Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-15
The New York News and the presi.



In the New York Daily News of Saturday,
appeared remarkable article upon General Nc
ClelIan's letter of acceptance The position
taken by that journal, If it were assumed by any
considerable number of Democrats, would prove
absolutely fatal to our success in November, and
fatal, therefore, as We steadiastly believe, TO our
last hope of liberty, and our only prospect of
Union But an example so fraught with mis-
chief and ruin, as that set by the News. tciH not
be follo,ced at all. The Chicago Convention rep
resested the feelings and opinions of the united
Democracy of the North 1t made a platform
acceptable TO every man who cl.imed TO be a
Democrat. 1t has been called a peace platform
and so il is. But it meant no disgraceful
peace. Ii proposed no surrender OF principles: no
craven laying down of arms. 1t proposed peace.
not as a dishonorable termination OF fruitless
war, but a method of accomplishing the very
objects for which that war was begun. |! pro-
posed TO calm passions which years of had
only made more angry and stormy, by opening
the gateway to compromise. TO Cancellation, to
negotiation and settlement of all the vexed ques-
tons out of which our troubles were born, and
on which they have been kept alive. 1t proposed
in a word to reconstruct the Federal Union of
the States not by killing off the people of one
half OF the country with the bayonets of the other
half, but by bringing the representatives of all
the people, face TO face to debate, to reason, to
compromise, and to strike hands in lasting and
fraterDal peace.
The letter of General Mcclellan accepting the
nomination conceived in precisely the same
spirit that which dictatedt the resolutions of the
Convention. He recognized the fact that even
the material advantages of our victories ON land
and sea had beer lost by the folly of the present
Administration, and that the war. considered as a
means toward restoring the Union, had proved a
fat failure. He founded his hopes OF peace and
restoration precisely the methods which
the Convention based theirs "Ihe Union" ne
says. "w0s originally founded by the exercise of
spirit of Cancellation and compromise, and TO re-
store and preserUe IL the same spirit must pre-
call in councils and an the hearts Of our
people" At this letter and this language the
New York Daily News affects TO be highly
scandalized. IL spies out, by marvellous discern
men;, wide discrepancies between letter and plat
form Ii assumes the position of special organ
OF the peace men, and promises to abandon the
support OF the party unless it is forthwith provided
with Q new candidate. Now, the fact is simpl 4
this The whole Democratic party is CO npos e /
of peace men-that Ia to say, OF men who be
lieve that our troubles can be settled, aud could
have been settled long ago. successfully, honora-
bly,, and forever. without the shedding of blood
and who, having human hearts in their b0soms,
want to stop the scenes of carnage which have
laid waste the fairest portions Of it,
They are not ssha med to be called peace men.
and until We have an authentic message from
above that the Redeemer of the world has drop
ped the title of the Prince of Peace then need not
be. But they recognize the fact that there can
be such thing as disgrGcetul peace peace
founded wasted and obterated common
wealths, upon the extinction OF millions o! our
own blood and race. upon desoatei fields. ruined
hearthstones, and bloody graves-an Abolition
peace in other " ords. would not only be disgrace.
full and abominsble. but barbprous and accused
of God.
There is another kind of peace which the Dem
ocracy have never proposed. aud TO which the,
can never be brought TO assent--snd that is.
surrender. without condition. qualification
g0tiation Of arms and armies TO those with whom
we are unhappily at wsr-a peace which would
stlpUlate for nothing, would bear no fruit. and
would not settle by compromise the angry ques-
tions which have divided Us This is a kind OF
peace the Democracy ntrer contemplated, don't
trant. and ,oont hare The Chicago CoDv ention
igsored any such idea and demanded a peace
which. without impairing the dignity or involving
the subjugation of single OF these sover.
eign States. should make firm the equal rights
OF all OF them. General Mcclellan accepted
these views and endorsed them And IL. as il
would seem. they do not accord with the benign,
but vague any pnrposeless eontemplatons of the
New York News, that is not the fault OF the
Democratic party or Its representatives
One thing is plain: He Eho is not toth rs nolc
IS against us. Euery rote tcifhheid from McC!ei
ian is rOte giUen TO Lincoln This fact is too
nlain TO need enforcement bear discussion
You cannot approve our platform aud reject our
candidate. because when you reject him, YOU
lacitly accept Lincoln, upon platform the most
bloody. wicked and hopeless for good. that il j.
possible for The heart OF man 10 conceive.
The columns OF this paper. says the News,
bear witness that We have iahored to harmOnize
the Democratic party" We poiat to our
columns quite as confidently as the editor of the
New. does to his in proof that We have labored
faithfully in the same good work. Moreover
having put our hand to the plov. We do not mean
TO look back We mean to 20 on There is
battle to be fought, and we mean to help 10 fight
IL under chosen chief We have toiled tbro'
many rexatious day and weary night TO ua-
shall the parry for this last great struggle for LID
erty aud Law, and that the firing has com
mencei. and We are in the face of the enemy, re
shall neither strip of our Uniform and ruiz away
nor wander of with our gun from the body of
the army. TO do little Ineffective shooting on
our own account Phil adelphis Age