Address of Hon. George Ticknor Curtis
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Excerpt from Address of Hon. George Ticknor Curtis: At Philadelphia, Sept; 30, 1864 This gentleman, whose authority in all military affairs stands very high, was asked by a friend, in the summer of 1861, at the time when it began to be rumored that General Scott, from his increasing bodily infirmity, might be obliged to retire, who there was that would be fit to take General Scott´s place? He answered immediately, "General McClellan, who is now fighting his way through Western Virginia. If he is put at the head of the army, the government and the country will be safe." From that period until General McClellan was removed from all active service, for no assignable or creditable reason, I followed his course with the strongest interest, and when he came to the city of New York to reside, in the early part of the winter of 1862 - 3, I sought to renew our acquaintance and have since been honored by his friendship. The opinions, therefore, which I have formed concerning him, are not founded solely upon observation of his public acts or writings; although there is but little need to put I forward the judgments of private intercouse. General McClellan´s qualities as a man and a statesman stand before the world upon tests which all intelligent persons can apply. His accomplishments as a soldier are by no means the limit of his powers. A broad capacious, and cultivated intellect well instructed in the principles and history of our institutions; a great faculty for calm and wise thinking; a solid judgment; a power of self-control that has been tried by greater and worse provocations than even Washington was subjected to, and that has proved as strong as Washington´s a sagacity in perceiving the characters of mm, which will insure him, I confidently predict, from unworthy influences, strong religious principle entire purity of life, and servent patriotism - these are some of the characteristics of a man who, still under the age of forty I has a wider personal popularity than I any other living American. How I strange it would be now, that a great: party has named such a man for the highest office in the land, and has assumed his public principles as its policy, if he were not to be the choice of a majority of the people! How strange it is, that such a man should be the subject of gross misrepresentation and misconception! One hears, occasionally, from persons otherwise intelligent, an amount of prejudice concerning General McClellan, and a degree of credulity equal to the reception of the most monstrous fabrications, that are so astonishing that one is tempted to ask how such persons can have acquired such impressions or what their modes of forming their opinions can be. But the influence of party over the mind is too old a thing to need elucidation, and the arts by which the unscrupulous make use of that influence have I not been invented for this particular era. It will be a good proof of our intelligence and virtue, as a people, if we shall now break that influence and defeat those arts. Notwithstanding my great personal regard for General McClellan, I certainly would not vote for him, or urge others to do so, if I believed that there was the slightest danger of his proving, in the office of President, to be anything but the firm and independent man that I conceive him to be. In my opinion, there is no ground whatever for any apprehension on this point. I do not indeed think that his independence is of that quality that will lead him to disregard the counsels of the wise and the good; but I firmly believe that It Is of a quality that will prevent the counsels of those who are not wise and good from ever approaching him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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