Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-09-22
,uDCmlCAGo CONVENTION.
Appeal Of tn Na., ..a,. q. Sa me nssseG
States.

h'" Nog ork, Sept. Q, "a.
r,o great rebellion, which for more
,hsn tbree wears has wrapped the nation
~ tbe flames ofcivii war, draws near lts
nr,sis MS armies have been beaten, lts
.arri,orv has been conquered, the forts
and posts which II reacherousiy seiIeu
have been occupied and held by The sol,
diers of the Republic, It's loreisu all.eS
Saye been detached from It's support
nHJ ms hostile arm, paraiyzed oy ex-
SaUstion and discouraged by defeat, is
nnheld SOLELY by the hope oil poltlcai
''itc,ories 10 be achieved by It's allies
In the presidential election oil November
"a next. .,- ,.,..
Irtbe people in that election sustain
the government, if they reassert Ms just
authority and reatiirn their purpose TO
maintain it by war SO long as war as
sails it, the rebellion will speedily end.
If they talter in this determination, or
leave any room for doubt on this vital
point, the rebels will take fresh courage
and prolong the contest. Every ut
terance of their organs and their agents
affirms and confirms this position. Eve
nv rebel in arms aud every rebel IN Oh
nce-every rebel organ in the rebel states
or in foreign lands-every hater OF dem
ocratic freedom and the rights OF man,
longs and labors for the overthrow Of
the administration and the expulsion OF
Abraham Lincoln from the presidential
chair.
In the Northern and Western states
this hostility has been embodied ana Or
ganized in the acts and declaratl tons oil
the Chicago convention. That conven-
ton gives silent approval of the re-
bellion itself and an open condemna-
ton of the war waged for its suppress
sion. Without word of censure for
the conspirators who plotted the ma
TONS death, it brands with unsparinS
denunciation the patriots and heroes
who defend its life. While it passes in
uttersilence the gigantic usurpations OF
Jefferson Davis and his confederate
traitors,-while it overlooks entirely,
and thus, by just and necessary inference,
approves their abrogation OF political
rights and personal liberties over all
that portion OF the United States IN
which they have been able thus tar to
sustain their usurped authority, 1t pours
out its wrath, without stint or measure,
upon every act by which the constltu-
tional president of the United States
has sought to defend and protect the
life and liberties OF the nation, whose
executive power is placed in his hands.
That convention had no words of ex-
ultation for our victoTies-no thanks
and honors for the soldiers ana sailors
who have shed their blood to achieve
them. While IL denounces our govern
ment for neglect of duty toward our
fellow citizens, who are now, and long
have been, prisoners OF war IN suner-
Ing condition" it has not even syllable
of censure for those rebel authorities
who, with more than savage cruelty,
and in utter disregard OF every dictate
of humanity us well as ofevery usage OF
civilized warfare, have deliberately ana
with systematic purpose inflicted upon
those prisoners all the tortures or eX-
posture, of neglect and starvation, and
have offered premiums for their murder
to the brutal guards to whose grim Gus
tody they have been consigned. And,
on the very eve of the most glorious
victories that have ever crowned our
arms after three years OF bloody, costly
and successful war, when three-fourths
of the territory originally held by the
rebels had passed into our hands at
the very moment when the rebellion it
self is lettering to it's fall, and the flag
of our country is rapidly advancing to
It's old supremacy-the party repre-
scented at Chicago demands that 'mme-
date Efforts be made for a cessation o. hos
tait1s"-a step which would instantly
arrest our conquering armies, and snatch
A. II h.. .iaG If Inn Fri nh
repeal the blockade, and throw the
whole rebel frontier open to the sup
plies they so sorely need secure the
recognition of foreign powers, and either
accomplish their independence or give
them the ability to fight for 1t four
years longer.
We appeal to the people OF the United
States-loyers of the Union and friends
of Electromagnetic the consummation
of the foul crime both against which the
acts and declarations o. the Chicago
Convention involve. We invoke them
not to sanction these principles and SEN
ments by electing the candidates put
forward to represent them. We implore
them, as they love their country, as
they seek the renewed integrity of its
territory, as they desire the peaceful
protection of its flag, and the blessings
of its free institutions and its equal
laws for themselves and their posterity,
not to arrest the blow which is just
ready to descend upon the rebellion now
tottering to it's fall not TO give the reb-
els time to renew their strength for
fresh conflicts; not to aid those who
would aid them in oyerthrowing our
Government, in destroying our Union,
In plunging into chaos of anarchy the
great communities of which the consti-
tuition makes one glorious nation, and
In thus extinguishing, finally and forev-
er, the hopes OF all who have faith III
freedom and the rights of man.
We call upon the people to bear in
mind that, by whatever sophistries they
may cloak their purposes, the Chicago
Convention neither condemns the action
of the Richmond rebels, nor proposes to
expel them against their will, or by any
exercise of force, from the seats OF pow
er they have usurped. In all essential
respects the action that convention took
accords with the results the rebels seek.
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