The Nashville Daily Union

Important Letter from General McCall.
McClellan Repudiated by One of his
Old Commanders.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.-At a meeting
in Westchester yesterday, a letter was
received from General Geo. McCall, formerly commanding the Pennsylvania
Reserves. Gen. McCall ran for Congress
on the Democratic ticket in 1862.
and has always been a member of that
party. It will be seen that Gen. Mc-
Call, although one of McClellan's leading commanders, repudiates the gentleman.

"BELL AIR, September 30.
"Messrs W. E. Barber, M. P. Marshall
and others, "Committee:
"GENTLEMEN: I am in receipt of your
letter of the 29th inst., inviting me to
preside over a Mass Meeting of the loyal
citizens of Chester, Delaware and
Montgomery counties, to be held at
the Agricultural Fair Ground on Saturday next, the 1st of October. Although
I am constrained to decline the honor
you have thus intended to convey, I
will avail myself of the occasion to express to you my views with respect to
the great contest-the conduct of the
war-now before our country, and soon
to be decided at the coming Presidential
election, which views, in the main,
have never, under any circumstances,
undergone a change. No one deplored
more than myself the stern necessity
which required the Northern States to
take up arms to quell the rebellion of
the South, yet no one more than
myself felt the necessity of raising
and exerting all the energies of
the country this end. One of two things
then stared us in the face, either the
positive suppression of the rebellion
and the preservation of the Union, or
the utter and irretrievable loss of position among the nations of the earth,
and the entailment on our children of
an everlasting disagreement, contention and with the Southern people. I
now believe, as I always believed, that
if the Union is worth preserving it is
worth the prosecution of the war to a
successful conclusion.
With regard to the conduct of this
war. I cannot approve the measures of
the present administration, but I regard any administration that will energetically prosecute the war as preferable to one which is in favor of an
armistice and a Convention of the
States until the States in rebellion
lay down their arms.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
George A. McCall."