Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-30
HERALD.
TUESDAY, JUNE %, 1884.
Poseponemcnt Of tho Chicago Com
vcutiOn.

less mudde It is that which now calls
itself democratic" 1t can do nothing,
is, Bee. i c'r agree upon no candi-
date to IT, sat It's principles, and I'd,
because 1t has no principles To be repre-
scented by its candidate. Some of the
party profess 10 he for war many of the
party ere emphatically for peace-and-
surrender; most of The party probably
are for whatever appears "expedient,
which according to the Rev. p. V. Mas
by, is the ''classlcle fraze for bred and
butter" The question, what effect the
course they will adopt may have upon
the maintenance Of the Union--a serious
consideration with some peoples the
least of their troubles. Otherwise they
could as well frame platform now as
q month or six weeks hence. 1t Is as
easy to determine now as then whether
traitors, who combine to destroy the
Union, should be resisted to the death
by all the force of the loyal people and
the country's integrity with the bless
ings Of free government be preserved, or
an utterly base and cowardly submiss-
ion be yielded to their treason. This su-
preme question of the hour is matter
Of principle with some people, to be ad-
hered to at all hazards and under all
circumstances, but we repeat is of no
concern to the NEW pseudo-democracy."
Having no common foundation princi-
ciple, there is nothing to bind together
the homogeneous elements of the so call
ed party. They tried to agree upon
convention to be held at Chicago on the
4th OF July. A conditional war plat
form was deemed "expedient" by some,
an unconditional peace platform by 9th
ers, and the rest didn't know. A mill
tary candidate was the choice of a few
the unconditional peace men could not
endure the smell of gHnpowder on the
garments of even the slowest and least
gunpowder-y of all generals, it tainted
the purity of their peace professions,
In this quandary half-and- half delegates
were elected to Chicago by conventions
which dared to adopt no resolutions one
way or the other. 1t became painfully
apparent, as the time approached, that
whereas q national convention could
not be held without doing something, if
anything ,oas done the convention would
end In a row and result in split Ia
Charleston, 1860. There was nothing
to be done but to adjourn the conven-
ton in the hope that something might
turn up" ala Micawber, to harmonic
the various factions of this heteroge-
neous, no principles, o-candidate ode
mocracy."
But the Micawber- prospect is not
fattering. 1t is now stated that the
committee which postponed the Chicago
Convention only represents the Douglas
side of the party, while another Commit
tee headed by Thomas b. Florence, 1.-THE
same, we believe, who got up the affect
Ing story about Andy Johnson's poor
old mother selling tripe for q living in
the streets of Philadelphia) represents
the Breckenridge faction, - these two
committees coming down from the dem
ocratic split of 1850. The latter it is
said are to hold meeting on the Both,
in consequence of the postponement of
the Chicago Convention by the former.
Again the Boston Herald advocates
separate National Convention of the
War Democrats, and says they cannot
act with the copperheads, nor with the
Fremont radical Germans. The Herald
represents the more patriotic portion
Of the Democracy, which will not act
with the peace men in any event, and
perhaps should hardly be considered
strictly a portion of the new Democrat
ic party.
BY this postponement, brought about
In such a manner, the soealled "dem-
party stands before the country
and the world, completely exposed in
all it's weaknesses, it's divisions, its
want ofcohesive principles, or any other,
principles, its want of anything like
patriotism in the time Of the countrys
peri, IA cowardly, time-serving conglom-
GRAFTON in quandary. There is but
one thing that affords the slightest pros
pect of effecting anything like union of
its discordant factions, and that is the
defeat of our soldiers and the triumph
Of the rebels in arms. A party which
hangs its only hope of united action and
success upon such contingency ought
to be loathed and spurned by every hon.
est man of the nation.
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