The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-09-24
1,]ublit affairs
Appeal of. the National Union
Committee 10 the People of
the United states.

HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL UNION tOM..
New York, Sept. g. 1854.
The great Rebellion, which for more than
three years has wrapped the nation III the
flames Of civil war. draws near its crisis. -
Its armies have been beaten, its territory
has been cnnquered the forts and posts
which it treachcruuSly seized have been oc-
cupicd and held 10y the soldiers Of the Re
public its foreign allies have been detached
from its support. and its hostile arm, para
lived by exhaustion and discouraged by
defeat. is upheld solely by the hope OF poiti
cal victories to be achieved by its allies in
the Presidential election Of November next
If the People in that election sustain the
Government. if they reassert It's just author.
itv and reattirm their purpose to mantnin it
by war 50 long as war assails it, the Rebel.
a, ion will speedily end. If they faltcr in this
determinations or leave any room for doubt
on this vital point, the Rebels will taae
fresh courage and proiong the contest
Every utlerance of their organs and agents
alirnls and confirms this position. Every
Rebel in arms and every Rebel in Office
every Rebel organ in the Rebel States or in
foreign }ands-eyery hater Of Democratic
Freedom and the Rights of man. longs and
labols for the overthrow of the administra
ton and the expulsion of Abraham Lincoln
from the Presidential chair
In the Northern and Western States this
hostility has been embodied and organized
in the acts ana declarations Of the Chicago
Convention. Ihat.Convention gives a silent
approval Of the Rebellion itself and an
open condemnation of the war waged for its
suppression Without word of censure
for the conspiratois who plotted the nation 5
death, it brands with unsparing denuncia-
lion the patriots and heroes who defend its
life. While it passes in utter silence the
gigantic usurpntlons Of jefferson Davis and
his confederate traltors,-wh 1t overlooks
entirely; and thus, by Just and necessary
Inference. approves their ahr"gation OF
political rights and personal liberties over
all that portion of the United STATES in
which they have been able thus far to sus
tain their usurped authority, it pours out its
wrath, without STINT or measure. upon every
act by which the Constitutional President of
the United States has sought to defend ana
protect the life and liberties of the nation.
whose executive power is placed IN his
hands
The Convention had no words of exulta
ton for our victories; no thanks and honOrs
for the soldiers and sailors who have shed
their blood to achieve them. While it de
nounces our Government for neglect of duty
toward our " fellow citizens, who are now.
and long have been, prisoners of war IN ii
suffering condition. it has not evcn.a Sylla
BILE OF censure for those Rebel authorities
who, with more than savage cruelty. and in
utter disregard Of every dictate Of humanity,
as well as of every usage OF civilized war
fare, have deliberately and with systematic
purpose inflicted upon those prisoners all
the tortures of exposure, of neglect and
starvation. and have offered premiums tor
their murder to the brutal guards to whose
grim custody they have been consi gncd.-
And, on the very eve OF the most glorious
victories that have ever crowned our arms -
after three years of bloody, costly and sue
cessful war; when three fourths of the ter
r;tory originally held by the Rebels has
passed into our hands; at the very moment
when the Rebellion itself is totterng to Its
fall, and the flag of our country is rapidly
advancing to its old supremacy, the party
represented at Chicago demands that " I'M
mediate efforts be mude for cessation Of
hosihties "a step which would instantly
arrest our con1uering armies and snatch
from them the gories of II final triumph,
repeal the blockade, and throw the whole
Rebel frontier open TO the supplies they 50
sore.y need. secure the recognition of foreign
powers, and either accomplish their indie
pendence or give them the ability to fight
for it four years longer.
We appeal to the People of the United
States-lovers of the Union and friends of
against the contamination of the
foul crime against both which the acts aud
declarations of the Chicago Convention
involve. We invoke them not to- sanction
these principles and sentiments by eecting
the Candidates put forward to represent
them. We isnpore them, as they love their
country, as they seek the renewed integrity
of &c, tarr,tnry thnv dpsira tho pnpp fu