Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-09-09
PEACE DEMOCRACY.

In the history Of the United States no pc
litical organization has occupied so mean,
pi,iful, cowardly position as that taken by
the peace democracy in the Presidential cam
paign of 1864. The recent Chicago copper
head convention was controlled by the peace
men, who denounced the draft as Illegal,
unconstitutional and tyrannical;" and this is
the hue and cry of all the coppcrhead papers
throughout the country. The Dubuque Her.
oil of the 4th inst. says:
Tomorrow is the day appointed for as
shameful an outrage rs was ever perpetrated
upon a free people in any age or in any
clme.'
Yet what do these anti draft men do p
They turn right around and give the lie to
their own words by nominating for the Pres
ilency the man who was the very first per-
son to propose draft. In his peninsular
campaign of 1862 Gen. Mcclellan had lost
over 900 men, and he found it necessary
to Gil up the old regiments. He thereupon
wrote letter TO the President, a copy Of
which We attach, and we advise every cop
pcrhcad to cut it out and paste it in the
crown Of his hat:
MCCLELLAN TO TUE rRrsIpENT. AR
MY oF THE PorOMAC, October 81 lS62-Your Exceency
Is Of The very great falling of in numbers that has
taken place in most Of the regiments Of this command
and how necessary it is to 81! up e9 skeletons before
es- TO FILL Up TIE OLD RFGlMENTs WITH
DRAFTED MEN MAY AT ONCE BE ISSUED.
GEO. b. MCCLELLAN,
Major General Commanding.
His Excellency, the President.
Now with what consistency can the cop
pcrhcads denounce a measure which Meir
candidate has approved and sanctioned
Again. The platform of the peace democ-
racy has good deal to say about arbitrary
arrests, the subvcrsicn Of civil by military
law in States not in rebellion, &c. Do they
forget that it was Gen. Mcclellan who order
cd the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment Of
the Maryland Legislature for reasonable in
reference with military operations in his
Department? .H ....
Now ali this means fraud,--a fraud so
transparent that we wonder that any can be
deceived by it. The traitorous villains that
controlled the Chicago Convention knew that
it would never do for them to nominate an
out,and. out peace man like Nallandigh am
so they put up a man that has bad a sort of
war record, and under tho prestige Of his
military name endcavor to deceive the peo
pie. Is any man foolish enough to suppose
that Vallandisham, Wood, Seymour, Bel
mont, Wicklffa, and men Of their stamp
would suffer the nomination OF Mcclellan if
they had not first had the most positive as.
surance that if he should be elected he would
carry out their policy? If any well wisher
of his ,ouatry has for moment entertained
the thought of voting for Mcclellan. let him
stop and think Of who Little Mac S" back
ers are, and then ask himself if he is pre-
pared to help place in power an administra.
ton that would have in its cabinet c. L.
Nallandigham, Fernando Wood and IIoratio
Seymour. Ii Mcclellan is elected Val!an-
digham will in reality be the President, or
in other words, the rcins of government will
pass into the hands Of a sworn ally of jeff.
Davis. If any other proof is wanting 10 es,
tablish the fact that Mcclellan has sold him.
self out to the enemies Of his country, we
have only to refer to his associate on the
ticket. pendleton, the candidate for Vice
President is an openly avowed peace man
and has been ever since the breaking out oil
the war. In Congress he uniformly voted
against every war measure proposed in that
body, and to-day is in favor of peace upon
any terms the Southern traitors may see I'll
to dictate.
But we have sufficient faith in the intcll
gcnce and patriotism of the great mass o.
the people to believe that they will not allow
themselves to be deceived by the willy
treacherous combinations Of this ahti Unior
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