Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-09-20
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Appeal Of The National Uaioa Committee to Il
People Of ihe Lfniled Sintea

People Of The United States.
HEApo'Rs OF NATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE,
NEw ioHK, Sept. .. 1861.
The great rebellion, which for more than three
years has wrapped the nation in the flames of
civil war, draws near its crisis. Its armies hive
been beaten its territory has been CONQUERED
the forts aud posts which it treacherously seized
have been occupied and held by the soldiers of
the Republic, its foreign allies have been de-
lached from its support, aud its hostile arm,
paralyzed by exhaustion and DISCOURAGED bv
defeat, il upheld solely by the hope of pelitieaI
victories to be achieved by its allies III the Pre-
sidential election of November Lext.
IT the people IN that election sustain the Gov.
erumeAi II they reassert it's just aulho -ity. and
reathrn lhelr purpose to maintain il by war SO
long as war assails it, the rebellion will sneodily
end. If they faller iu this determination or
leave any room for doubt on this vital mint the
rebels Will tako fresh courage aud prolong the
contest Every utterance OF their organs aud
their agents ahirms and confirms this pus,tion.
Every rebel 10 arms and every rebel in ofiee-
every rebel organ in the rebel States or in
foreign lands-every hater of democratic free
dom and the rights Of man, longs and labors for
the overthrow Of the Administration and the ex.
pulsion OF Abraham Lincoln from the Presiden-
tial chair.
In the Northern and Western States this hos
uhty mas been embodied and organized in the
acts and declarations of the Chicago Convention.
That Convention gives u silent approval Of thn
rebellion itself, and un open condemnation of
the war wsged for its suppression. Without n
word oi eensuie for the conspirators who plotted
he nations death, il brands with unanairinr
denuuciatton the patriots ana heroes VINO de-
Tended its life. While it passes in utter silence
the gigantic usurpatons of Jefferson Davis and
his Confederate traitors-whle il oyerlooks en-.
tirely, and thus, by just and necessary Inference
approves their abrOgaton of political rights and
personal liberties over oil that portion Of the
United States in which they have been able thus
far to sustain their usurped authority it pours
out its wrath, without stint or measure, upon
every act by which tho constitutional President
oil the United States has sought to defend and
project the life and liberty of the nation, whose
executive power is placed IN his hands.
That Convention had no words of exultatiou
Tor our victories no thanks and honors for tbf
soldiers and sailors who have shed their blood
to achieve them. While il denounees our CIV
ernment for neglect of duty toward our "fellow.
citizens who are now, and long have been. pris
oners OF war in suffering condition, /" il has NOT
even syllable Of censure for those rebel an.
thoritles who with more than savage cruelty
and in utter disregard of every dictate Of hu.
manity as we'll as Of every usage of civilizej
warfare, have deliberately and with systematic
purpose inflicted upon those prisoners all The
tortures Of exposure, of neglect and starvation
and have offered premiums for their murder tt
the brutal guards to whose grim custody they
have been consigned And, on the very eve Of