Monmouth Herald & Inquirer

An Interesting Revelation.

Francis P. Blair, Sr., has written a letter to the National Intelligencer, giving the particulars of a visit made by him to Gen. McClellan in July last, and the nature of which has been misrepresented in the Opposition journals. He declares that the object of his visit, which was made on his own responsibility, was not, as some have affirmed, to offer Gen. McClellan, on behalf the President, an honorable position in the Army on condition that he would not run for President, but to bring about, if possible, a closer unity in the Union party; that with that object he visited the Editors of the Evening Post, Tribune and Herald, urging them to surrender their personal prejudices and give their cordial support to Mr. Lincoln; and that, after this, he had an interview with Gen. McClellan, and entreated him to do nothing to distract the loyal party of the country, telling him that should he accept a nomination for President at the hands of the Opposition, pledged to a peace policy, he would be inevitably defeated, and if defeated, could never rise again in the public estimation. Mr. Blair says also that he urged Gen. McClellan to apply for a command, as the best method of showing practically his sympathy with the Government in its life and death struggle, and he adds:

This was the scope of my argument to Gen. McClellan on the topics referred to. It was honestly meant, and designed to promote the public good and his own. He seemed so to consider it. Disclaiming any desire for a Presidential candidacy, he thanked me for the interest I had always taken, as his friend, in the relations of which I spoke; said that the suggestions I had made were worthy of deep consideration, and they would be well weighed; that he was called to the country again by a sick child, and regretted he could not probably see me again.

I mentioned to Mr. Lincoln, on my return, the attempt I had made at the conciliation of parties in New York, with a view to defeat the opposition in the North, by restoring harmony among all favoring the crushing of the rebellion by arms, and told him I thought it probable Gen. McClellan might write to him in respect to himself. He neither expressed approval nor disapprobation of what I had done, but his manner was as courteous and as kind as Gen. McClellan's had been.