The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-02-23

sicut democracy do not agree. He quotes rom
the HERALD to prove that we are in favor OF the
war for the Union, and compares this quotation
with the peace platform of the Connecticut de-
mocrats, arguing therefrom that our support OF
the democracy is inconsistent with our war
views. We do not know but that poor Greeley
is right for once. Certainly we are In favor
of the war for the Union, and are equally OPP
posed to all rebels, abolitionists and copper
heads If the Connecticut platform differs with
US, 80 much the worse for the platform. we
stand our ground, and appeal to the conservs-
tives Of all parties to save the country by put
ting down Southern traitors in the field and
abolition traitors at the polls. The people OF
all the great Central States have responded
most nobly to this appeal. We hope that the
voters of Connecticut and New Hampshire Will
be equally patriotic.
Upon careful examination of the COnnecti-
cut platform however, we find, to our great
surprise, that all the obnoxious planks are
taken almost entirely from the Iribune's
own articles. Like an unskilful angler, poor
Greeley, fishing for traitor. has caught himself
The Connecticut platform contains two asser-
tions which Greeley italicizes and assails -
First, that the restoration of the Union by force
is a "monstrous fallacy;" and, second, that
measures should now be adopted having in
view the cessation of hostilities between tho
North and the South" Poor Greeley objects to
ments in the Tribatne over and over again. On
the 9th November, 1860, Greeley emphatically
declared =" Whenever considerable section
Of our Union shall deliberately resolve to 60
out, we shall resist all coercive measures de-
signed to keep it in. We hope never to live in
another by bayencts." There spoke the chief
of the copperheads There is the source from
which the peace men Of Connecticut obtained
their idea that to restore the Union by force
was monstrous falacy" So, Also in regard
to the statement that the time has arrived for
measures having in view the cessation of
hostilities between the North and the South"
That delusion likewise originated with the 7ri-
bune. Only few weeks ago poor Greeley advised
us ito bow to our destiny and make the best
attanable peace If the rebels were not sub
ducd by the lst of May next. In the Tribune
of January 30. 1868, poor Greeley again de-
clared--"We believe that. should the rebels be
successful and we defeated in the general re-
suits of the campaign now opening, impartial
third parties will say that we ought to consent
to peace on the best attainable terms" This is
conclusive. Poor Greeley and the Connecticut
copperheads belong to the same breed. The
platform of the Tribune aud OF the Connecticut
peace patriots is the same. Decidedly we do
not endorse that platform. As poor Greeley
frequently and elegantly observes. eve spit
upon it and its authors" If poor Greeley &C
know!edgcs himself one Of the authors, we
.spit upon" him, too.
But, upon further examination, this Connec-
ticut devil is not half so black az poor Greeley
paints him. Peace men as they are we doubt
If the endorsers of the Connecticut platform
will consent to be called poor Greelcys pro-
geny or his disciples. They will disown him, as
he tries to disown them. Bad as they may be,
they are much more loyal than Greeley. The
abolition coppcrhead is by far the worst
of the tribe. The Connecticut peace men
do not admit the right Of secession, as Greeley
does. nor are they. like Greeley committed to
schemes for disuniol. The Connecticut plat
form explicitly says:-'sWe dcnounce the heresy
of secession as undefsnded and unwarranted by
the constitution" Poor Greeley says, in the
Tribune of November 2, lS60.-"The right to
secede may be revolutionary one; but it ex-
lists. nevertheless" Again; in the Tribune of
December II. 1860. Greeley gravely argues:-
"lf it (the Declaration of Independence justi-
fed the secession from the British empire of
three millions Of colonists in l71G. we do not
see why il would not Justify the secession of
five millions of Southrons from the Union in
1851" Thus Greeley encouraged the scces-
sionists then, ~ he encourages the rebels now.
But here the chief OF the copperheads is in adj
vance Of his Connecticut friends; for they still
have patriotism enough left to ''denounce the
heresy Of secession SO, hso. in regard to
disunion. The Connecticut copperheads wish
to take measures to secure peace: but their
platform says honorable measures" aud the
objects of these measures are 'the recsnst rue
ton Of the Union ''the reproduction of fra
ternal feelings" and 1.-The erection upon moro
enduring basis Of the temple of the constitu-
ton" Poor Greeley, on the contrary, urges
dishonorabe measures for a disunion peace.
lie illegally and dishonorably intrigues with
Jewett. and through Jewett with Mercier and
Napoleon, in favor sf mediation, thus breaking
the law of 1899. The Connecticut peace men
have not gone as far as that. Neither have
they begged US to "bow to our destiny" mean
ing by chat phrase dsunion; nor to "make the
best attainabie peace" which, as Greeley
knows, would be recognition OF the
confederacy. The Tribune Of February 10
says of the democrats They are not dis
unionists-they do not desire the permanent
division Of our country-but they do hope and
expect to achieve its reconstruction Gree.
lcy's Connecticut friends cannot reciprooate
r.