The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-15
THE GHTD1CITY.
= THURSDAY, SEPT. Is.


puDHc coptDus eAtfaces iioM ieccu'
speech of vsllandigham, the martyr lead
ca of the. peace wing OF the copperhsad
party, the author of the platform and the
endorser of the candidates OF the Chica
70 Convention. The speech was made
by vallandigham to his constituents and
the explanation of the meaning and in
tent OF the document by it's author may
be regarded as aelhoritsnye: III
TILE PEACE OF TIE PLATFORM.
First. / speak of the platform. 1t was
emphatica.ls not only nesceable, but =
Peace Convention. 1t met and sat in
harmony, to declare the ptesent public
sentiment of the United States, and
unequivoca!ly, in its own language it has
declared il, denouaclng the war Us an ex-
pertinent AID failure, and charging to
lis account all the expressions aud wrongs
and Cutrages committed by the admins
tra6Gn Cor. the past foa.s years, as well as
the jury to the national prosperity os'
the country which has followed, il de
manas as the sentiment OF the peorle of
a the Uaited States that immediate Efforts
be made for the cessation OF hustilities
10 the end that there may be a Conven-
tion OF the S'ates 10 restore peace IN the
land upon the Federal Union Of the States.
THIS is its proclamation. l. was Union
Convention and it declared answering
fidelity to that Union. Il was Peace
Convention, and spoke in the uame OF
more than twenty millions of free men.
II demanded peace. after the failure of
the experiment. of war, whereby to restore
the Union. And no man among the re-
cagnIzed advocates of peace from the be-
ginning OF this war til the present hour,
has in any formal, public declaration de-
msnied more than that Convention has
declared 1t ought to be satisfactory to
every man in the land l. meant peace
and it sail it, Il meant then aud means
low, that there shall he no more civil
war, no more Increase OF taxes. DO more
increase Of taxes, no more increasa OF
public debt, no more CONSUMPTION, no
mora enlistments, no more shedding OF
bond.
Mkt, for it deals only with the present
and living issues, it warns this Admins
fration that should the ex perimen of of In
.erferenca, by force of arms, with the
elections in the B rier States sdherug
still "a the Union, or in any Of the Stafe.,
be attempted by this Administration, the
Democratic party and the men who act
with 1t will resist With al the means in
their power And here The lamb.lihe
dock bristie W, beating the toesin oil
civil war Seeking ? aceably. at the
end Of four years, TO thrust out of power
az Administr ton that has abused il, II
demands that by peoeeabie means, and
unoAstrocted, il shall be- permitlei TO
work cut the delivegauce; aad ii speaks
it with the voice OF nearly two millions
OF voters. representing twelve millions of
mea, women and chiIiten in the lsnl
AMI it meant, aud II means. precisely the
full significance e the words iE which
the &c iaratiou IS made. AL else is pa ss-
eli b.; the platform deals only with that
WHEN is ot immediate concern to tile
peoaie.
You have heard, By way OF criticism,
OF is omissions. You are told that it
snys naught OF public debt, taxation,
conhscatiou, enaucipations, conscrpUon,
nor any OF those things which for four
years we have been accustomed to con-
denim among the acts of the Adninistra
ton. The reason is plain. 1t looked
upon the war rs the root Of all the evil
OF this cigii war, AMI it proceeded to lay
the Ak at The root of the evil, and d.
manded cessation of hosfaitics, IN order
that through pesceatle Insunlnenta,ity
the work of the recons rlction OF III,
Uaion might 90 on. Il said naught Of
these things, which are bat the clnse.
quences Of the war. Detefmiucl to cui
Il WI ths tree or rather to take it by the
roots, The & INVENTION wasted no Tin !. in
hopping otf branch here and branch
there. l wasn't to do It's work radically
assaiiag the wsr, the cause Of all ties,
evils; 1t meant comprehensive snauthe m
against the one aud all II said nethin
ABOUT minor doctrines nothing about th,
speciic instrumentslities, through whicf
reconstruction should be brought ab3ut
1t declared, AS iis grand purpose, not L
be surrendere' the Union Of the States
ttf = = VtdJ ~ Sts Httf, y Invention q
Ststes, % The Constitutional, lawful. ne
ceesary and proper meaus Of accomplish
ing the wofk.
REASONS For OPPOSING NJ cLELLAN.
Why did oppose his nomination
Only because he was supposed TO be, pre-
vious to that Convention. the representa-
tive Of tie idea OF coercion and of thi
war Dwestel If that, there il not |,
America man whose personal character
whose morality, whose attachment to II
principles and whose obedience to ,h
precepts of Ch-istiani,y--a man who's
devotion to his country. and WHO in eve
- sense of the word IA gentleman i
any respect above or leyoll Genera
Mcclellan. That plato mt en- answers
irsly calling for the q en- les Of peace
and resurting. to the instrum ntaite
through which our Government wa
founded, can YIELD to bio the suppol
which here j. pledged; and cali dpo
you, one and all. who bave teokoned your