Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-09-14
Chicago.

The Chicago Convention offers plat
form on which no well-wisher of his
country can find room for the soles of his
feet. UnpatIiotic. infammatory. calam-
itous to the country, this document will
be gratifying to Jefferson Davis and griev-
Gus to loyal men. Not word against
the Rebellion, but only against the Gov
ernment putting it down. Not hint
that the war is waged for just cause,
but by implication for an unjust one
Not cheering word to the soldiers to go
forth and conquer. but only of pity for
their hardships in the service of tyran-
nous usurpation ... r.
The long familiar utterance of patriot
ic war democrats, that the rebellion must
be conquered, is here hidden to silence
a gsgging hand laid across its lips. Peace
against Richmond: War against Wash
! lingtoni-this is the new battle cry: the
war pusillanimously declared a failure, an
open surrender made to the enemy, and
al this at time when the enemy could
least expect such weakness in a triple
strong antagonist Hostilities suspended,
a convention of the thirty-f four states is
to be called-all on equal terms, the in
nocent and the guilty-to make an ad-
justlnent wherein South Carolina shall
say what punishment shall be visited up
on Massachusetts,, and wherein Mississippi
shall offer rope for the hanging of Abra-
ham LincolnI e.. ....--...' sill ..
Was there ever a more monstrous
scheme for confounding right with
wrong2 --r b. s. ..ls lat 81
There is not guerrilla tatterdemalion
in the South, mangling our wounded and
! rifing our dead, who can find in this plat
form amy rebuke of his crimes-but only
in this mingled Chicago and Richmond
crnnination of the National Government
a new Indictment to his bloody deeds
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 sonled
man in that party, who has not already
abandoned it, shall not now pick up his
bat aud leaye-as Gen. Cass retired from
the presence of Chief Jnstice Taney after
/ hearing the bred Scott decision-then
the Increasing audacity of the bad men
in that party is sorrowful proof of the
good.
When was there ever, in the history OF
| political conventions. a greater self stulu
! fic ,tion than in the Chicago denunciation
of arbitrary arrests and yet simultaneous
nomination of a man who arbitrarily ar
rested a. whole State legislature .s
Why does this platform ask for stop
page of the war? To restore the Federal
Union, as it says But the very same
DAYS newspaper which brings this text
from Chicago brings its commentary from
Rielimond--in the hand writing of Mr..
Benjamin, Secretary of State, to Mr..
/ MaSon. commissioner to Europe, saying
that Jefferson Davis cannot listen to any
1 proposition from the North except upon
the basis Of an independent Confed-
eract.' ~ What then becomes of this
Chicago overture! Piliful speetaclel A
great party travelling to an extreme
Northern city 10 get down on its knees
afar off 10 Jefferson Davis, who only
stretches ont long arm across mountains
and prairies to smIte it on the checks in
scorn ...
Fellow countrymen. the crises is im mi
nent. but the way is plain. All wise and
sound men. both Democrats and Repub'
hcans, know that there is but one method
of restoring the Union. and that is, by
coI.4uering back its rebellious parts. This
we are doing day by day-and doing well.
What can be better done than Grant and
Sherman and Farragut are doing? What
is more fulrof hope and promise than
the general military situation to day?-
Nothing but good auguries everywhere
For as the lightning that lightens in the
east lighteneth also unto the west, so is
the fiery storm that is gathering to break
upon Richmond. Atlanta, and Mobile
o troubled hearts, praying for the sal
vatIon of the country-courage and good
cheerl A crown of victory is now falling
through the air which will in due time
alight upon our baaner!-N y. Indspend
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