Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-09-15
RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1854.



wi,, not indorse the Chicago peace plat
corm ne will not decline the nominal
ton lint is preparing a letter IN accor-
g. with his West Point speech, and
IN which he will take the ground that
the recent victories at Mobile and Attain
10 indicate the speedy restoration OF
peace through the overthrow OF the re-
So,Iion ON which letter and his war
record he will so before the country
How this programme would suit the
poace" democracy may be inferred
rrom the following from the New York
Daily News;
&c The nominee of the Chicago Conven-
.,on for the presidency is not the can
didate of our preference but, standing
ypoa the platform upon which he has been
nominated, and being the recognized
standard bearer of the democracy, he Is
entitled to, and he will receive, our ear
nest support"
And again
"At the Chicago Convention, contrary
to the usual custom, the platform was
adopted and the candidate was then
nominated and placed upon it. Its &C
ceptance by Gen. Mcclellan pledges him
TO peace measures, and this secured his
nomination Mr. Pendleton stands up
on the same platform, and upon it he
has stood since first the war commenced,
for more single handed and able adj
vocate of peace measures is no where to
be found. This we have from his
speeches in Congress, and from his own
lips, and from his every political speech,
for he has never failed to avow his peace
sentiments whenever proper occasion
gave him the right to do so. The peace
men, then may well rejoice at this vic
tory. They have peace upon pledged-to-
peace measures, and ii behooves them
to be no laggards in the great contest
that is to elect the candidate and give
peace to the nation"
While it would be better, then, for
McClellan's own reputation, ifhe should
become so affected by the Atlanta and
Mobile victories and by the obvious pop
ular condemnation of the democratic
doings at Chicago as to repudiate the
Convention, it is nevertheless probable
that in trying to throw Wood, Seymour,
yallandigham s. Co., he would be the
first to come down himself.
In the meeting of the Mozart faction
of the New York democracy, held to rat
ify the doings of the Chicago Conven-
ton, resolutions of congratulation were
adopted that their "peace" doctrines
had prevailed in the gathering of the
democracy of the whole country, and
Fernando Wood expressed confidence
that Mcclellan could be relied upon to
carry out those doctrines in response to
the universal demand Of the democracy.
Just what these "peace" doctrines are
Is most clearly expressed in a speech of
one Mahoney made at Chicago during
the Convention. He said
To get them (the South) back, you
must repudiate the disgraceful treat
ment they received, and thrust from
power the instruments Of their attempt
led degradation. We must elect our
candidate, and then, holding out our
hands to the South, invite them to come
and sit again in our Union circle. IA
voice" suppose they won't come 2"
NJ they ,oW not come to rs then 1 am IN faror
ef going to them. Loud cheers Our
Constitution can be made acceptable to
gthem and then | have the assurance
that they will return and forget the
past.
The Chicago Tribune says Of the
speeches made in that city by democrat
lie orators, big and little:
And such harrangues Treason to the
government has for hours at time
cascaded over the balconies of the ho-
tels, spouted squirted, and dripped, and
battered, and rained, and misted on our
Out-of door listeners and pedestrians !;
wordy and windy torrents of diatribes
against the war, against Lincoln, have
Hooded the city We are glad of it. The
country will be the better and the purer
when all this foul sentiments works to
The surface for cure. The convention,
In this respect, has been u vast elimina-
tor of treason and rebellion.
The Boston Transcript says truly and
forcibly
q "Of all the senseless gable the world
has ever been afflicted with, the resolu-
tions and harangues of the copperheads
about free speech and a free press are
the most ridiculous. The very parties
who are charging upon the federal gov
ernment all manner of tyranny, despo-
dsm and usurpation, are, in their daily
ntterance Of disloyal sentiment, and
heir daily endeavors to embarrass every
measure for the defence of the nation
against armed rebellion, monuments of
the leniency and liberation of the author
tiles they studiously misrepresent and
malign."
The New York Tribune has al length
declared fully for the republican ticket,
and says
Henceforth, we fly the banner OF
Abraham Lincoln for the next presiden.
q, choosing that far rather than the
Qisunion and quarter of century OF
Jars, or the Union and political servi.
nde which our opponents would give
Mr., Lincoln has done seven.
@gnths of the work after his fashion
mere must De vigor and virtue enough
seft In him to do the other fraction
he work is in his hands. II It masses