Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-12
THE MAN AND rHE pIATFoRDf,

Geo. B. Mcclellan of ehickahominy
has accepted the Traitors nomination
so we were informed by telegraph, on
Saturday last. The platform of the Chi
cago Convention, framed by open sympa-
thizers with the rebellion, is one of oppo-
sition to all further attempts to subdue
the rebellion by force of arms. 1t talks
about ga Convention of the States" and
its plainly manifest object is to crown the
rebellion with triumph, by letting the re-
volted States withdraw from the Union
on their own terms. The main plank of
the Chicago platform, and the schOle
platform, when the unmeaning surplusage
is stricken out, is as follows:
Justice, humanity and liberty, and the
public welfare, demand that immediate efforts
be made for cessation Of hostilities with a
view of an ultimate Convention Of the States,
or other peaceable means to end it, that at
the earliest practicable moment peace may
be restored on the basis Of the Federal Union
of the States"
The man whom that Convention nomi-
mated to be elected upon, and carry out,
if elected, the principles of that platform,
on the 18th day of last June, not quite
three months ago, at West Point, at the
foundation of u monument to the fallen
heroes of this just tcar, said:
ITO efface the insult offered to our flag, to
secure ourselves from the fate of the divided
republics Of Italy and South America, to pre-
serve our Government from destruction, to
enforce its just power and laws, to maintain
our very existence as nation-these were
the causes which impelled us to draw the
sword. Rebellion against Government like
ours, which contains the means of self
adjustment and a SPECIFIC remedy for evils,
should never be COMPOUNDED with revolu-
ton against 4 despotic power which refuses
redress of wrongs. Such rebellion cannot
be justified upon ethical grounds, and the
only alternative for our choice are its sup
preston or the destruction of our nationality.
At such a time as this, and in such strug
gle, political partnership should be merged
in a true and brave patriotism which thinks
only of tine good Of the whole country. It
was in this cause and with these motives
that so many Of our comrades have given
their lives, and to this we are all personally
pledged in all honor and fidelity. Shall such
devotion as that Of our dead comrades be OF
no ayails Shall it be said in after ages that
we lacked the vigor to complete the work
thus begun: That after all these noble lives
freely given we hesitated and failed to keep
straight on until our land was saved? For
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hearts than that! D, spirits of the valiant
dead, souls of our slain heroes, lend us your
indomitable will, and if it be permitted you
to commune with those still chained by the
trammels Of mortality, hover around US in
the midst of danger and tribulation; cheer
the firm, strengthen the weak, that none may
doubt the salvation of the republic and the
triumph Of our grand old flag"
Last Thursday, the man who made that
speech was waited upon by committee
from the Chicago Convention, and ten
dered the nomination of that body. He
accepted It! In doing so, the telegraph
informs US, he said:
The existence of more than one Govern
ment over the region which once owned our
flag, is incompatible with the peace, power,
and happiness of the people. The re-estab-
ishment of the Union in all its integrity, is
and must continue to be the indispensable
condition Of any settlement, and that the
Union must be preserved at all hazards.
Taking the man and the platform to-
gether, what position do the supporters of
Geo. B. Mcclellan for the Presidency of
the United States occupy: Do the ad-
mirers of the principles enunciated by him
at West Point, in June, and in New York
last Thursday, believe him to be an honest
man: Do they believe that honestly en-
tertaining the sentiments he avows, he
would have accepted the nomination upon
a platform so Numerically antagonistic to
those sentiments Do the admirers of
the platform, and the advocates of an
:" unconditional peace" (Which is the party
cry of the Copperheads on this side of the
land) find any echo Of that cry in the
words of their nominees The man and
the platform are as incongruous as Heaven
and Hell, and yet the british and besotted
hordes upon whom the Democracy"
rely for their rank and file, rend the air
with their insensate shouts for Mcclellan
and Democracy :"