Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-09-07

Democratic State Ticket.

For Register or STATE Land C.lcc.
D. d. HOLBROOk, of Monona county
For Judge Of the Supreme Court,
TIoS NJ NJNROE, of Dubuque county.
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RcccDtiOn Of aise Platform ANA
tsae Nominees by the Press.
Never In the history II any political car
yass have the candidates and The platform
Of party been received with more favor or
unsnimty than mark the reception OF those
OF the Chca 30 Convention by the conservs-
tive masses AID press Of the country. Ih!s,
when we come to consider the variance N
opinion. the extreme views Of many leading
men, and the high hopes ola split enter
tanned by the administration is in the high
est degree gratifying. Our columns "ouia
not suffice to give the remarks Of a title OF
the public journals. The Democratic press
proper is homoge, cous in its position, and
il is Of course unnecessary to quote from
that. But there are journals &C ,upyins 20
sitions whose expressions arc highly sign'sl-
cant as inlcating the stand taken by meI
not strictly within the Democratic fold -
From one or twc Of these We take 'ew eI-
tracts:
THE CHICAGO POST ("wAR DEMOCRAT.
The Chicago Pat, edited 10y the warm
personal friend in IL and b;ogFarher after
death of the a,nented Douglas, has for The
past year or two been a good witness for the
administration people as war Democrat
ic' organ. They have cited il to prove
many things in the political order. Will
they now let their readers see what it says
of the Democratic Platform?
From the Cbicpgo Post, "war Democrat y
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The gvea. question has been decided. The
last hope upon which the Observation-Disclosures
depended for division of the Democratic
party has been broken. The platform OF
the Chicago Convention was reported unan-
imously BY committee. and again uneni
inously by the Convention. The talk o.!
'bollng," OF "seccdins," floldingano;her
Convention to pass peace resolutions and
nominate ''peace" candidates, has becn an
idle expenditure of breath. The pl tform
is Democratic all over; ecfrg Hnt Of a IS
a1iea nth derotioa 10 the Laion eao.r All
circumstances !, every line of it expresses q
fixed, unalte,able purpose to maintain me
Union by ever. means that will secure that
end, and in the manner most conducive 10
the general prosperity. national power, and
to personal liberty; every line OF 1t bctrays
the cainestness with which the trainers Of
it sought to place themselves in firm protest
against any approval, aid OF encouragement
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above all, against any wicked violation OF
right under the pretensc OF Governmental
authority and military necessity. Of all
vlo.ators Of law, that one is the worst, who
commits crime and shelters himself from
the responsibility under the cloak Of official
authority.
The Democratic platform as :crts in few
brief sentences the great principles that un-
derlie the whole fabric Of constitutional gov
ernmcnt; and rarely, If indeed ever, has a
convention embodied in fewer words, or in
more Succinct terms, "a broader and more
emphatic declaration Of the Fundamental
theories Of the Constitution, and applied
them more forcibly to existing oircuns.an-
Ces.
The resolutions but echo the universal
sentiment cfthc American people when they
declare that the four years experiment II
iorce alone, has proved a lameniable failure;
and they do but give expression 20 the feel
ings OF the whole people when they declare
that they are in favor Of resort to eve v
possible means to restore peace and the
Union. They avow willingness to have a
cessation OF hostilities, to treat for peace on
the basis Of the Federal Union, and that il
In treating for that peace, convention oil
the States in the future should be deemed
advisable, they promise that they will favo,
such convention, called. as it must be. in
the nanner and under the forms rovi,led
an the Constitution. To call this convention
vii! require the concurrent action OF two
thirds Of tire States who may call that con
vention in times of peace as well as now. -
lie cou tsy is in favor of peace as q suhsti
tute for war, provided the integrity of tl,s
Union shall be preserved aud the Demac
racy now propose, whenever practicable, "a
substitute the blessings of peace as an in
ducement for a return to The Union: in
place OF the seventies II war
Most i,cn, brave aud honorable men. will
resist the sword unto death, who rnght be
led by a child with the garlands Of peace
The Democratic party do not propose TO Sc
duce the troops or the people Of foreign
land from their allegiance, but they propose
70 try at least and win back to their duty
those Of their own countrymen whose orig
tnal estrangement has been almost turned
into malignant hatred by the. unrelentine
manner in which the war has been prosecu.
ted. We venture TO- say tina. no pursly mil
itary measure resorted to in this war has
created ono thousanath part Of the rnkind-
ness which exists on the part of tho rebel
people towards the Union, as has the miser-
able orders of Battles Of thsridiculOus pnO.
carnations Of Hunter. Hcnccforth, should
the Democratic party have the government,
peace commissioners shall precede the ar
mics; peace cf5ers shall precede and follow
svery battle, and the people oCtne South
and of the world shall BE- taught that this Is
net war Of races in which one must be cx-
terminated, but ON our part at least an effort
70 restore pace to4a continent, to reopen
sne ports and channels Of. commence, to- re-
plant the now desolate fiefds OF the acricul-
tura!ist, and ID efgct once more the Amcri.
can Union under one Gag, one Constitution.
With one nationality, one present and ono
future. aN
I'M NEW YORK HsRALD, .'ISDErzxDExr."
The Rochester Democrat IL fond Of call.
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