Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-15

The Damoaraey al Chicago did there just what had been
agreed upon with the Richmond agents a. Niagara na
w. They pronounced for abandonment OF the military
defence of the Union against the insurgents win view
TO an ultimate National Convention and the defeat OF the
election of Abraham Lincoln That is to say they pro-
posed to eject Abraham Lincoln from the Presidential
chair at Washington the 4h OF March next and az inc
time leave the usurper Davis unassaed secure ana
uumoested in his seat at Richmond with view 70 an
ultimate Convention OF States which that usurpers Con-
stuon will allow one OF the insurgent States 10 eneor
What now there be Convention at all or II the Con
vention fail to agree submission to the Federal au
horityi Jefferson Davis then remains In authority DIS
Confederacy established aud the Union, with all It's GO
RES is gone forever. Nay, more, If such thLag could
happen as that the Chicago candidate nominated upon
such au agreement should be elected President OF the
United States the first Tuesday OF November next VINO
vouch for the safety of the ntry against the repes
during interval which must eapee before the new Az
minstraton constuhonaly come INTO poweru ~
that such election would tend equally 70
demoraze the Union aud to invite The 10 renew
their efforts for its destruction. ~
although the way in which the Chicago Dmocracy DID
what had been agreed upon IN their beba az was
altogether satisfactory yet what they actually ala was
accepted full execution Of the previous compact:
ST. CAruERISE's, &C. W. SEPT l.
To Hon. d. WEIR, HALIFAX Platform and Prssiden,ia'
nominee unsatisfactory Vice President ana speeches. sat
-AS'"'S 80 Gro N SANDERS.
D Wer is Richmond accomp'ice at Halifax, and Phil
understood to be the conductor OF the lnsugent
organ in London Here then, we have nomination ana
platform which made by treaty formally contracted
between the Democratic TRAITORS at Richmond and the
Democratic opposition at Chicago signed sealed atestea
aud delivered ia the OF tho London Ilmes ana
already ratified at Richmond. by Heaven, we've got
emf
Got them! To be sure you've got them, my friends
They say am always too sangune of the success Oh ma
tiona candidates and of the national arms But IL seems
to that the croaker in all our loyal camp Will
courage and become heroic when no secs that
the last hope of the rebellion hangs upon the rahcaton
Of this aboninabe and deestabe compact by the Amer
people. Yes, you have got them but how dld you
get them Not by any skill or art OF the Administrator
through the sagacty activity OF the loyal peo-
pie, but through the cunning OF the consplratos over
reaching ITSELF and thus working out their own defeat and
confusion They do say that the Father OF Evil always
tlery to render their ultimate ruin and punishment IN
| evitable.
And what time is this to proclaim such policy, con.
ceived treachery and brought forth with shameless eff
fronery cessation of hosttes the heal OF decisive
naval and and battles at the very moment that the rebel
on without single fort in its on the ocean or
on either of great rivers lakes crumbng TO the
earth and at the time dozen new ships OF war are
going complete the investment by sea- and three hun
dred thousand volunteers rushing to the lines TO COM
| piete the work of restoration and pacific ttlon
There is maxim which thoughtful teachers always
carefully nculcate 1t ia that Inconsistency is mbecility
and that is necessary to insure success
rbis maxim was set forth in the form of copy in the
writing book, when young Perseverance always
conquers Even nfsnte beginners encountered the IN
sruction in the form of fable in Websters spelling book
The story that fer using soft words aud tatts of
grass the farmer tried what virtue there in stones
and by persistence in that application he brought the
rude boy who stealing apples down from the tree aud
inside him ask the farmers pardon Our Chicago teachers
tell that just the rude boy is coming down we must
down the and resort again TO the OF grass
with the consequence OF course ina the farmer must
pardon of the trespasser
But what makes this Chicago policy contemplate
and ridiculous s that it nothing different from the
policy with which the same parties now contracting
actually ushered dsuDOn 10 1861 in the closing hours
of the Administration of james Buchanan Yes my dear
friends when If this Administration came into our
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system which is recommended at Chicago, namely:
First reasonable Confrderacy IN against the led
eral authority Second truce between the Government
of the United States and the rebea vertabs armisce
which was construed that while the national ports and
forts thoroughly invested along the sea coast and
by the insurgents they could DO neither renforc
nor suppied with food by the Government Thirdly,
langud debate with view to ultimate National Con-
which the rebels haught despised and contempu-
ourly rejected. What were the alternatives lett us
Either surrender ourselves and the Government at dis
cretion to summon the people to arms terminate the
armistice, adjourn the demorazrg debate and repos-
spss ourselves of the national forts and ports And
all the that has been spent aud all the precious
blood that has been poured forth for nothing else but
gnomnous retreat and return at the end of
four years. to the hopeless mbeoy and rapid process OF
naioual dissolution which existed when Abraham Lincoln
took into his hands the rens OF Government Every
Of you know that but for that accession of Abraham Lin
cola just at that time the Union would in less than three
months have fallen into absolute aud rretrievabe rum
will not dwell long the complaints which misguided
but not intentionally peryerse men bring against the AID.
mnistraton of Abraham Lincoln. They complain Of mill
tary arrests of spies and lurking traitors in the Loyal
States if the Government could justify itself for waiting,
without preventive measures for States to be invad
ed TO be carried off into They complain that
when we call for volunteers present the alternative of
draft if when the ship has been scutted the captain
ought to leave the sleeping to to the bottom
without calling upon them to take their turn at the pump
They not content with plotting sedton in secret pa
but they 90 up aud down the public streets utterng
treason vainy seeking to provoke arrest in order that
they may complain Of denial of the liberty of speech.
The mpunity they every where enjoy under the protec
ton Of constitutional debate shows at and the
time that their complaints groundess and that the
Union the element of moral stability is stronger than
they know.
The chief complaint against the President is that he will
not accept peace the basis of the negr y OF the Union
without having aso the abandonment Of slavery When
and where have the insurgents offered him peace the
basis Of the integrity Of the Union Nobody offered
it, The rebels will offer it, Nobody their behalf
can it. They determined pledged rule this
ticaly slavery longer 10 queson-that it per-
ishng under the operation Of the That assertion has
been confirmed The Union in all the Slave States
that have delivered anxious than
to abolish slavery Witness Western Virginia Maryland,
Missouri Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas Jefferson
Dava tells in effect the thing He that il
not slavery but independence md sovereignty for which
he is cOntendpg There ia good for this hun.
dred dollars in gold only years purchase Of the labor
Of the working man in prt of the United States
At less than half that price ron could buy all the 10
the country.
Nrverthelers opponents want distinct exposition
Of tho Presidents views the ultimate solution Of the
slavery question. Why do they want it, For the sape