Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-02

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months of war. and in the very hour of
advancing victory, we are TO sue for an
srmistice After sac tices money and
1 lives, such ~ no other nation ever made,
and while the nation is yet In full yigoT
to cope with the rebellion. we must make
ourselves such dastards as the world new
er saw, and give up the graves of our fall
en- heroes, to be spit upon by slavery's
pirates No no no ten thousand times
No. TGreat applause. and cries of 'No."]
! Whenever one drop Of the blood of pat
riots has stained the soil it is conseci ated
ground. not one clod of which is ever to
be yielded back 10 the dominion of their
murdererE. Cheers. That Is what L
pronounce to be ''the sense of the Amer
lean people" this day; and it will sweep
over this land. scattering. traitors and
towards like chaf before tornado
Great applause
"A CONVENTION OF THE STATES"
But these immediate effoIts for a ces-
sation of hostihties" are to. be made Nth
a ries1 10 az ultimate Conrentiosl oC all the
States or other peaceaJLe means, to the end that
at tho earliest possibIs moment peace may be
resbred;;" and upoa this idea the promise
| is lavishly spouted on every stump in the
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be got 10 listen, that if we will only elect
Mcclellan and Pendleton the Union and
peace will be restored. in any time you
can name, from one month up. Kisses
and laughter Ny friends, if there is
ANYTHING cheap in the world il is promis-
es. particularly with those who have pei
ther capital nor credit The. devil that
old serpent. was full of them in the gar
i H. II ha haf IrGf
mother; and his American progeny do
i no discredit to their great ..ncestor IN
their efforts to betray their country with
lying aud empty promises. Laughter
and shouts This whole scheme of y
Convention of the States is Il stupendous
| cheat and shameless imposture. design
ed to gather the weak. the coysrdly and
\ the sordid into theyreat Democratic drag
net, wherein, as in the great sheet IN 81.
Peters vision, are all, manner OF wild
beasts and creeping thingsS Laughter
and eshouts1 Remember, my friends,
that no Convention of the States for
amending the Constitution cm be law
fully assembled, except uhierths author
| ity of the Constitution, Eud in the mode
prescribed by it, Under the Constitution
what is necessary to the lawful convsn =
ing of such a bodyi lst. ..The appIca
tion of the Legislatures of twoihirds Of
the several States;- and. Cd. After snch
application, the passage by Congress OK
law calling the convention. -r-.. sr q
--.. HAS TIE SOUTH ASKED. IT.
Marx. now, that the words ''the sever
al States" include the whole thirty-four
States, of which .twenty-three are two
| thirds. Does any sane msn--did4 any
man in the Chicago Convention-believe
for one moment that in the present cir
cumstances of the country the Leglsla-.
lures of twenty three States could be in
dnced to apply for the calling of a con
ventioni No; every man there knew,
and every sensible man in the country
now knows, that it would be ss lmpossi-
BILE a. to call convention of the stars to
mako peace with a comet. The. South
would reject il, because 1t would be prac
tically, an abandonment of slavery, and
of the empire of slavery, for which they
inaugurated the war; and would, more
over, subject them to the control of the
majority coming from the Northern
States, did not JEFF. Davis declare. and
does not the whole South declare that it
was to throw off, the rule of that very ma
iority. that the rebellion was precipitat-
edf Has the South ever proposed to sub
NIT to the arbitrament of such a conven-t
tionl Never. Does this platform say that
the South is willing to go into such con-
ventioni Not at all. Has any Demo
cratic speaker at Chicago. or elsewhere.
or any body else, in the Unitee States, or
in Canada. ventured to say that there
has come from any source In the South,
authoritative or unauthoritative, the most
has he hal arA
willing even to consider such \ PROPOSE
toni Not one. a.. es- .l.1t t..l b..
| WOULD THE NORTH AGREE TO IT.
But suppose the South was willing to
come into such measure, do you believe
4 it would be possible, with all 1.-THE expert
ence we have had of the domineering
timperiousnets, and cold, calculating per
fdity of Southern aristocrats, TO induce
the requisite number of Northern States
TO go into convention with themr If
| the whole sixteen slave eStates-including
West Virginia should apply ior con
vention, it would be necessary for seven
of the Northern States to join the appli
cation: and what seven of them would do
| it? Would Ohio? Never. Many voices,
'.never."1 Nor would a sipglei other
Northern State; nor would single New
| England State; ror would New York or
Pennsylvania, California or Oregon. There
is but one free State that suppose might
do it,-New Jersey: laughter and L
will not slander even her-politicslly mis-
erable as she is, or was-by affirming that
she would. ~ IS l-l-a- -lsu,7 rr-
WOULD TIE FORMER SLAVE STATES. p.
! But would it be possible to induce the
whole sixteen former slave States to apply
for a convention? Let us see. West
Virginia has prospectively abolished slav-
ery is loyal to the. Union, and has no
interest in common with the South. -
| Maryland is in the act OF abolisliing siav-
cry Immediately, and so is cut loose from
! the South. Delaware is, practically, a
i free State, and is steadfast to the Union
Missouri has adopted bogus emancipation,
/ and presently will take Step forward,
| and wipe out the accursed Institution, in
stantly and forever; Ggreat applause and
promise you she would not ssk for a
convention. Arkansas and louisiana
4 have ordained new constitutions abolish
ing slavery, and Tennessee is marching
on to the same glorious consummatiop. =
I Applause. Here are seven of the So
called slave States, of which, it may safe
lily be assumed, not one would Join in the
application for convention. If the 9TH
er nine slave States asked it, then you
must find fourteen, free States TO concur
with them; and they could never be found.
: WOULD AMENDMENTS BE RATIFIED? =
But suppose a convention called and
amendments of the constitution adopted
by it, there is yet more to be done. Those
amendments would have to be ratified by
, the Legislatures Of or by conventions cali
ed in, three foarths, or twentysix of tbs
; States, before they would be part of the
I Constitution. And Iventure TO say, that
in the present state of the country nc
amendment can be devised, which would
t be ratified by that number of states. ct
cept that one, as sure TO come as to NOR
|, row 9 SUM- and like 1t to come in glory
1 which shall declare slavery abolished anG
}, fnrayer prohibited in the whole United