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

eu the lowest heptjl ol DculDcr4ilc uts
stimulation and fraud. AS exhibited in this
portion of the Chicago platform. Please
observe that thev do not demand ces-
sstion Of hnstiliiies for the purpose of GO
ing into Convention which has been
au authoritstively proposed 10 ha now held;
but an effort for an armistIce TO be made
with view 10 an ultimate convention
of the States, or other peaceable means.
Thst is, cease hostilities, not to go direct
ly into y Convention. but with a view, CT
intention of having such q Convention.
But of VIII t use Is such an intention,
when its accomplishment is impossible ?
1t does not even merit to be classed with
good intentions" with which the prov
erb saysthe way to hell is paved. Why,
those traitors at Chicago, with all their
ingenuity. could not completely cover up
the cioven foet; it would stick out in spite
of them. They perfectly knew the i'm
possib' character. the absolute nothing
r. thaiF plan of peace, and they
'ic to keep those features of it
ou+, ut slgnt. but they tried in vain. They
say. give up an armistice, with view to
what? An immediate Convention of the
States Not word of iti Bat with a
view to an "a innate Convention" or in
other words, Convention at some indef-
mite time in the eternal future, they say
not, know not wbsnl That is, they drop
everything, and take after a Jack O'Lan-
tern, that will ever elpde your grasp, and
ever lure you on further and further as
you approach it. and at last leave you
floundering in the mire nf the swamp
from which it rosel Great applause.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE COUNTRY AND TEE
,-r M UNION.
In the meantime, as we follow the jack
o'lantern. what becomes or the country
Its whole vast armies. wherever they may
be. will be halted in thei, tracks; its mag
nifcent navy cast anchor and float
, ..---ss .'As idle as painted ship.
--- f Upon painted ossan;"
and the nat on of twenty millions of Nj
cawbers sit down to wait for something
to turn up" Laughter and chesrs.
And while they wait what becomes of
the Union. Gone gone forever For
u rebellion powerful enough to force a
Governments into an srmistice has power
enough To defy it afterward. Voice
That's So" Once grant An armistice,
and all hope Of conquering peace is post
poned indefinitely. if nos blasted finally
Believe me. my friends, when l say
that there is not one faint ray of hope for
the Union but in hammering il together
with the tremeniuous trip-hammer of
war, kept pounding right on while the
iron is hot, until every grain and fibre,
that neither State Rights nor slavery, null
LITIGATION or secession, man or devil oan
separate or break them till the end Of
time. Tremendous and continu Nd ap-
plsuse and chesTs.1
on WHAT BASIS Is PEACE TosBE
One more point and will leave this
portion of the traitors platform. If
peace IS restored, on what basis do they
want it restored2 They say, "On the ba-
sis OF the Federai Union OF the States"
Do you not see the serpent's fang there
again? What do they mean by that form
of words? Just what they meant when
they spoke of the Union under the Con-
stitution." !" namely, "the Union as II was
under the Constitution az it il" which l
have shown you means nothing but the
Union dominated by slavery, and the
Constitution to protect its domination,
and never to be amended so as to over
throw it, Well my friends. let him who
chooses to, uphold that kind OF Union,
l never will; for II is perpetual disunion IN
the Union. [Applause. The Union must
be restored with the cause of convulsion
completely removed, or the volcano will
ever and anon burst forth, until at last
America will become the Pompeii OF ma
tions, buried under the mud and cinders
OF the Vesuvius of slavery. Great ap-
plause.