The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-10-26
Republican City Association.

The Representative Hall was nlied Jul
again on FRIDAY evening, as usual
The audience was addressed with ability !
by Hon. D. c. Chaplin. Of Dewitt He
showed that the Chicago Platform had not
one word against the rebels-that the Con-
fscation Of the property Of open enemies
hghting with arms against a government
was universal among all nations-that the
suspension Of the writ Of Habeas Corpus
was necessary. legal. and the principle has
been sustained unanimously by the whole
Democratic party in the case Of Gen. JACK
son-that Emancipation did not invade the
right OF the slave, nor Of the rebel master
who had no rights except 10 fair trial ana
punishment as a traitor-that Consumption
had been urged on the President, long be-
fore it was adopted by tho \. Y. World
the Democratic press generally, and oy
Gen. McClellan-that the greatest and
most useful arbitrary arrest that had ever
I been made. had been effected by General
+ Mcclellan. in seizing a whole Legislature
as nest Of dangerous traitors; and that
( Mcclellan had sustained the President gen
orally in nearly every measure OF public
policy for which Mr.. Lincoln was now
blamed
Mr.. Chaplin made a very good statement
on the nomination Of Pendleton for Vice
President. showing that he did not believe
that a state could be cOerced, and that if
he should become President, what would
become Of this Government and this nation,
when such a doctrine was openly avowed
in advance by one whose duty il would BE-
10 execute the laws, Nor was this danger
as small or a. distant as some might sup
pose ONLY four yeas ago, II. '. Johnson,
Of Georgia now an Out-and-Out rebel OF the
worst kind. ran on the ticket with Douglas
for Vice President Suppose Douglas had
been elected and after his death Johnson,
the traitor had been President, where would
the nation have been to-day?
Major Ellsworth followed Mr. Chaplin.
He claimed 10 be a Democrat and his ar
gument was 10 show that no Democratic
party now existed There formerly wa'
such an one and it talked about Ma
4 tional Bank. and Protective Tariff, anC
7 Slavery, and letting the Territories deter
! mine for themselves whether they woul'
. have slavery or not Was there any Trims
of this kind in the Chicogo Platform. No
. a word Of it, For the last ten years Their
had not been u meeting Of the Democrat.
Il Tor L.,
q, buttons of the village caucus which did 10
I resolve something about the negro. Wha
4 did the Platform say about this topic q
. Democracy Nothing. 1t did not mention
the negro: 1t had abandoned every dis
tinctiye principle OF Democracy heretOfOr
u, professed: and hence he insisted that tn
. Chicago party was el,fLrelyd neIr one whic
- had stolen the name Of Democracy to wea
a as a cloak under which to carry out its dis
# loyal purposes.
e The speaker having been connected wit
= the Army Of the Cumberland a. paymaste
ie for several years, had become familiar wit
1t the history Of Nallandgham, of which b
il gave n minute and interesting account
d He was not arrested by Burnside until
Is a public meeting, Vallandigham had rea
OF the order. spit Oh il, stamped on it, an
ID dared the commanding General to arre'
a him. After his arrest he was condemne
ID By a Court Martial the Court being most
IN Democrats lie appealed to four DEM
:. cratic judges in succession, for a writ
l y. In he ac+ We
V Judge fancy, Of the l.. :. Supreme Cour
r When he was sent south, thousand sol
n, iers were awaiting his arrival at the depot
Of Nashville intending to Kill the traitor; an
he he was carried of privately from the ca
i'll to save his lie.
= Major Ellsworth related many circun
III stances TO show the strong dislike, amour
IL ing almost 10 adherence which the soldie
be have to those at the North who oppose Il
ed war and favor the rebels. In travelin
ut thousands of miles on the cars in Tenne
G. see and Kentucky, among the great nun
e- Der of votes taken on them, he had N
50 known a single instance in which McClella
s: had a received a majority. In one larl
- hospital in which were /, 400 PERSONS ca
b, vass showed for Mcclellan 1, for Vallan
n ham 2, for the Devil 2 and the remaind
Id for Lincoln. The soldiers were not as de
er titute Of sense as some supposed; and
: would be found on trial, that they won
ne have sense enough not to vote for canC
lis date who had not aided them with doll
dy in money. or 4 man in the field; nor for
n party which had every where fought again
re their having any right to vote at all.
nj Major Ellsworth is an interesting speake
III has sharp and distinct points, and appea
we IN bava an intimate knowledge of the :,
as diers, and of their habits of thought al
Is feeling.
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