Litchfield enquirer., 1864-09-08

CHrcAao.-The Chicago Convention offers a platform on which no well-wisher of his coun- try can find room for the soes of his feet Unpatriotic, inhammatory, calamitous to the country. this document will be gratifying to Jefferson Davis and grievous to loyal men. Not word against the Rebellion. but only a. gainst the Government putting i. down Not a hint that the war is waged for a just cause. but by implication for an unjust one l Not cheer. ing word to the soldiers to go forth and con quer. but only of pity for their hardships in the service of a tyrannous usurpation
 The long familiar utteranca of patriotic war democrats, that the rebellion must be conquered is here bdden to silence-a gagging hand laid across it's lips. Peace against Richmond : War against Washington i-this is the new battle.c cry: the war pusillanlmously declared 8 failure, an open surrender made to the enemy !, and all this at a time when the enemy could least expect such weakness in triple-strong antagonistl Hostilities suspended, a conven- tion of the thirty-four states is to be called all on equal terms, the innocent and the guilty to make an adjustment wherein South Caro. lima shall say what punishment shall be visited upon Massachusetts. and wherein Mississippi shall offer rope for the hanging of Abraham Lincolnl .t
 Was there ever more monstrous scheme for confounding right with wrong! ....
 There is not guerrilla tatterdemaiion in the South, mangling our wounded and ri]ing our dead, who can find in this platform any rebuke of his crimes-but only in this n ngled Chica- Government . new indictment to his bloody deedsl .as sa, r : Where stand the true Democrats who have urged men and money for the war? What will they say to this insult thrown into their teeth? If every great souled man in that par. ty, who has not already abandoned it, shall not now pick up his hat and leave--as Gen. Cass retired from the presence of Chief Justice Fancy after hearing the Dred Scott decision then the increasing audacity of the bad men in that party is. a sorrowful proof of the declining spirit of the good. 11A' a1s
 When was there ever, in the history of po- litical conventions, greater self stulti6cation than in the. Chicago denunciation of arbitrary arrests and yet simultaneous nomination of a man who arbitrarily arrested whole State legislature? <- sa'a7 9a1 2 Why does this platform ask for stoppaee of the wars To restore the Federal Union, as it says. But the very same days newspape, which brings this text from Chicago brings it's commentary from Richmond-in the hand wri
 ting of Mir. Benjamin. Secretary of State, to Mr. Mason commissioner to Europe.l say;no that Jefferson Davis cannot listen to any prop \ osition from the North except upon the basis of an "Independent Confederacy." What thon becomes of this Chicago overture? Pitt. full spectaclel A party great travelling to an
 extreme Northern city to get down on it's kneei afar of to Jefferson Davis, who only stretches
 out . long arm across mountains and prairiel
 to smite it on the cheeks in scorn l ST Fellow eo1nsrymen the crises is imminent
 but the way hpksn. All wise. and sound mel, both Desnoessss aud Republicans, kpew tha
 thsre is buteus method ofrsseosing the Uniou