The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-09
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TlrR CHICAGO ooNvBNuoN-rHH CONSTRUCTION
oP THE PLATPOnM-TfH HoRAG-rHB SOUTH
NEVER HAVING MORE NHRD OF WGfLANr
LEADERS AND A CONsCRtFTtON, BrO.
Prom ne Richmond BramfHer, Sepfombsr5.
As there T. at least a chance Of the Yankee
election In November giving that nation McClel-
Ian for President, and PendletOn for Vice Presi-
dent, il becomes well worth while 30 examine care
fully the document which they call "platform,"
basis of the intended policy Of the Democratic
party, In case Of their succeeding 70 the Govern.
ment. Inasmuch as we are at war with that
country, and the chief controversy between It's
parties Is upon the maintenance of this very war,
aud on the best way Of prosecuting the same, II
Il Is TO be prosecuted at alive have, unhappily,
a nearer interest In their approaching election
than We should wish to feel In any Of the cen
Germs Of that people forever more.
The platform Is prepared with care, as these
documents usually are. II may turn out to be
actually the programme or scheme of this Ad-
ministutiOn Of the enemy's country for four
years to come; and we arc much concerned in
forming clear idea Of what this document YER
biHge apart, really means and what Ii does not
mean. The first and leading idea is that tho
party and It's candidates "AdherC with unswcrv-
ing fidelity 10 the Union," which they pronounce
20 be equally conducive to the welfare Of all the
States, Northern and Southern :" thus uudertak-
ing to judge OF what cOnduces 70 the welfare, not
only Of the States represented in that Conyen-
ton, but also Of those which are now the Con,
fCdCrate States.
ANa.NN
tior to look upon this as a foToigr -;
They cannot live without us. with = lHuu.
say they have no country ut al .Jut u.s. WY
singular Hdor OF ntaohme" ,ybicb tbdnSh ",U,' ,,D
Jaib ana even ~, cooled The studied dis
docs moi al,s' -pugnance Of the beloved object
- ,,,s,.' .te this passion whit; and ii glOWs
S,, Iiy in the Democratic as In the Republican
" .aEt. Hitherto, under the Lincoln regime, our
adorers have paid court 10 us but roughly; they
have WoOed us as the tiger Woos his bride. But
/ Mcclellan and Pendleton-as appears from a
subsequent part Of the platform-promise to be
lovers of mider mood.
They propose to take a hint from the parable
Of the Traveller, the North Wind, and the Sun.
This cloak of Confederate independence cannot
be blown of by the rudest blasts of Borcas on
the contrary, the traveller only wraps il more
closely around him. But the sun, after March
no, Z, is to beam with so gracious warmth that
tSa ~ yecr is expected to fling his cloak Off upon
he ,o-a, de, a. a soldier on a hot march, some
- - ai,-. his OveTcOat The platform declares
tbs; aimnedia,e efforts should be made for a ces-
satiop of hostilitie, This is carefully calcu-
lated cynrnssion ~ by "eifOrts :" Democrats
az we'll as kbolitionists know that the Govern
mont of that nation can br,,'g about a cessation
of hostilities at any moment, WITHOUT any euort
ut all il is only Ceasing upon 'ell part, rom ON
hostilities upon u.s. ana all hostlitSN ea'e "n 'ne
instant.
But the trainers Of the 'platforHa" take care to
intimate that this is not what thsy mcdn-tne
cessation of hostiltes" which they seek h to DC
expressly "with q view TO the ultimate CONVEX .
tion of all the States, or other peaceabe means,
to the end that at the earliest practicable moment
peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal
| Union of the States meaning union of the Con-
fedcTate with the Federal States. If cessation
of hostilities IL to be proposed, even with this
"view" we cannot see that any effort is required;
the Federal Government could at any time, stop
the war and invite convention of what they call
all the States but in short the use Of the word
"CfiOrt' proves that the cessation Of hOstiities
they contemplate is not only with this view, but
upon this conditiOn-the condition that the Con-
federate states agree to come into the Convention,
and he bound by il, or In some other peaceabe
! way place themselves once more "on the basis OF
! the Federal Union" Now, to bring about a ces-
sation of hostities upon these conditions may
certainly require an effort, and the word is not
! misplaced.
This platform, then, does not pledge the new
] Administration If il come into power, TO stop the
war, nor so much as to suspend hostilities for a
single moment; but only TO make efforts TO in-
duCe the Confederate States TO come into Con-
venton for the restoration of the "UniOn, that is,
to submit as a condition Of even an armistice.
One paragraph of this document declares that
the object Of the Democratic party is not only TO
preserve the Union, but also "the rights of the
States unimpaired." But it is sufficiently clear
that among these rights of the States they do not
count the right of secession, inasmuch as they
do not even once hint throughout their plat
! form" that there can be any peace without
Union, and especially as they have nominated
| for President the man who committed the very
first and most conspicuous outrage upon States
rights and sovereignty by throwing into prison
the whole Legislature Of Maryland on the mere
suspicion that II was about TO take that State out
of the Union.
But 1t is also evident that among the State
rights they wish to preserve is not reckoncd the
right of secession, from this further circumstance
that in the resolution cOndemning Linceln's
"usurpatiCn OF dangerous powers not granted by
the cons tution, and the su0Yerson of the civil by
the military law in States not in insurrection,
NY,o fhara in
nsmely, these Confederate States and that in
these there can be no objection to such assump-
tion OF eXtraoI dinary powers-that in these there
is no tution-and that in these the civil law
ought TO be subverted by the military. There
fOI e, nothing can be palmer than that the Cnca-
go Democrats, like the Baltimore Republicans
deny the right of secession, hold these States TO
be in insurrection chat, is rebeiIion), and de-
clare that our citizens have no civil rights, aud
ought to be ruled by military law. The differ
I enCe between them is not difference of princi-
pie, but Of expediency only like the difference
between the sun and the wind--the storm having
been ICd and having failed, IL is the suns turn
but one way or other the cloak must come off.
1t is true that these platforms" may be consid-
cred rather as temporary instruments and agen-
cies tor simply getting into power, than As precise
! and binding engagements of political action. II
il also true that some at least Of the supporters of
these nominations are we'll known to be warm
advocates of peace, Union or no Union; some OF
them even going the length of maintaining the
a
mtt, that if all the Yankee nation resembled
Mcclellan and PendletOn, Seymour and Vallan-
, digham and If such men had continued 20 hold
the Government Of the old Union, there might
never have been any secession at ALL
All this may lie so; but In the meantime it is
important for us to remember that in their author
lied declaration of principles they do call us in
suTgeuts (or Rebels)i do deny us, while in Gin
suIIectiOn," the rights of STATES and all other
rights whatsoever, and do not breathe the faintes
hint OF ey,n an armistce, except upon tue terms
Of our coming into Convention with them on the
basis of tie Union"
The only practical moral we can draw from al
this Is, that the Confederate States never haC
4 more urgent need Of an effective army, and dill
gent conscriptiOn, and vigilant leaders, and al
men 10 the front, than they have at this hour.
: ALLEGED DEPEAT OF UNION PoRCE MAR cLA
. RENDOS, ARKANSAS.
: Correspondence orhe Richmond Enquirer, Sept 3.
WASHINGTON, Ark, July l5.-BrigadeT- GenC
, raj Shelby, commanding a portion OF the Cor
i fedeTale cavalry of this Department recently &c
# ment on White river, near Clarendon. Th
"a Yankee force numbered, according to a LiLt
a Rock paper, three thousand men, Official de
patches from Sh, lby place his loss at thirty-OI
. killed and wounded, and the enemy's at two hui
. drud and fifty or thee hundred.
d Shelby had before this b.ockaded White riY
IT and captured gunbOat. Recruits are reportC
TO be joining him in large numbers
II General Stand Waite captured, a few days az
10 q steamboat laden with valuable stores, abO