Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-03
The Chicago PIatform-The ProposI-
tIon for q Cessation OF Host iIitieS-
what 1t Actually AIsans-HOw It
Z would Work in Practice.
From the New York Tribune.

The Democratic platform demands who'll
ly and unqualifedly that the war shall,
on the part of the Union, be stopped
Suppose this were done tomorrow. Pres
ident Lincoln sends an envoy to JEFF. Da-
Wis, saying, "Let us have a cessation of
hostilities." "Certainly," responds Jef.
HWithdraw your forces from the Oonfed-
eracy, raise your blockade, and agree to
an Rrmistice." (The rebels have already
indicated that they will have no other.)
Suppose this we're conceded; must not ev-
cry European Government at once recog
nize the Confederscy2 On what ground
could any refuse2 We should have given
up the contest, and retired bafied aud de-
feated. Europe is famishing tor cotton
and naval stores, which the rebels have
to spare; they are in desperate want of q
thousand things whereof Europe has a
surplus. They would of course trade only
with their friends. Who does not see that
this is DiSunion, complete aud fnal2 Hav.
ing tamely surrendered New Orleans, New
bern, Port Royal, Vieksburg, Memphis,
Nashville, Knoxville, Little Rock, and
Fortress Monroe---all the fruits of our long
and arduous struggle-Who imagines, what
Confederate wonld fear, that we should
take them over again4
It fraud, then-au impudeut, wicked
fraud&for this platform 70 talk after this
of peace con the basis of the federal Union.
We have war only because certain States
have repudiated and now defy that Union
That Union Is the bone of contention
there is none other. How, then, having
decreed cessation of hostilities," :" are you
afterward to have the Union z You recOg'
nize the tFAitorous aristocEacy who claiu
to have seeded as composing their respec
tive States we deny 1t, and, counting tht
whole people, insisted that there is q UuioI
ImsioriIy in every State. On what Demo,
cratic principle can you constrAin rebe
states to return TO the Uuiou3
But ga Convention Of the States"-nsy
tan ultimate Convention Of all the States"-
is in your programme, But the rebe
States had Their Convention at Montgomery
nearly four years ago, and framed there /
Constitution WhereWith they profess to b
perfectly contented. That Constitution
ignores ours, Gsnpersedes it, and rendert
/ your Convention simple nulIity. StOI
the war now, and they will laugh your sui
innate" Convention TO scorn. They vii
tell you that they have q frst.Fate Oonsti
tuition, formed at Montgomery, and that i
you want union. with them, you mnst adop
that, and apply to be Admitted into thei
Gonfederacy. Having admitted that tht
aristDcracy are the States wherein they live
having stopped the war, how do you eXpec
10 unite with them except by creeping il
at the back door Of their COnfederacy
That is the precise point to which you AZ,
now tending.
Three and half years ago, before droE
Of blood had been shed, we Republican,
proposed OonVention, or rather adopted
the proposition Of Kentucky, that one bt
called. Had you Democrats then favored
Convention, We should long since hav,
held one. Bat yOn resisted It, fought it
voted II down, inducing even Kentucky tC
join yon in defeating Ii. And now, Afte