Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-30

Among the speeches made during the
Chicago Convention WAS one hv S &

Chicago Convention was one by S. S,
Cox, in the course of which he SAID:
"Can we elect him9 1answer yes. Dare you
enter this campaign, and in the same spirit YOU
have shown here, in the face of Provost Mar
shals and all other intimidation will YOU dare
through? We shall see. II e man who falters
in this great crisis Is UNIV, ~ thy of the name of
man MAJ and disgraees the Clanhood of our party
there are things eve n worse than war, and that
is = tame and GOV. ardly submission to wrong.
Les Us emuure longer, but meet the first out
met Inc asg- essors of theirs. AS you separate
and 60 70 your homes to the distant parts of the
your assemblage tonight, and seeking peace
always, ever be prepared to resist the wrong,
and vote and work and pray for the success OF
constitutional liberty"
Dick Merrick said:
He thanked God that he was permitted ia
stand again among the gallant Democracy of H.
linois. He was proud and happy of the occa-
not repress the qualification he 1elt at the pros
pect OF glorious resurrection of Democracy
and Democratic principles. We are for the
whole country and our glorious old flag against
sectional madness and ruinOus war. We are TO
choose soon between statesman on the one hand
and a seenseless joker on the Other
Mr.. Hendricks, of Indiana, said:
The triumph is already complete, and has
the polls. The resurrection, he hoped, mad not
been effected too late in the day. He trusted
life still remained in the masses, and that they
had not been sunk so low, by Tour years of de s.
potism, but that they could rise to crush out A D.
oiitionism [cheersl and hurl tue smutty old ty-
rant at Washington out OF political existence"
Mr.. Prentice, of New York, said:
He denounced the CONSUMPTION law as an
unconstitutional measure which affects every
citizen existing under the present government.
He was certain that un,airness had character
Ted II from beginning to end. Democratic sec
tons like Illinois had to bear its most severe
action, while Abolition parts Were left almost
out OF the draft"
At the great Mcclellan ratification
meeting in New York, one of the speak
ers said:
at will then be for the Democratic part y. with
an olive branch in hand, to take up tenderiy
the wounded prodiSal and bring hiph to his
home. II will then be iorus to say: Southern
erS that common enemy who broke II Is ailegi
ance to US and usurped power over you, is
crushed
a mass meeting of Democrats in Cass
county, Illinois, convened to ratify the
proceedings of the Chicago Convention,
adopted the following:
I" Resolved, That we, the Democracy OF Cass
county, will resist the draft at all hazards
J. H. Shaw was the principal orator,
and hailed from Beardstown. He said :
" That The draft, nor any other act of the adj
miniStration, could be enforced among them
that they would drag Lincoln from his seat,
overthrow the government, and place the pow
err in the hands OF men of their own choosing,
He declared, also, that everything was in read
mess in Illinois; and when the hour came, the
first movement in this State would be the cap.
ture of Springfield the seizure of the state Off
GERS, and the placing OF the state government
in their own hands"
AS early as January, 1851, before Mr.
Lincoln was inaugurated, Mr.. Pendle-
ton, the peace candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, said:
greSs, enter into any agreement or compact with
foreign power l wish TO know from gentle
men what number of men it would req aire to
annul such an agreement, once made. The
General Government is invested with certain
powers necessary to be executed in order to
keep the machinery OF the Government in mo-
ton. Can any number OF trO ,pS, or the use OF
any armed force on the part of the States, COM
pei the General Government to execute those
deliberately and persistently refuse to execute
them: Sir, the cloe scheme Of coercion is in.prac-
ticoble. IL is contrary to the genius and spirit q the
C0nStit,1i0n.'
And is this Democracy" Think you
Cass, Douglas and Dickinson would ut
ter such atrocious sentiments? Are
such men to be recognized as Democrat
ic leaders: