The New York herald., 1864-09-07


he united States OF Mexico IL so In the united
States O Colombia and the same was the case IN the
1860 elected Abraham Lincoln, lawfully and
constitutioDally, 70 be President OF the whole "
medately. thereon rushed into dsunion, and. sum-
moong eight more TO their alliance they set up revo-
luonary government they levied war agsins. , Us 20
ard Independence. We accepted the war in defence m
the Union. The only grievance OF tho insurgents was
that choice OF John Breckinridge for President
cnstitutonally overrued IN the eecton'of Lincoln
They rejected Lincoln aud set usurpsr The eAecu-
tive power o. the United States ID therefore, by
force practically suspended between thai usuper lefer-
Davis, aud that constitutional President Abraham
constitutional President from tic lila which
sort constantly held in siege, and 10 conquer the
States which loyalty adhere TO MIN. Tho war is MAN.
tanned on our side to suppress the usurpsr aud 70
bring the insurgent States back under the authority
crisis. IL is clear therefore. that fighting to
MAKE Abraham Lincoln President OF the whole United
Statos under the election OF so0 70 continue until the
4th OF March, 1855. lu voting for President OF the
united States we Wisely sa ely vote ont the iden-
tica person whom with force and arms We are lighting
nothing less than to give up he very ob ec OF tho war
the ballot box. The moral strength which makes our
10y position mpregnabie would pass from and when
that moral strength has passed away material
longer elective, or even avaAable BY such pro-
oeedng shall have agreed with the enemy aud given
him the victory But that agreement constitution
and the Union will have perishod because when shall
circumvention full accession constitution
ally chosen President, President thereafter though
elected by ever so large majority Can hope
exercise the executive powers unopposed
throug ughout the whole country. Ono OF two things
must follow the fatal error Either contest between
your newly elected compromise President, and the
usurper In which the usurper must prevail, else
combination between them through which the usuper
his successor subvertng your constitution and substi
tuting his own, viii become president. king emperor
OF the United States without foreign aid II he with
foreign Intervention, IL necessary. THAT'S so) 10 be
United States and their constitutional President, the
called Confederate States and their usurpng President
ausifh hin fhal lnit
regard the pending Presidential election involving the
question whether hereafter shall have cons,itution
and country left How shall We vote, then, TO
the country from this fearful dangers Vote Lincoln in
again.) You have hit It exactly my friend. We must
:Sms @ A'eS" sIs II W. % DO W this ' tho re rebellion viii
perish, and leave root. II We do other
perpetual Of entering an endless succession
OF civil aud social Upon these grounds entirely
recommsndatons Of the Convention Chicago ss isud
ing to subvert the republic 1t will seem hard thing
when imply that P1 like aon the party
throw the republic All experience however shows that
it Is by tho malice the madness OF great parties that
free States have been brought down to destruction You
often hear alarms that party IN power is subvertng
the STATE and it sometimes happens But nine times
thence It's ambition overthrows republic. Tho demo-
cratic party, OF leaving of the loyal Union
In 1860. In doing 50 they divided and organized
In three columns. Ono q treason able column, OF
EDGE a second, . loyal Northern column. under
Douglas The third, conc liatory flying column, under
John Bell who has S sinc; Joined , the INSURGENTS We
the republican party to oppose the dsunion dcmocrac
column. They declined. On the eve of the eect,n iu
1850 told the followers OF Douglas and OF Bell that when
the election should have closed they would ind they
had mad verteny favored dsunion and rebellion. They
thea presented ITSELF in the practical form OF preventing
Abraha Lincoln from assuming the executive autnori
the southern democrats acting from design the Northern
democrats passive through inadverence 1he disputed
come on For time the Northern democrats with
potable exceptions, or less liberal support to
the government against the democratic u the
South But the democratic forces which figured the
election OF 1880 now appear In the political field with
positions aud policy unchanged since that time. As
think except for the The Southern democracy is
still in arms uuder the usurper al Richmond The Doug
and peil columns consolidated found Chicago,
and all three OF the parties composing the rejection
OF the constitutional President Of the United States
They agree only In this attempt but they assign the
same reasons for n-namey, that Abraham Lncolp is
tyrant they agree, also, usurper atRich
ond Ia bameless and pure, NJ least the Richmond de-
mocracy affirm H. and the Chicago democracy do not gain
say il. To me- therefore, the democracy At Richmond
and the democracy at Chicago, like Caesar and Pompey,
are very much subsequently Pompey But Il ia not
In externals that their similarity lies. They talk
very much alike, n have already = shown you; 70 when
the Indiana democrats were present, who have i'm
ported arms to resist the national authority, and
the national laws and that all the democrats there
assembled agreed 10 justify that proceeding, think you
viii agree with that the Richmond democrats and the
shall go further and prove 10 You that they
not only have common policy, and common way or
defending H. but they have even adopted that policy In
concert with each other. You know that when the Chi
caso Convention approaching In July last, George
Sanders Clement Clay and j. r. Holcombe appeared ut
the Clifton House the Canada bank the Niagara
river fully invested with the confidence and acquainted
with purposes OF Jefferson Davis and bis confederaes
at Richmond. You know also that Chicago democrats
rcsorted there In considerable numbers to with
these emisslres OF jefferson DAYS Here the fruit Of
my evidence. IL is extracted from the London inns, the
common organ o. all the enemies o. the United States
The New York correspondent OF the London Tunes writing
from Niagara Fails under date OF August s, says
Clifton Heuse hs: become a centre Of associations bs
wbch'propose nihdfawa Of diaereness from the arba
the sword The eorresponden, then goes on % eI
for the Presidency on The platform Of an armsce and
the Efforts Of Mr. Lincoln election.
Mark now, that the sth August, 1864, Northern
to be done chicago, namely y-fhst, withdrawal OF
the differences between the government and the insur
gents from tie aroitrament Of the sword; second a
form OF armistice and ultimately oonvcn.
tim OF the States; third, to thwart BY all posi-
bic means the reelection OF Abraham Lincoln.
Such conference, held In neutral country,
professedy loyal citzens OF the United states
and the agents the Richmond traitors arms, has
very suspicious lock. Bot let that pass. Political eec.
be free and therefore they Justly excuse many
extravagarcies. We have wnst the agents OF
Pompey and Ussar agreed Niagara Pompey should
do at Chicago Here is what he actually did
Resolved That this Convention doe; S explicitly declare
failure the Union BY experiment Of dur
ing which, under the pctence of military necessity OF war
power higher constitution, the sttution itself
has been dsregarded In every part and public liberty and
private right alike uodden down, and the material
psrty OF the essentially impaired justice. human
.cr. E r. .s snd o ore pss "a Win
Intimate all the States. other peAceAbls
us the earliest practical BILE moment
pea the bass OF the federal Union Of
the States
The democracy Chicago did there Just what had
been agreed upon with the Richmond agents at Niagara
namely, they pronounced for an Abandonment OF the
military defence Of tho Union against the insurgents,
with view Ultimate national convention and the
defeat OF the election OF Abraham Lincoln That 10
say they proposed TO eect Abraham Lincoln from the
presidential chair at Washington the 4th of March
next and the time leave the usurper Davis
assaed unmolested In his seat at Richmond,
with view 10 ultimate convention VI States which
that usurpcrs constitution win allow no one d tho In
surgent States enter, WHAT now, there be con.
venton at ALL or the convention ia 70 agree a sub
mission to the federal authority Jefferson Davs then