...e wealthiest and most successful planter in the South; George B. McClellan—erstwhile the organizer of the grand Army of the Potomac, a captain of lofty impulses, and a civilian of high repute; John McCullough —possessing a fine conception of, and manifesting a conscientious devotion to, the purpose of playing whose end both at the first, and now, was and is to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature, ...