Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-13
Is the War a faiIures
DEKOGRAIIG sYMpATHY FOR THE SOLDIERS.
No basis for peace.
Will THE We END7

FELLOW CITIzENs-The speaking you
want to hear tonight is all around you, and
not here on this stand The speaking you
have lust heard from those 6-pounders is Of
more consequence to you and the American
Republic than any speaking any man can
give from this stand or any other. Not
withstanding all the joyful surroundings
that awaken every American heart tonight,
l will endeavor to be heard by little cir
Gle about me a mere fragment OF the
great gathering of interested spectators, as
| consider some of the great issues of the
present campaign. s- -r
THE PARTIEs coNTRAsTED.
Twill not tax your patience with any
thing elaborate, as to the issues involved in
this contest, but viii merely attempt to
show what those issues are. The great
American people have taken their position.
The Union army is drawn out in line of
battle. and the army Of traitors have taken
IN their line of battle. We have laid down
our platform, and they have laid down
theirs We have placed our standard
bearer at the head of your columns, and
they have placed theirs at the head of their
columns. What is their platform and
what is our platform? What is their line
of battle, and what is our line of battle
Look at the two and then judge which line
you will file into. Tr
On the last day of last month, body of
men met at Chicago to transact certain
business. Let ime inquire first, who were
they? Third, what did they do2
Fsrst who were they? Go around that
great Convention, and ask who were the
men who gave tone and sentiment to it.
In the first place, you will find that great
apostle of cowardice from cur own State,
Vallandigham. And you had him going
there from that great convention Of COW
ards at Syracuse, where he said, we shall
put but one issue before the American
people, peace or war, and we will want
that convention at Chicago to say, peace at
any price, warat no price, under no cir
cumstance And this was said by a man
who wos sent out of his country for his
countryis good, because he was an enemy
tc it. There were many other men there
Of similar character The great apostle
of peace of New York, Fernando Wood,
who said.in Congress, that such a thin &
as a war Democrat was impossible that
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was made against the rights of the South.
And there was Voorhees,, of Indiana, the
man who has been concerned in the ez-
tensive plans for shipping and supplying
arms to the base towards of the State.
What, in the second place, did the con-
vention do, or rather not do2 The great
Democratic party, that for so many years
hzs boasted that it was brave party, and
was always ready to tell the people just
what it meant, that party, at Chicago
spoke in the language of towards by evir-
sion. Their platform is more remarkable
for what it does not say, than for what it
does say. They say not a word against
JEFF Davis and his traitorous associates
Go through all their speeches. read the
platform, word for word, and there is not
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spiracy of the South and for the very
good reason that the great bulk of the
party are co-confederates with the rebellion.
They have plenty of fault to find with
your Government, and with you who
cheerfully lead your aid in the work of
putting down treason in arms. ~
In the second place, they have no
word to say on the subject of slavery, al
though they have been harping about it
continually for the past three yeara, howl
ing against the use OF slave and eolured
men in the army. We have contended
and acted accordingly, that the black man
might as well fight for his country as the
white man. They have opposed US at
every turn; but when they came to make
their platform they did not dare to make
an issue on that subject. They have ex-
claimed against the emancipation proc
lamation. of the President, until they came
to their platform, when they decline to
make an issue on it. They make no issue on
the question of the public debt They have
nothing tosay about keeping France out of
Mexico. 1t Is all negdtion; it is all COW
ardice; it is all evasion. Such is the char
aeter, such the omissions of the platform
made. at Chicago Now, what have they
said in that platform If there is any
thing the American people want in times
ike the present, it is to know the frank,
honest opinions and purposes of their pub
lie men. They want especially to know
what the great political parties of the
country propose to do. The people want
to know where the danger of the country
lies; they want to measure it, and then
braYely meet it. But did that Convention
at Chicago tell you where the danger was,
Or how to meet it Z? Voices, 'lNo, no. ri
Not word of it.
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