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e of Wagram, gained a great victory, and made the peace of Vienna. If Grant had defeated Lee, driven him across the James, seized upon Richmond, crossed the river and annihilated Lee's army, he would have done something very like what Napoleon did in this campaign. If Charles, in these four battles, had defeated Napoleon, turned him off from Vienna, and landed him on the other side of the Danube, he would have done what Lee has done to Grant. The Herald ought to wait to see what object Grant is going to accomplish. In every instance, Napoleon destroyed an army and took a capital. Thus far, Grant has destroyed no army, and he has got possession of the Weldon railroad. Let us remark, in closing, that Grant lost more men from the Rapid Ann to Reams's station than Napoleon lost in all these five great campaigns. Grant is hardly equal to Napoleon. The Herald once said McClellan was, but it has found out its mistake. It is mistaken about Grant, and it will find that out too.
people, and is a perpetuapucubus upon individual enterprise and energy. General McClellan graciously proposes to leave us this boon. He will not interfere with a ely, we ought to be profoundly grateful for such friendship. We can tell General McClellan, as President Davis told Jacques &Co., about his own negroes — We have do great cities, and furnished the principal staples of American commerce. General McClellan and his party are mercifully willing that the South should continue to im real question of this contest: "Shall we be slaves to the Yankees?" General McClellan says we shall. Very well, sir go ahead. You did not do much towards accr raised, within six miles of Richmond. There is no great chance, however of McClellan's ever making the experiment, as between two war candidates, the people of thheir government. It is only the old contest between the outs and the ins. If McClellan had not committed himself to a war policy — if he had left the Northern masse
If the platform of the Chicago Convention was not sufficiently explicit for the satisfaction of the Black Republican leaders, they can certainly find no room for doubt in General McClellan's letter of acceptance. His position is defined with the frankness of a soldier. It is, in a word, that "the Union is the one condition of peace." General McClellan proposes to conduct the war in a civilized manner. He will not make it an abolition war. These are the only points in which he difGeneral McClellan proposes to conduct the war in a civilized manner. He will not make it an abolition war. These are the only points in which he differs from Mr. Lincoln. Whether even in these there would be much practical difference, is not certain.--But admitting that, if elected, the war would be conducted as all modern nations conduct war, and that slavery would be unmolested, still we should have the war. Now, in regard to slavery, it seems impossible to make our position clear to the Northern understanding. For the ten thousandth time we repeat, we are not fighting for slavery. The right to say whether we shall retain that species
use this language deliberately and advisedly. General McClellan's words and purposes cannot be mistaken or misth, as Mr. Davis has recently declared; still, General McClellan is pledged to overthrew their resolves by fire part in the and disgrace. We do not believe General McClellan's to be these of the party. We know that an editorial in the New York World, says: General McClellan's "views" are "those of the Convention," is pang them unless to press a different idea. But General McClellan's conception of our duty and policy is differeit is "a horse of another color, " decidedly. General McClellan's letter is better suited to the acceptance ofn that he gave them the comfortable assurance that McClellan would be elected, and that the war against his twols, formerly Republican, have declared in favor of McClellan. The Cincinnati Times and the Albany Statesman, by declines a renomination for the governorship. General Joe Hooker advocates the election of McClellan.
Who General McClellan is. To the Editor of the Richmond Dispatch: I noticed in your paper a few days ago a paragraph from the Charleston Courier, stating that General McClellan was born in Columbia, South Carolina. It is a mistake. General McClellan was born in the ciGeneral McClellan was born in the city of Philadelphia. He is about forty years of age, and consequently in the prime of life. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. His father, Dr. George McClellan, was for many years a professor in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He was vef Philadelphia was more popular with the Southern students than Dr. McClellan save, perhaps, old Dr. Chapman. General McClellan is well bred.General McClellan is well bred. He graduated at West Point, and has always been a great favorite with Southern officers in the old army. While President Davis was Secretary of War under the Pierce Administration he selected General McClellan to visit the Crimea during the war between England, France and Russia