Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-10-04

platform, when presented to the Convention BY
Washington Hunt of New York, read as follows
Res0iued, That in theuture, as in the past, We
Will adhere with unswervig fidelity to the Tn on
ara Constitution and INST on maintaining he
national mlily as the onysoid foundation Of our
strength, security and happiness as people, and
as irameWork Of government equally cot ducive
20 The welfare and prosperity OF all the states,
both northern end southern
The resolution by rrle of the convention,
vas sent TO tho committe On resolutions, and
when reported by item, the shape in which it
hnalIy passed, the words printed in Italics we're
omitted. The committee on resolutions, Val
Iandgham was member q it,-strUck out The
words land iusitt on maintaining the national
unhy. Why? The nswer is evident enough
-o'etuse " the national unity which our armies
are lighting for, the lalIoLal government which
our fathers established is not what the Democrats
at Chicago wanted, any more than it is what jeff
DAVIS and his confederate traitors want.
We have already called the attention of the
eaders OF the FIREMAN. to the careful phraseoo
~ OF the Chicago resolutions Yet we cannot
100 oiten expose the sgbgo and studied choice OF
WORKS and expressions by those platform makers
81 The peace ard surrender type. or course it
would not do for themlo offer the people naked
and bitter dsunon, State Rights and secession
pill for they knew very WeI. that the people wer,
not yet sick enough to take that medicine undis-
gu'sd, and accordingly they have put over their
pill sugar coating Of words, which they believe
will cheat those VINO wouldn't touch their med-
cine il they knew what it really was, and which,
At the same time, does not neutraize at all the
noxious properties O. the dose 10 DO swallowed
| Take, fo example, he first words Of the above
resolution RESOLVED, That in the future, az il,
the past, we will adhere with unswerving fidelity
to the Union under tie Constitution" What has
been in the piN tn, fidelity Of the pre- slavery
Democratic party to the Unionp Has that party
ever hesitated 10 yielding to slavery all it's de-
mandsP Has there been any construction of the
Constitution, ID the interest Of narrowing, which
Shareholders have claimed, which these Demo.
Gratis have not endorsed Were not Jeff Davis
and his confederate magDates in this Democratic
party up to the time when they commenced this
war on the Un'on' Wore not Floyd, aud Toombs.
and Mason, and Hunter, and Lee and Longstreet,
and Sde, and BerJsmin, and every other con.
sUfCuOua name in tho roli n tra.sou ,,sor.;ran,
leading, and influential managers in the Dem.
ocratc party Was not the governor Of every
Slsve State Democrat when the rebellion
broke ou',-and did not every one Of these gov.
erno" refuse to answer the requsition Of the
Union for men to suppress treasonp Was not
buchanan Democrat, and did be not decline.
with the basest pu'ill.nmity, to tske any forcbe
measures to rescue national property from the
grasp Of traitors? Had not the Democratic
party b-en the Delah which had shorn the ma
ion Of It's strength, and bound it hand and foo,
to be smilten in rs helpessness by the spoer
And who Of the Northern Democracy had, dur.
ing this preliminary war Of treason upon the ma
ton, c'ed out for anything but Cancellation, com
promise, and the hanging OF abolitionist.? Not
one Of those congregated at Chicago, not one oil
those who framed the platform Of the Conrsn-
ton here, not ore Of those who to-day run the
Democratic machine, and m,ke its principles.
Dougas turned away from the conspiralors and
gave his right hand to President Lincoln, and
stood by the flag till he died. Dix, and Dick
inson, and Butler, aud Grant, and Sherman, and
Farragui, and such as they, LEFT the Democracy
which had eliminated in treason, and cast Their
lot with the Government But the Chicago.
l,e',-the men who voted for Breck enridge
agaitst Douglas, and who prefer JEFF Davi. to
Mr.. Lncclo,-kept up their party organization,
aud made war Of ballots on the government a,
home, while their allies were making war with
bullets in all the Slave States. And at their re.
cent falsely called National Convention. they an.
nounced, with cunningly d cetiul language,
after all, language accurately descriptive OF Their
unlonism,--' that in The future, as in The past, we
(Ihey) will adhere with answering fidelity to the
Union under the Constitution" Having, for
twenty year', Frustrated themselves 10 the dust,
aud eaten dirt a the bidding of the Slave Power,
they declare, Wiba refreshing impudence, that in
the future, as in the past, they will walk erect aud
not eat dirt There !; about as much true Union.
ism in such declaration, as there would be hope
Of reform IN confirmed sud Keeling drunk ard.
d ecaution that in TIC future, IS in The PAST he
would adhere with uuswerying fidelity to tenn
Penuce. Wire it not in these times so grave a
maIIer,-this attempt to bumbug the people by a
promise which, truly understood gives no hopes
foT the preservation Of the Union,-it would be
too broadly ludicrous and too much akin to Fal.
s'atfs sublime mpudenoe, to meii, any other
treat neut than the rdcule and contempt Of all
homes. men.
And this Is the Unonsm Of the Chicago Con.
venton, and tisall the Uniol for which they de.
clare, in the face Of the rebellion that ha. for
four years been making war upon every munimen,
OF the Union,and every bulwark oflhe Constitution.
AT the very bes ha, can be said Of il, /, /. pro.
tesson ard not practice, words and not deeds,
empty defamation and not bsv. blows the shell
without the meat, the husk without the corn.
And the PEG le will see it, aud those Of them who
love the Ualou our fathers made, and who believe
that Union had vitality enough given to It BY il,
organic law to enable it to pu, down treason by
force will not be found voting for the miserable
and deceiiul mirage of Unonism, got up a, Chi.
ctgo.
DARE THEY Do lr'-We notice that some
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