Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-04
DAILY LEADER.
TFRTDAY, SOVEnBER 4.
fHE WLR DEMOCRACY IN tONIEK-
y f TlOk! -a5 -HJL
General DIX 90 the war Democrats Of
the Country

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great Convention at New York on Tues
day last. We extract the leading features
OF the address: ass $50
| II the Southrn States, after calm deliba-
ration, and after carefully considering all
the consequences, had decided, with the
consent of others, and with q full recogni-
ton Of their responsibility to the Union
to withdraw peacesbly from it, there are
many Of US who Whould have preferred
separation 70 civil war But when por-
tion of the States, openly renouncing their
obligations to the Constitution and the
Union, commenced a parricidal war
against the Government, inzultiong the na-
tional flag, seizing arsenals, nliuts and
revenue vessels, and finally attacking one
of the public forts gsrrisoned by national
troops, and compelling it by famine and
overwhelming superiority Of numbers to
surrender, no man, unless lost to all self
respect, and all sense Of national homer,
could hesitate to accept intestine war,
with all its acknowledged evils, rather
than to submit tamely to aggressions,
which, if unresistPd, would have made our
names reproach throughout the civili-
zed werld, and transmitted to our children
an inheritance of undying obloquy and
shame Loud cheers-
1t was under this conviction that the
people of the North, with unanimity al
most unparalleled, ranged themselves on
the side Of the Government, and pledged
their lives and property for its defence.
Although the war became far more formid-
able than was originally anticipated, and
h. = m
discouragements for the friends of the
Union, it has besn prosecuted with per-
severance on the part Of the Government,
heroism on the part of the Army and
Navy, and disregard Of sacrifices on the
part pf the people, which 20 other nation
has surpassed. Renewed cheers.
For eighteen months alter thecOmmence-
ment Of the war, the course of the Demo-
cratic party was worthy of its traditional
patriotism, courage and fidelity to the
country. But under the mslign Influences
which, since the Fall election of 1862,
have controlled the Executive policy of
the State of New York, and Through it, the
Dmeocratic movements OF other States, it's
leaders, with want of elevation Of thought
and feeling, eminently illustrative Of their
un6tness for control, have lost sight of
the vital issues involved ia tho contest,
and have gone step by step, from
hostility to the Government into hos
tility to the war. [Cheering.J That the
great body of the Democracy are faithful
to their principlesis not doubted app lause
nor is it doubted that they will assert
themselves, ere long against the despotic
sway of those who have permitted the
psrty organization to their injury and dis
honor. lCheering.] In 1868 the party
was betrayed by It's leaders intoopen oppo-
si.ion to the act of Congress to I'LL by
/ draft the ranks of the army thinne1 By
disease ana the sword. Although similar
measure was proposed in Congress in 1914,
during the war with Great Britain, with
the appreciation of Madison, Monroe,
Tompkins and Van Buren, it was deDOunc-
ed by the Democratic leaders In 1863 as
unconstitutional; thus denying the right
| Of q gOvernment,-a right universally
admitted by jurists and writers Of public
| laT-to provide for its own preservation
by calling on those, who live under its pro-
lection, to arm in its defense. Thus the
Democracy, inthe very midst, and, indeed,
at one Of tine most critical periods of the
war were involved by its leaders in the
odium Of resisting an Indispensable meas
-IEs for carrying 1t on, placing the party
She frst time in our history In the at
ior e, :, { withholding its support from the
,i1u~e y y I in 8 contest to maintain It's
0oyerhLlel -tWithstsnd1ng the gross mis-
representation o. 'e tIn.O ol ,So ~S,o boJ T ~ 3
il was stiil hopeful " those VINO .1a 9aa tRe me
interests Of the country ~ 97Aft ,en, enA. t5' sb'
Chicago Convention Wou. Sso1o-s,
tarnished honor of the party L. ..I,I;on J.
aon in favor of vigorous pros s".lo., 'l.ant,
the war until the armies of the insu- 80 -
/ would be disbanded. This nope has be, -
painfully disappointed. They have spoken
no word of eensure for tho unscrupuious
men who have brought upon the country
q cruel and devastating war; and VINO IL
fagitious attempt to overthrow the Gov
erament, have caused the destruction
half million of lives They have not ex
| pressed q single sentiment indicating eI
/, alted love of country, or resentment 10
its wounded honor They have exhlbite
none of the patriotic forecast, which loos
bevol.d the evils of the hour to the nation
al humiliation, the social dismembel
ment and the unending dissension an
conflict between the separated State:
which disusion would inevitabl
bring with it. But at the very momen
when our armies were achieving the mo
decisive victories, when Grant, and She
man, and Sheridan, and FarTa 5ut, lgres
applAuse1, aud their gallant follower
were displaying the most heroic Vslor, an
, when the insurgents were giving evidenC
of sppedy exhaustion, the Chic; go COnvel
tioi, assuming % spsak for the Democrat
of the Union, declared the war "a failure
and called on the country to make "imm
date efforts" for cessation Of hostilitiS
with a view to an ultimate convention
= all the States" &c. 1t is well known tn
soma ofthe members were in favor Of pu
!. | ting an end to the war, and acknowledge
TN, Independence OF the insurgent State
and the unanimity with which the resol
r tiont were adopted by the Oonventit
II would seem to Justify the inference tn
;, thew express The convictions ofthe whC
y body. The inference is warranted also
Of the repeated declarations Of the Rebel G
L; thotities at Richmond that no Overtures
a reconciliation would be received, exec
!, on the preliminary condition Of sekno'
D edging their independence, It is oonhr
ed hy the Interpretation put upon the re-
luti6ns by the most distinguished SGuthe
= men. They are accepted as harbine
of pesce, but of peace with disunion.
Their invocation to q convention Of
y, the States is regarded as a proposition
the deliberstion of the States in their s.
sreign character-not in the Union
/. out Of it-fecognizi0g disunion as an
tablished fact, virtually admitting the nj
of secession, and surrendering every pI
cipie for which the war has been wag
w, a eonplete confirmation of this posit
oftbe Southern win befound in the dee
- alton of six Of the Governors, includ
those of Georgia and North Carolina,
lIrt. response to the Chicago platform; tbs
is, our firm snd unaltersble purpost
lus nsiptain our right Of sslfgoysTniasI9t go