ls with
inferior plans would succeed by taking some sudden advantage at a
critical time; McClellan on the contrary must either carry out his
carefully arranged programme, or acknowledge himself foiled.

That General McClellan was not a firm patriot is an assertion not
entitled to any weight whatever. He was devoted to the cause of the
Union, and in his career as a general we believe he should be given the
credit of performing his duty to the best of his ability. That he could
not triumph over unexpected obstacles was doubtless a cause of regret to
him more than to any one else.

General McClellan has been accused of an undue ambition for political
preferment, and it must be admitted that he would have succeeded better
in those positions to which he attained, had he been less solicitous for
the future; but it is not yet proved that he ever enlisted unworthy or
dishonorable means in the cause of his personal advancement.

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HISTORICAL RECORD.

September 30.--Republican State Convention held in Springfield. The
following ticket was nominated: Governor, Geo. D. Robinson of Chicopee;
Lieut. Governor, Oliver Ames of Easton; Secretary of State, Henry B.
Pierce of Abington; Treasurer, A.W. Beard of Boston; Auditor, Chas. R.
Ladd of Springfield; Attorney General, Edgar J. Sherman of Lawrence.
With the exception of the office of treasurer, the ticket is the same as
that of last year.

October 1.--The Converse Memorial library building was formerly
presented to the city of Malden by its donor, Hon. Elisha S. Converse.
Hon. John D. Long made the dedicatory address. The building cost
$100,000, and is one of the finest examples of architecture in the
state.

October 7.--Democratic State Convention at Worcester. The following
ticket was nominated: Governor, Frederick O. Prince of Boston;
Lieutenant-Governor, H.H. Gilmore of Cambridge; Secretary of State,
Jeremiah Crowley of Lowell; Attorney General, Henry K. Braley of Fall
River; Treasurer, Henry M. Cross of Newburyport.

October 8.--Eight monuments were unveiled upon the battle-field of
Gettysburg by Massachusetts veterans. The regiments which have erected
these monuments and the principal speakers upon the occasion, were as
follows:--

The Twelfth Infantry. The monument is on Seminary Ridge. Col. Cook of
Gloucester presided, George Kimball of Boston delivered the principal
address, and comrade Gilman read a poem.

The Ele