Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-09-29
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FROM THE UEITED sTA1hs.
Northern files furnish the utjoined addition

FROM the USITED sTA1ns
Our Northern files furnish the joined additional
fHs PEACE DExocRAcY-ANoTHER CONVENTION TO mn
CALLED
The New York News OF the 18th, states that "pre.
mipary steps are being taken by the friends Of pence
to call National Convention OF the Democracy, 70
place in nomination candidates for President and Vce
President. In its leader of the same day. the News
says:
But the advocates of peace are welded to principle
which goes side by side with and ia inseparable from
their devotion of the Union the great principle Of self
government, the consecrated American principle that
all egitima governments is derived from the consent
of the governed Resting upon this, which they be-
lieve to be the historical oil their free n
s,utons they believe the idea Of a Union brought
about by force TO be- intrinsicay, profgae abeurdi
ty. They believe that can never rebuild the besa-
ed fabric raised for by fathers which the bloody
hands of fanacsm and violence have already shattered
into ruins. They believe that cannot fight free men
into loving us-that cannot slaughter and trample
them into brotherhood with us and that, even il We
could we should be immeasuraby more Infamous than
they The Peace Democracy believe further that the
armed coercion of States is constitutional heresy and
that it cannot be consummated without striking vi
tai blow at the first principles Of the Federal compact
and consolidating despotsm at Washington In the
stead of the benignant and limited power which was
meant to foster the peaceful Union of happy and
sentng States.
These conditions, as organ Of the Peace Democ-
racy, the Daily News has ceased to promuIgate
anu defend. They are the solemn creed OF the good
men and true for whom it speaks Every event Of the
cursed war which is upon has illustrated and con-
med their TRUTH and if the World and its coreligion
lists in blood had dedicated themselves to the support
of such principles, instead OF scattering the internal
seeds of barbarity and hate should not be at
the melancholy point where the Democratic party and
it's candidate are disputing, with aboitonsm aud Its
representatives., the palm Of devotion to policy OF ex-
termination. We use this laguage deliberately and
Han oH1 o0Iow do Ind
be mistaken or misunderstood After seeming to "ex-
haust the OF craftsmanship" to reestabiSh
the Union, he says:
III frank earnest and persistent effort to obtain
these objects should fail the possibility for uerior
consequences will fall upon those who feman u arms
against the Union. But the Union must be preserved
at all hazards"
To what ulterior consequences does he allude,
and what hazards :" He means war; and no honest
man will pretend that he means anything else. If he
bad been frank, he would have used the word. he
means that il he cannot reconstruct the Union by
gotation-nsy, MORE to his own language in anoth
paIt Of the letter, the people are not ready for
peace the basis Of the Union as condition pre-
csdent to negotiaton-tLe consequences will be on
their own heads, and he will make them untl
they yield They may have soemnly declared BY State
Conventions otherwise that they will not reenter
into q common government with rs the people may
be a. fixed and unanimous their leaders they may
have resolved to have independence or death, Hs Mr.
Davis has recently declared still, Gen Mcclellan is
pledged to overthrow their resolves by ire and sword
He pledged to fight and clay them till they surrender
The principle of choosing their own form of govern
naent. IA is pledged to an ntermnabe STRIFE IL there
lie permanent resistance He is pledged to carnage and
devastation-in all the appliances OF ruin and over
throw which are within the hazards " and Of
civil conflict He has no fixed point, but Union, at
which be will stay the tide OF blood
To policy 30 wicked, 80 inhumanly absurd, we can
not nor can any Peace Democrat, subcrlbs, without
renegading from every clion and from every in
~ ooIfroo Va ha faIa tn
we Nave Iearced and all that have taught II were
not to spurn and denounce it, come what may. We
covet sincerely and ardentiy the unity OF the Demo
cratatc party bu cannot and We will have no part
in it's demorallzation aud disgrace. We do not believe
Gen. McCleans sentiments to be those OF the party
We know that they are 10 direct angagonism to the
spirit and meaning OF the party platform, and we ara
sure that they cannot be made to command the sane
ZION OF the party except by sophsty and fraud These
it shall be Dusness, and it is osr duty, TO unmask
and 70 thwart.
The Philadelphia Ilquirer, OF Saturday Sept. 18th,
has been furns led 1t contains but little of inter-
est. The following summary is made from iu COL
umns:
WARRINGTON, Sept. l6Ln-A letter received Ia the
ctv to day. from officer Gen. Grants staff dated
At CITY Point on W.duesdsy, says:
al have no stirring news to record to day but every
thing looks bright and cheering. Every day we lie
mere we are weakening the enemy less. While
tht If troops are deserng to lines 10 droves
| receiving large ,ssons of new recI uits
I The evsuth Florida (Rebel) Regiment which en-
tered he Rebel service with eleven hundred men, has
been reduced, dessrtes say 10 less than hundred
BY desertons and casualties Of war, out principally BY
Among the seventy eight r bel desertets brought
here this morning from City Point, were fifteen from
this regiment M.
13en. Grant is in Washington, and rumor has it, that
he is en- route to the Valley OF Virginia. tor the pupose
epehteuing sheridan as to the best course to be
| sued to clea, out Early and ha gang