the war with Spain he was recalled to tain ranges and the most direct route to service and appointed prize commission- Puget's Sound. He was next sent on a er for the Southern District of New York. McCarthy, JUSTIN, author; born in Cork, Ireland, Nov. 22, 1830; visited the United States in 1868, and lectured for nearly three years. He is the author of Prohibitory Legislation in the United States; A History of Our Own Times; The Story of Mr. Gladstone's Life, etc.

McCauley, CHARLES ADAM HOKE, or nithologist; born in Middletown, Md., July 13, 1847; graduated at West Point and appointed a second lieutenant of the 3d Artillery in 1870; transferred to the 2d Cavalry in 1878; and promoted first lieutenant in 1879. After his graduation at West Point he made a special study of ornithology, and in 1876 was appointed ornithologist in the Red River exploring expedition. His publications include Ornithology of the Red River of Texas; The San Juan Reconnaissance in Colorado and New Mexico; Reports on the White River Indian Agency, Colorado, and the Uinta Indian Agency; Pagasa Springs, Colorado: Its Geology and Botany, etc.

secret mission to Santo Domingo; and in 1855 he was sent with Majors Delafield and Mordecai to Europe to study the organization of European armies and observe the war in the Crimea. Captain McClellan left the army in 1857 and engaged in civil engineering and as superintendent of railroads. He was residing in Ohio when the Civil War broke out, and was commissioned major-general of Ohio volunteers by the governor. He took command of all the troops in the Department of the Ohio; and after a brief and successful campaign in western Virginia. was appointed to the command of the National troops on the Potomac (afterwards the Army of the Potomac) and commissioned a major-general of the regular army. On the retirement of General Scott in November, 1861, he was made generalin-chief. His campaign against Richmond in 1862 with the Army of the Potomac was not successful. He afterwards drove General Lee out of Maryland, but his delay in pursuing the Confederates caused him to be superseded in command by Gen-. eral Burnside. General McClellan was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate

McClellan, CARSWELL, civil engineer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 3, 1835; graduated at Williams College in 1855; joined the 32d New York Regiment, and for President of the United States against became topographical assistant on the staff of Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys in 1862. In August, 1864, he was taken prisoner, and on being paroled in the follow ing November he resigned his commission. He published Personal Memoirs and Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, vs. the Record of the Army of the Potomac.

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Mr. Lincoln in 1864 (see below). He resigned his commission in the army on the day of the election, Nov. 8, and took up his residence in New York. After a visit to Europe, he became (1868) citizen of New Jersey, and engaged in the business of an engineer. The will of Edward A. Stevens, of Hoboken, made him superintendent of the Stevens floating battery; and he was appointed superintendent of docks and piers in the city of New York, which office he resigned in 1872. In 1877 he was elected governor of New Jersey. He died in Orange, N. J., Oct. 29, 1885.

Presidential Candidate.-On Aug. 29. 1864, the Democratic National Convention assembled in Chicago, Ill., and nominated General McClellan for the Presidency on

McClellan, GEORGE BRINTON, military officer; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 1826; graduated at West Point in 1846; was lieutenant of sappers, miners, and pontoniers in the war against Mexico, and was commended for gallantry at various points from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico. After the war he was instructor of bayonet exercise at West Point, and his Manual, translated from the French, became the text-book of the service. In the following declaration of principles: 1852 he was engaged with Capt. Randolph B. Marcy (afterwards his father-in-law) Resolved, that in the future, as in the and Gen. C. F. Smith in explorations and past, we will adhere with unswerving surveys of Red River, the harbors of fidelity to the Union under the ConstituTexas, and the western part of a proposed tion, as the only solid foundation of our route for a Pacific railway; also moun- strength, security, and happiness as a

people, and as a framework of government equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southern.

Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis

of the federal Union of the States.

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gard by the administration of its duty in respect to our fellow-citizens who are now and have long been prisoners of war in a suffering condition, deserves the severest reprobation on the score alike of public policy and common humanity.

Resolved, that the sympathy of the Democratic party is heartily and earnestly extended to the soldiers of our army and the seamen of our navy, who are and have been in the field under the flag of their country; and, in the event of its attaining power, they will receive all the care, protection, and regard that the brave soldiers and sailors of the republic have so nobly earned.

His letter of acceptance was as follows:

"ORANGE, N. J., Sept. 8. "To Hon. Horatio Seymour and others, committee, etc.:

"GENTLEMEN, I have the honor to acknowl

edge the receipt of your letter informing me

of my nomination by the Democratic National Convention, recently held at Chicago, as their candidate at the next election for President

of the United States.

ing war and peace, has been to strengthen
and make indelible in my mind and heart the
love and reverence for the Union, Constitu-
tion, laws, and flag of our
country im-
pressed upon me in early youth. These feel-
ings have thus far guided the course of my
life, and must continue to do so until its
end. The existence of more than one govern-
ment over the region which once owned our
flag is incompatible with the peace, the
power, and the happiness of the people.
our
preservation of
Union was
avowed object for which the war was com-
menced. It should have been conducted for
that object only, and in accordance with
those principles which I took occasion to
declare when in active service. Thus con-
ducted the work of reconciliation would have
been easy, and we might have reaped the
benefits of our many victories on land and

The the sole

Resolved, that the direct interference of the military authorities of the United States in the recent elections held in Ken"It is unnecessary for me to say to your tucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware, that this nomination comes to me unsought. was a shameful violation of the Constitu- I am happy to know that, when the nomination was made, the record of my tion, and a repetition of such acts in the public life was kept in view. The effect approaching election will be held as rev- of long and varied service in the army, durolutionary, and resisted with all means and power under our control. Resolved, that the aim and object of the Democratic party are to preserve the federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired; and they hereby declare that they consider the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution; the subversion of the civil by the military laws in States not in insurrection; the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force; the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press; the denial of the right of asylum; the open and avowed disregard of State rights; the employment of unusual test oaths, and the interference with and denial of the right of the people to bear arms in their defence, as calculated to prcvent a restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the gov

erned.

Resolved, that the shameful disre

sea.

"The Union was originally formed by the exercise of a spirit of conciliation and compromise. To restore and preserve it, the same spirit must prevail in our councils and in the hearts of the people. The re-establishment of the Union, in all its integrity, is and must continue to be the indispensable So soon as it condition in any settlement. is clear, or even probable, that our present upon the basis of the Union, we should exhaust all

adversaries are ready for peace

the resources of statesmanship practised by

civilized nations, and taught by the traditions 1886, became a journalist in New York of the American people, consistent with the City; appointed treasurer of the New York honor and interests of the country, to secure such peace, re-establish the Union, and and Brooklyn Bridge in 1889; admitted to guarantee for the future the constitutional the bar in 1892; president of the New rights of every State. The Union is the one York board of aldermen in 1893-94; and condition of peace. We ask no more. elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1895, 1897, and 1899.

"Let me add what I doubt not was, although unexpressed, the sentiment of the convention, as it is of the people they repre- McClellan, HENRY BRAINERD, educator; sent, that when any one State is willing to born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 17, 1840; return to the Union it should be received at once with a full guarantee of all its congraduated at Williams College in 1858; stitutional rights. If a frank, earnest, and joined the Confederate army in 1862; persistent effort to obtain these objects was made assistant adjutant-general of should fail, the responsibility for ulterior cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia consequences will fall upon those who remain in arms against the Union, but the Union in 1863; was also chief of staff to Gens. must be preserved at all hazards. I could Wade Hampton and James E. B. Stuart. not look in the face my gallant comrades of the army and navy who have survived so many bloody battles, and tell them that their labors, and the sacrifices of so many of our slain and wounded brethren, had been in vain, that we had abandoned that Union for which we have so often perilled our lives. A vast majority of our people, whether in the army and navy or at home, would, as I would, hail with unbounded joy the permanent res toration of peace on the basis of the Union under the Constitution, without the effusion of another drop of blood, but no peace can be permanent without Union.

"As to the other subjects presented in the resolutions of the convention. I need only

say that I should seek in the Constitution of the United States, and the laws framed in accordance therewith, the rule of my duty and the limitation of executive power; endeavor to restore economy in public expenditures, re-establish the supremacy of the law, and by the operation of a more vigorous nationality resume our commanding position among the nations of the earth. The condition of our finances, the depreciation of the paper money, and the burdens thereby imposed on labor and capital, show the necessity of a return to a sound financial system, while the rights of citizens and the rights

of States, and the binding authority of law over the President, army, and people, are subjects of no less vital importance in war than in peace.

He became principal of the Sayre Female Institute in Lexington, Ky., in 1870. He published Life and Campaigns of Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Commander of the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, etc.

McClelland, ROBERT, statesman; born in Greencastle, Pa., Aug. 1, 1807; graduated at Dickinson College in 1829; admitted to the bar in 1831; removed to Michigan in 1833; elected to the State legislature in 1838: to Congress as a Democrat in 1843; and governor in 1852. He resigned the last office to become Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Pierce. He died in Detroit, Mich., Aug. 27, 1880.

McClernand, JOHN ALEXANDER, military officer; born in Breckenridge county, Ky., May 30, 1812. His family removed to Illinois while he was a small child. He was admitted to the bar in 1832: served in the Black Hawk War; engaged in trade and journalism: and was in the Illinois legislature at different times between 1836 and 1842. He was in Congress in 1843-51 and 1859-61, when, the war breaking out, he resigned and, with others, raised a brigade of volunteers. He distinguished himself at BELMONT (q. v.), and was made brigadier-general. After the battle of FORT DONELSON (q. v.) he was promoted major-general; commanded a division at the battle of Shiloh; succeeded General Sherman in command of the army engaged in the Vicksburg ex"GEO. B. MCCLELLAN." pedition in January, 1863; distinguished McClellan, GEORGE BRINTON, lawyer; himself in the battles that followed; comborn in Dresden, Saxony, Nov. 23, 1865; manded the 13th Army Corps till July, son of Gen. George B. McClellan: 1863; and resigned his commission Nov. graduated at Princeton University in 30, 1864. Subsequently he engaged in law

'Believing that the views here expressed are those of the convention, and the people you represent, I accept the nomination. I realize the weight of the responsibility to be borne should the people ratify your choice. Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-power ful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

"Very respectfully,