New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-29
CHICAGO.

Cal. Durham, late a New-York Democrat,
row Colonel IN the Rebel army under hnriy
on the Potomac, in his letter OF the nth inft.,
from near Winchester, Va, 10 his friend Bish'
op. in Brooklyn, (Which letter was among those
captured in a Rebel mail near Shepherdstcwn'
Va. on the 18TH after Boosting that he Is stu
Unionist, expecting, with thousands like him
in the Rebel army, to SEQ this country again
united. though not under Lincoln or any OF
his sort. thus advises his Democratic brethren
who still linger at the North:
LET me tell you dear boy you ray prav for peace
until Hell freezs oyerthat is peace with the fe-tora-
ton O, tho Unon--and there will be no peace Mars
ia rslentless and COncOrda IS deaf There can he no
peaoe until Block Republicans and Aboitionists are
silene.d and reduced II equality or. at least level
with the niggors they claim as their equals Let your
Chicago Cony eton nominate Mr. Davis for the Presi
deDcy-.and know majority Of The delegates would
vote Tor him II they darrdand on his election you n
and viii hive peace. OF course. you viii not do ills
Tie mt 5ess hing gos 90 - 70 nor'ros and e>''
NJ Ci,Lou The South don't regard him az military
gsr US as tho Northern prcss VOID make the people
believe they do but lcy b,iept ks 10 BE- vhat ra' onoe
o,lsd Ecrtlva rit Southern princir'fs His cleo
ton NY desr boy would do much to paciy and conci'
se the Scuth We satisfied that. II you cleo. him.
the right OF secession and Independence would be acsnow
iedgcd and that Of recOnstr uction would be offer
ed, which We might with honor accept. 1 don't say.
hoS ever that they sosid be accepted.
II is my opinion !, is tie opinion OF President Ds
ys and the leading Of the South that the war must
continue unti side the other is sntjrgs,cd. TIL
sore o.ssssce you DcrOcrof. read iadreey rex
r oe shall be able 10 eanqgd re AboltoS hodss and re-
,ioy. pes1s a.d U-ton IT may paradoaicol bat
assure yos my bow ar fighting for Union-fgh1-
Ing TO place the old United States under ono Govern
men., and we shall do it in ouch way that Abolition
baboon will ever agaio get -. tho head Of IL
The Chicago Convention, We presume, Will
either to-day or tomorrow proceed to act on Col.
Dunham's sagscious advice. Three-tourths of the
delegates substantially accord with him in prIn-
cple, and mean just what he does when they
talk OF Peace and ReuniOn--that Is, they mean
the permanent and unquestioned ascend
ency of the Slave Power in our National coun-
ellis. HoratO Seymour meant just this when he
proposed, in the Spring of 1861, that New-YorS
should adopt the Montgomery Constitution, and
creep into the JEFF. Davis Confederacy. George
b. Mcclellan meant just this when ne wiihully
paralysed tho noblest army ever assembled On
this or any other continent. remaining for
months virtually besieged in and around Wash.
ington with 10. 300 to 2o0, 900 men, while the
enemy, who thus coOpod him up, closing the
Potomac below aud the Baltimore aud Ohio
railroad above him, had at no time over 50, 900.
(The wal-informed London Quarterly says they
for the most part had but 81, OOO.) And Franklin
Pierce was only little more frank when he as
Sured aRebel friend, that but for his wfes failing
health, no too would BIO fighting in the ranks Of
the Rebel armies. But Pierce, traitor though
he be, is not base enough to reyile and defame
INew-England, the home Of his own ancestors,
as Seymour does.
The earnest McCiellanites at Chicago seem to
nave awaked all at once to the knowledge that
Seymour is a slippery customcr-that he is not
70 be trusted when Ne ssgs be |? not candidate