The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-11-01

within two weeks ofW ashington. They
were scattered toythe four. quarters OF
the globe. There was one'yesselwith,
in reach, and that was the Brooklyn,
and she drew too much water to enter
Charleston harbor! .iu,o.9 sd.
speaker then paid his respects to
Taney, and showed the part he took to
aid and foster the rebellion. as7s r,,
Thompson, the Secretary of the Inte-
rior,l telegrabhed to Charleston that the
Star of the West was to be sent to aid
the gallant little band in Fort Sumter.
She sailed under the national flag on an
errand Of mercy, was fired upon and
driven off; yet tho Chicago platform
says. Resolved, " that in the future as
i'm the past, we will adhere with un-
swerving fidelity to the Union" Do
YOU want them to adhere to the Union
in the future as they have done in the
past? Cries of No, no.. lsf
: They declare it as the sense of the
American people that the experiment
of four years of war is a failure. Sense
of the people! They tn ought they were
the people! [They recently thought
they were the people in Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine. The people
there do not think the war failure.
And now they are talking of the home
vote in Pennsylvania. When they say
sense of the people, it reminds me ofthe
three tailors in London who met and
called themselves, we the people of
England. Laughter and cheers.
You see in Democratic papers they
are talking Of great gains in Ohio !!
They talk of a gain of nearly 100000
over Vallandigham, when his vote last
year was only scattering one. Laugh
ter and applause. Indiana has spoken,
too, with her O,0OO majority close by
Chicago, and the nearer you get to Chi
cago the larger the majority. They say
four years of war is failure. Seven
months of this four years was during
Buchanan's Administration. This res
olution that the war was failure was
intended to aid the South. Its tenden-
cy was to electrify the Southern heart,
to warm the hearts oftraitors and cheer
them on in their fiendish work. 1t had
the same effect as ifa Convention should
assemble in the South, and declare the
rebellion a failure.
The South sent ambassadors to every
court in Europe to represent the wal
for the Union failure. They went on
their knees to Queen Victoria, but She
spulncd thom from her presence
! TCheers.1 They bent their knees to the
Emperor of France. He, too, spurned
them from him. They kneeled to the
Gar of Russia, who had just freed -four
millions of serfs, and who was willing
to stand with Abraham Lincoln, the
liberator of America. Loud and pro
logged applause Here they were
spurned-Austria, Spain, Prussia ano
Italy, spurned these ambassadors. The
Chicago Convention was the only body
that recognized the war a failure! The,
took this starry banner and wrote al
over its azure folds and brilliant stripes
defeat, disaster and disgrace. tfumult
nous applause. Sherman's gallant sol
diers at Atlanta would have sent the au
thors of this platform to Dixie, where
their hearts now are. Cheers Th'
soldiers and sailors have spoken theil
condemnation of this platform. Farra
! gut had spoken. He had not studied
at the feet of those gamaliels at Chica
90. He had studied at the feet of An
drew Jackson. [Chcers,] When HI
lashed himself at the mast head, did hi
say cessation of hostilities. No, his re
ply was unconditional surrender. Ap
plause.1 Every bomb shell sent int
Fort Morgan was sent into the Chicago
platform. [Cheers. Gen Grant ha
sent response to this platform. Ill
sets down before Richmond with hi
grasp on the very throat of the REBEL
ion, aud when he heard from Chicago
he swung around on the Welden Rail
road, and severed the spinal cord of th'
Confederacy [Cheers.l Gen. Sher
man also sent n response when he mar
chcd his victorious army from hill ant
mountain top, fortified by nature anC
art, until he planted the flag over ever.
spire and casemate in the Gibaralter o
the South. Gen. Gilmore too sent
rcsponse to Chicago. They asked 70
a cessation of hostilities. You have al
heard that brief saying of Julius Caesar
one of the most scntentious expression
in the English language, ''vcni, pid', ~
c;," came, saw, conquered, We'll
Gen. Gillen's dispatch equaled this, h
said " | have met, defeated, and kille'
John Morgan to-day. We'll, hope job
Morgan has gone above, but / fear h
has got on train where the locomotiv
is going on the down grade. Laugh
ter and Applause. He will find Jorda
hard road to travel. Laughter. Ill
is over the river and cannot get back TO
the ferryman won't take Confederat
scrip, [Applause.]
The speaker nrxt spoke of the syn
pathy of the Peace Democracy for tn
soldior and their expressions of thi
kind in the Chicago platform. He har
died them without gloves, using tn
most cutting satire and the keenest sill
casm He reviewed the course of Nj
Clellan as a military failure, shown
that he always avoided collisions bot
as G encral and as railroad man.
He had made arbitrary arrests, suspei
ded the writ ofhabeas corpus, advocate
the draft, and urged upon the Presidel
f the policy of issuing an emanclpatio
proclamation. The speaker believe
: Nc Clellan was right in all this, III
, pathway ofthc President, in this respec
, had been made luminous with the e
ample of the greatest minds ofthe ag
f Mf' Colfax closed with an eloquent pc