The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-09-06
The Syracuse Peace Convention
The Motfoes-Hop Vaiiandigham Looked-A
Democratic Expression Scenes and Incidents

The Mottoes-Hoo Vallandigham Looked-A
Democratic Expression Scenes and Incidents
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The Reporter of the Rochester Dem
ocrot was present at the late Peace
Convention at Syracuse, and thus gives
the notices displayed on the occasion,
and other remarks about the affair:
THE MoTTOEs. t'
"No more victims for the slaughter
pen-not man nor dollar"
eff Seward touches the bell again
the people will stretch his neck"
"Abe Lincoln slaughters white men
under the pretense of freeing negroes .
"The people are ready to take ven.
geance on the advocates of Civil War p
'Lincoln demands blood! Provost
Marshals beware!"
"Let the tyrant tremble when the
People speak,"
"Usurpation unrebuked is despotism
accepted"
"Crush the tyrant Lincoln before he
crushes you."
"Free ballots or free bullets.o I
"War is dissolution speedy and fl
nal" fd
"This is nigger war;"
awe will not be conscripted in a
war for the emancipation OF negroes" "
"Humanity commands that this
butchery shall cease"
"Lincoln has murdered three white
men to free one negro.o
"The laws we will obey; arbitrary
arrests we will resist unto the death. y
1--WE stand by the Declaration of In
dependence"
''Horatio Seymour-the Champion
of Civil over Military Law"
vALLANDIGHAM.
The same correspondent describes
the great unhung as follows:
"Val, is five feet ten, l should say;
square, broad features; large eyes,
grey in the light of the sun; the fore
head of q rejecting man, and the top
head of an ambitious md unscrupulous
man. His hair is fecked with grey
gathered, perhaps, in Dixie, for he is
young yet-and he wears his whiskers
around his immense jaws, which work
in nervous way when he is passive,
and open and shut when he is speak
ing, as squarely as if they had no hinge.
Nose of Hebraic outline. Long up
per-lip of determined leader. He
wears white Marseilles vest to-day, a
black bombazine coat, and soft hat.
Fernando Wood leans over.to whis-
per to him, and fingers gold.headed
cane, presented to V. by his admiring
friends at Dalton" l
A s'DEMocRATIC" EXPRESSION.
One of the speakers, Joel Rogers,
of Jefferson county, indulged his trea-
sonable proclivities in the following lam
guage, from which can be inferred the
temper and feeling of the gathering.
He denounced Mr.. Lincoln as the
biggest kind of a tyrant, and appealed
to everybody to resist the pending draft.
If any minion of the despot at Wash
ington came to their houses, to tear
them from the bosom of their families
i'm this war for the nigger, they must
defend themselves in the easiest way.
They must resist him, and show him
their homes were inviolate. "You need
not look for musket," said the speak
er stake club, or an ace, or anything,
and sloy him on the spot!" 8 6gCI
This sentiment was loudly cheered.
A BRILLIANT LIGHT.
G. Chauncy Burr, the renegade Uni
versalist, he of toe-snapping notoriety
spoke from the balcony ofthe Syracuse
House. Burr is said to have "blown
his bellows" in true stentorian style,
completely captivating his audience by
his immense flow and striking gestures.
Great is Burr! e,i
- ~ YaoU INCIDENTS. W 90 l994l
On resuming his seat, Hibernian
gentleman reached over the reporters
table with a heavy hickory cane, and
raped Mr.. Vallandigham smartly and
familiarity on the head with it, at the
same time calling out "Here!'' he spread
himself out on the table and reached
his paw towards the Lions, also extern
ded, which he grasped, shouting ''Mis-
ther Vallandiggum, gimme yer fist! /
shuk hands wild the great Dooglas; damn
Abe Lincoln and his supporthers!" y
One of the resolutions or the pream-
bic spoke of the ''inquisitorial conscrip-
ton of tyranical, benighted dynasty"
1t was rather noticeable fact that
the two National flags of stars and
stripes, which had been broughtfo de-
cency's sake, placed on the stand,
were taken down by the committee du-
ring the reading of the resolutions, and
thrown behind the platform! There
was arare propriety in this, which must
have been significant to every loyal
eye.
Gen. Hough, the President of the
Convention, said eff Abe Lincoln was
elected by the votes of the rotten-bor.
ough States, we will never submit--we
will take up arms then ourselves-and
we will never lay them down-nsrer
nsver, NEVER.
eB An Irishman, who found on tho