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Show it cost a great deal' of money arid it cost the livesof a great many splendid men .' "i; y ; ... : J V . But that waa Tate. : Had. he gone on and taken Richmond.it is quite possible that a peace would have been patched np and slarery would have been retained, and that was not God 'a plan v ; If Mayor McClellan believea that he. waa honestly hon-estly elected, one Sirould think that he above, all other men would be anxious to have a recounting to clear his title to his office," for an office obtained by fraud is something that a real honest man would no more accept than he would stolen goods carried to him by a burglar. " A BAD LOOK FOR M'CLELLAN. Mayor MeClellan of New York City is doinp his best to' prevent a recounting of votes, through which he was declared Mayor. That has a bad look for the Mayor. It has very much such a look as his father presented when he had the Army of the Potomac in sight of Richmond, with apparently nothing in the way of entering the city, but he ordered a retreat and fought that Seven Days' battle back to Harrison Landing, and all that he accomplished by the march up and back was that |