October 31, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 21 Franklin Lakes Scribe Republican Club to meet The Franklin Lakes Republican Club will meet on Monday, Nov. 5 at 7:45 p.m. in the Ambulance Corps Building on Bender Court. The membership will take nominations and hold a vote for 2013 club officers and trustees. Election Day plans and upcoming programs will also be discussed. The Franklin Lakes Republican Club is a non-profit organization established to represent the Republican Party in Franklin Lakes. It is devoted to the cause of community improvement and good government through an organized Republican Party and the support of candidates for public office who will best represent the interests of the residents and taxpayers of Franklin Lakes. Meetings are open to the club, prospective members, and registered Republicans. Light refreshments will be served. For details, contact Pete Swist at (201) 337-5140. Library events announced The Franklin Lakes Public Library, located at 470 DeKorte Drive, offers programs for adults. These programs are free open to all. Those who attend are seated on a “first-come” basis. Jazz pianist and singer Kazzrie will perform with quartet members on tenor sax, double bass, and drums on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. The music of the Kazzrie Jaxen Quartet includes standard tunes, jazz lines, originals, and occasional excursions into the abstract. A question and answer session will follow the concert. This performance is being sponsored by the Friends of the Franklin Lakes Library. On Nov. 7, Thomas Summers and David Vincenti will present Voices from History: Where Poetry and History Collide, a study of history through poetry, at 7 p.m. Summers will provide a “tour” of the battlefields and camps of the Civil War through the eyes of Confederate soldier Hercules McGraw. Vincenti will offer a view of the life of Galileo that will surprise many who think they already know the famous astronomer. Author Janice Davis will discuss her books, “A Kid, A Grownup & a Travel Bug” and “Friends, A Villa & A Travel Bug,” on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. Davis will be available to sign copies of books from her Travel Bug series. On Nov. 14, Tom Hollerbach from Golden Years Real Solutions and Services will present “Easy Transitions: Cleaning Out, Selling Collectibles, Preparing, and Selling Homes” at 1 p.m. This program focuses on tips that help simplify life or prepare a home for sale. The Ashley Pettet Duo will perform on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. This jazz duo offers a fresh approach to wellknown jazz standards with a modern spin. Pettet has traveled nationally and internationally with her jazz duo and trio, and has performed on Broadway, national tours, movies, videos, commercials, radio, and television. Her upcoming performance is being sponsored by The Friends of the Franklin Lakes Public Library. For details, call the library at (201) 891-2224. Club to host Fall Coffee The Franklin Lakes Newcomers and Neighbors Club will host a Fall Coffee on Wednesday, Nov. 7 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at a member’s home. The club invites new members to this event. For details, e-mail FLNewcomers@yahoo.com. Halloween curfew reminder The Borough of Franklin Lakes adopted a Halloween curfew ordinance that will be in effect every year on Oct. 30 and 31. The curfew assists the Franklin Lakes Police Department in preventing the increasing amount of residential property damage on Mischief Night and Halloween. Police ask parents to make sure children abide by the conditions of the curfew. The ordinance prohibits individuals under age 18 from being on any public street or in any public place between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Oct. 30 and 31 unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian or engaged in, or traveling to or from, a business or occupation state laws authorize a juvenile to perform. Press releases for this column may be e-mailed to editorial@villadom.com. Deadline is Wednesday at noon. smaller Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. He noted that his own friend, General George Gordon Meade, had lost 23,000 casualties at the three-day battle of Gettysburg, and that Ulysses S. Grant had lost 50,000 casualties in a month in 1864 without winning the war. “I believe you love the Army, but I believe you may love it too much,” Lincoln retorted. He pointed out that McClellan’s 1862 victory at Antietam had led to 23,000 Union casualties in a single day and McClellan failed to pursue and destroy the heavily damaged Confederate Army even though he had a copy of their marching orders, found wrapped around a bunch of cigars before the battle and tucked into McClellan’s pocket. McClellan argued that a war of encirclement, outflanking, and siege with the lowest possible casualties was the best way to wear down the Confederates, that their return to the Union was mandatory, and that if elected he would not stop the war until the Union was restored -- with or without the destruction of slavery. He said Lincoln was a good man misled by radicals. Lincoln said emancipation and victory would have to go together, and that McClellan was a good general, but not as good as he thought himself to be. Between rounds, Costello acted as a sort of mentor to the less experienced Hall, and the two of them sat side by side with Hall’s wife Vickie at the lead table. Hall, who works in arts and design, said he had read six or seven books about McClellan, plus everything on the Web, and his ability to recall battles and other biographical facts earned him the respect of a well informed audience. Costello was unshakable in popular appeal, and the plausible chance to question one or both men kept the debate going an hour longer than anticipated. This event was organized by Ridgewood Historical Society President Sheila Brogan, Jean Hildebrandt of the Wyckoff Historical Society, and Kay Yeomans, a trustee of the Upper Saddle River Historical Society. Sponsors included the Coalition of Northwest Bergen County Historical Organizations, including Allendale, Franklin Lakes, The Hermitage (Ho-Ho-Kus), Mahwah, Ramsey, Ridgewood, Oakland, Upper Saddle River, and Wyckoff. Lincoln-McClellan (continued from page 10) “What are you going to do with them?” McClellan asked Lincoln. “I would rather have free black men walking the streets of the country than listen to the continuous clatter of their chains,” Lincoln said. Lincoln argued that Union and freedom had now become inseparable and that the war, following the Emancipation Proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863, had two goals: reunite the states and free the slaves. McClellan and Lincoln differed less over their moral dislike of slavery than over personalities. Each posed as the wounded party in a failed friendship. Lincoln reminded McClellan that McClellan had once been his boss. McClellan, as a veteran of the Mexican War, had been president of the Illinois-Central Railroad while Lincoln was the railroad’s chief counsel. “I thought we had a good relationship, even though a lot of my friends said I didn’t charge you enough,” Lincoln said ruefully. Lincoln also remembered the incident when he and Secretary of State William Seward paid a call on McClellan, and were told he was attending a wedding. Lincoln and Seward sat down to wait in McClellan’s Washington parlor, and were quietly astounded when McClellan walked in past them without a nod and walked straight upstairs to bed. McClellan never came back downstairs. The slightly veiled implication that McClellan was seriously drunk in the middle of a war was a telling point. McClellan also had grievances to relate. “The Army of the Potomac belongs to me!” he said. “I created the Army, I trained it, and I fought with it.” He said that after Lincoln had relieved him of command following McClellan’s bloody victory over Robert E. Lee at Antietam, the Army of the Potomac had been taken from him and handed over to incompetents who sent his men to slaughter at Fredericksburg (13,000 casualties) and Chancellorsvile (17,000 casualties) -- both embarrassing defeats by a much