. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . een buried so deep in the scorn and contempt of the nation,that they would never have found a resurrection; but they had, with sin-ister purpose, while repudiating the war and calling it a failure, nomina-ted for the Presidency a general who had once possessed a large degree ofpopularity, a little of which yet clung to him, in spite of his affiliations withthe Peace party; and he, fallen as he was from his former high estate,could not so entirely forget his old record as to put himself squarely up
. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . een buried so deep in the scorn and contempt of the nation,that they would never have found a resurrection; but they had, with sin-ister purpose, while repudiating the war and calling it a failure, nomina-ted for the Presidency a general who had once possessed a large degree ofpopularity, a little of which yet clung to him, in spite of his affiliations withthe Peace party; and he, fallen as he was from his former high estate,could not so entirely forget his old record as to put himself squarely uponsuch a platform ; eight days later, he addre-ssed a letter to the committeeof this convention, in which, while accepting the nomination, he, thoughin somewhat ambiguous language, repudiated the resolutions of the con- * In one or two disloyal districts in the border States, on conclusive evidence thatthey were engaged in bushwhacking, or furnishing arms, &c., to bushwhackers andguerrillas, the houses of known sympathizers with the Rebels had been searched, andtheir arms taken from EFFORTS AT NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. 819 vention, and especially those which demanded the immediate cessation ofhostilities, and the offer of peace to the States in rebellion. Mr. Pendleton,of course, accepted the platform as it stood. Yet, while General McClel-lans position in relation to the platform, and his former personal popu-larity, served to complicate the issue, and gained many thousand morevotes for the ticket than it would otherwise have received, the party weremost thoroughly and terribly defeated at the polls, in November, entire vote polled was 4,000,850, of which Mr. Lincoln had 2,203,831,and General McClellan 1,797,019 ; Mr. Lincolns majority being 406,812on the popular vote. In the Electoral College, McClellans defeat wasstill more marked. Of the two hundred and thirty-four electoral votes,he received but twenty-one; Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware alonechoosing Dem
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