Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-09-24
THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES.
BIZ HORACE GREELEY.

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The National. Convention which assem-,
bled in Baltimore oh; ahes III 1of June fast,,se
and fiorniBated Abraham LincohIo for p re-
sdent with Audtey. johnson Tor Vice
President. of the United S;uses; had little
hesitation in. selecting its cand ds.es,l
and nose. at an ina forming its platform
Thatwe are 10 achieve peace httonskth
OrerthrOWo of theirsbellio and of sslarierq,. ike,
cause of the rebsltionA Esuch. is the, sum and
substance. Of the UDioaists, National Plat
forms Nobody misunders,andsi it hobtdy'
even affects to fud il obscure or.eduiyocal
l'-and none who expect or. ore. expec ed
20 yoiesthc ticket Nominated thereon dis
IseDts from it. There were samong as diver.
stiles OF preference as TO candidates., bnt
noneSwith regard TO principles: The only
|praetical question was-which amoug'those
Suggested for our candidates will most
surely aud speedily achieve success forf Cur Cur
principles .osfA
The 'Democ attic 'Naiioual Couv chtioui
(which assembled at Chicago nearly three
months afterwafd,,i was a. most numerous
and imposing body. IS Eyeryisloy 81 State
| od,red 10 be feprrse hted therein though
enc, (West Virgina) was not admitted.
Nearly or quite every, Territory Ind .lke-
| wise sent delegates. A vast concourse of
Sympathizing volunteers was likewise pres.
slt;sso:s that, after making fair allowance
for partisan exaggeration, Sc may safely
presume lhatsithere were fifty, THOUSAND
persons in Chicago on the Gosh ,olt., whose
principal reason for being there was
| lhe holding Nof that convention 1t was
probably the largest assembly TINT ever
attended aud welcomed the nomination b
. ticket. t-f-grdr msHfF--g5sq
| But the platform before the ticketi
j the esab lishedi iule of Democratic Nationa
| Conyentions-4-ai sound and good one. /
! Is recognition of The truth, that principle,
ate essential men subsidiary il mol ibahsr
eat! And accordingly; while there was q
keen rivalry with regard to candidates, the
platform engrossed at least equalltime and
attention " Repeated adjournments, were
fonud requisite, constraining o post tpoue:
nent ofrihe eagerly 1awaited ballot, in OF der
! that the Platform COMMITTEE might have
lime to agree and reports aud W hen iha,
report was at length made by me eminent
aud venerable james Guthrie, Of Kentucky y,
II wss promptly and enphatically ratified
only four voices being raised against ii, and
they t1ose OF extreme peace, mel, via
deemed it not sufficiently odtspokeh iu con
ldemnatiOn of che war. "a zzoziE
| Now,dthe essence, the yitslity Of tbi
lPlalform is condemnation of Ae uar for M
Union aid )thap ii be.steppsd5 5obthsbiih. r In
no lice, no sentence of this rema, kable
synopsis ofDsmociatic Faith is there binl
that the rebels ought TO stop lheawar by
Ilaying doyntheir s,ms aaG submitting to
the constituted authorities of the, Nation,
No. fain h. suggestion Ihatslthe4 rebels aEe ia
the wrong-lhat they are responsible Ia
EGod aud man fof the scenes of carnage and
devastation which ha ve made hdeous the
l face Of our country-can be found 10 thai
platform, 4 Even tbe naked sndeaisble fact
, that the rebels began the war, and SO may
be fairly reqaired to stop il, il, completely
,, Iiguored therein HPresideat Iipcoln. on
: finding himself in The Presidential chair
had ,lwantopiY, i. wiokedly, raised a ogrea
army andtsentIi1 without asshadOy of rea
son or excus atio raysge5 the South, i
: would have sibeen 'proper--then and onlJ
tbeu-top pass such a resolve as the follow
, ling, which is the gist of the Chicago Demo
; cratic Platform: naGAoo zRT
"Resolved. That this Convention does ex
plicitly declare, as the sense Of the American
People, that hitet four years Of failure to re
store the. Union by the experiment Of war, dur
ing which, Under the pteteuse OF q military ne
cessity of war power higher thap,the Consti
tuition, the Constitution itself has been disre
garded in every parts and public liberty an'
private right aliketroddeD down. aud The mater
ial prosperity of she eouatry essentially impair
ed, justice, humanity liberty Eand sthei ipnoli
welfare, demapd that ippediate efforts be mad
J for cessation Of hostilities with'a view to a
ultimate Convehti6n Of alr the States. or othe
peaceable means, I'd. the endthatat the eafies
practicable moment, peace may be restored q
ihe basis Of the Federal Upion q the States"
Buugliug dsud ev vkwsrdA ssl thisIrssolv
8 is. showing, that many hands have beepTa
work upon it, inserting phrase here an
! altering aVsentenceC There, kAwithSa small r.
. gard 70 suphony @3tbefnl,imste net rSul
there can. be no doubt that opposition
! he warp, ss Waged on behaiF not ofth
4 rebels, but of The iunieDI IN Gas'conuoliin
& sentiment, aud the sA rllsitl possible stiesI
that war, by according "a spbstautial tt
apphs to ths rebels, Ia its dsinits plrpos'
And on the rssolys y = brsfs Sbsss s es'
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