New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-10-07
sanatical Puritanism aud selfish ostrac
IS TIE WAR A FAILURR.

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IS TIE WAR A FAILURE.
The Chicago platform declares that
the war has been prosecuted for four
(years and has been a failure. This
Mr.. Chase disputed in his speech on
Saturday night. lie enumerated
some military victories which we had
gained, as if that was reply. He did
not state that no substantial results
had thus far followed our victories
Well says Mr.. Vall.ndigham, n his
Sidney speech:
!" l am speaking now of the feet this
Convention pronounced this w4r fail
u"c, and giving you the reasons why
it is failure. Is 1t not a failure to
! restore the Union2 (Cr:es Of yes)- l
have said it was not the want of an ar
my of soldiers or Of officers, but that it
was, first, because of the nature of
things, and, seccudly: because Of the
policy Of the administration. That it
is failure to restore the Union, you
all know. What State has it returned
out of the eleven which seeded! What
State has representatives in the FEEDER
al Congress among those that went out.
What State acknowledges obedience to
the Constitution anil laws Of the
erigional eleven! Not one. What
has been gained by this eampa, a,gn?
More lives have been lost. more hard
Sighting has been done, more courage
has been exhibited Ivy the Federal as
well as the Southern soldiers than in
any former campaign, and what has
been accomplished? General Grant is
nearer to T,chmon1 occupying per
haps territory Of eleven miles, which
was not i'll the possession Of the United
States when the campaign began, from
the City Point to the suburbs of p
ters|'urs. TO seest, that he gave all
the country from Manassas down to
Richmond, and large part of the val
ley until the last few days. What
! there in these victories reported by
telegraph. l see not. We know. that
. Presidential election is pending and
every fundamentally will he restored
to, to magnify tAsss victories, Gen.
Sheridan gained d victory, but Gen.
Lincoln did not do it. 1t happened IN
his admin stration, and that is all that
can be said in regard to it, What yet
Is to happen there we know not. III
How about the Southern campaign?
General Sherman, through the courage
Of the best disciplined, best organized
and most powerful army that has been
seen since the campaigns of the first,
Napolcan, has taken A,lanta-a town
somewhat larger than Sidney. II has.
cost him sixty thousand men, and four
or five months Of the most terrible Cant
paign ever waged on this continent or
any other part ofthe globe. He occu-
pies from i've to five miles on each eide
of railroad OF 1873 miles in length
He has penetrated that far into Gcor-
gia. What has bcea surrendered to
obtain that? All of Texas, nearly all
Of L ,uisiona; nearly oil Of Arkansas,
Mississippi, Alabama. and part Of Ten
nessee, which were in possession Of the
Fe elerals on the first of May. Ken
lucky has been opened to continual in
cursions of the Confederate armies.
All this has been surrendered in order
to gain this narrow strip of country on
,ac line of the railroad. The war then
has been properly pronounced failure
in = military point of view. The con-
: vention meant that it had failed to res
tore the Union, and there is not a Re
publican in the land who does not
know it. ... ...
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