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The Mcclellan Meeting

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Day
25
Month
March
Year
1864
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Public Domain
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Tlio Cooper iii.-ii!'.',:;1 nad-the scyinrus and Btret-ts arourid ii have sedo, f'rfvv largor, Li mi no mofe i u.li isiaèlic i-irgthan that trhivli usscinblucl lust iiigiit in tija hul! of the í_T . i . ! n and in ihe opeu aii' aruuud, t expres the coi Hdi'i.i-e of the pecipife in, nnd thoir bliiiiüiioii l'ur, Gneil Georgo ]). McüleUan. Out urowduil c.jU'iühs tl, is morniug phcitograj'h lbo uñihusiusui' and t!io fontiaictits i!iiuli vxt Ümsw expressed. Am os Kccd4li ;l tntewnau wh.o sut 'm ÜijB Qubiuet wiOi Jnckson wfieo rrny vtïio heard htm last cigïrt wére in ura? dies or school-hpüses, and of ivhóse ubüties iur pi'ssei t ]:■ : tal systétn boars the iinpr'cs-1, jpresidod and diade Üíí: openihg fpeoi-h. IjitfUtënAnt Uovernor Jacob-, tVoin Kerttucky, :i State whose loyafty has beii na no-lly as il heon gènuinë, niJ i he Hmi. A. R. Norton, ui o'J and bouoréd fiiend of Henry (.'lav, ilui only Texan Unionist of íuiy note uil has vísited iNciv Yi.rk íinctí thu bréáking out of lbo rübuülon; fict in fearch ni' i luorutive oílice lis the price of unconditumal loyMÜy, - lo the Lincolu ádrnmislruticm ; ho btis tliree tinies a üi.mhIkt ni the; Legi vluture uí' Tesi, i id i ■Oücral ul I Ot' its (teceSí'ioD, tWIOe ;i , ■.-eliti:i i'i .',!,■, un üwüb!' oí tlireu iiewspapera', Uva of vvtii. h verc seized by secesáujnit and thc tliiivl ilestroyed"; who inilictrd 8ltnitttlDW)H.sly "n eíght coutitíos iroasoa Lo tha Túxas tra'ttors ; who has íivL'd a relwaee in Ohio for twu years : aml wlio balievea Ihat onder MuClelían's le.ndorMhipj and wit.h suuh ,'i pnlu-y as ís si;! foFlh iii bis Hurrlsou's i:r fotier oí J"íy 7, the war j;müj; uro tliis ii. red hirn ti) i i afflioted fumily, á'nd robuilt the ed Union, - these wëi'e the principie peakers. Bul tlieir eioquerice epressed less ihan the extraordiDary mliu.-iusui ot those v.iio titíiud t]ittn. Froin tne beginuing lili the end of the meeling the mero men iini oi McGlellan's Dame vyas enough t(j cali out such ropsing chuers sh shuuS: the raftorS overheiid. And that is the answer of the Amer can people to thu long pergecution, the heapei! u] nfamies," of whicii the adminicstration has beeo guilly toward tho gallant soldier who twico eaved the capital, who orica reseued the North from invasión and the nution fron pair, and whose laro presüience in the yui'ly dnys üt the war bot!; prepured the uatioti for its then unmeasured contests and (ievised the military poliey to yhich 'adfaering vva have everywhere Bijöceeded, which abandohing we have eveiywhere iailed ; and whose atatesmanship, hardly lesa remarkáble than Jiis spldierly genius, i::i tiie very crisis of the peninsular cámpaign marked out tliu political poücy to which tho nalion must return if tho nation would bu 3aved. The politica] significance ol tlie meeting, il' it Deed bu further eipressed, in this - that all those conservativo mè'n in the hole Noith who have not httherto acted wiih the Democratie party, wliatever their past Dames or creeds, vvill next November joiu with tha graat JDemooracy te place at the bead ot the goveniineut a life-long Democrat, and o eonduct the nation through the uiiiitary and politica! policy which he haa tnnuunced and pracüciid to a reslored Union and a permanent peace. They announee, moreover, tliat, in theiï clear judgment, Öenerul M'oÓleilun is the man, above all othuiv, whcee ñ tninatioo at the Chicago Democratie Convention will best saliífv the very iaielJigent and numerous elasg oí conservativea whoin the blunders, the inbecilitv, and "the crimes of tbe administration, its troattoa tu the Cunatitulioa and the country, have ui. i ei!, and must next November cornpletely identify with the Democratie party, ghoever the uornineo of that Convention bc. The following resolutions v.eie cjiptüil with great enthusiasm : Whereas, A fratricida! war, origiiíuti.ng in a disregard of the maxims ana vvarniuga ui' pur lathors, is deselating the land, and threatening the pyrm'a ueut disruptyap of auy Federal LTnion, and JViereas, Tl:o present adin Jiislration, by thtir latjil poliep in tlie cun(Juci of the war, by their ii.fnDgiüu. -i.i upon State and individual rights, by a general suspension o,f tbe wrii ui , corjus, ai.d suLüütuting n.Liïary lor civil coiirts, and, above all, by employing the anny to euppress the freedo.ip ot oleotions, and lbrcing governments of inirioritius upon the pepple of tlie States, has not only proiracted tlie war iiidclinitfly, bringitig upon tho country intenninablo taxution umi ru-in, bu:. bas created general alann tor the integrity Qf tho Stiltes, and ihü liberty of thtir cjtizens; all tbre itciiiitl tq be swalJowod Ijpi'i 3 fanática! ilespotism, tho worst of' uil goyornojentsj and Wliereat, 'Vv eonntry has m guar antee íor the epeedy and sucui;-! inination uf ihe vVar under thp ijnbccily and cliangeablo iiKinageineuL oí llie yreseut adnnioietratjon tliroiigh m ; lier iiieaus thau by a vhan'j;.; of men -al tbe yoiping picbidea'.ial cleclion ; theiof ure llïsphed, Tliat e eiunestly invite all oyr Jelloiv-ciii.ens, of' wbalevei1 shades of p;;!iüyal -opjnioü, and ander wbutever ppliljwi] arganizaiions, to uuito wiih os in o#e concertad efloit to place at tbi; bead of oor go-vpfnn?fOt a man, in wlioso wisdorrj, integrify anti firinness the country inay vy wilh liopeü f'ur a speedy snppressjon of [he rebelbon- the ceasation ol biodd.shcd, and the m lintenaneo of tho Union jphleh our fathers bequealhed to us - n Union of independent States and fret: peppie?, ercutfld by tho oonstif utioü, end .to b3 [üaintaíotíd only by its observancxc. Refoleed, ï bat thé right of suflVage reguiated by the States i.s the only Hufeguhrd for individua' libtMty, and must be defended at every hazur'd'. Resolved, That we recogniza in Gen. Weorge B M(;CIillan, qualifinatioha vhiüh eminently fit him to'bo tbe deüverer and ssivior of iur coantry, aid vo ÍKxd t to bu tlie ]mriunoui)t (íilty of' '.l pstriotio citizen.s and organizatíoai to nbaoUoD all distmbing quostioiiw and rnlly around him as tlio destüied prosei-vcr oí our oonstitutional libcrtÍ8.

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