them from pronouncing upon it exclusively and emphatically in November.
Another speech of General M'Clellan.
At at serenade in Orange, New Jersey, after a Democratic meeting, on Tuesday night last, General McClellan made the following speech:
My Friends and Neighbors, and Your Excellency: I am not here to-night to make a long speech, but merely to acknowledge this most pleasing compliment.
I trust this demonstration is the prescience of that great civil victory which we hope to win at the polls in favor of the Constitution and country.
I hope the glorious victories won by the gal
motive power of money.
Let the capitalist of the country bear in mind that the war, as now conducted, is in fact one of the historical processes for transferring the accumulated wealth of the country from its legitimate owners to some of the supporters of the present Administration and their satellites, who have inaugurated and who now control it. What is contributed to carry on the conservative movement is but the premium paid to insure the possession and security of the remainder.
M'Clellan meeting at Rochester.
A great meeting had been held at Rochester, New York, of the supporters of McClellan.
Speeches were made by Washington Hunt, Francis Kernan, and others.
Mr. Hunt is well known as an Old Line Whig — very orderly and conservative — as having opposed Know-Nothingism and being a considerable stickler for that obsolete thing known as the "Constitution of the United States." Mr. Hunt charged that Lincoln had violated his own pledges, in which he promised not to interf
on relative to Price's movements since that time.
General Steele, with a large force of National troops, some time ago commenced a movement from Arkansas, in Price's rear, and is probably, by this time, pretty close upon him.
Lincoln and M'Clellan — F. P. Blair's report of his interview with M'Clellan about the Presidency.
The McClellan papers have been using, with great effect, against their opponents the charge that Lincoln proposed to the young Napoleon to put him in command in thM'Clellan about the Presidency.
The McClellan papers have been using, with great effect, against their opponents the charge that Lincoln proposed to the young Napoleon to put him in command in the field if he would not run for the Presidency.
This damaging report had obtained such a firm hold upon the belief of the populace that F. P. Blair, who is charged with having carried Lincoln's proposition, felt forced to "come out" in a letter, giving an account of his interview with McClellan.
As a curious specimen of Yankee political wire-working, we give an extract from it. Blair contends that he went to New York solely with a view to the reconciliation of all political differences, and w
e.
Rumors, too, of unfavorable news from Grant's army were said to be current in Baltimore.
After 2 o'clock, however, a report was circulated to the effect that Richmond was captured.
Gold fell soon afterwards from 217 to 212, but recovered again.
The stock market at the second board was also excited by the report, although little credit was attached to it. No rumor of importance, however improbable, fails to exercise at least a momentary effect in Wall street.
John Van Buren for M'Clellan.
On the evening of Friday, the 7th instant, Continental Hall, Philadelphia, was crowded to overflowing to listen to an address from the Hon. John Van Buren, of New York.
A rabid Lincoln sheet takes the following notice of this speech:
The speaker commenced by referring to the fact that in his own State there was but little doubt felt respecting the favorable termination of the election on Tuesday next favorable to the interests of the Democratic party.
The feeling towards the p
, an open ally of the rebellion, and in imitation of the Jacobin clubs of revolutionary France, resolved itself into a permanent body for the avowed purpose of taking such steps as emergencies might require between now and the 4th of March next. To what do these preparations look, if not to a repetition on Northern soil of the secession movement in the Southern States ? To fresh attempts to arose rebellion against the will of the people, if that will should be pronounced against them?
M'Clellan after the battle of Malvern Hill.
The Detroit Advertiser and Tribune prints a letter from Dr. O. J. Bissell, the late surgeon of the United States steamer Jacob Bell, which acted as a tug and tender to the gunboat Galena during the battle of Malvern Hill, as to the circumstances which took place on board the latter vessel while McClellan was on board her as a refugee from the dangers of the field.
This letter is accompanied by copious extracts from the diary of Dr. Bissell, describing
ssee for President and Vice-President of the United States, it will belong, not to the military agents, nor yet to the Executive Department, but exclusively to another department of the Government, to determine whether they are entitled to be counted in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Except it be to give protection against violence, I decline to interfere in any way with any Presidential election. Abraham Lincoln.
An After-Dinner Herald editorial — M'Clellan and Bennett.
The fact that General McClellan spent the day with James Gordon Bennett at his mansion, on Washington Heights, on Thursday last, is a subject of comment in all the New York papers.
With a little curiosity we turn to the Herald's political editorial of the next day to see how "Little Mac" is handled.
We find the article opening with a lamentation over the fact that the rival candidates for the Presidency are two military and political failures, and the only question befor
