Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-09-14

ts zen the Democla &c party Of the North, now un
de-, the leadership of Gen. Mcclellan, aud the Re
publican party under the leadership Of President
Lincola.
The Democrats, as q party, have uniformly de.
clared ever since the organization OF the war, that
they opposed to interference with the institu
tim Of slsverv even as war m,asure. 1t is true,
such aposistes as 3 :tler, Dickinson, and few 9th
ers, have advocated different policy, but, in doing
So, they we're placed under the han Of excommu-
n cation and formally read out of the Democratic
church. ..
The Northern Democracy are strongly in favor
Of the Union, and accordingly willing to Offer
the South AL such guarantees as may be desired in
order to induce Us ID reconstruct We believe they
would he willing to give the privilege Of nomina-
ting our own terms, if, bv doing SO, we could be
induced to return to the Union. This is clearly
,mrid in the Chicago platform They sre in IA
VI aru,istice and convention of ire States,
to the same end-to induce reconstrvctian. But
they have omitted t. say, whether, in the event all
their liberal offers should be declined bl US, and
should persistently resolve upon indeo andence,
the only condition prccedens to peace, they
would then be willing to recognize US and stop tho
war; or whether they would carry out to the Bit
ter esd the Republican policy Of coercion. Upon
this vital point the Chicago platform is silent Mr..
Long, OF Oaio, by way IF testing the sense Of the
Convention on this question, offered as an amend.
ment 10 tue pahLioEiD Ms TepOIteu, tue AeuSuCht
| resolution of 1889. as follows:
| Rrsolred, That the several States composing the
United States Of America, arc not united on the
| principle Of unlimited submission to their general
! government; but that by compact under tie style
aud title of Constitution of the United Sla,es and
Of amendments thereto, they constituted general
government for special purposes delegated to that
| government certain definite powers reservng, each
State to ITSELF the resdusry of right to their
| nd hof xrh ~,
general government assumes undelegated powers,
its acts unsuhoritative, void, and of no force
tsat to this compact each State acceded as State,
ard is III 'n'regal party that this government,
| created ''g if:' compact, was not made the exclu
swe or ha;.. + ge Of the extent Of the powers del
egattd 10 i:ssi; since that would have made its
discretion, ID not the Constitution, the measures
of its powers; hut, th.t as in all other cases Of
compact, smcns parties having no common judge,
EACH PARTY HAS AN EQUAL RIGHT TO
JUDGE FOR ITSELF. AS WELL OF INFRAC-
TIONS AS OF TIE MODE AND MEASURE OF
| Redress.
No direct vote conld be had on this amendment
owing to the previous les:ioa having been called
| and insisted upon. THIS Vas no doubt gsod policy,
1nssrnuch as the Pattorn, is SO constructed that
4 both peace and war democrats can stand upon it
side BY side. The former will construe It to mean
unconditional peace-the latter war, in the alter
native Of our refusal to reconstruct After the oel
Of liberal terms: but all will insist that the sursss
way to sto.-the war and restore the Union will bs
the election OF Mcclellan and Pendleton.
The Republican, or Liteoln, party are also fol
maintsining the Union but they insist that 81
who have been in rebellion have forfeited all ante
csdeut rights they may have had; and hsnse thu
Emancipation Proclamation and the confscatiOI
laws enacted by the dominant party IN Congress
The Republicans not only IN favor Of these doc
trines Of emancipation and conGscation, but they
advocate the destruction Of State sovereignty, BY
amending the Constitution 50 as to forbid any Stat
from recognizing slavery municipal institution
They intend u mako this .smsp3seat b virtue d