The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-10
Chicago.

The Chicago Convention offers plat
form on which no we'll wisher Of his cCun.
try can find room for the soles of his feet.
Unpatriotic, inflammatory, calamitous to
the country. this document will be crafty
ng to jefferson Davis and grievous to loyal
men. Not word against the Rebellion,
but only against the Government putting
il down! Not a hint that the war Is waged
for just cause, but by implication for an
unjust onel Not cheering word to the
soldiers to go forth and conquer, but only
Of pity for their hardships In the service OF
. tyrannous usurpation!
The long familiar utterance Of patriotic
war democrats, that tho rebellion must be
conquered, 10 here hidden to silence-a gag
ging hand laid across itslips. Peace against
Richmond; War against WASHINGTON =
this II the new battle-cry; the war pusil-
Unanimously declared failure, an open sur
render made 10 the enemy, and all this at
q time when the enemy could least expect
such weakness In = triple-stroDg antago-
mist! HOstilities suspended, convention
of the thirty.four states is to be called-all
on equal terms, the innocent and the guilty
TO make an adjustment wherein South
Carolina shall say what punishment shall
be visited upon Massachusetts, and where
in Mississippi shall offer rope for the
hanging Of Abraham Lincoln!
Was there ever more monstrous scheme
There 10 not q guerrilla tatterdemalion in
the South, mangling our wounded and
riding our dead, who can find in this plat
form any rebuke Of his crimes-but only
in this mingled Chicago and Richmond
elimination Of the National Government
new Indictment TO his bloods deeds!
Where stand the true Democrats who
have urged men and money for the war;
What will they cay to this insult thrown
into their teeihf II every great. souled
man in that party, who has not already
abandoned ii, shall not now pick up his
bat and leave-as Gen. Cass retired from
the presence of Chief Justice fancy after
he caring the bred Scott decision-then the
increasing audacity Of the bad men in that
party Is . sOFrOwful proof of the declining
spirit of the good.
When was there ever, in the history of
political conventions, q greater self-stulti-
fication than in the Chicago denunciation
Of arbitrary arrests and yet simultaneous
nomination of q man who arbitrarily ar
rested = whole State legislature.
page Of the war; TO restore the Federal
Union, as it says. But the very same days
newspaper which brings this text from
Chicago brings its commentary from Rich
mond-in the hand writing Of Mr.. Benja-
min, Secretary of State, to Mr.. Mason,
commissioner to Europe, saying that JEFF
ferson Davis cannot listen to any PROPOSE
ton from the North except upon the basis
Of an independent Confederacy." What
then becomes of this Chicago Overturef-A
Pitifnl spectacle! A great party travelling
to an extreme Northern city TO get down
on it, knees afar on to Jefferson Davis,
who only stretches out long arm across
mountains and prairies to smite it on the
cheeks in scorn!
Fellow countrymen! the crisis il immi-
nent, but the way 10 plain. All wise and
sound men, both Democrats and Republi-
cads, know that there 10 but one method of
restoring the Union, and that h BY CON-
queEing back it, rebelli0us pArts. This We
are doing day by day-and doing WE'LL
What can be better done than Grant and
Sherman and Farragut are doingf What
u more full Of hope and proWioe than tho